Evening star., 1936-04-18

extends the courtesy Of admission to
those who would visit its exhibitions.
All through the season they have been
well worth seeing.
Print Exhibition
Studio House.
From April % to May an exhibit
tion of prints will be held at Studio
House. Contemporary prints will be
shown in the large front gallery. COM
prising about Is Of those lately ac-
quired by the Whitney Museum Of New
York. In the rear gallery there will
be old flower prints Of the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth CEN
turles, as we'll as prints by Audubon.
while in the hall. prints by Blake. Gau-
guin and Manet will be displayed
Sculpture in the
Corcoran Gallery OF Art.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art has
placed on temporary exhibition as
loan the lately-completed portrait
medallion Of Justice Harlan Fiske
Stone by Hilda Scudder, reproduced
in these columns of The Star fort
night ago and mentioned herein last
week with commendation. Miss Scud-
der is now, it is understood, making
a similar portrait Of one Of the other
Justices of the Supreme Court. A
unique characteristic Of these medal
lion portraits by Miss Scudder is the
cIean-cut profile which does not lose
itself in the background by gentle
modulations as is rather customary.
The group of bronzes by Cyrus E.
Dallin, which was placed on view
at the time that the dinner was
given by the Washington Society of
the Fine Arts in honor Of the sculptor,
has been dispersed, but the small
head of the Indian-the son Of King
Philippians been retained as loan
and placed in the gallery's changing
collection of sculpture by American
artists. 1t is very much hoped that
some day Washington will possess one
of Mr.. Dallins monumental works
in sculpture of an Indian. both be-
cause of intrinsic merit-an enviable
addition to any city-and as fitting
tribute to the race so intimately as
sociated with the history of America
Kerr Eby Protests
Against War.
While numerous national organiza-
tions have been discussing The Cause
and Cure of War" and motion picture
reels have shown the hideousnesS OF
wholesale slaughter along at time
with the Splendor of deaths pageantry
the artist, Kerr Eby of New York has
set himself to combat the evil not only
by picturing it but by telling what he
knows about it. Eby, as member OF
the camouflage section Of the Engi-
neers' Division of an Artillery regi-
ment in our overseas Army. saw con-
siderable service at the front; he
knows what war means and he has
witnessed its aftermath. One of cuI
most brilliant etcherS, he brought back
from Europe an amazing amount OF
dramatic material gathered on the
spot, from which series of really great
plates has emanated. These we're not
done with the intention Of preventing
another war, for such at that time was
unthinkable, the world had been made
safe for democracy" They rather
came into being because the etcher
was under compulsion to record what
he mad seen and felt, and for this rea-
son they are the more reliable and
moving. But realizing thea immense
scope of war and being appalled, by
the futility of effort to prevent it, he
is consciously, deliberately using his
pictorial record to induce a stand for
peace. To the exhibition, which has
been shown first in New York and
later elsewhere. this season, has been
added, for emphasis, an essay by the
etcher, printed with reproductions of
some Of the etchings in pamphlet form
and distributed freely. So Mr.. Eby
shows the Tragedy of War" and
endeavors to prevent 1t. Here is an
artist taking his place in world affairs,
using professional tools as weapons in
defense Of mankind. Several of these
war etchings are included in the per-
manent collection of the Library Of
Congress.
Is Abstract
Sculpture Art?
The time-old question Of What Is
Art?" is being hotly debated In certain
quarters anew, on account of the re-
fusal Of the New York customs au-
thorities to admit abstract works in
sculpture duty free. A work Of art
In sculpture. these governmental ofn-
cials at the post Of New York insist,