Evening star., 1936-10-03

feather to the Exhibition Committees
already much-decorated cap.
Sketch Club Resumes
Meetings.
THE Arts Clubs sketch class, or
club, will resume meetings on
Monday evening. October S. under the
leadership, as before, of Miss Clara r.
Saunders. This group meets weekly
in basement room fitted up for the
purpose, and these meetings have
proved very popular feature of club
life. Years ago similar club used
10 meet regularly, one evening a week.
in Miss Ferries studio in the old Art
Students League Building, 808 Seven
teenth street, which, by the way, has
been remodeled and reiuvenated under
new ownership during the past Sum-
mer 1t was in this building that Saint
Gaudens at one time had q temporary
studio.
Bust OF Lord Keluin
To Be Presented.
A T A lunch meeting Of the Wash
ington branch of the English
Speaking Union, to be held at the
Willard Hotel on October 8, bust OF
Lord Kelvin by Herbert Hampton,
British sculptor, is to be presented to
the Smithsonian Institution. The
presentation will be made by Mr.. NAL
let, counselor of the British Embassy.
Herbert Hampton was born in 1862
and first studied in the Cardiff School
of Art. From there he went TO the
Slsde School in London and TO Ju-
lian's and Carlorossi's in Paris. Car
diff has his colossal statue of Lord
Aberdare. For Lord Plymouth he exc.
cuted q fountain group in marble.
He has done statues and memorials Of
Queen Victoria, King George, Queen
Mary, King Edward VII. which have
been erected in various parts Of the
empire. He has made portrait busts
of numerous celebrities, including Lord
Roberts and Sir Henry Irving. His
bust of Lord Kelvin Is classed by crit
ical writer's as among his best works.
Cdtharine C. Critcher Reopens
Studio and School.
GRADUALLY the Washington artists
are returning from Summer travel
and reopening their studios. Miss
Catharine c. Critcher was for over
two months in Mexico, and has come
back with great enthusiasm for the
country and the picturesquenes Of
the people. The majority of the
painters who 60 to Taxco paint land
scape and Miss Critcher found it
dificult to obtain models there. But.
despite this difficulty. she has brought
back with her some large canvases
showing several figures each-and, she
says, more than enough ideas TO last
her all Winter.
Ne,o Glass in
Graphic Arts.
A S HEAD of the Critcher School OF
Fine and Applied Arts Miss
Critcher announces a new graphic
arts class to be inaugurated this Fall
under the instructorship OF Shefield
Kagy, who. for the past few years. has
been teaching in Cleveland and in
Florida. Mr.. Kagy has exhibited
widely, and some Of his prints have
been chosen for publication by the
Print Month Club in its limited
editions. His class or classes will meet
in the late afternoon and evening.
The Critcher Art School is also start
ing this Fall evening classes in the So
called commercial art.
Ed1oard Bruce SERIES on
Carnegie International Jury.
EDWARD BRUCE, organizer of the
Public Works Of Art project, and
now secretary of the Advisory Com
mittee on Fine Arts to the Procure.
ment Division of the Treasury De.
partment, who for some years now
has made his home in this city, was
q member Of the jury OF award for
the Carnegie Institutes thirty-fourth
exhibition, which opens
In Pittsburgh on October Is. This
was q small jury. comprising only
SuIcc otIcis, Suy Fcnc uu EohS, AiIlcI-
lean; Pierre Roy Of Paris and Alfred
Lawrence Of London and
Homer Saint Geudens. director Of
Fine Arts OF the Carnegie Institute.
The prizes awarded are OF exceptional
value and Importance. On account
OF Ill health Mr.. Bruce spent the past
Winter at Key West and the Summer
at Blue Ridge Summit, but he has
by no means given up contact with
the Government art program nor