Evening star., 1934-02-25
THE SUNDAY STAR wAsHNGro ON, D. c, FEBRUARY IS
ORDON GRANTS exhibition at the
Arts Club transports the visitor to
Gloucester, as on a magic carpet,
so typical are the scenes he depicts

\ Arts Club transports the visitor TO
Gloucester as on a magic carpet,
typical are the scenes he depicts
and vivid. OF the 20 or more
pictures by Mr.. Grant which are
displayed on the walls of the drawing room,
almost all were presumably painted as studies
and for pleasure. They are small and intimate
but they have the quality of mature and larger
works Two three are of sea-faring men,
set forth in Between Tides sngly. in
groups as in "CronieS." and these are partic-
ularly characteristic. There Is no one who can
be so delightfully."- idle, without being lazy, as a
saior-than whom none can, when need occurs,
be more hard-working and alert. 1t Is habit
bred Of -faring oft-times handed down from
father to son.
Gloucester has been a favorite resort of artists
for many years. because of the excellent sub
jects it offers for pictorial presentation-boats
wharves, beautiful shores. During this time
great changes have taken place, and the
Gloucester of today Is by no means the
Gloucester of yesterday. No longer is it the
center OF great fishing industry, no longer
is the Gloucester fishing fleet what it once was,
no longer do full-figged ships from Italy, salt
laden, sail into its harbor. But fishing is still
carried on, the great wharves are there, the
crooked streets, and the fleet of pleasure boats
increases.
Mr.. Grant in these recent paintings shows us
some of the Ancient Wharves," the Guinea
Wharf" the Guinea Boats 'The Old Dock,
East Gloucester" Seine Boats" and indicative
well significant of GIoucesters particular
industry, such familiar subjects winding
Nets" and Repairing Nets" OF all these in
teresting. well-painted pictures none is perhaps
txuer more appealing than the entitled
Small Craft" in which group of little boats
Is seen idly afoat, passing in and out around
one another on q lovely stretch of placid blue
water. but water both salt and deep, and there
fore close kin to the ocean. Gordon Grant is
lover of the sea and its life None who sees
his paintings, or his etchings and drawings,
could doubt 1t.
A/ATER colors by Elizabeth Langenbeck
MacCubbin Of this city fill, at this time,
the Arts Clubs gallery. where they show to good
effect. Many of them are Of the sea- but the
sea without boats, and as seen from the shore
coEes and little bays, river mouths for the most
part on the lower coast of Maine in the vicinity
OF Cape Porpoise, Kennebunk, Ogunquit, Mills
Beach. Mrs. MacCubbin paints broadly but
dryly and with restraint especially in the
matter of color. Her works are all very reti-
cent, although at the same time genuinely
sincere. Her interpretations of gray days and
gray water are perhaps Of all most pleasing.
QARBARA MacFARIANE wife of Comdr
= Scott B. Macfarlane, q. s. NJ, and daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Blair Thaw of Georgetown
has sent a group of her recent water colors
here from Newport her present home for in
formal exhibition. They are charming and dis
tfnctly out of the ordinary. Sometime ago Mrs
Macfarlane surprised her friends by taking up
wood block print-making, cutting and printing
q series Of excellent renditions of houses, quaint
and historical all Of which had q pleasing note
Of individuality. Three years ago she turned
10 water color painting, studying for q brief
time with Eliot OHara and attaining with ex-
ceptional rapidity technical proficiency. At
Newport last Summer under the auspices Of
the Art Association, which does not sponsor
novices, she exhibited, by invitation, 40 OF her
paintings in this medium The six or eight
water colors by Mrs Macfarlane seen here last
week were broadly painted, strong, vivid inn
pressions frankly and vigorously set down. Her
color is rich and vibrant her choice of subjects
good Extremely interesting were two pictures
painted almost from the same spot at Coronado
Beach, Calf, one on o blue day emphasizing
the water seen beyond tall palmettos, the other
q gray day when q mountain across the Mex
lean border cut Interestingly against the quiet
SKY. Stark realism and glowing sunlight were
10 be found in q painting of boat house,
severely simple, but not unlovey as seen and
portrayed by this artist. Most lovely of all per-
haps was her painting Of the "Pont Neuf,' with
its handsome masonry arches, gray water
beneath gray sky above. Mrs. Macfarlane comes
by her artistic talent reasonably and naturally
her mother, Mrs. Thaw, it will be remembered,
being an accomplished painter of portraits her
father something Of a poet
A NOTABLE group Of pictorial photographs
E\ by members of the Washington Photo
graphic Society Is now view in the Arts
and Industries Building, United States National
Museum, the first showing of the kind in which