Evening star., 1935-12-01

for the purpose, a generous donors
bequest This collection is small but
well chosen, thanks to the expert
knowledge Of the gallerys acting di-
rector, Ruel P. Tolman.
THE exhibition Of contemporary
paintings, sculpture and drawings
by artists of Washington and vicinity,
including in a large circle Baltimore
and Richmond, which opened in the
Phillips Memorial Gallery fortnight
ago, has attracted considerable atten-
ton and by the middle of the past
week 16 exhibits had been sold. Two
or more paintings were acquired by
Mr.. Phillips for the gallery; Robert
Franklin Gates large landscape-inci-
dentally one of the best things he has
produced-was purchased by Mrs.
Robert Woods Bliss; other sales were
to various visitors. Prices in this sales
exhibition are all moderate, $3.50 being
about the top.
Along with this display of works by
young artists, the Phillips Memorial
Gallery is contributing to broadening
of the understanding of art by afford
ing opportunity for study through the
medium of a series Of conferences on
Modern Art" Wednesday afternoons,
Mr.. Watkins presiding, and by lending
its beautiful and commodious library
for music now and then, Sundays and
other days. The conferences are open
to the public through subscription, but
the concert announced for this after
noon at $3.50 is free. The artists on
this occasion will be Martha Blake,
pianist, and Louise Foote, violinist.
THE Washington Society of the Fine
Arts announces its fourth an
nual exhibition to be held in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, January IL to
February 2, inclusive. Entry cards,
obtainable from the secretary, Miss
Lucia B. Hollerith, 808 Seventeenth
street northwest, must be filled out
and returned by December %. Janu-
ary will be the last day for receiving
Only works not previously exhibited
in Washington will be eligible. Four
prizes, bronze medals, will be awarded
as usual to the best figure painting,
including portraits; the best landscape
painting, including marines; the best
still life and the best work in sculp-
ture. The awards will be made by a
jury of artists, no one of whom is a
member of the society. Vanishing day
will be January IL.
MARKED improvement is shown by
" Hildegarde Hamilton in her wori
now on view at the Burlington Hotel
under the auspices of the local chap
ter of the League of American Per
Women. over that shown three years
or more ago in the Arts Club. During
the greater part Of that time she has
been abroad travelling, observing. Hel
painting has broadened, she ha!
learned to simplify, her compositions
are better. Miss Hamilton dn private
life Mrs. Hobart Ryland), is an inde-
| fafatigable worker, an enthusiast, anc
| her delight in what she sees, as vel
as her love of painting, gets into hel
pictures and gives them charm. She
and her husband are the best kind o.
travellers, interested in new scenes
sympathetic with strange people. will
ing cheerfully to put up with incon'
venience as Insignificant, happy il
adventure. No wonder that her pic
torial record of three such wander
years has almost universal allure. A
her exhibition in New York, preceding
her showing here, 16 paintings wer'
sold. She brought back to this countr.
no less than 15o-not bad record O.
| industry during her period of absence