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view this week, to continue for a
month or more. This exhibition fol-
lows the inaugural showing by men,
bers of the Landscape Club and the
exhibition of paintings by the Twenty
Woman Artists, and represents no
organization, but instead those who
are to be numbered with the inde-
pendents-and seeking new roads.
Among the exhibitors are Beulah
Weaver, through whose cooperation
the group was gotten together; Mar
jorie Phillips, to each of whose two
landscapes a place of honor has been
given; Alice Acheson, Angela Hurd,
Bernice Cross. Norma Bose, Katherine
Beaman, Elizabeth Barnes, Julia Eckel,
Sewell Johnson, Frances Carroll Todd,
C. Law Watkins. Robert F. Gates,
Richard Sargent, Charles Dunn, Olin
Dows, Rowland Lyon, Alexis Many
and Eben Comins. certainly a repre-
sentative assemblage. Fuller review Of
this exhibition will be given later.
THE exhibition of sculpture-"Races
of Mankind'-at the National
Geographic Society has closed and the
bronzes have been transferred to the
Baltimore Museum, where they have
their next showing. This and the
exhibition of paintings and drawings
by Alexander Iacovleff, the Russian
artist and traveller, shown last Win
ter, likewise in Explorers Hall, under
auspices of the National Geographic
Society, proved events long to be re-
membered with pleasure and graft
tude. Mr.. Iacovleff, who is now con-
nected with the Boston Museum Of
Fine Arts school, has just been hold
Ing an exhibition at Knoedler's, in
New York, which has attracted much
attention, his magnificent draf:Sman-
ship being repeatedly remarked. The
introduction to the catalogue Of this
exhibition was written by Edward w.
Forbes. director of the Fogg Museum,
Harvard University.
THE inaugural exhibition Of the
new Virginia Museum. Richmond.
illustrating the main currents in the
development of American painting,
| closes March /. 1t is we'll worth
trip to Richmond to see. In it are
included some outstanding examples
Of paintings by American masters Of
the past-such as Duveneck's "Whis.
ting Boy" and Fox Hunt" by Wins
low Homer. To this exhibition the
National Gallery of Art lent no less
than nine paintings, among them
High Cliff. Coast of Maine" by
Homer, which he himself considered
his masterpiece. WinSlow Homer was
born in Boston in 1886. and this is.
therefore, the centenary of that event.
AS an original genius untouched by
foreign influence, and, in the char
acter of his work, well in advance of
his time, Homer will always be out
standing in the annals of American
art. The National Gallery of Art
owns not only High Cliff, Coast Of
Maine" but second, and earlier ex-
ample, likewise derived through the
Evans collections small genre, pic
turing the interior of Negro cabin
with figures. During the Civil War,
Homer undertook a commission from
Harper's Weekly to make illustrations
at the front It was undoubtedly
while serving in this capacity that he
found the material for this genre.
HOBART NICHOLS, formerly of
this city and with many friends
here, is holding an exhibition Of re-
cent paintings in the Grand Central
Galleries, New York. Mr.. Nichols Is
vice president of the National Acad.
emy of Design.
For the first time in many years.
Maxfield Parrish is holding an exhi-
bition OF his paintings. This is in
the Ferargil Galleries, East Fifty
seventh street, where a collection of
paintings by Paul Sample of Cali
fornia is simultaneously on view. The
contrast must be very striking be-
tween the works of this idealist and
realist-who may, however, not be so
very far apart.
G. A ~ A A-H