Evening star., 1936-09-26
ByLeila Mechlin.
THE current art season Of 1867
/ Is opening earlier than usual,
l both here and in New York.
The Ahboff Cchoo1 80 Evnn q ~

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nue., has already resumed sessions, and
the Corcoran School Of Art and Studio
House. associated with the Phillips
Memorial Gallery. announce opening
days next week. The faculty of the
Corcoran School Is as last year: Rich
ard Lahey, principal; Eugen Weisz,
vice principal; Mathilde NJ Leisenring,
Hans Schuler and Kenneth Stubbs, in
structors, and Agnes Mayo, secretary.
An innovation this year will be a
series of IL lectures, Illustrated by
stereopticon slides, on the History of
Art" to be given in the school by
Mr.. Weisz. Occasional talks by mem
bers of the faculty will also be given
from time to time in the gallery.
For the first time the Corcoran
School will offer Saturday class for
students recommended by the teach
ers in the high schools of the city.
This class will be limited to 80 stu
dents. Also two 1-year scholarships
will be awarded to high school stu
dents who are planning to follow art
as career. This award is COM
petitive and will be made on the
Recommendation of all the art teach
ers in the high schools of Washington.
The enrolment in the Corcoran
School Is larger than usual this year.
Coming
Exhibitions.
A WEEK from tomorrow the Arts
Club will inaugurate its seasons
series of bi-weekly exhibitions by a
showing of water colors by the late
George Pearce Ennis and of etchings
by Samuel Chamberlain. Ennis was
one of our leading water colorists. and
through his own paintings and his
teaching has exerted wide and
beneflcent influence on contemporary
art. He was killed in an automobile
collision in upper New York State last
month"; tragic incident and severe
loss to American art. Mr.. Ennis was
president of the American Water Color
Society. Arrangements for the COM
ing exhibition were made last Spring
by the artist, and the showing will be
through the courtesy and cooperation
of his wife, who escaped with minor
injuries.
Samuel Chamberlain is one of our
foremost etchers of architectural
themes. Born in the small town of
Cresco, Iowa, in 1895, he has studied
in both Paris and London. In 1923
he received an American Field Service
Fellowship and in 1926 one of the
Guggenheim Fellowships came to him.
Meanwhile he had received an hon.
orable mention for an etching in the
Paris Salon. Other awards followed
in quick succession and before long
his prints were acquired by public
institutions and private collectors with
sest. He has exquisite line and knows
how to use it. Also, like John Taylor
Arms. he possesses keen appreciation
for the great architectural monuments
OF the Old World. Mr.. Chamberlain
has for some years been living in Paris,
but he spent the last Summer at Mar
blehead, Mass, and exhibited there
with the local organization. His work
has both great merit and charm.
A Gift Exhibition
OF Prints.
ON OCTOBER 5 the first of the
Winters series of print exhibi-
tions, held under the auspices of the
division of graphic arts of the Ma
tional Museum, in the Smithsonian
Building, will open. This will consist
of a selection from a group of 1877
prints recently presented by the Chi
cago Society of Etchers. This gift
was supplementary to that of 500
prints presented by this society last
Winter and indicates a continuance
Of both interest and generosity.
The second exhibition, scheduled
for showing in the Smithsonian in
November, will have very great local
interest, as it will consist of color
etchings by Ellen Day Hale, Ga
hrielle v. Clements, Lesley Jackson
and Margaret j. Hoyt, three of whom
are members of local organizations
and with strong affiliations here.
Prints in the HoUard
University Gallery.
IN THE Gallery of Art at Howard
University is now to be seen
collection Of facsimiles of drawings
and water colors by French masters of
the eighteenth century which will
reward attention, and opening on Oc-
tober a collection of autographs by
Rockwell Kent Is announced for two
weeks exhibition through the cour-
tesy Of the College Art Association.
Garnet Jer ShoDs
His Summer Paintings
THE very first exhibition Of the
- season is of unique character. 1t
consists Of 80 or more paintings by
Garnet Jex and is being shown in
the windows of the Postal Telegraph
Co.'S offices on the corner Of Fifteenth
street and New York avenue. Pic
lures could not be subjected to strong
er, more uncompromising light nor
seen under more trying conditions,
but Mr.. Jex' paintings of nearby
country in Virginia, West Virginia
and Maryland stand the test ad-
mirably and frankly manifest their
merit.
The landscape painter Of all time
has been moved by the beauty which
he himself has discovered in nature
and has been urged to paint in order
to make it manifest to others as well
as reserve it for himself. Mr.. Jex
has chosen to paint for the most part
Summer landscapes, the country when
1t Is very green, the skies very blue, q
dificult theme, but alluring, and he
has met with exceptional success. He
has made obvious the loveliness OF
nature which was apparent to his
eyes and it makes its own appeal.
Mr.. Jex is an illustrator on the STAN
Of Nature Magazine and . prominent
member of the Washington Landscape
Club. He tries his hand at many kinds
81 art, such as painting habitat back
grounds for the snake house at the
Zoo and making models Of Govern
ment projects to be shown in the
Texas Centennial Exposition, and
whatever he does Is done well. A