The Washington times., 1934-12-01
Current Art Is
Continuously
Displayed
BY GRACE HENDRICK
EUSTIS

charming and informal set
tlngs, we recommend a visit
to the Studio House, 1914
Twenty-first St. This is the
only place in Washington
where one can see current
work exhibited continuously.
Here, also, one sees paintings
hung as they should be in a
home.
It is a house, turned into
an art gallery and presided
over by the tranquil charm
of Robert Franklin Gates
and Margaret Casey Gates,
artists in their own right.
The front room, where the
oils and water colors are ex.
hibited, is furnished with a few
good tables, holding cigarettes
and ash trays and some easy
chairs. The walls form a quiet
background for the paintings.
In the back room are prints
and Autographs and the color
reproductions, of which this
gallery makes a speciality. In
the hall are a few fine etchings,
engraVings and woodblocks.
Requirements
In the front room are fifteen
paintings. They will be there,
with requirements as the pic
lures are sold, until the first
Of January.
There are two beautiful
Burchfields, both water colors,
one called "Poplars" and the
other. "LandScape-Twilight."
Charles Burchfield, who now
lives in Buffalo. Is one Of the
foremost water color artists in
the country. He has a picture
in almost every large collec-
ton, starting with the Metro.
politan Museum in New York,
and is one of two American
painters represented in the Tate
Gallery in London.
Eliot O'Hara has a water
color here, listed as "Sepia and
Paynes Grey-Maine." Though
he lives now in Washington, Mr..
O'Hara has a great following
in New England and a repu-
tation for being an excellent
seller.
Bold and Brilliant
There is dark oil by Elliott
Orr of New York, a pupil of
George Luks. Next to it is a
clear water color by Robert
Franklin Gates, done with his
customary boldness and pre-
cision. It is called "Connecti-
cut Farmhouse" Mr.. Gates
has another splendid picture,
Mountain Storm" hanging in
an inconspicuous place. These
are both good paintings, as are
those of his wife, Margaret
Casey Gates, who is exhibiting
"Chuck Bowman's House" and
"Gegny's Farm, West Virginia"
Five of Mr.. Gates water
colors are now on exhibition at
the Corcoran Art Gallery. Mrs.
Gates has two in the Duncan
Phillips collection, one Of which
was shown last spring.
Then there are two biting pic
lures by Frank Di Cola, protege
of Walt Kuhn. Sharp, Satirical
and brilliant, reminiscent Of
"Boz," are the works Of the
Italian artist who lives in New
York and frequently exhibits al
the Marie Hartman Gallery.
Over the mantlepiece is a wa
ter color by Prentiss Taylor, he
of lithograph fame. This pic
ture is Of the deep South. 1t
is called Bethany Chapel"
painted, they think, in Beau
fort, South Carolina. Excellent
in composition, color and frag-
lie tracery is this picture.
In the back room, facing the
entrance is a superb decorative
panel by Augustus Vincent Tack,
done in oil and gold leaf. Moth
ing is lovelier, more satlstac-
tory than good abstract panel
by this master technician, whose
group in the Duncan Phillips
Gallery is one of its outStand-
ing features.
Also in this back room, which
faces a garden, are some water
colors of Mrs. Gates some excel
lent reproductions of Chinese
and Japanese paintings, done in
silk, q few wood blocks OF rooSt-
ers by Karl KnathS and two
Audubon prints.
Older Works
In the hall, are older works.
There is a beautiful etching Of
William Blake: three Autographs
of Honore Daumier, cut from the
contemporary magazine. Chari-
vari, full of his magnificent r1d1-
cule; a Whistler etching: a d1-
verting reproduction Of a Rus
sian ikon; a lithograph by Mail
lol and one by Redon; a good
woodcut by Olin DowS: a limo
leum cut by Robert Franklin
Gates and a lithograph by Rock
well Kent; some very old wood
blocks, colored by hand from the
German "Schatzbehalter," circa
1893, and a story map Of the
life of Christ drawn by Mr.. Law
Watkins.