Evening star., 1934-03-11

motor trip to st. Petersburg, Fla. sketching
route and collecting twenty or more inter-
esting studies Of Southern scenes-new ma
terial for later development.
THE National Academy of Design will open
its 109th annual exhibition in the Fine
Arts Building. 2l5 West Fifty seventh street,
New York, this week. Tuesday will be "varn-
ishing day" with private view in the after
noon, the invitations announcing Mrs Franklin
d. Roosevelt as patroness. For this exhibition
the great Vanderbilt Gallery will be trans
formed into an Italian garden and the
called academy room. which heretofore among
academicans has been known as "The .Aorque".
will appear in completely new dress the set
ting for an extensive print show arranged by
John Taylor Arms. The catalogue, which has
been enlarged will contain numerous illustra-
tions, four Of which will be In color. A long
list of prizes will be awarded. The jury Of
selection includes Charles Bittinger, A. N. A.
of this city and Feicie w. Howell, A. N. A.,
and Hobart Nichols, N. A., formerly Of this
city. This exhibition continues until April Is.
A PAINTING by Hobart Nichols entitled
Mountain Landscape" has lately been
presented to the Minneapolis Art Institute by
its president, John r. Vanderlip. According to
the bulletin of the institute. Mr.. Nichols in
this picture has captured Winter in q guise
that would hardly be discerned by one who did
not know and love nature" There Is q wind
ing road in the foreground and great snow
capped mountains in the middle distance tower
ing against the sky-apparently strong.
dramatic work.
[ IENRY B. SMELL who has been giving =
series of monthly criticisms to professional
painters here in Washington this Winter. has
lately announced that he will conduct a class
in old Mexico this Summer from July to
September 4. The altitude being high the
climate during Midsummer near the City OF
Mexico is none too warm to be agreeable
COR the first time for some years Frederick
W. Waugh, painter of the sea- is holding
an exhibition in New York at the Grand Gen.
trail Galleries An interesting feature of this
exhibition is the fact that the patrons are all
sea -faring men such as Capt Bob Bartlett Of
Polar expedition fame, Capt. A. B. Randall.
commodore of the United States Lines one
time captain of the Leviathan, and Capt.
George Fried, who has achieved note by his
daring at sea, besides many others At
the opening Joan Lowell author of Cradle OF
the Deep" presided at the tea table. Waugh
is well represented IN the Evans National Gal-
lery collection.
THIRTY NINE bronzes by Malvina Hoffman
were sold from her recent exhibition in
New York the attendance of which exceeded
10000 The collection set forth consisted of
small half-size bronzes of the full-size or
heroic figures produced in Miss Hoffmans
series "The Races of Man" for the Field Mu-
scum, Chicago. The edition of each figure
shown in this exhibition is limited to u. In
some instances five or six of a single figure
were sold and among the purchasers were
number of the leading museums. In art SO
superlatively good as this there seems to be
Producers of the immature and ugly take
notice.
| INDER the patronage of the mayor great
- municipal exhibition of paintings, sculp-
lures and prints by artists of New York City
is being held in the forum of Rockefeller Gem
ter. About 900 works by 412 artists are shown,
and well shown, in 33 galleries six floors Of
the great R. c. A. Building The paintings are
hung in single line-works by academicians
and modernists, conservatives and radicals side
by side, and the total length of the show is al
most a mile. On the opening night, February
81, the attendance exceeded 5000. Mayor La
Guardia made. on that occasion, an opening
address and Edward Bruce of this city, the
secretary of the P. w. A. project, told of the
way the Federal Government is giving work
and recognition to artists throughout the
country.