Evening star., 1935-12-15

Library of Congress-Recent
accessions; Pennell Autographs
and original illustrations by
Stanley Reinhart, w. A. Rogers
and others.
Public Library. main build
ing-Prints by members of the
Washington Society of Etchers.
Howard University Art Gal
lery-Reproduct of famous
paintings.
Northeastern Branch, Public
Library-Water colors by five
Washington painters.
irving from the ancient art of Egypt
through Greece and Rome; the other
a modernist, who has to a great
extent cast aside tradition and gone
back to the art of primitive peoples
as source of inspiration. The Museum
of Modern Art purchased, not long
ago, a colossal group, Mother and
Child" cut by Mr. zorach from block
of Florida marble. He was represented
in the Olympic Exhibition in Los
Angeles by a foot ball player crouched
for tackling.
= great honor came to Mr.. ManShip
last Summer, when, by invitation. he
exhibited 80 works in the Tate Gallery,
London. Only once before has such
an invitation been extended to
foreigner and that was to Carl Miles,
sculptor, of Sweden. who now, by the
way, makes his home in Michigan.
The British critics commented most
favorably upon Mr.. Manship'S exhibit,
Stressing the imaginative quality of
his work as well as his technical
achievements, and characterizing him
as "a modernist alive to progress and
all it implies, yet thoroughly grounded
in the classic tradition" More than
any other, Mr.. ManShip has, through
his work, influenced for years the
trend of American sculpture.
ONE of the outstanding events Of
the current Winter season will
be the exhibition of a collection of
bronzes by Malivina Hoffman, for
which arrangements have been made
by tn. National Geographic Society.
These will be reductions of her full
size sculptures made for the Hall Of
Man" i. the Field Museum, Chicago.
They represent the Races of Man.
kind" and were made from life in all
parts OF the world This collection.
shown in the Grand Central Galleries,
New York, last year, attracting very
wide attention, was feature of the
California Pacific Exposition in San
Diego the past Summer and Autumn.
1t comes here from there, and will
later be disbursed, the majority of
the bronzes having been acquired by
museums and private collectors, and
at present on loan. The exact dates
for this exhibition have not yet been
set.
THE Society of Medalists has Just
issued its second medal for the
currens year-the twelfth in its series.
1t S by Anthony de Francisco, the
sculptor of the Day snd Might"
airmail panels for the Post Office
building, pupil of James Earle Fraser,
Adolph Weinman and others. 1t
represents Creation; a mighty hand
is seen upholding a child seated in
crescent moon. On the reverse,
swirling masses of the firmamentS,
clouds, stars. lightning, the birth of
worlds with land and water, are in
dicated. 1t is a very animated design
and novel treatment.
The diverse is slightly mound
shaped, and the margins, thinner than
the center, are irregularly cut in
scollops. The whole is washed with
silver.
While interesting as a unique work,
and doubtless modern in the sense
conveye, of motion, this medal would
seem to transgress every established
rule for the medalist's art. A medal,
heretofore, to attain distinction had
to be rendered with an apparent
economy of effort and great subtlety
OF expression; something one could
hold t. ones hand and find mex
haustible in pleasure. Such were the
medals or coins modelled by the great
sculptor of antiquity, and later by
those of France, by our own Augustus
Saint Gaudens, and some other Amer
ican artists of our own day. There is
nothing about this medal by Mr.. de
Francisco which invites touch or con-
temptation. It is disproportionately
hea y and ponderous.
Earlier in the year, the Society OF
MedaliStS issued to its members a
medal by dorado Taft, sculptor of the
Columbus Fountain in this city. This
was commemorative of the Great
Lakes, and in measure a new version
of the symbolic Fountain of the
Lakes" by Mr.. Taft, erected from the
Ferguson fund on a site adjacent to
the Art Institute of Chicago.
The society has announced, this
past week, that its next issue will be
by r. TAFT Mckenzie, of Philadelphia,
and will have some athletic sport as
motive. DR.. Mckenzie is, it viii be
recalled, the foremost sculptor of
athletes.
THE CoRCoRAN Gallery of Art viii
place on exhibition, tomorrow. in
cases in its upper atrium, an exhibi-
ton consisting of IS water colors and
IL Autographs by Prentiss Taylor, who
has lately joined the staff Of Studio
House as instructor in hthography.
Mr.. Taylor is Washingtonian by
,.;rkt, h,,k he rfY,ciad t,rdor HaW.