Evening star., 1936-03-21

building classical in design. The
building IS of gray glazed brick ON a
gray granite base. Seven thousand
five hundred dollars will be paid for
each of the panels in plaster the Gov
ernment furnishing material for the
finished work and undertaking to have
the model transformed into marble.
The sketch model and the scale mod
els, approved by the Director of Pro-
curement, shall, as we'll as the finished
works, be the property of the Govern
ment, together with copyright. The
Advisory Jury" for this competition
is made up of Lee Lawrie, Maurice
Sterne, Paul Manship, Edward McCar-
tan and the architect of the building
Thomas Harlan Elicit. The four
sculptors on this committee are all
men of distinction.
Exhibition of Etchings
By J. T. Arms Extended.
THE exhibition of etchings by John
Taylor Arms, which was to have
closed tomorrow afternoon, has been
extended for another week. It has at
tracted much favorable attention anc
several sales have been made. How
ever, the record here has not equalec
that of a similar exhibition in New
York last Autumn, when 62 sales were
| made and one edition completely ex-
hausted. This interest and demand
would seem to show that works of dis
tinguished merit are appreciated, ano
that the public is ready to buy that
which Is really fine and has intrinsic
beauty. Even a grotesque gargoyle
may have these qualities through artis-
tic Interpretation, as Mr. Arms himself
has proved.
In an article published in the "Print
Collectors Quarterly" in 1884. Doro-
| thy Arms said this about her husband
and his work, which Is so true that 1t
is worth quoting and remembering:
John Taylor Arms, a modern medley
| alist, is one of those men, born out OF
their times, who have been like re-
incarnations of an earlier age.
He is not concerned with the modern
| thought which feels that self can only
be expressed by ruthless disregard
of the past and its traditions and that
nothing is new save the bizarre and
the grotesque. To him art is an end
less chain, to which each sincere artist
adds a link of his own individualism
and he personally is driven by an un-
conQuerable force to recall beauty anc
the motives which brought that beauty
into being. His prints are not slavist
limitations of the actual physical as
poets of existing structures. Instead
they rightly may be called spiritual
reconstruction, in which are embodied
| all the faith or aspirations or thoughts
| of a far-away age. AS he recreates he
also creates, imbuing the ancient build
ings he so loves with the medieval
spirit which is, in the last analysis, the
| creative force of all times-the need
to give lavishly of ones self as the one
significant offering worthy to be laid
upon the altar of beauty"
It Is for this reason that this etcher
classed as a supreme realist" pro-
duces works most appealing to idealists
primarily interpretative of feeling
and spirit.
Water Colors and Etchings
At Arts Club.
lGERTRUDE G. BROWNS water
- colors, now on view in the gallery
Of the Arts Club, reveal not only her
competent handling of her medium
but also her versatility in choice OF
subject matter, and sensitive feeling
for the distinctive quality Of locale.
Her 10 paintings are rather evenly