Evening star., 1934-11-18
Notes of Art and Artists

under the late James Henry Moser,
whose influence one still sees, hap
PLY, now and then in his works. But
Mr.. Wagner has kept stride with the
times. and painting in Maine with
George Pearse Ennis has taken on
breadth and individuality. During
the past few years he has acquired
strength and exceptional skill, so that
his paintings have not only found their
way into the leading exhibitions, but
have received high commendation
from critics and confreres. They
have also picturesqueness which
is pleasing. Mr.. Wagner is opening
this year Winter school In Florida
and, next Summer, one in Maine.
DR.. Motley, whose oils will be hung
in the gallery while Mr.. Wagner's
water colors are shown in the cluS's
reception room, studied first in the
Corcoran School of Art, then in the
Pennsylvania Academy and under
Walter Goltz at Woodstock, N. Y.
He, too, Is q member of the Arts
Club, the Society of Washington
Artists, Landscape Club of Washing
ton, and has exhibited extensively
both here and in other cities. At
the opening tea this afternoon both
DR.. Motley and Mr. Wagner will be
present and Mrs. Wagner will serve
as hostess.
THE Washington Water Color Club
announces its thirty-ninth annual
exhibition to be held in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art from December to
January /. This will consist not
only of water colors, but etchings,
wood blocks and drawings not pre-
viously exhibited in Washington.
Works intended for inclusion in this
exhibition must be delivered at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York
avenue entrance, not later than De-
cember l. Entry blanks and other
information may be obtained from
Mrs. Susan B. Chase, secretary, 20l7
street northwest.
A MONG local artists represented in
= the Philadelphia Water Color
Clubs thirty-second annual exhibit
ton, which opened in the Pennsyl-
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ma Bose, Lois Mailou Jones, Eliot
O'Hara, S. Peter Wagner, Eleanor
Parke Custis and Percy Crosby. Miss
Gusts shows two paintings and Mr..
Crosby has three exhibits, two water
colors and dry point, and the others
one each.
PERCY CROSBY, best known as
creator of "Skippy," whose home
is in nearby Virginia, received signal
honor recently by the purchase of one
Of his paintings by the Luxembourg,
Paris. for inclusion in the collection
of works by foreign artists, set forth
in the Musee Jeu de Paume This is
said to be the first painting by an
American artist purchased by a
French museum since 1880. It is en-
titled Cowboy" and is a water color
depicting a horseback rider on a West
ern desert silhouetted against glow
ing sunset sky. 1t was included in
an exhibition of water colors, oils,
drawings and prints, 1873 in all, shown
by Mr.. Crosby in the Jacques Selig-
man Gallery in Paris last June The
same collection was, it is understood,
exhibited later in London and in
Rome Exhibitions of Mr.. Crosby S
work were held here last Winter in
the Corcoran Gallery of Art and at
the Macbeth Gallery in New York, as
well as elsewhere.
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AN EXHIBITION of tapestries and
other weavings by Emmy Somner
of this city opened yesterday in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, to continue
until December g Mrs. Somner
learned the art of tapestry weaving
in Denmark-her native land-but
she has been practicing it here for
some years. Included in her exhibi-
ton will be loom, the one on which
her own tapestries have been woven,
and an attractive feature will be oc-
casional demonstrations by this mas
ter craftswoman. In connection with
the Flemish tapestries of several CEN
turies ago, recently lent and now so
effectively displayed on the walls Of
the stair hall at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, this exhibition of modern work
should prove of especial interest.
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OPENING on Tuesday and continu-
~ ing for a fortnight, an exhibition
of water colors and small oil paint
ings by Henry B. Smell will be seen
in the upper atrium of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art. Mr. Smell has great
distinction, both as painter and
teacher, and it is some time since a
collection of his work has been ex-
hibited here. During the past Sum-
mer he conducted a class in paint
ing in Mexico, which has of late
become a mecca for artists of this