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tribute to group exhibitions in tt
Recipients of Awards.
Mrs Leisenring's portraits and flower
paintings are features of exhibitions OF
the Society of Washington Artists, the
Washington Water Color Club and the
Arts Club; and DR.. WeiSzS paintings
are also we'll known to Washingtonians
who frequent exhibitions. Mr.. Schuler
is the sculptor of the statue of James
Buchanan in Meridian Hill Park. He
has been associated for many years
with the Maryland Institute, Balti-
more, as director of its School OF Fine
Arts. Every member of the Corcoran
Schools faculty has been the recipient
of one or more awards for work in
exhibitions.
The purpose of the Corcoran School
Is to supply adequate instruction to
those seriously intending to become
professional artists. No examination
or previous instruction is required for
entrance. There will be four compe-
titions during the year. in the final one
of which prizes are awarded, lnclud-
ing money and certificates for the best
painting in oil from life, for the best
drawing from life and for the best
drawing from the antique. The Cor
about 800.
The National School of Fine and
Applied Art, Connecticut avenue and
M street. under the direction of Felix
Mahony. emphasizes the teaching of
design in its practical application to
general articles for everyday use and
to industrial arts. This school is one
of the oldest" art schools in Washing
ton, having been founded in 1916.
It's average enrolment is 300, requir-
ing the attention of Is instructors.
During the impending season Henry
Hensche of Provincetown. Mass, is to
have charge of classes in water color
painting He was a pupil of the late
Charles w. Hawthorne and also taught
In Mr.. Hawthorne's Cape Cod School
of Arts there. Mrs. Grace Close is in
charge Of costume design and illustra-
ton, and also of the children's Sat-
urday classes. Jawne Dom Allen in
structs in interior decoration and as
sists in the children's classes.
Senator's Daughter on Faculty.
G. E. Copeland, l.. and Brooke Todd
jr : are instructors IN color and design
and commercial advertising. respective
ly. During the coming season Mari
anna Harrison, daughter OF Senator
Pat Harrison of Mississippi, will assist
in the children's classes. Stage, poster
and commercial design, illustration, dy-
manic symmetry, life drawing and
painting are also taught. Mr.. Ma
hony supervises and instructs in all
courses. The foundation of this schools
curriculum is its course in spectrum
color
Students of the National School of
Fine and Applied Art have won many
victories in poster contests, and con-
stitute large proportion of the en-
trants in such contests in Washington,
thus giving evidence of the soundnesS
OF the training offered by this insti-
tuition.
The Abbott School of Fine and
Commercial Art, at Seventeenth and
H streets, offers courses in nine sub
jects. Founded in 1925. it has grown
to the extent of having an annual en-
rollment of 200 and faculty of IA
instructors. 1t is under the direction
of Anne Fuller Abbott, who teaches
portrait and life classes. as well as
supervising all other courses. The train
ing in the fine arts is given from the
academic standpoint, to insure fllm
foundation. both for those students
who expect to continue along conserva-
tive lines, and those who wish to sub
sequently work in the modernist idlom
Originality and self-expression are en-
couraged within the limits OF sound
training.
The Abbott School.
The artists composing the faculty Of
Abbott School are all engaged in pro-
fessional fields. but are nevertheless
always present during class sessions. As
sisting Miss Abbott in the painting
classes in oil, water color and other
media, are Ruth Baker, who also
teaches costume design; Susan B. Chase
and Margarete Lent who has received
several awards in annual exhibitions OF
the New York Water Color Club Clara
r. Saunders instructS in art apprecla-
ton Glasses in landscape painting are
held in the field when weather permits
Emphasis on design in all fields Of in
dustrial arts in the United States in re-
cent wears has revealed the shortage
of trained designers Glasses in general
design, calculated to equip students to
take ADVANTAGE of this demand, are an
important feature of the Abbott Schools
curriculum. being included in all courses.
The number of its graduates new sue
cessfully employed in commercial art
work attests to the practical nature OF
its training.
Hugo linden instructS in design and
commercial illustration. Elizabeth w.
Grimm has charge of fashion illustra-
ton and Harriet Garrells of lettering.
Throughout such courses, reproduction
requirements are considered, with the
purpose of making the completed work
salable Other courses include interior
architecture, in charge of Beverley H.
Harris; etching, taught by Benson B.
Moore and Robert LeFevre. Examples
of Mr.. Moores etchings and drypolnts
are included in permanent collections
in Paris, France New York City, Wash
ingtcn, Philadelphia and several other
cities in this country. The Abbott
c,nools Junior department, conducted
by Virginia Feeser, Adelaide Field and
MARYLAND Bryant gives elementary,
intermediate and advanced classes for
children from approximately 9 to l8
wears of age. Scholarships are awarded
for the best work in all the different
classes.
LII addition to the above, there are
special classes for professional painters
and teachers of art, for whose beneflt
Henry B. Smell, a noted painter and
member of the National Academy OF
Design, New York City, comes to WASH
iugton once a month to give profes-
sional criticism, lectures and discus
sions of work submitted as well as
demonstrations in oil and water color
The Abbott School of Fine and Com
mercial Art and the National School OF
Fine and Applied Art endeavor to take
full advantage of Washington's SUPERB
resources of paintings and other collec-
tions In the National, Corcoran, Freel
and Phillips Memorial Galleries, the
library of Congress Fine Arts Division