Evening star., 1935-11-24

make no pretenSe OF being 1acSlmlleS.
In the selection Of artists as well as
the choice Of prints wide latitude has
been maintained, and for once. at
least. modernists and conservatives
are brought together in friendly asso-
citation. But after all, has not Christ
mas for many years been a season of
good will? AS the prints chosen for
reproduction were not made for this
particular purpose. they do not all
seem entirely appropriate, but it is
an amazing thing on the other hand
that so many are. There are Winter
landscapes. there are figure subjects,
there are illustrative themes.
Some of the originals were etchings
purchased by Museums and now con-
tanned in public collections; some are
woodblock prints, such, for example,
as those of Rockwell Kent; some are
wood cuts. Rockwell Kent and Mason
and Lankes are all seen at their best,
but so are Howard Cook, Diego Rivera
Eugene Higgins. Mahonri Young
Peggy Bacon and Wanda Gag are both
included in this distinguished, friendly
company, and do not seem out of
place. In fact. this American group,
through its organization, re-emphaN
sizes the oft-repeated statement that
the field of art has wide boundaries,
with room for all who are sincere and
gifted.
From Tuesday to Saturday of this
week the original prints from which
these reproductions have been made
as well as the greeting cards-will
be on public exhibition at Brentano's S
Inc. in this city. They are well
worth seeing. Similar exhibitions are
to be held-or are in progresS-in
so cities through the country. Could
better introduction to the works
Of our American print-makers be con-
ceived?
A FTER an absence of three years
in Europe, Hildegarde Hamilton
has returned to America and is now
exhibiting some Of her recent paint
ings at the headquarters of the League
of American Pen Women. the Burling-
ton Hotel, on Vermont avenue. Dur
ing the years abroad, this indefati-
gable young painter worked in Spain,
in Yugoslavia and in Turkey. She
exhibited in Paris at the American
Woman's Club, in the students club
house at Heidelberg University, in
Robert College, Beirut, and in the
American College, Sofia. Bulgaria, as
well as on the steamship Washington
on which she and her husband, DR..
Hobart Ryland, returned.
Since returning she has held an
exhibition under the auspices of the
Pen and Brush Club, New York. Her
exhibition here will continue through
Sunday, December !, and will be open
to the public daily, with the exception
Of Tuesdays, every afternoon, and on
Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday
evenings.
TOMORROW the Corcoran Gallery
of Art will place on view in its
upper atrium a group of water colors
by Charles E. Burchfield, who is one
OF the outstanding artists of the
contemporary school. Mr.. Burchfield
was born in Ohio in 1893, and studied
In the Cleveland School of Art. He
is very strong painter and a stark
realist. The subjects that, as rule,
he has chosen for Interpretation have
not had beauty in themselves, but his
direct manner of INTERPRETATION has
given them distinction. BY his oil
paintings he is represented in almost
all the leading art museums.
THE exhibition of paintings by Doris
Lee, which opened last week In
Studio House, is certainly most varied
and out of the ordinary. Apparently
the painter is still in the experimental
stage, for she has not one but several
manners, and she re-echoes in diff
ferent works, influences which are