The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-02
Diversified
Art Being
Shown

playing such diversified type
of painting and such varying
talent that comparisons are i'm
possible, are on exhibition this
week under one Washington
roof.
Paintings in oil and water
color, charcoal sketches and
architectural drawings are all
being shown at the Art League
of Washington, 1903 Twenty
first St. N. w.
The best known and the most
pleasing to the eye is the work
of Ernest Lawson, famous Amer
lean landscape painter, who has
an imposing exhibit of some
lovely scenes from all sections OF
the country.
Lawson, unlike some Of the
contemporary landscape realists,
goes to the countryside for most
of his landscapeS-the country
side of New York State or Colo
RADIO or Connecticut, wherever he
sees the distant mountain and
the trickling stream that he so
likes to paint.
Landscapes
Detail doesn't bother this land
Scape painter. His human figures
and his houses merely give a
SemblanCe of what they are in.
tended to represent, with an eff
feet at once easy on the eye and
attractive.
His scenery is studded with
soft mountain tops, trees of all
description, lovely green meadows
and a quantity of "babbling
brooks"
The most unique of his paint
ings, undoubtedly because 1t
stands out among so many coun-
trySides, is one entitled New
York Bridge" in which the artist
digresseS for the moment to look
up to an imposing bridge over
the big city.
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The shock of contrast is imme-
diately felt on leaving LawSon's
soft landscapes to view the
symmetrical still life of Kath-
crime Munroe.
Mrs. Munroe. a local artist. is
displaying several of her vivid
paintings of flowers, bottles,
apples and oranges, glasses and
even umbrellas, all of which are
arranged in all sorts of queer posi-
lions.
The angles and the jumbled-up
arrangement are features un-
doubtedly understood only by the
contemporary artists who profess
t belong to that So-called school
of modernisr".
CaricatureS
A quantity of very mercileSS
caricatures of well-knoWn Amerl
cans went on exhibition yesterday.
drawn with the sharp pencil Of
Miss Peggy Bacon.
These sketches are the original
drawings of 38 caricatureS COM
piled in one ook. known as loft
With Their Heads" and treat
very unkindly the personalities
from political, business. and
literary circles.
Not even President Roosevelt is
left unscathed. and the now al
most forgotten Gen. Hugh S.
Johnson is certainly treated with
out any mercy.
Others who come in for Miss
Bacon'S biting caricatures include
P"xford Guy TugWell. one of the
Brain TruSterS" Sinclair Lewis,
the Nobel prize winner in litera-
ture; Lillian Gish. the stage and
screen actress; George GerShwin,
pianiSt-compoSer, and innunmer-
able others.
The book is dedicated by Miss
Bacon ito the faces I love-"
Portraits and Oils
In addition to Mrs. Munroe,
there are two other local artists
who have placed their works on
exhibition at the Art League.
Friedrich FugliSter, who also is
of the modernistic school, is ex-
hibiting a few commendable For.
traits. He also has not neglected
to place on exhibition a painting
which, on close scrutiny, may be
) identified as the god of war.
The principal figure IN the
picture is an ugly man, clutch.
various implements which may be
identified as instruments Of war.
A few oils and water colorS by
TIA Romagna, also of Washing
ton, are very imaginative wood.
land scenes, with feminine figures
of curious shape and in queer
positions.
One room at the Art league
is reserved for the architectural
drawings Of modern houses BY
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