Evening star., 1936-11-07

was found, to the surprise Of all. to
be a double portrait Of mother and
Child.
Sheffield Kagy Exhibits
At Public Library.
AN INTERESTING exhibition of
Autographs and wood block prints
by Shefield Kagy has opened in the
Public Library. to continue through
November. Mr.. Kagy is teaching this
Winter in several OF the local art
schools.
Gallery of Modern
Masters Opens.
A pRIEL BESSEMER announces the
opening Of Gallery Of Modern
Artists at 1867 Connecticut avenue,
the opening exhibition to comprise
paintings and drawings by Virginia
Clark and Ted Egri. This gallery is on,
| the third floor of the bank buildings
on the lower corner of Connecticut
! avenue and Dupon Circle, but an
automatic elevator is available for
those visitors who object to climbing
stairs and have the courage trustfully
to close doors and press a button in
4, the dark. The opening of this new
gallery comedies with the establish
ment by Mr.. BeSsemer of a school of
organic design-in other words. dy-
manic symmetry-mural. landscape,
portrait and still life painting.
Important Out-of-Town
Exhibitions.
TWO very important out-of-town ex-
hibitions are scheduled to open
during the coming week. One will
consist Of paintings by Degas, many
Of which will have been lent by for
eign museums and collectors, which
will be set forth in the Pennsylvania
patronage, and the other will be
retrospective exhibition of sculpture by
Anna Hyatt Huntington at the
American Academy of Arts and Let
ters. New York. The former opens
today and the latter on November IL.
Sa6Ord Water Colors and
Rosenberg Etchings-Arts Club.
TWO new exhibitions open in the
Arts Club of washingtoa4 tomor-
row afternoon. These will BE water
colors by Ruth Perkins Stafford of this
city and etchings by Louis Rosenberg
Of Fairfield, Conn. Mrs. Saf1ord's
works will occupy the gallery and
Mr.. Rosenberg's etchings will be
shown on the walls Of the reception
room. At the opening tea tomorrow
afternoon Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs.
Stafford and Charles Bittinger will be
hosts.
Statue of Liberty Interpreted
Through Pictorial Photography.
A UNIQUE series OF photographs
= of the Statue Of Liberty. in New
York Harbor. has been placed on ex-
hibition in the Library of Congress,
under the auspices Of the Department
of Fine Arts. These photographs are
the work of jeanette Griffith, who
made. it will be remembered. a re-
markable set of Photographic plates
Of the United States frigate Consti-
tuition when in harbor here.
In her pictures Of the Constitution, |
Miss Grifiith showed not only the ia |
nous ship, but the men at work upon |
her, in the rigging, on the deck and
below, so that the life Of the vessel
was, as it were, pictorially renewed |
and permanently preserved. In her |
pictures Of the Statue of Liberty she !
has assumed the visitors point Of
view and shown what one may see
of this monumental work by Bartholdi |
from the promenade below, looking |
up. and from within. looking out.
For once the seeing eye of the |
camera has noted and recorded facts
which the majority of human eyes
have passed unseen or uncompre-
hended. And how amazingly inter-
esting, pictorially, decoratively, these
unseen shapes may become! Take. for
example, the narrow, spiral staircase
as one looks down, with its rhythmic.
fan-nke folds Or the spot light, open
and rejecting not only the image Of
the statue II illumines. but blobs OF
light and shadow which simulate the
folded petals Of gigantic rose. How
magnificent are the folds Of the
voluminous drapery which falls about
the figure that faces the mightiest
winds that blow across the ocean, as
one sees them looking up, and as
against . partly clouded sky! There
Is something Tremendously dramatic
and emotional about these pictures