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wife with its typical Charleston gar
den. This lovely Southern city has
furnished Mr.. Hutty With many
themes, but wher all is said and done
it is Hutty's etchings Of trees which
set him apart and give greatest rea-
son for remembrance. 1t is not every
one who can draw, much less etch, a
tree-a living thing, with roots down
in the ground and branches tossed sky
ward. But Alfred Hutty can and does.
His Southern pines are charming, but
no less typical than his Northern
birches, and each has its own char
acter. Some years ago Mr.. Hutty made
an etching Of the Capitol as seen from
the foot Of the steps back of the Peace
Monument. a very carefully rendered
study Of a great architectural work,
but the beauty o. this etching is to
great extent derived from the exquisite
manner in which he has delineated the
leafless sycamore trees in the immedi-
ate foreground. Charleston streets.
buildings and Negroes have, as already
said, furnished him with congenial and
excellent material, and especially we'll
has he portrayed familiar figures in
this environment - invariably with
sympathetic understanding Of their hu-
man quality. Mr.. Hutty has also made
some distinguished dry point portraits
This announced exhibition of his
prints may be anticipated with un-
usual pleasure, Opening March "a, it
will continue four weeks.
THE program Of exhibitions of art
and lectures put on by the Art
Department Of Howard University. in
cooperation with the Friends of Art,
during the current season, has been
noteworthy and deserving of more at
tention than perhaps it has received
The lecturers have included Philip
Mcmahon, professor of the history of
art. New York University; Edward
Rowan of the section of painting and
| sculpture in the Procurement Division
Of the Treasury and formerly director
OF the Little Gallery in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. and DR.. Shio Sakanishi of the
Oriental Division of the Library of
Congress. The exhibitions set forth
in the University Art Gallery includes
collection Of Chinese art, textiles
and sculpture; paintings in oil and
gouache by Herman Maril; Negro
paintings and paintings of Negro sub
lects. and now fine prints from the
| famous Rosenwald collection and
paintings by Emil Jacques, previously
shown in the National Museum under
the auspices Of the National Gallery
OF Art. Certainly a very varied Sc
| lection!
The prints and paintings will re-
main on view for another week and
will be found well worth seeing. Mr..
Jacques works are figure studies. por-
traits. outdoor scenes. especially on
the ocean front in California. and
studies for mural decorations in
churches. One of the most interest
ing of these canvases is of an elderly
workingman seated doing before a
sunny window filled with potted.
blooming plants.
IRUEL P. ToLMAN, acting director
~ of the National Gallery of Art,
paid a flying trip to Detroit in Feb
ruary to see the magnificent exhibi-
ton of Frans Halls paintings, as
sembled by DR.. Valentiner in the De-
troit Institute of Art. and another,
early in March. to Charleston. S. c..
to view and study great collection
| of miniatures on exhibition in the
Gibbes Memorial Gallery, where, about
a year ago, the notable exhibition of
Fraser miniatures was shown. The
current exhibition was limited to
miniatures painted before 1860 and
excluded the work of Fraser. 1t COM
prised over 500 miniatures, 70 from
the Gibbes Memorials permanent COL
lection, 100 lent by Herbert Lawton
| of Boston and 337 assembled from
private owners in Charleston and the
South. A remarkable showing. In
cidentally, in this connection, it is
rumored that J. P. Morgan Of New
York is considering dishursing by sale
the marvellous collection of miniatures
assembled by his father and long
shown in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art.
EIFTY-TWO colleges and univer-
sites are subscribing members OF
the American College Society of Print
Collectors. organized in 1929. with the
purpose Of bringing fine prints to the
attention of such students and making
them available to them. Each Or
ganization taking up membership in
this society received two etchings q
year by the leading contemporary
stchers of this and other countries