Evening star., 1936-11-21

to establish a means Of bringing the
most promising of the young artists
of this region to the attention of the
buying public. Last year So artists
were represented by l25 works. There
was a large attendance and 25 paint
ings, totaling in value sl.7oa. were
sold.
There was a jury Of selection last
year, but this season the selections
have all been made by Duncan Phillips
and the staff of the Phillips Memorial
Gallery. These selections have been
made. it is announced, ION the basis
of that individuality Of concept which
has guided the formation Of the
permanent collection of the gallery"
Only as many paintings. prints and
works of sculpture have been accepted
as can be shown to advantage in the
rooms made available.
In this exhibition will be shown 135
works by So artists OF these SO are
from the District of Columbia, 19 from
Maryland and from Virginia. Among
those exhibiting are Robert Franklin
Gates, Richard Lahey, Mrs. Dean
Acheson. Herman Maril, Donald Coale,
Charles Dunn. Jean Kellogg, Rowland
Lyon. Daniel Olney, Elizabeth Poe and
Susan B. Chase.
Mrs. Bauer and Mrs. DdUSon
Erhibit in the Wonen's City Club.
THE November exhibition in the
Womens City Club on Jackson
place consists of water colors and oils
by two local artists-sisters-Ad
Doolittle Bauer and Mary Doohttle
Dawson. both Of whom have shown
from time to time in local groups.
Mrs Bauer is perhaps at her best in
her flower paintings in oil. Mrs. Daw-
son in her works in water color. Both
have evident artistic insight and nice
feeling for color and form. The paint
ings take their place very happily on
the walls of the series Of three as
sembly rooms and lend charm.
Washington Artists Represented
in Philadelphia Water Color ShoU.
QUITE a number of Washington
~ artists are represented in the
thirty fourth annual exhibition OF the
Philadelphia Wster Color Club now
in progress in the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadel-
phia These are Norma Bose, who
shows no less than four works: Susan
B. Chase. Roy Clark. Eleanor Parke
Custis. also by four; Albert M. Davis,
Edith Hoyt, who, incidentally. has at
the present time one-man exhibition
in the Ferragil Galleries, New York;
Eliot OHara, Elizabeth Poe and Helen
Wells Seymour. This exhibition in
cludes in its catalogue over thousand
paintings and prints. Outstanding are
groups of water colors by Frank w.
Benson and the late George Pearse
Ennis. by Paul Gill, Felicie Howell and
Walter Dawson. The Philadelphia
water color prize was awarded this
year to Gertrude Schweitzer. a collec-
ton of whose paintings was shown
here in the Arts Club couple or more
years ago. A memorial group Of
paintings and drawings by John Nc
Lure Hamilton is also a feature, and
very pleasing one. This exhibition
is held in conjunction with the
Pennsylvania Miniature Society's An.
nual, in which, by the way. Hattie E.
Burdette of this city is we'll repre-
sented. Obviously there are too many
exhibits in the two exhibitions to be
seen to advantage or pleasure on a
single round of inspection The trend
is distinctly modern and there are not
a great many exhibits Of arrestins
beauty-technical skill and the COM
monplace seemingly absorbing at.
tention.
Engaging Modern Art.
THE paintings and drawings by Vir.
ginia Clark and Ted Egri. now
on view in the Gallery Of Modern
Masters, Connecticut avenue and Du-
pont Circle. lately established by Auriel
Bessemer. are well worth seeing. Based
on the laws of dynamic symmetry,
they are both ancient and modern in
fiavor-of the past and essentially Of
the present. Mrs. Clark's drawings
of heads and figures are simple and
strong, cubistic, perhaps, but very sig
nificant, with emphasis on line as well
as form. Ted Egri's are in color as
well as line. and are reminiscent of the
Chinese masters as well as those Of
Europe in the fifteenth century. A
study that he has made of a rooster
is especially Oriental in feeling; q
half-length portrait drawing. on the
other hand. recalls instantly Holtein