Evening star., 1935-02-17

the Society Of Independents and at
the Art Center, New York. "a little
nonsense now and then is relished by
the wisest men" What is more, Miss
Rogers works are said to be char
acterful as well as amusing.
ON THE evening Of February z
Mrs. Fulton Lewis showed at the
Arts Club, after one Of the regular
club dinners, portion Of her remark
able collection Of pieced and patched
quilts, commenting Interestingly on
each. These quilts, Of which Mrs.
Lewis has about 200, have been COL
lected for the most part south Of New
York and are the work of housewives
of the late eighteenth and first half
Of the nineteenth century. They are
essentially works Of art and strikingly
evidence the potentialities Of needle
work as an outlet for artistic instinct
In the matter Of design, as well as
craftsmanship, many of these quilts
are exemplary. The extraordinary
variety attainable by the different
arrangements of units-squares, tri-
angles, rectangles and circles-was
significantly emphasized by the
speaker. Much Is said today Of the
improvement in taste, but certainly
the taste Of those who pieced and
patched and stitched these old quilts
was SO good that it would not only be
hard to better, but in many instances
put ours to shame. Work of this sort
demanded competence. accuracy. but
gave ample opportunity for self-ex-
preston of the best sort. 1t would be
well indeed if 1t could besrevived.
A N EXHIBITION of paintings, etch-
ings and sculpture by Wells M.
Sawyer, Benson B. Moore and Clara
Hill opened last Friday in Brainerd
Hall,t Lafayette College, Easton, Pa,
by invitation of President Lewis, for
merly of this city. Mr.. Sawyer, who
recently returned to Spain for the re-
mainder of the Winter. Is represented
by four Of his Spanish water colors.
Mr.. Moore shows 80 etchings, among
them several of his new color plates
of birds, and Miss Hill contributes
eight pieces of sculpture-portrait
busts, fountain figure, some statu-
ettes-and seven drawings. This would
seem to suggest a very interesting
combination. as well as work bound to
create interest among the students. A
valuable possession of Lafayette Col
lege, acquired during DR.. Lewis ten
ure of the presidency, is a marble bust
Of Lafayette by the great French mas
ter, David dangers. This college has
hall especially designed for the dis
play Of art exhibitions.
.OUrTE number Of Washington
" artists or artists closely associ-
ated with local activities are repre-
sented in the International Exhibition
of Water Colors. Pastels and Draw
ings-the eighth bierKlial-held in the
Brooklyn Museum February l-28. This
exhibition, which catalogues more
than 500 works, is especially strong
numerically in examples of contempt
rary paintings and drawings by
French and English artists. Among
the latter are found no less celebri-
ties than Blampied, Muirhead Bone,
Gerald Brochkurst, Augustus John
Dame Laura knight, James McBey
and P. Wilson Steer, In whose COM
pany it is indeed an honor to ex-
hibit.
Among the Washington artists rep
sented are Robert F. Gates, who
shows John Bowman's Pigs" lent by
Phillips Memorial Gallery, and a Sec
ond water color, Spring Planting;
Eliot O'Hara, represented by water
colors of Dupont Circle" and "Dis-
tant Rain" and Richard Sargent, who
contributes In the Park" and street
Scene, Charleston" the latter recall
ing the fact that he was sent to that
city by the p w. A. p. to paint typi-
cal scenes. Besides these, four or five
erstwhile Washingtonians make con-
tributions Grant H Code and his
sister, Mary Code, each have one ex-
hibit, a drawing and q pastel; Daisy
B. King, one Of the prize winners In
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petition years ago, represented also
by a portrait in pastel, and Natalie
Hays Hammond two Of her symbolic
portraits of Katherine Cornell and
Noel Coward. A group of her pictures
were lately exhibited in the Marie
Sterner Gallery, New York, evoking
much comment by their originality.
Mr.. Code, who was formerly on the
staff of the American Federation Of
Arts in this city, now heads the pub
licity department of the Brooklyn
Museum. To the catalogue of cur
rent exhibition Of etchings by Au-
gustus John and Gerald Brockhurst
he contributes not only critical essays,
but portrait drawing Of Brockhurst.
THE Art and Archaeology League
= will hold its February meeting at
the Art League, 1903 Twenty-hrst
street, Thursday afternoon, February
81, at $3.50 o'clock. In connection
with the leagues current exhibition
of paintings by Ernest Lawson, one
of our most noted contemporary land
Scape painters, who is to an extent
an exponent of impressionism, an ad-
dress will be given at this meeting on
Some American Impressionists" by
Will Hutchins. professor Of art at the
American University. Mrs. Mitchell
Carroll is president of the Art and
Archaeology League, founded by her
late husband, and Miss Harriet Car
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