Evening star., 1936-03-28

streets. beginning next Wednesday and
continuing throughout the month of
April. About year ago collection
of Mr.. WeisZ's water colors was shown
in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, attract
ing much favorable attention. and he
has since shown, impressively, with
local groups. He has a style and
manner all his own. He uses full
brush and paints with directness. but
his color is rich and true and his effects
invariably pleasing.
Mr.. Weisz came to this country in
early youth from Europe and is largely
self-made and self-educated He has,
however. made the best possible use Of
every opportunity offered and has not
only achieved success in his painting.
but made an enviable place for himself
as teacher and lecturer. In the former
capacity he has for some years nov
been on the faculty Of the Department
Of Fine Arts Of George Washington
University, and in the latter has, this
season, made a name for himself
through the medium of a series of
lectures given under the auspices of
the Yard School of Art. but open on
subscription to the public. Mr.. Weisz
has fully informed himself on the art
of the past, together with its historical
background, has acquired more than
competent use of the English language,
and has fitted in. with amazing Skill,
modern movements in the present jig
saw puzzle Of life. For all of which
he deserves not merely credit, but
honor.
Exhibition OF Water Colors
By Mary G. Riley.
A SPECIAL exhibition of water colors
by Marcy G. Riley of this city will
open in the Corcoran Gallery of Art
on Monday. March 30. and will con-
tinue to April 10. This will be Miss
Riley's first one-man show in this
medium. Up to about two years ago
Miss Riley painted exclusively in oils,
but she now finds water color par
ticularly congenial. The pictures she
will show were painted chiefly during
the past two Summers.
Miss Riley was born in Washington.
She studied oil painting under Birge
Harrison and Henry B. Smell and
proved an apt pupil. Her instructor in
water colors is Eliot O'Hara, one of
our foremost water colorists, an ex-
cellent teacher, and author of two
books on the subject. Miss Riley is a
member of the Society of Washington
Artists, National Association Women
Painters and Sculptors. the Arts Club
of Washington, Washington Water
Color Club, etc. She received bronze
medal, Society of Washington Artists
exhibition, 1928; Purchase prize, Ma
tional Arts Club, New York, 1928:
Penman Memorial prize. National Asso-
citation Women Painters and Sculptors,
1880, and Medal for Landscape, Society
Of washington Artists, 1882.
Eliot O'Hara Will Shop
Water C0lorS OF Merico.
ELIOT O'HARA, who has spent the
greater part of the Winter in
Mexico painting, returned to Wash
ington the first of this week and is
preparing to show the water colors he
brought back with him in the Arts
Club April to 26. Mr.. O'Hara mo-
tored down and back and returned via
Santa Fe, N. Mex, and Savannah,
Ga. In the latter city he stopped for
over three weeks, conducting for the
third season a class in landscape
painting. Also there, in the Telfair
Academy charming little art mu-
scum with an up-to-date program Of
activity-were shown for the first |
time his latest water colors-product |
of his Mexican trip. They were much |
admired. In Mr.. OHara's usual |
clever style they. registered his i'm
preston of typical Mexican scenes,
were apparently swiftly done, and
very effective. For the Washington |
show some will be restudied. Later
Mr.. O,Hara is having an exhibition in
New York.
The President Lends to the
Corcoran Gallery.
A LATE season event, but Of utmost
= note. will be the exhibition open
Ing with q pre-view in the Corcoran
Gallery Of Art next Saturday after
noon. . week from today, of an ex-
hibition Of paintings and prints Of
ships, Is well as ship models, lent by
the President Of the United States.
Mr.. Roosevelt is, aS every one knows,
= great lover Of the sea, and he has,
during o considerable period Of years,
assiduously collected pictorial data