Evening star., 1936-01-19

the public on week days from 10 am.
to 6 pm.
THE District of Columbia League oi
American Pen Women will open,
with a tea. this afternoon. an exhi-
bition CT paintings by Helen 7. Coli.
son, n crbor OF tho Soc.ety Of Wash-
ington Artist as well IS Of the hague.
This eXIl'b ton Will continue until
February ..
For the past fortnight the League
hes shown in its assembly loom in the
Bur'i2e On Hotel paintings by Florence
c. Estabrook, whose work is we'll
known here and in other cities. Mrs.
Estabrook has painted extensively in
North Carolina and New England,
where she once made ner home, and
in other parts Of the country. In her
recent exhibition she showed some in.
teresting and quite typical Gloucester
harbor scenes, as we'll as views of an
unusual character in the mountains Of
North Carolina. One painting OF
Florida sand dunes was sold Mrs.
Estabrook has exhibited extensively
and her paintings have undoubtedly
given much pleasure.
AN EXHIBITION of genre paint.
ing from the fiftc nth to the
twentieth century lent BY collectors
and dee 'ers and circulated by the
College Art Association of New York
is now on view in the art gallery OF
Howard University. where it is fin.
ishing brief eng gcmont. This in.
cludes original works by Teniers, de
Hooch, Le Clerc. Hogarth, Breughel.
West. Sully, Copley, Eastman John.
son. Makovsky, Orozco, George Biddle.
John Steuart Curry and others. Quite
number were lent by the Metropolis
tan Museum of Art. The circulation
of this collection brings to mind the
fact that exhibitions we're held last
year. both in Paris and in New York,
of genre paintings with the declared
purpose of bringing back the vogue
for subject pictures which for some
time now have been out of style.
Kenyon Cox once said that there was
no reason whatsoever why painting
should not tell story-in fact, some
of the greatest paintings have-pro-
vided the story was worth telling and
the artist told 1t well--in other words,
that art dominated the telling. In
art, as in other things fashions come
and go-the wheel revolves.
TWO paintings by Miss Edith Hoyt
of this city. who is having a
"sabbatical year" abroad, are hung
in Goupil's Winter Salon in the
French Gallery. Berkeley Square.
London, which opened in December
and continues through January. They
are of Toledo and Clovelly, respec-
lively. As this is small exhibition,
and by invitation only, inclusion is a
much coveted compliment. Both in
London and Paris, where Miss Hoyt
is now painting. the dealers have
urged her to exhibit her water colors
and drawings of Spain, and she is
dACddy OOOhCd lOl a GALLUP
ton at the Ferargil Galleries in New
York next May. by which time she
plans to return to this country.
THE Society Of Washington Artists
forty-fifth annual exhibition,
which opened last week in the Cor.
coran Gallery Of Art contiues to at-
tract favorable attention. The day
following the opening, a landscape,
1.-THE Sentinel" by Clara R. Saun-
ders, was sold. Mrs. Carl Nose Is in
charge Of catalogues and sales Fiji
teen OF the exhibits are reproduced
in the catalogue. including all those
receiving prize awards. The public
Is invited to vote for the painting or
work in sculpture best liked, the last
leaf Of the catalogue providing a ball
lot for this purpose. Will or will not
the decision of the jury Of award be
confirmed? 1t rarely is under such
circumstances.
THIS coming wednesday afternoon
new series of informal confer
ences on modern art will be inaugu-
rated in the Phillips Memorial Gall
lery under the auspices Of Studio
House. Mr.. C. Law Watkins will
again lead and direct these confer
ences, which will be from S to s
o'clock. He will base his discursive
talks on examples in the Phillips coll
lection but will also use as illustra-
tions stereopticon slides and color
prints. The series will run for a pes
riod of eight weeks. Attendance II
by subscription.