Evening star., 1933-12-17

of these men, all architects. with historic build
ings IN the various localities 1t Is thought that
a most comprehensive survey and record Will
be made-one that will be of immense value in
the future. As with the painters, sculptors and
illustrators, this plan, once announced was put
into immediate effect and appointments made
among the unemployed architects on Wednes-
day and Thursday.
In this same connection it is interesting to
note that stonecutters' hammers are making
music under cover as they carve from marble
the pediment surmounting the new Supreme
Court Building. 1t is very well to provide en-
ployment for the unemployed to consider the
needs of INDECENT artists, but the commission
ing of those who are most capable to do great
works under Government patronage is after ALL
that which will most profit art and the artists.
As Edward Arlington Robinson once said "The
world must have its art or the world will be
no fit place for man TO live in: and the artist
must have his opportunity or his art Will die
and the artist will e.with it,"
1T MAY not be inappropriate to mention here
] the interest that President and Mrs. Roose-
welt have evidenced in art and artists since
coming to the White House. Mrs. Roosevelt
visited not once but several times, the exhibit
ton of handicrafts by members of the Southern
Highland Handicraft Guild recently set forth in
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and she made gen.
erous purchases therefron- On Sunday afternoon
she graciously visited the exhibition of silk
murals by Lydia Bush-Brown in Mrs Kane's
studio on G. street. and on Monday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs Bush-Brow distinguished sculp-
tor and painter of this city and Newburgh on
the Hudson, and Lydia Bush-Brown their
daughter were entertained informally at tea at
the White House.
It may not be so well known that when the
President Assistant Secretary of the Navy
during the war, he secured the employment of
ltcf alyor m mint rYrnQy
who were building the Navy Office Building
here and to design posters for the purpose of
helping to keep up the laborers' morale This
was the first time that an artist was ever en-
ployed in this way in connection with indus
trial enterprise. So successful did it prove that
other industrial organizations later carried on,
and successfully, the same experiment
I YDIA BUSH-BROWN has made speciality
l. Of silk mural-wall hangings decorated
through a batik process In manner entirely
her own, very effective, very decorative. In
Mrs. Kane's studio beginning last Sunday and
continuing through a part of the past week,
she showed 18 such panels all produced within
the last year and all but one or two not here
tofore exhibited In Washington. They were
charming, quite in her inimitable style, and
yet very varied, completely original
approximately feet wide, represented a Tree
Of Life, a circle Of birds in flight around It,
lines representing the waves of the sea near
the base. and below series of volcanoes vonnit-
ing flame, all brought into perfectly unified
simple composition. Two other panels repre-
sented trees of the foreSt-lithe, young aspens
with scanty foliage, and on the ground beneath
Autumn leaves scattered, among which, up
springing with renewed youth and promise
were groups Of blue fringed-gentian.
Two of the panels were Of the heavens at
night-the considerations, the planets In their