Evening star., 1935-02-17
Notes of Art and Artists


shown. These are in International
House, 614 E street northwest, the
Y. w. c. AS transient residence.
This house was at one time owned
by the father of the late Frederick
B. MCGUIRE, for many years director
of the Corcoran Gallery Of Art. Mr..
Mcclure senior was an auctioneer
and an art lover and 1t was he who
added these sky-lighted galleries to
the handsome old mansion with its
beautiful doorway. These commodi-
GUS rooms are in constant use now
by members of the "Y," transient
visitors and international groups and
are open to visitors from 8 o'clock
in the morning to II o'clock at night.
Therein the first exhibition held in
these galleries for many years is
now set forth. 1t consists Of Sc paint
ings-44 oils and IL water colors-
by members Of the Society Of Wash
ington Artists. Some Of these pic
lures were included in the society's
most recent annual In the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, others may have ap-
peared in local exhibitions from time
to time, but some have not been
previously shown. Collectively, an
excellent idea and estimate of local
achievement in this field may be
derived from these paintings. The
arrangements for the exhibition, Sc
lection and hanging were in the
hands OF a special committee of
the S. w. A., of which Mrs. Ralph
Graves was chairman
In this exhibition landscapes, ma
rines and still life studies are in the
majority. In fact, there are only
three figure paintings and the gamut
Is run from ultra modernism to ex-
treme traditionalism. Most modern,
perhaps, in feeling and tendency, Is
water color, "At Gloucester" by
Gladys Milligan, done in the mex
plicable manner Of Marin. 1t hangs
between the windows In the recep-
ton room, wherein all the works in
this medium are shown. Benson B.
Moore. painter as well as etcher,
essentially conservative, contributes
not only his Winter on the Po-
tomac," with its decorative tree
silhouettes, shown recently in the
Corcoran Gallery, but also a very
charming landscape, Gray Novem-
ber," in style and composition remi-
niscent of the works of the old Eng
liSh masters, reticent in handling, eX-
cellent in composition, atmospheric
in effect.
Snow in Rock Creek Park" by
A. H. 0. Role, is large, fine canvas,
painted with breadth and excellent
feeling-a very pleasing and notable
work. Sycamore by the Ford" by
Gladys Nelson Smith, Is also a COM
paratively large canvas and shows
noble tree, well drawn and sympa-
thetically interpreted. DR.. Robert E.
Motley is at his best in a painting,
Water Wheel Mill" to which a posi-
ton of honor has been given in the
second gallery.
There Is something very charming
about Meadow on the Munchberg"
by Lucia Hollerith. a green picture,
sensitively rendered, with conscious
interest in design. Margaret S.
zimmele's Egg Rolling at the White
House" and Flower Cart" lend va
riety of interest and colorful note,
as do admirably painted Interiors"
by Meta Craig Turkenton and Lillian
M. Abbot, the latter wife of the dis
tinguished astronomer, the secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution.
An interesting contrast may be
! noted between New England Church
by Rowland Lyon and THE Village, La
Malbaie," with its dominating church
spire, by Edith Hoyt, both, however,
broadly painted and effective. Gar
net Jex is represented by two
small Oil paintings, above George
town" and Cumberland River Valley,
KY" both very characteristic and
good. Elizabeth E. Graves, Hudson
River Farm" a still smaller canvas, Is
painted with naive quality as well as
sincerity. Paul E. Rolando's "Olive
Grove" is a strong, individualistic
piece of work and very satisfying
Dorsey Doniphan shows Miller S
Cabin" of subjective as we'll as artis-
tic interest; William Walter is at his
best in Rock Creek" and Fishing
Boat" colorful and fresh in treat
ment, while from Grace Merrill Ruck-
man and Ruth Osgood have come
paintings Of the New England coast
rocks and sea.
As usual, the still-life studies add
color and decorative effect. These
include Mathilde M. Leisenring's two
Bouquets" Of old-fashioned flowers,
painted purposely in an old and ex-
quisitely dainty fashion; a study of
lilies and still life by Ruth Porter
Ward entitled Light" flowers From
Miss Adams Garden" by Jessie E.
| Baker, Decoration" by Francis
Wheeler, "Peonies" by Mrs. Abbot and
others.
The figure studies are "Tired" by
reclining in complete relaxation on a
day bed or courch, and her dog
stretched out, equally relaxed, on the
floor beside her-a very successful
effort to render mood pictorially; a
| head of a small, light-haired boy in
Blue" by Francis Wickersham, skill
fully rendered, and "a Gypsy" by
Dorothy M. Davidson, academic in
| treatment.
| AAO "aVSA N0AOAc oS6ASSoeSA AAA eAA'S
reception room serve as excellent in
production to the larger group. Here
one finds two large flower studies by
Clara r. Saunders, two delightful lit
tie pictures of racing boats by Eleanor
Parke Custis, two pictures of weather,
Rain" and 1.-THE Blizzard" cleverly
rendered by Susan B. Chase; two
very charming and characteristic
Gloucester scenes by Lesley jackson,
two similar subjects but very different
in treatment by Mrs. Keplinger and a
colorful study of "Peonies' by Rosa
Wagner, all Of which uphold high
standards.
The holding of this exhibition,
which will continue to March IA, in
a completely new center, should not
only extend the interest in art, but
demonstrate to many the pleasurable
value Of such displays. It Is thought,
too, that among those Of foreign birth
and parentage who constitute the in
ternational groups frequenting these
rooms there must be many sensitive
to beauty in art and eager for closer
contact with current production. This