Evening star., 1935-05-19

LEWIS PAINTINGS ON VIEW
Water Coors and Prints Form Unusual Exhibition at Public
Lbrary-Art Organizations Meeting Washington This
Week-Special Show of Flower Pictures

gallery's permanent collection as the
Mother and Child" by De Forest
Brush. the landscapes by Schoheld
and Symons, the genre by Horation
Walker, the portraits Of John Ran
dolph Of Roanoke by Gilbert Stuart
and Chester Harding? And how in
tereSting and excellent it is to have
opportunity to see and study conten1-
porary paintings-thoSe lately shown
in the biennial-in comparison with
such masterpieces as these. to say
nothing of those Of earlier date In the
Clark collection.
A SPECIAL exhibition Of flower
paintings in water color by John
Gee is now in progress in the atrium
of the Corcoran Gallery Of Art. Mr..
Gee is an illustrator Of children's
books, who has for some years been
| living in Florida. Under the patron
age Of the P. w. A. P. he began max
ing studies of Florida wild flowers and
became so interested in the work that
| lac lldS IO1llAl4AC0 ~ AAAN obAAACG
which he is now exhibiting are done
with great accuracy and nicely. In
measure they recall the very careful
studies reproduced in the early Eng
lish prints now so popular. Portraits
of Flowers he calls them, and very
| aptly, for this is precisely what they
are. Among the flowers represented
are poinsettia, orchids, jassamine, ba-
mana blossoms and others less fanilier.
| AN EXHIBITION Of paintings and
prints of flowers opened in the
Francis Scott Key Bookshop, Twenty
ninth and o streets, last Friday to CO.
incide with the Georgetown Garden
oilgrimages, and to continue for fort
night This exhibition comprises wa
ter colors by Emma Duel Rice of gar
den flowers by Marguerite Burgess of
wild flowers. with flower studies by s.
Belle Updegraff. photographs Of wild
| flowers by William H. Close, and old
| prints lent for the occasion by local
collectors.
AN EXHIBITION Of Jugtown pot
terry was held the latter part Of
the past week in Caroline Bean Bin
yon's garden in Georgetown. This pot
terry, made in North Carolina, is very
colorful, well shaped and especially
suitable for garden decoration. Some
years ago when an exhibition of prints
by American etchers. lithographers
ETC., was sent to an international eX-
position in Florence, two pairs Of tall
jars-yellow and turquoise hlue-were
displayed as decorative features in the
American room. and they served the
purpose admirably evoking from Ital-
ian potters very favorable comment.
Mrs. Binyon, who has studied and
lived for years abroad, herself an ac-
complished artist, is very enthusiastic
over the artistic quality of this typi-
cally American craft.
THIS afternoon there will open at
the Arts Club the annual Sum-
mer exhibition Of members works.
This will comprise paintings. drawings.
etchings and sculpture The hostesses
at the tea this afternoon. marking the
opening, will be Mrs. Pearl Potter Etz,
Miss Frances Carroll Todd. Mrs. Sam
uel A. Kimberly and Mrs Cherry Ford
White. The exhibition will continue
through September.
AN EXHIBITION Of ship models
by the Ship Model Makers Club
OF Washington opened last evening
in the Canadian Pacific Railway ON
ces, New York avenue and Fourteenth
street, with private view and will
continue to May 26. This exhibition
is sponsored by the Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy Henry Roosevelt;
the editor in chief of the United
States Bureau of Education, William
D. Boutwell,, and Gordon Grant,
president of the International Ship
Model Makers Clubs. Mr.. Grant is,
it will be recalled, a distinguished
painter and etcher, and one who has
made a specially Of paintings and
drawings of ships. Irving Wiles, the
well-known portrait painter of New
York has for years made ship models
as recreation, and other artists of
distinction have likewise practiced
this fascinating craft The invitation
to this exhibition carries a reproduc-
ton in color of a painting by Gordon
Grant Of a square-rigged ship in full
sail.
GTUDIO HOUSE, 1914 Twenty-frst
street, opened yesterday afternoon
an exhibition Of paintings and draw
ings by students in the school during
| the current year and also advanced
work carried on under the criticism
and supervision of Mr.. Watkins and
members of the faculty. Among those
represented in the latter group are
Richard Sargent, Mary Winslow, An
| gela Hurd, Karl Glockner. Catherine
| Hammond and Sarak Baker. Four
of these young artists won prizes, it
will be remembered, in the Greater
! Washington independent exhibition,
which closed yesterday.
A special sale Of color reproduc-
tions and Daumier Autographs is an
nounced by Studio House from May
l8 to May 81.
EUGEN WE1sz, member Of the
faculty Of the Corcoran School
of Art, whose self-portrait in oils,
shown in the biennial exhibition, and
water colors have attracted much fs-
vorable attention, will conduct q class
in outdoor sketching from June to
July IA. Mr.. Weisz has an uncom-
monty fine sense Of color and his
work is both broad and strong. Fur
thermore he has, as have compara-
lively few, knowledge and under
standing of the fundamentals under
lying all great art so that while keep
ing abreast of the time he is not
swept away by contemporary, super
fetal currents.