Evening star., 1935-12-15
TWIN EXHIBITS OF WORK BY MODERNISTS TO BE SHOWN
JANUARY DISPLAY ARRANGED
Collection of Paintings Be Brought Studio House. and
Sculpture to Be Offered New Headquarters of Junior
League-Notable Bronzes.

| thorne, Anne GoldthWaite and Charles
Locke in Provincetown and New York.
One of his Autographs received prize
in the 1885 independent exhibition
here, and examples Of his hthography
have been acquired by the Museum of
Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum,
New York, as well as by the Seattle
Art Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum,
Hartford; Addison Gallery, Andover:
the Library of Congress and the
Phillips Memorial Gallery.
That Mr.. Taylor has been influenced
by the Currier and Ives prints is gen.
orally conceded, but that he has origi-
nality and gift is manifested without
| question in all he does.
SIX ADDITIONAL prints have been
added to the Louis Bennett, jr.,
memorial collection in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art by Miss Mary E. Max
well, the donor. Among these is one
by Rembrandt - Rembrandt and
Saskia"-an extremely interesting and
valuable acquisition, for, after all, this
master still stands supreme-and his
self-portraits are artistically interest
ing and self-revealing, Another is by
the late Childe HaSSam-a character
istic subject, "Old Dominy House,
Easthampton," which goes to show
how beauty may be found in express
sion as truly as in the thing itself. Mr..
HaSSam was an individualist, although
the leading exponent of the French
school Of impreSSioniSm in this coun-
| try. He lived his own life and he pro-
duced his works of art independently
and entirely according to his own
pleasure and convictions But under
all his eccentricity and at times rude
ness of manner, he was an artist,
sensitive to visual impressions, gifted
with a light, discerning touch, attain
ing frequently to very great heights
His paintings of the New England
coast and country, rendered in very
short strokes of pure color, are in some
instances like moSaics of jewels which
at distance recompose effects of
light and air-gemS.
His etchings are for the most part
sober in subject and gravely wrought,
but fine in relations of light and shade
and full of deep significance. Mr..
Hassam, during his lifetime, did not
mingle to any great extent with his
confreres, but upon his death, last
August, it was found that he had left
by will all his paintings and drawings
and prints, of which he died possessed,
to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, to sell and establish fund for
the purchase of paintings and prints
by artists of this country and Canada,
to be given to American and Canadian
Museums.
That third print of the group lately
added to the Corcoran Gallery COL
| lection was by Mahonri Young is
especially interesting, in view of the
exhibition of this artists work now on
view in the Smithsonian Building. The
subject is Navajo Lookout, one of
the finest of those now exhibited The
three other examples were Gathering
Brush, Central Park" by Clifford Beal,
so well known as painter and so ad-
mirably represented In the Phillips
Memorial Gallery: "The Bridges, New
York" by William C. McNulty, born
in Utah, but now of New York and
Rockport, Mass: and La Cucaracha,"
by Irwin D. Hoffman, of New York,
both painter and etcher. one time
holder of the Paige Travelling scholar
ship and represented in the Best
Prints of the Year" in 1894
These prints have been placed on
view in the Bennett memorial collec-
ton in the large south gallery on the
first floor of the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, a permanent display.
THE exhibition of IS paintings by
five Washington artists, which
opened in the Northeastern Branch
Of the Public Library the 1st of De-
cember, is attracting much atten-
ton. In the children's room have
been hung two pictures of cats,
Happy Family and Curiosity" by
Eleanor Parke Gusts, painted from
her own pets primarily for her own
pleasure, but very cleverly done, and
flower painting, "Rhododendrons.
by Frances H. Combs, which has also
found favor with young readers. Les
ley Jackson is represented in this
exhibition by three water colors
painted in Japan, charmingly atmos-
pheric and interpretative-Japan not
as seen by foreign eyes but by one
who sees beneath the surface-and
also by two typical Gloucester pic
lures, one of street, the other of a
fishing boat.
A. H. o. Role exhibits three VIM
ter pictures, two painted in this vi
cinity: One at Harper's Ferry, an
evenig land and water scape on
Chesapeake Bay in which lighting
effects are well handled, and a strik-
ing picture Of Hauling in the Seine"
Gertrude Browns group of five is ex-