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decorative but induce Temperance on
the part Of patrons.
The Corcoran Gallery Of Art in the
days before the depression made O
record for sales In It's biennial ex-
hihittons, but has never before stressed
selling Is In this instance. That It
does 30 now Is probably q good thing,
for 1t will establish . precedent, q
good one, and will Danish to an
extent the prevelant feeling that
paintings In exhibitions are to be
viewed. merely, rather than acquired.
Good artists as . rule are poor sales
men, but to the best . sale Is the
surest evidence Of appreciation and
therefore most stimulating. With
out this stimulus no art can long
survive.
THE Washington Society of the Fine
Arts has Just announced its series
Of five lectures on art for the current
season all Of which win be given
Wednesday evenings in Barker Hall,
the Y. W. c. A. Building. These viii
be November II. Mexico and Her
Ancient Art" by Fred Payne Clat-
worthy Of Estes Park, Colo, who is
well known both as pictorial photog-
rapher and lecturer. This will take
the form OF . series of exquisite
Lumiere photographs in full color,
taken en- route. from Vera Cruz to
Southern California to be shown in
stereopticon with running comment.
Mr.. Clatworthy Is lecturing in the
leading art museums. December IL
the lecture will be on Antiques in
Facts and Fiction" by Homer Eaton
Keys, founder IS well Is editor of
the magazine Antiques" an au-
thority on the best as well Is on
mythological aspects of the trade.
Everett v. Meeks. dean Of the School
OF Fine Arts, Yale University, will
be the speaker January 9, and his
subject will be 1.-The Romantic Re
vival in the Mid Nineteenth Century
Victorianism in Architecture and the
Decorative Arts" The February lee
turer will be o European authority,
DR.. Hans Tietze Of Vienna, who will
speak ION the l3th) on The Art of
Albrecht Durer." When q few years
ago the Austrian government wanted
to do over its art museums it was
DR.. Tietze who they called in as
adviser. The nth lecture in this
course will be a novelty, q moving
picture film in three reels produced
by the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
in New York Of Painting Portrait"
with Wayman Adams as film star.
This lecture or demonstration will
be prefaced by brief account of
the Metropolitan Museums new ed
ucation program.
These lectures are primarily for
members of the society and their
guests, but they are open to the
public for q nominal admission fee,
and, furthermore. the society well
comes to membership all those in
terested. Further information and
application blanks may be obtained
by applying to the secretary, 14o2
Twenty-first street northwest. Espe-
cially does the society extend at
this time an invitation to member
ship, to newcomers to WASHINGTON,
Government employees and others.
AN INTERESTING movement has
lately been inaugurated here with
the purpose Of bringing to the school
children OF Washington better under
standing Of the pleasures Of art
through contact and increased ap-
probation This takes the form of
leisure time" Saturday morning
meetings in the art galleries of the
city. arranged by Miss Ethel Bray,
supervisor Of art in the public schools
OF the city, and conducted by the art
teachers and division supervisors.
The children gather ct . given place,
listen to a brief illustrated talk or see
a moving picture film Of process and,
thus stimulated and informed, make
q tour Of inspection. The first meet
ing was held In the Freer Gallery
and Miss Anna Curtis Chandler, long
a member Of the Metropolitan Mu-
seum's educational staff, was the lee
turer. Yesterday a meeting was held
at the Corcoran Gallery with "Sculp-
ture" as the theme, and q film entitled
From Clay to Bronze" showing how
bronze statue is produced, the pre-
liminary instructive attraction. Miss
Laura Lee. one of the art teachers,
was in charge. Next Saturday at
1890 am. the meeting place will
again be the Corcoran Gallery Of Art.
The subject viii be Tapestries" the
process ilm ON Tapestry Making" +"
Mrs. J. M. Morgan In charge, with
possibly . demonstration by Mrs.
Summers. whose tapestries viii at
that time be on view. A general in
vttation is issued to school children.
It Is in this use Of our art collections
that Washington has been, hereto
fore, especially backward.
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AN EXHIBITION Of paintings by
- Alexis B. Many of this city opened
tn the Art League, 1903 Twenty-first
street, November 1 to continue to the
18th. This is Mr.. Many's first one
man show, but he has contributed
from time to time to the annual ex-
hibitions Of the Society Of Washing
ton Artists and the Washington
Water Color Club, and invariably
works OF unique interest. The cur
rent showing. comprising Il paint
ings In oils, represents, to q great ex-
tent, If not entirely. the fruits of
travel and sojourn In Mexico and
marks considerable diversion on the
part OF the painter In the style and
character Of his work. which. while
always decorative and stylistic. was
heretofore in higher key and much
less grim. That it is. in the examples
set forth, still decorative and very IN
dividualistic none will deny, but dis
counting these virtues Is now q note
Of the primitive which seems false.
Almost all the canvases In this COL
lection are interesting In pattern and
rather sonorous in color, but their
texture Is anything but alluring and
the drawing Is clumsy and crude.
Primitive painters and sculptors were
Door technicians because thew were