Evening star., 1933-10-29

It Is BY these works that Rivera must be
judged. He y . Mexican. and in these paint
ingS be interpretS Mexican Life. This Is very
different fro mpainting murals IN building In
the heart OF New York. building essentially for
different people and representative OF
different Mie. Az shown In these Yepoduc.
tions. Diego Rivera not only justifes the con-
Morrov when Ambassador to MEXICO. but that
of other art critics and lovers. and witnesses In
his works . power and strength and genius
akin to the power and strength and genius Of
the greatest Of allEAucfael Angelo Every one
cannot 60 to Mexico to see these works, but
any one may see them, in superb reproduction.
from November / to 10, at the Public Library
in this city.
OF the branch libraries, both the Northeast
~ ern Branch at Seventh street and Mary
land avenue northeast. and the Southeastern
Branch at Seventh and D streets southeast,
the reading rooms are greatly frightened, and
made more attractive by the introduction OF
paintings-fowers and still life and landscapes.
by local artists. For the most part the land
scapeS are exceedingly modern (they are the
work of Beulah Weaver and Angela Hurd), but
they take their place among the books and on
the walls with certain dignity, and undoubt-
edly create not only aesthetic reaction on the
part Of the readers, but thought-What is it all
about?
1 IENTTON has already been made in these
IVl columns Of the portraits and figure paint
ings when first shown at the Takoma Branch
Library but these exhibitions shifted every
month, and the portraits, from November TO
30 will be seen In the Northeastern Branch.
Among the artists represented in this group are
Catherine c. Critcher, who shows characteristic
works; BWtis Baker. and Eugen WeiSz, in
structoes In ths Corcoran School of Art Charles
- tI1o ~ T nf h.
ington; Margaret Yard. painter and an espe-
cially skilful teacher Of art to little children,
and Rowland Lyon, who shows Girl With Red
Comb" and Larson of Dupont Circle" both
recent and effective paintings. Mathilde
Leisenring Is represented by Young Pianist"
and Eben Comins by a Portrait of a Boy
IN THE Eastern High Sub-branch Library at
18th and East Capitol streets. there will be q
one-man exhibit Of water colors by Margarete
Lent who. it will be remembered. has upon
several occasions, IN New York and elsewhere.
carried OF by the merit Of her work much
coveted prizes; while in the Tenley ub-branch.
Wisconsin avenue paintings by Katherine Bea-
man will be seen, including a very interesting
transcription of an old pictorial map the orig
inal of which Is in the Library Of Congress.
Certainly books and pictures belong together,
and the closer the alliance the better it will
be for all concerned
THE second of the 1933-34 series Of print
exhibitions in the Smithsonian 1nstitu-
ton under the auspices Of the division OF
graphic arts, United States National Museum,
will open tomorrow to continue to November
26 This will consist of etchings by Louis G.
Rosenberg, one of the most skilful of our con-
temporary etchers of architectural themes.
Rosenberg was born in Portland Greg, but
won q scholarship to the Massachusetts, InSti-
tute Of Technology and amazed his instructors
and delighted his fellow students with his
clever drawings, his skillful pencil Finishing
his architectural course he won travelling
fellowship, but the war intervened and when
it was he returned to the United States
with the expectation Of practicing architecture.
entering the Office of York and Sawyer in
New York This was not his destiny. Coming
in contact with q great British etcher he was
induced to lay aside building design and de-
vote himself exclusively to the making Of
prints. A year followed in London under the
best of masters, then travelEand the great
etchef emerged