Evening star., 1934-11-13
.CORCORAN EXHIBIT
JURY APPOINTED
Jonas Lie of New York
Heads Five Who Will
Judge Paintings.

lect paintings and make awards for
the Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition
of Contemporary American Oil Paint
ings, to be held at the Corcoran GAL
lery Of Art March "a to May 5, 1895,
inclusive.
Trustees Of the gallery have an
nounced that the following painters
have consented to serve on the jury
Jonas Lie of New York City, chair
man; George Harding Of Philadelphia,
Victor Higgins of Taos, N. Mex;
Henry Lee McFee Of Woodstock, N. Y,
and Richard E. Miller of Province
town, Mass.
The jury will pick from thousands
of paintings submitted for the show
the works which they believe are wor-
thy Of inclusion in the forthcoming
national art display and will choose
the pictures which are to win for
their creators the coveted William A.
Clark Prize Awards.
The awards, established through
the late Senator William A. Clark S
endowment of 100000, are: First
prize, $4,000 and the Corcoran
Gold Medal second, $500 and the
Corcoran Silver Medal third, $1,000
and the Corcoran Bronze Medal, and
fourth. $500 and the Corcoran honor
able mention certificates.
Lie Recently Honored.
Chairman Lie recently was elected
president Of the National Academy Of
Design, the Oldest and largest organi-
Zation of artists in America. He Is
one Of the country's foremost paint
ers of landscape and marine subjects.
One Of his works. The Storm" is in
the permanent collection Of the Cor
coran Gallery.
A native of Norway, Mr.. Lie came
to the United States when small boy.
He studied at night at the National
Academy of Design and the Arts Stu
dents League of New York while
working in a cotton factory as a
designer and exhibited In annual
shows when scarcely 20. He has re-
ceived many awards, and his paintings
are In many public and private collec-
tions throughout the country. At the
time of the building of the Panama
Canal he made a series of paintings
vividly depicting this project. These
paintings later were presented to the
United States Military Academy at
West Point as q memorial to Gen.
Goethals.
Mr.. Harding is leading Philadel-
phla artist and a member of the facul-
ty of the Pennsylvania Academy OF
the Fine Arts. Born in Philadelphia,
he studied at the Pennsylvania Acad-
emy, with Howard Pyle, and abroad
He is well known for his murals in
hotels, theaters and banks. During
the World War he was one Of the OFF,
cial artists of the American Expe-
dictionary Force, with rank of cap
tain. and portrayed many dramatic
incidents of the great conflict. His
sketches made on the battlefields are
now in the War Department.
Student at Chicago.
Mr.. Higgins Is native Of Indiana
He studied at the Art Institute OF
Chicago and the Academy Of Fine
Arts in Chicago, with Rene Menard
and Lucien Simon In Paris and with
Hans Won Hyeck in Munich. Some
years ago he went to Taos and has
become widely known for his paint
ings of the picturesque Southwest
One of his typical Indian subjects
"Apaches," is part Of the ,Corcoran
Gallery's permanent collection. He
will afford excellent representation or
the jury for the painters in Taos
and Santa Fe, where there has grown
up an art colony which reflects the
environment of the natives and their
adobe houses.
Mr.. McFee, native Of st. Louis
Mo, did preliminary studying in Pitts
burgh and then went to the League
School Of Landscape Painting al
Woodstock, N. Y. He became per-
manent member and one Of the lead
ers Of the woodstock colony. In
Winter he comes to Virginia. He i,
best known for his still life paintings
although he also does landscapes and
figures. In 1928, at the Eleventh Cor
coran Biennial, he was awarded the
fourth Clark prize for his painting
Landscape" The gallery has in Its
permanent collection his painting
The Window" and other examples oi
his work are owned by the Phillips
Memorial Gallery here.
Mr.. Miller, also a native of st. Louis
began his studies at the st. Louis
School of Fine Arts, later enrolling
under Benjamin Constant and Jean
Paul Laurens at Paris, where he re-
sided for a number Of years. He re-
turned to this country some years ago
His paintings have won many prizes
in this country and abroad and are
on exhibition in public and private
collections on both sides Of the At
lantic. He has specialized In figure
paintings Of women, an example OF
which is 1.-THE Boudoir," in the Cor
coran Gallery's collection. A depar-
ture from his usual style was his
Cape Cod" a painting of two fisher
folk, which received favorable COM
ment in the last biennial exhibition.