Evening star., 1934-02-25

ODDLY enough there are also 70 be seen
~ this time extremely beautiful
and artistic photographs at the Library Of Con-
gress These are by two women, Doris Umann
and Laura Gilpin. The former has devoted
herself chiefly to portraiture, studies Of Amerf-
can types men, women and children Of the
Appalachian Mountain regions Of North Caro-
lima and Georgia-sturdy people with the
beauty of homeliness of the kind that Rem
brandt would have liked to have painted or
etched And In many instances the photog-
rapher has given her subjects peculiarly ap-
propriate and picturesque setting.
Laura Gilpin's prints are OF quite differ
ent sort, more impersonal more detailed, less
painterike, but also very beautiful. With
amazing accuracy and at the same time ex-
quisite effect Of light and shade she shows us
the great Mayan temples 80 lately excavated in
Yucatan and in such manner that they
awaken instantly the observers imagination
and become real, q part Of life, not far distant
but of today. conjured as by the wave of
magic wand. Such artistry and power are
very rare. Miss Gilpin also exhibits some very
charming prints made In the Southwest, show
ing the old buildings there and picturing the
present life Of the Indians Her photographs
were shown last month, by invitation, IN the
Museum of Natural History, New York.
signal honor. This IS only their second show
ing IN the East. These collections WILL It Is
understood, remain on view In the upper main
hall Of the Library of Congress until March Is.
THOSE who have not journeyed to Baltimore
] to see in the Baltimore Museum the "Sur-
vey Of American Painting" should do 30 with
out delay as this interesting exhibition closes
on the 28th Of this month, when at the ap-
pointed time, 5 O'Clock, the gallery closes as
usual The portrait Of whistlers Mother"
lent by the Louvre which was q great attrac-
tiOf1 visitors az
other museums desire the privilege Of showing
it. But there remain Duveneck's "Whistling
Boy" Abbey's "Penance Of Queen Eleanor"
Homers Herring Net" Sargent's Luxembourg
Gardens" Brush's I'm the Garden" and So
other notable paintings by distinguished Amer
fcan artists, from Copley and Gilbert Stuart
10 Hopper and Grant Wood lent by museums
and private collectors. Two Of these paintings
were lent by the Corcoran Gallery Of Art
Alexander Brooks portrait Of his wife and
John Sloan's yeats at Petit-pas" lately &C.
quired; and the Phillips Memorial Gallery made
no less than eight loans to this exhibition
Burial Of q Young Man." by Kent: Sunset
High Bridge" by Lawson; Morning Walk" by
Marjorie Phillips; 'The Storm ">by Tack; EN-
erald Pool" by Twachtman; Macbeth and the
Witches" by Ryder; Portrait of Otis Skinner
in Character" by Luks; "Ponte della Paglia."
by Prendergast
THE Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
] has just concluded its 129th annual exhibi-
ton. This exhibition included 453 paintings
and 101 works in sculpture In both media
these works ranged from ultra conservative to
ultra-n,odern, and as the latter have not as
yet lost the flavor OF novelty the impression
given was of predominance. But in all prob
ability, honors were even, and very fair
cross-section of contemporary art in America
set forth. Certainly these works came from
all parts Of the country, North, South, East
and West, and were by painters IN many in
stances of foreign birth immediate ancestry.
In this exhibition undoubtedly extremes met.
Reproduced on the first page of the catalogue
was portrait by Ernest Ipsen Of his "Great
Uncle Christian" very conservative work:
while the second a painting of q
pathetic little Ballet Girl" by John Carroll,
In his strange modern vernacular. Thomas
Bentons representation of 1.-The Century Of
Progress" might we'll have been mistaken for .
modern Inferno, while Charles Morris Yo1ngs
picture Of FOX Hunter was equally calculated