Evening star., 1936-02-22
By Leila MechIin.

international House at GA E street
northwest, where it will remain on
view until April. This is the third
exhibition that this society has put
on in these galleries and it consists
for the most part of works shown in
the annual exhibition set forth in
the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Janu-
ary.
Forty-three canvases are included
Five are hung in the hall which leads
from the entrance to the cafeteria,
two are in the Office, and the rest
are about evenly divided between the
two large assembly rooms which are,
it will be remeL~oered toplighted.
These rooms were built by the erst-
while owner of this building, Mr.
MCGUIRE, for the display of works of
art, privately owned, and there are
no better galleries, save those in pub
Lie institutions, in the city.
The collection now of view is very
pleasantly varied and admirably hung.
For the latter, Miss Lucia Hollerith,
secretary of the Society for Washing
ton Artists, and Miss Clara R. Saun-
ders, her colleague, are responsible
Two of the prize winning pictures are
here. Robert Gates Mrs. BoWman's
Chickens" which received the medal
for landscape, and Sunlight" by
Gladys Nelson Smith, which received,
by overwhelming majority. the ''popu-
lar vote from visitors representing the
lay public Here, too, is Alice L. L.
Ferguson's Winter picture, "Febru-
ary." showing skaters on a frozen
pond in the midst of snoW-covered
landscape, which attracted much at
tention in the Corcoran show. There
are figures by Bertha Noyes, Frances
c. Todd, Gladys Nelson Smith, Ma
thilde M Leisenring and others. A
very attractive group consists of
painting, Church With Elms," by
Blanche H. Stanley, on either side
of which have been hung still life
by Mrs Iona Miller Keplinger.
Guinea Gold Marigolds," and a
group of objects seen in out-of-door
light, THE Porch Table" by Lucia B.
Eollerith.
The landscapes run the gamut from
Roy Clarks Truck Farm" very in
teresting in pattern and manner of
treatment, to Minor S. Jameson's
subtle and sensitive Interpretation of
mood in Nature-"October." The
She'd" by Dorothy M. Davidson. and
THE Flower Garden" by Omar R.
Darlington, are akin to the latter,
whereas "Provincetown Street. by
Rowland Lyon, and "Ellicott City"
by Beulah H. Weaver, are in the class
with the former, very direct in state
ment with emphasis on fundamentals.
Several out-of-town members are
represented. "Old Walls, Sagunto,
Spain," by Wells M. Sawyer, is one of
these. When it was on view in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art in January,
and, incidentally, illustrated in the
catalogue of the exhibition there, the
painter wrote friend in regard to
this painting as follows: 1T (Sagun-
to) is a wonderful place about 80
kilometers north of Valencia. I had
to go each day by auto bus to the
town, then across it, and then up
the hill 500 or 600 feet high, to get
my view. My picture is but frag-
ment, probably a fifth of the whole
fortifcation. The place was called
old Walls by the Moors. Hannibal
had captured the fortress and the
town, and then the Romans retook
it. All in all, six civilizations have
fought over those battlements. Down
the hill is a we'll preserved Roman
theater. which one passes on the
way up"
Another out-of-town member rep
resented is Edward S. Shorter, a
Georgian, who studied here at the
Corcoran School of Art and is now
president of the Macon Art Associa-
ton. He is represented by portrait
study of Negro girl, Maud" Mr..
Shorter has been holding one-man
exhibition in the. Studio Club of At
lanta February to 20.
Quite number of the pictures in
this exhibition have been painted in
distant places, for here are Mary G.
Riley's "Barranca." Lucia Hollerith's
'Near Salzburg. Austria" and John
U. Perkins Lake Louise" Garnett
Jex is admirably represented, how
ever, by Winter Morning, Harpers
Ferry" as are A. H. o. Role by
Moonlight-Annapoli and Robert
E. Motley by "Old Virginia Home"
There are some flower and still-life
studies, in addition to those already
mentioned, which lend color and in
terest-such as "Zinnias" and THE
Open Window" by Grace NJ Ruck-
man; "Gladioli," by Marguerite c.
Mum, ''Legumes," by Clara Saunders,
and Still Life" by Charles Val Clear
Elizabeth Sawtell's "In the Woods
and Clara Saunders Shade" are both
engaging tree studies.
Mention should also be made of
painting, Spring Along the Potomac"
by Elizabeth E. Graves, treasurer of
the Society OF Washington Artists.
because of it's freshness of color and
viewpoint, and of Ruth Osgood's
Asparagus Bed'-a landscape-on
account of the unique character of
subject and treatment.
Washington Wharves," by Mar
earet Zimmele, noted with commenda-
tion when in the exhibition at the
Corcoran Gallery, is now here and
seen to excellent advantage, as are
landscapes by Katharine Beaman,
Helen E. Townsend, William F. Wal
ter. an East Gloucester subject by
Marguerite Neuhauser, and bouquet
of "Old-Fashioned Flowers" by Helen
F. Collision. All in all, it is de-
lightful and well-palanced collection
. very engaging exhibition.
TiDo Exhibitions Opening
In the Arts Club.
TWO exhibitions open tomorrow in
- the Arts Club. 2O17 I street. one