Evening star., 1936-04-25
Art Notes
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p. Gore. Msgr. Buckley Of st. Mat
thews' Church, Capt Rene Puget and
Lord Barnby.
Paintings By
The Poe Sisters.
A N EXHIBITION of paintings in oil
and water color by the Poe sis
ters-Elizabeth E. Poe and Vylla Poe
Wilson-was opened on Tuesday last
in the Newspaper Women's Club, 1640
Rhode Island avenue, where it may be
seen daily. from 10 am. to 6 pm,
through April 80, including Sunday.
These sisters have made names for
themselves as newspaper writer's, and
only in very recent years have taken
up art by way of avocation, recreation.
Two or three Winters ago they joined
an evening class that was meeting at
the Phillips Memorial Gallery, and
without knowledge of drawing or
previous education in this field, mani
tested speedily an ability to use art
as a medium of expression-a new
language.
Disregarding whatever handicap she
may have felt in the matter of mex
perience, Miss Poe boldly adventured
with brush and pigment. setting forth
not so much things seen as imagined,
at times, almost accidentally, stum-
bling upon impressive effects. Be-
cause of originality and imaginative
quality, her work won commentator
almost Immediately. One of her
paintings was shown last Winter in
the Philadelphia Water Color Clubs
annual exhibition, and purchased
therefrom by the Pennsylvania Acade-
my of Fine Arts. Mingled with gen.
uine naivete is feeling of drama, the
mysterious, the poetic, which is rather
remarkable The titles of some of her
works in the current exhibition are
significant. as for example, "Nameless
Here for Evermore." Grim Cliffs"
"The Gnome's Trail" "My Ship Sails
Out" When My Ship Sails In"
Mountain Idyll" and Little Allies
Dream" In two of her exhibits she
shows images of skyscrapers-one Of
the towering Daily News Building" in
New York, the other of a group of
buildings seen enwrapt in Summer
Fog" Often one sees shapes in Nature
which remind of the works of man, but
Miss Pooe has reversed this order in
these paintings and shows us works
of man suggestive of Natures Won
ders. Her elimination of drawing,
and her apparent complete uncon-
sciousness Of need thereof, in the mat
ter of expression, are astonishing
facts. Her handling of water color
Is. In every instance. superior to her
would seem to have q distinct flare.
handling of oil. For the former she
Mrs. Wilson follows her sister in
her explorations, but at a consider
able distance, and only shows two or
three works, among them an illus
trative composition in oil of "Annabel
Lee" and q water color Of Blue
Water"
Drawings, Water Colors and
Wood Carvings In the Mount
Pleasant Library.
DRAWINGS, mostly in line, by
- Robert Francis, and water col
ors and wood carvings by Joe Goethe,
both of Washington, are now on
view in the little gallery at the
Mount Pleasant Branch Of the Pub
lie Library. The drawings are un-
deniably clever, but they lack that
precious quality which distinguishes,
Invariably, the best works in line. In
some instances they are a bit comic,
as the figure of q man on his hands
and knees looking under the bureau
for q lost collar button; but also at
times they are bit gross.
The water colors are amateurish
and very feeble; in marked contrast
to the artists wood carvings" which
are sculpture little, and in exag-
gerated imitation of the African prim-
itive-knowing, but not knowing
enough-simple, but sophisticated.
There Is no individuality in either
the water colors or the sculptures Of
Mr.. Goethe, but the latter at least
witnesses to competent craftsmanship.
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