The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-17
Results Are
Winning
Praise

Photography, that art that
is only now coming into its
own, has found an apt disciple
in Masha Schatt.
Mrs. schatt's camera studies
are being shown now at the
King-Smith Studio House,
1704 s st. N. w., where her
classes in photography have al
ready begun.
The photographs that Mrs.
Schatt makes are not ordinary
photographs. Her portraits are
not of the conventional type OF
Photographic portraiture. Much
to the contrary, she juggles with
lights and shadows and with back
grounds until her portrait studies
assume artistic proportions rarely
attempted by the conventional
photographer.
Her street scenes are symbols
Of the world today. She goes un-
derneath New York and catches
more revealing subway PERSONAL
ties than even Peter Arno can
imagine. On New York's east side,
she catches types that are alive,
pulsating with life under the IL"
and in tenements.
Mrs. Schatt'S husband, Roy C..
Schatt, is also an accomplished
photographer, and some Of his
photographs are on exhibition
along with hers.
One Of his photographs, entitled
THE World Passes" is serious
commentary on life. It is an &C
tual picture, not posed, of a step
child of New York, lying prone
beneath a lamp post. with his
brothers passing unconcernedly by.
She achieves almost unbelievable
effects with her camera. Compo-
Sition seems to come natural to
her. Every one Of her pictures is
well grouped.
In fact, it may be said of Masha
Schatt that she is an artistic
photographer. No more need be
said.
The show is being held at the
,hool's Red House and will con-
nue for an indefinite period.
HIGH SCHOOL ART
The aspirations of the country's
Ugh school students in the field
# art are represented now at the
National Museum, where the ninth
annual exhibition of the American
federation Of Arts and Scholastic
Magazine opened Thursday.
Held yearly in washington since
is inception, the exhibition comes
at the close Of a nationwide COM
petition in which the high schools
of 70O-odd towns and cities have
participated. Approximately 100
cash prizes are awarded in addt-
ton to 18 scholarships given by
IA art schools, among them the
Carnegie Institute of Technology.
The work in the exhibition is
but a small portion Of the thou
sands of entries in the competi-
ton. But because the contest IS
held throughout the country, the
work represents a fairly good pic
ture Of what the art students OF
America are doing.
In 1925, following the death OF
George Bellows, the editors OF
Scholastic, q magazine for high
school students, announced the
first annual George Bellows memo
rial awards. For the first time,
a fury of prominent art critics met
and awarded prizes for high
schools.
Then, in 1927, when the COM
petition had become very success
full. Scholastic announced a ma
tional art exhibition as well as
competition, and their first ma
tional high school art exhibition
was inaugurated at Carnegie In
stitute in 1923.
The exhibition opened in the
Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh,
April 81 and closed May 10, after
which it went to the Chicago Art
Institute and to Philadelphia.
Later bookings include the Natural
History Museum in New York, the
Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hart
ford, Conn, and other cities
AT CORCORAN
The trustees Of the Corcoran
Gallery Of Art announce the fiji
teenth Biennial Exhibition of Con
temporary American Oil Paintings,
which will open March %, 1887,
and will close May 8.
Prizes in the competition are:
First, $4,000, accompanied by
the Corcoran gold medal; second,
$500, accompanied by the Cor
coran silver medal; third, $1,000,
accompanied by the Corcoran
bronze medal, and fourth, $500,
accompanied by the Corcoran hon
orable mention certificate.
The exhibition will be confined,
according to g statement by C.
Powell Minnigerode, director of
the gallery, to original oil paint
ings by living American artists
never before publicly exhibited in
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