Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-16

1918 to 1921
The painting, which is one of Charles Peale's
best, and, incidentally in an excellent state Of
preservation, is owned and lent to the Corcoran
Gallery by the estate of Mrs. Harriet Turner.
During the settlement of Mrs. Turner'S estate
this painting, with other works Of art,
offered for sale at auction in this city but,
owing to the present financial conditions, no
adequate bid was made for it, therefore it was
withdrawn. 1t is earnestly to be hoped that.
having been painted III this city of those
intimately associated through several genera
tiOns with life in the National Capital it will
eventually find permanent placement here
TWO special exhibitions at the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art close today and will be replaced
tomorrow by other collections. These are the
exhibition of miniatures by Eulabee Dix and
Inc exhibition of water colors Of Central Amer
lea, by Julian Peabody. The former will be re-
placed by a collection of prints by Argentine
artists collected and lent by DR.. Gill; the latter
by q collection of pastels, portraits, landscapes,
ETC., by Wilbur A. Reaser of New York. Mr..
ReaSer was born in Ohio, studied at the Mark
Hopkins Institute in San Francisco and under
Constant and Lefebvre in Paris. He received
gold and silver medals in the California EXPOSE
ton Of 1894 and the first Hallgarten prize
N. A. D.. In 1897 He has made a specially of
portraits. His Mother and Daughter" is owned
by the Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh. His por-
trait of Senator w. B. Allison is in the Capitol:
his portraits of Senator Page in the State Capt.
t0l at Montpelier, Vt, and his portrait Of
Bishop Lewis in the State Historical Society.
Des MOines.
A r the Arts Club, 2017 street, will open
today special exhibitions of the works of
Olive Rush of Santa Fe.. N. Mex, and of
Gordon Grant of New York.
Olive Rush is represented in the Phillips
Memorial Gallery in this city and has painted
mural decorations for the La Fonda Hotel in
Santa Fe. She works in water color well as
oil and has undoubtedly been influenced by the
art of the Santa Fe Indians with whom she has
been in close touch. One of her paintings, an
Indian ceremonial has been purchased by the
University of Nebraska, and her works well
recognized throughout the country for marked
individuality and merit.
Gordon Grant is Californian by birth and q
IOndoner by education He paints in water
color and in OIL with a special enthusiasm for
boats He is member of the Salmagundi Club
of New York. the New York Water Color Club
and the Chicago Society of Etchers
Both of these exhibitions promise much in
interest.
INCLUDED among the sixteenth and seven
] tenth century maps now on view at
Gordon Dunthornes several rare American
ones, such Speeds of North and South
America dated 1926, Ogilby's of Virginia. 1871.
and one Of the earliest maps Of Carolina, pub
liShed by Ogilby in the same year. The last is
. fine decorative map with an inset on a larger
scale OF Charleston and the Ashley and Cooper
Rivers. According to information in the files Of
the Library of Congress, Sir Peter Colleton
wrote to his honored friend John Locke, that
Mr.. Oglby wished to get a map Of Carolina and
desired to ask Lord Ashley for the maps of Cape
Fear and Albemarle; that he would wait upon
his lordsfip for the nomination of the rivers,
etc. And Sir Peter adds. with distinctly up-tO-
date astuteness. IF Locke would draw up q dis
course to be added to this map in the nature Of
. description, such as might invite people with
out seeming to come from US. it would very
much conduce to the speedy settlement Of
Carolina"
Among the eighteenth century flower prints
which share honors with these maps at the
present time are examples of the publication BY
TreW in Nuremberg. dating from 1740 to TITO.
Besides being records of flowers in cultivation
At that time these prints are notable for their
decorative quality the simplicity OF design, en-
phasixing rhythm and flow of line similar to
that for which the moderns strive today. Par
ticuarly fine are plates of tulips parrot tulips
recently introduced at flower shows as new"
There Is . fine plate of Irish SuSana, extinct
for almost 100 years before being brought back
recently into cultivation But the most strik-
ing Of all the flower prints in this exhibition are
those published in 1907 by . Dr. Thornton, .
surgeon at Guys Hospital in London, . tril3-
Ute 10 the great DOCan1SC LlnnaeuS. IneSe
plates are unique among all flower prints, both
for their size and for being printed in color,
unusual with English mezzotints and aqua
tints of the period. In all cases the flower. or
group of flowers. is depicted in bold relief with
a landscape background. A cyclamen is shown
in front of a Persian landscape, . group OF
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