Evening star., 1934-04-08

president OF the Society OF WaSnlng-
ton Artists, and by Gladys Bran
nigan, a charter member of the Arts CLUB.
Miss Elizabeth Sawtele and Mr. Jameson will
be hosts.
Mr.. Jameson is one of those who purSues art
as an avocaton, giving to it his play-tlme, but
painting no less seriously when he paints tnan
do those who regard it as vocat1on-the So
called professional artists. If, however, the
word professional is defined in art as in sport.
by whether or not one earns money thereby,
receives financial compensation for effort ex-
banded then Mr. Jameson is essentially within
this class for his paintings find ready pur-
chasers and with excellent reason. During
Summer holidays in past years he has studied
under Cullen Yates and John F. Carlson, both
good landscape painters and excellent teachers.
He has exhibited under the auspices Of the
American Federation of Arts and in New York.
Worcester and Concord, Mass; Manchester,
VT; Richmond Va: Baltimore and elsewhere
He Is invariably represented in the annual
exhibitions set forth by the Society of Wash
ington Artists, the Washington Water Color
Club and the Landscape Club Of Washington
In 1924 he received silver medal for a paint
ing shown in the Society Of Washington Artists
A4xlual exhibition.
The works that he will show in the exhibition
opening today will be small oil paintings and
they will be hung in the reception room. These
paintings will be found of an intimate char
acter, done directly from nature with interpre-
tive intent. 1t has been said that the land
scape painters urge to production Is a desire
to pass on to others the delight which he
himself has experienced in coming upon a
certain view or effect in nature, and that his
paintings should be regarded saying to the
world at large or at least to others sensitive to
beauty, "Come and this thing which have
seen and found lovely" If he Is good inter-
prefer his work will undoubtedly stir equally
the emotions of those by whom it is seen.
MIR Jameson has painted frequently in New
England and some of his best works are pic
torial presentations of the New England hill
country LIST Summer, however he went into
the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia
late in the season and brought back some ex
tremey significant paintings of this less familiar
and more rugged landscape. Whatever Mr..
Jameson will show will be found to possess
sincerity, frankness and elemental beauty. He
is one who paints from the sheer delight of
expression and his work has steadily strength
ened as the years have passed.
GLADYS 8RANNIGAN, to whom the gallery
~ of the Arts Club has been assigned, will
show at the same time oil and water colors.
She is an erstwhile student of the Corcoran
School or Art, but she studied also at the
National Academy of Design under Kenyon
Cox and George Maynard. Not only is she
member of the local organization, but of the
Allied Artists of America, the New York Society
of Painters, the North Shore Arts, New York
Water Color Club and other professional organi-
zations She has exhibited widely and has
ceived awards and honorable mentions in
exhibitions held in Arizona, New Haven, Green
r.th, Ogunquit and elsewhere. few years
an interesting group of her water colorS
5 exhibited in the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
: ..racting much favorable attention. Her work
colorful and has much individuality. That
ste paints equally well in both oils and water
co.orS is noteworthy Mrs Branngan has un-
doubtedly kept step with the times, but back
of her apparent freedom and ease Of expression
is a foundation of sound knowledge and serious
study.
THE newly established print department at
Studio House, 1914 Twenty-first street. sets
a high standard in its initial exhibition, which
opened last Wednesday with a private view.
Special emphasis is placed on the Audubon
prints-Birds of America-to which the main
gallery is given and secondarily to early Ameri-
can Autographs by Currier and Ives. But the
cream of this showing is undoubtedly to be
found in the entrance hallway, where old
AaasterS and contemporary modernists are seen
shoulder to shoulder and with little to choose
between them when it comes to the matter Of
impressive merit. Here, for instance is print
in very good condition by Durer a wood-cut of
-Four Angels Stopping the Wind" beside which
is shown print by Grosz, of the great
print makers of today in Germany, which repre-
sents entirely in outline a street scene-men
passing presumably to their work against
background of many-storied houses-dreary
enough and far removed from the heavenly
vision, and yet work which none could pass
without taking note. On the opposite wall is
a Ithograph which declares its artistic worth
by q German woman artist, Rather Kollwitz
by name, whose Autographs, because of their
- strength and vigor, have attracted wide and
Favorable attention. Lovers of cats will be en-