Evening star., 1936-05-23
perpetual remembrance is matter for
congratulation and satisfaction.
Drd1OinoS and Etchiuos bU

perpetual remembrance is matter for
congratulation and satisfaction.
Drawings and Etchings by
Luigi LuciOni.
I UIGI LUCIONI is better known as
painter than an etcher, and a
painter of breadth and perhaps rather
modern tendencies, but none can see
his etchings and drawings, now on
view in the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
without realizing the excellence of his
equipment as an artist and the au-
thenticity of his talent. Here is work
of exceptional quality and signifi-
canoe. The drawings are six in num-
ber and all portraits. They are in
charcoal and colorad crayon or tinted
paper, gray or buff or brown. To a
great extent they are in line, broadly
swept in with a supple stroke, correct,
not exaggerated and yet extremely
personal. Here is rugged strength
and at the same time sensitiveness of
feeling. Five are of men-one is
OF woman-all are characterful
The etchings. 18 IT. number, bear
dates from 1927 to 1886, but though
they grow more elaborate in COM
position those of the earlier date
are no less outstanding than those of
the latter one. This should not be
the later ones. This Should not be
thought detrimental. Progress may be
achieved in more than one direction;
when technique is once acquired, it /
is sometimes chiefly matter of per-
ception. These etchings of Mr.. Lu-
cioni's impress one as artistically per-
ceived. Instantly one is conscious of
the artists attitude-his ability not
only to see but understand. In the
commonest things he finds and mani
tests beauty. Not merely in title alone
do group of barns and a silo become
Vermont Castles" Long Island
Barns" and Long Island Farmyard"
are not poetic themes, but so gravely
and happily are they rendered that
beauty is found inherent. Especially
we'll does this etcher delineate trees
those that grow by the roadside, by
the barn, in the orchard. Wherever
they are seen they seem to grow
to belong and to ornament the coun-
tryside. Engaging, too, are the
glimpses from the artists studio WIN
dow across Washington Square. New
not intruding. Clouds on Equinox"
the latest of all these plates, is bril-
liantly skillful, elaborate but very re-
strained
Luigi Lucioni was born in Italy in |
1900, but is reckoned as of the Amer
ican school," He is represented in the
Whitney Museum of Art, Pennsylvania |
Academy of the Fine Arts, Nelson Mu-
scum, Kansas City; Addison Gallery.
Andover, Mass; the Phillips Memorial |
Gallery, Fogg Museums, Cambridge, |
and elsewhere by paintings and in |
some instances by prints. He is one of |
those who brought to America rich |
talent, deep-rooted in Old-World ira
dition, which is indeed an invaluable
gift.
Winslo,U Homer's in
Washington.
A PROPOS of the Winslow Homer
Memorial Exhibition in Phila-
delphia, 1t is interesting to know that
no less than nine paintings by this
master are in museums in Washing
ton. The National Gallery of Art
derived, through the william r. Evans
collection, his High Cliff Coast of
Main" he considered his mas
terpiece-and also a small and early
oil painting, "Visit of the Mistress"
dating back to Civil. War days;
the Corcoran Gallery of Art has his
Light on the Sea-" a figure and
seascape in oils, and q very repre-
sentative water color of Logging on
the Hudson" The Freer Gallery of
Art has on view at the present time,
in the Whistler room, three water
colors by Homer--"Sun and Clouds"
which pictures three women on a
rocky shore beyond which the surf
is breaking; waterfall, Adirondacks,
in which, In the foreground, is the
figure OF a fisherman, casting from
the trunk Of fallen tree into the
foaming torrent, and "A Fisherman,s
Day." q quiet scene, toward evening.
In lake or river country, given human
interest by q canoe from which men
are fishing, inconspicuously. The
Phillips Memorial Gallery owns two I
Of his water colors, Rowing Home"
and "On the Cliffs" both very tropical.
Winslow Homer was born In Boston
IN 1886 and died at Scarborough, Me-,
n 1910. He is universally regarded
.oday as one Of the greatest figures {
n American painting, but he never /