Evening star., 1936-02-22

examples included in the present eX-
hibition were selected from the Metro
politan Museums surplus collection.
Over so Of these pieces are signed by
the designer and maker, which gives
upon the crafts by the japanese. Also
one of the guards records that the mo-
tive used is taken from a design by
Sesshiu, Buddhist monk. and one of
the greatest of the japanese painters.
Some of the designs used are purely
symboiical, while others record events
and happenings of more or less note.
But in every instance the treatment
is primarily with the purpose of dec
grafton and essentially appropriate
| thereto.
A catalogue with notes on each ex-
! hibit and an introduction by Stephen
v. Grancsay, from which some of these
facts have been taken, has been pub
lished, and greatly adds to the value
of the showing.
Junior League
Photographic ShoU.
| A EXHIBITION of photographs
the first annual Washington Pho
! tographic Show-will be held in the
new gallery of the Junior League, 200l
Massachusetts, avenue, from February
"a to March 8. In addition to the
works submitted and passed by the
| jury, there will be included in this
exh: oition a number Of specially in
vited prints by those who have at
tanned wide reputation and standing
Among these will be Edward Weston
Carl Van Vechten. Ralph Steiner
Walker Evans, Margaret Bourke
White, Arnold Genthe and the late
Doris Ullman, each of whom in his OF
her own way has found, through the
medium of photography. new ane
original mode of artistic expression
and so widened the field not only o!
! photography but of art.
It may interest some to know that
Washington has not Jagged behind ir
recognition of the potentialities o1
photography as an art. Many years
ago, when both men were just begin
ming to be known as -pictorialists
of special gift and vision, Stieglitz anc
Steichen were honor guests at a sup.
per given to mark the opening of the
local Camera Clubs annual eXhibi-
ton.
Mrs. MacWhite's
Paintings of Ireland.
THE exhibition of paintings by Paula
MacWhite, wife of the Minister
from the Irish Free State, which has
been on view for the past fortnight in
the gallery of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sulli-
van, New York, has attracted much
favorable notice. This exhibition com.
prised % canvases painted in ireland
and giving glimpses of such places as
Cork, Connemara, Kerry and the
Island of Aran. Mrs. MacWhite was
born in Denmark and first studied ir
Copenhagen. After the war she went
to Paris and studied at the Julien
Academy and under special masters
After her marriage she studied ano
painted in Switzerland, Munich aro
Italy. She exhibited ir the Salon in
1926 and at the Roerich Museum in
New York in 1884. Mrs. MacWhite
was represented in the Society Of
Washington Artists recent exhibition
by a painting of Taos, N. Mex. Her
work is direct, her style broad and
assured.
EDNA WEBB MILES (Mrs. Walter
- Miles, of Chevy Chase is holding
by invitation, an exhibition of her
paintings in the studio of the District
of Columbia branch of the League OF
American Pen Women, the Burlington
Hotel. In her girlhood Mrs. Miles won
scholarship for four-year course
in the Maryland Institute. Later she
studied under Burtis Baker at the
Corcoran School of Art and under Mr.
Claghorn and Miss G. G. Critcher
She has exhibited at the Maryland In.
stitute, in the Tennessee State Fair
at the Chevy Chase Woman's Club ano
elsewhere. Her subjects are chiefly
local scenes and people. This exhibi-
ton, which opened with a tea last
Sunday, will continue another week. II
will be open to the public every after
noon from 2 to S o'clock.
IN THE Georgetown branch, Public
Library, collection Of 81 paintings
by washington artists was placed on