Evening star., 1935-04-21

hibitors. In these respects this exhi-
bition, with its several units, does not
follow precedent. and therefore may
be expected to uphold a better stand
ard and to prove more attractive.
Primarily the object, it is understood,
is to get the artists before the public
| and create market for their works.
| AS a number of these exhibitions could
not be hung until after the close OF
business yesterday. they could not be
reviewed in these columns today.
Suffice it to say that they promise
much in interest.
N7ATER colors by Lillian Giffen of
w Baltimore, member of the Arts
Club of Washington, the National As
sociation of Women Painters and
Sculptors, Art Alliance of Philadel-
ohia and other professional organiza-
tions. now occupy the walls Of the
drawing room and the reception hall
at the Arts Club. while Mr.. Roth's
paintings in oil fill the adjacent gal
lery. Fourteen of these paintings are
of the sea and surf, among which one,
THE Comber," is exceedingly decora-
tive and good, recalling in fact the
mastery prints of Hokusai and the
abstract paintings of Tack. There is
no more difficult subject, and un-
doubtedly Miss Giffen has given much
study to wave forms. Among her
paintings which hang in the hall is
one of The Old Road to Dublin.
N. H." one of Great Birch" and
one of MT. Clare" the home of
Charles Carroll, the barrister, which
will certainly be accorded favor and
praise.
THE exhibition of oil paintings by
Ernest David Roth, which opened
in the Arts Club April IA to continue
to May 3, Is all and more than was
anticipated, when referred to In gen.
erel terms last week. It consists of
II or 18 small canvases, very reticent-
ly rendered, but so exquisite in color
and so sensitively realized that none
could fail to find them enchanting.
1t is an amazing thing that one whose
chief concern heretofore has, as in
Mr.. Roth's case, been with line, should
have so keen and delicate a color
sense-and also that having employed
for years almost exclusively one me-
dunn he should so fully and at once
command another. In these paintings
Mr.. Roth evidences full knowledge
and understanding Of the delightful
potentialities of paint on canvas. Fur
thermore, having made this discovery.
he has so employed his medium that
as a means to an end 1t Is neither
obvious nor insistent. With apparent
inconsistencies he creates with brush,
or palette knife, or whatnot, skillfully
employed to meet his need, textures
which are diverse and very beautiful.
A good many Of these paintings
were made in Spain, or at least have
Spanish subjects. such as Sketch in
Seville" Street in Granada" "Cathe-
dral, Seville" "Segovia," but two Of
the most pleasing were found else
where In Europe-one in Venice and
the other at Antibes-and not q few
were done in Connecticut, where Mr..
Roth makes his home. The Venetian
subject is Of the facade Of q house
on one of the petit" canals, with its
brickwork and paint beautif1ed by the
finger of Time and its effect en-
hanced by the reflections cast in the
quiet water which washes its door,
step. The picture painted in Antilles
is Of group Of white stucco houses
with red tile roofs seen in an unusual
light and painted very simply. OF
the Connecticut subjects none is more
charming than Autumn Afternoon" "
. picture Of Q country road across
which occasional trees cast long shsd-