Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01
NO[E[ QE ART AND ARTL1[

resented are Oun lows ana RODert FRANKLIN
Gates. This department will handle also color
reproductions Of works by well known painters
The opening exhibition will feature Audubon's
Birds of America and Autographs by Currier
and Ives. Among the latter will be quite a
number of views of Washington and its en-
virons, of special local interest. William NJ
WINS, curator of prints of the Metropolitan
Museum, has called prints the commonest
form of art" and recommends print collecting
TO all as a poor-mans hobby. Studio House
announces not only the establishment of this
print department and show room. but the fact
that prints will be purchasable at modest prices.
IATIIE E. BURDETTE has lately completed
portrait in oils of little boy John B.
Hendrick, I'd, grandson of the late Senator
Hendrick Of wyoming and also of DR. Hugh s.
Cumming. The little lad has light curly hair
blue eyes and pink and white complexion Miss
Burdette has painted him in a bright blue
smock against a gray background a straight
forward and capable work in portraiture and,
1t Is said an excellent likeness.
THE April exhibition at the Public Library
will consist of water colors by Eliot O'Hara
who. since having recovered from pneumonia
in February, has conducted three weeks in
tensive course in water color painting in Savan-
nan, Ga, under the auspices of the Telfair
Academy, and is at present holding a one-man
exhibition of South American water colors in
the Macbeth Gallery. New York where it has
not only attracted attention. but called forth
much favorable comment such as the following
by Edward A. Jewell in the New York Times:
Mr. OHara has become notwithstanding his
sometimes terrifying skill an artist with per-
sonal infection Such cleverneSs as his is in
frequently enough encountered to justify, be-
yond question. the respect that must be paid
to virtuosity of so high an order. And yet
there is something about this cool, intelligent
mastery that can all said and done, leave
hearts athirst for the deeper refreshment
yielded by artists both feeling intensely
and inner vision and knowing how. with rare
cunning, to set thought and emotion upon
paper"
Oddly by coincidence at the same time that
OHara was exhibiting at the Macbeth Gallery.
John Whorf was showing at Milch's. and
George Pearse Ennis at Cronyn and Lowndes-
certainly a conjunction of planets. stars of
the first magnitude. so far as water color paint
ers go.
Turing March exhibitions of paintings by
- local artists have been held under the
auspices of the art division of the District
Federation Of Womens Clubs in the eight
branch public libraries. Because OF the in
terest manifested through attendance and re-
quest. these exhibitions will be continued
through April From them. however. will be
withdrawn in each instance four paintings to
held at the Art League of Washington, 1903
Twenty first street. from April to IA. inclu-
sive. An out-of-town jury will select from this
exhibition the prize winning picture to be en-
tered in q national exhibition and other awards
will be made among which. especially note
worthy is a prize of $3.50 donated by Mrs.
Eugene Meyer. This jury will consist of q
conservative and a radical artist and an art
critic.
Artists whose works are included in the ex-
hibition at the Mount Pleasant Branch Library
will be entertained at tea this afternoon in
the women's City Club, Miss Clara r. Saunders.
chairman Of the group serving as hostess.
At the request Of the Womans Club OF
Arlington for an exhibition, Miss Saunders
acting for Mrs. Samuel A. Swiggett chairman
of the division Of art of the District Federation
Of women's Clubs, has assembled q group Of
works by local artists to be shown in the
Arlington club rooms.
AN interesting personality in local art
n circles, Fred Joseph Braendle, passed
away recently Mr. Braende was q native of
Switzerland In early life he became associated
with Hiram Powers the sculptor. living for some
time as q member of his family. 1t was through
Mr. Braendle that w. w. Corcoran acquired
for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hiram Powers
Greek Slave" The fact that one who knew
Hiram Powers one of the earliest of our Ameri-
can sculptors. intimately and while he was
creating, has, but just passed away, gives strik-
ing indication of the brief span covered by the
history of sculpture in America
INDER date of March 26 and the signature
- of the director. Juiana Force, the whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, issued
the following extraordinary notice:
Through circumstances beyond its control
the identity of the whitney Museum Of Ameri-
can Art has become confused in the minds of