Evening star., 1937-04-24

erS, at Jellet>S Art Gallery.
time. The walls of the large room
to the right of the New York avenue
entrance are covered by paintings by
the youngsters" taking off" the
works of their grave and reverend
seniors" in the great gallery show.
And how sharp they are in discover
ing vulnerability, and with what skill
they succeed, now and then, in hit
ting the nail on the head" And no
disreSpect meant" or "offenSe taken"
In fact, to be faxed" is, in a meas
ure, an honor under such circum-
stances. Two of the prize winners,
Meditation" by Du Bois, and
"Snakey," by Bernard Keyes, have
furnished excellent material for the
takers, as well as Model in Dressing
Room" by Sloan; Missouri Musi-
clans" by Benton; wings of the
Morning" by Mattson, and "A Muse" :"
by Brakeman. The holding of such
an exhibition was capital idea sport
of this kind helps to clear the air.
Studio House Will ShoU
Drawings and Prints.
NEXT Thursday, April 20, Studio
House, 1914 Twenty-frst street,
will open an exhibition of prints and
drawings by the Spanish sculptor,
Mateo Hernandez, who has made a
80 1r>t,r 0F limo lie Tho
Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired
last year a BLACK Panther" by Her
nandez, carved in diorite, which, like
everything this artist does, was cut
by him directly from the block. Add
ed to the difficulty of this technique is
the fact that the materials he uses
are among the hardest known. This
exhibition of his prints and drawings
will introduce him to Washington art
lovers.
Opening on April 90 and continu-
ing to May 10 in Studio House will
be an exhibition of recent work by a
group of artists of Washington and
Baltimore, among whom are Alice
AcheSon, Robert AIDES, Julia Eckel
Robert F. Gates, Richard Lahey, Her.
man Maril, Marjorie Phillips, Prem
tiss Taylor. Charles Walther and
Elizabeth Roberts.
Hounrd Giles
Will Exhibit Here.
A N EXHIBITION of water colors OF
= New England and the West by
Howard Giles will open with a pre-
view in the Gallery of Modern Mas
ters, 1857 Connecticut avenue, to-
morrow afternoon, to continue to June
l. This should prove of very great
interest, as Giles is not only a good
painter but a deep thinker and
through his works and his teaching
has exerted a strong and beneficent
influence on contemporary art Fol
many years he was dean Of the faculty
of fine arts of the Master Institute OF
the Roerich Museum. He is one OF
those who believe that "the laws of or
der in Nature are the principles of de-
sign In art" and is an exponent of the
Hambridge theory of dynamic SYM
metry.
1t Is in these same galleries that
the painting entitled, Passing Storm
Dolomite Mountains" by Isobel Kuhl-
man, reproduced on this page on April
10, was shown, together with other
studies Of great interest by the same
artist. Miss Kuhlman uses for the
majority Of her paintings Oil colors
but in the manner of water color, in
thin wash and with great delicacy
She is an indefatigable student anG
an eager investigator, and pushes hel
investigations to the limit of her field
in order to extend knowledge anc
boundary. Most striking In the col
lection shown were interpretations ot
olive trees expressive of various emo.
tions or experiences. She, too, Is ar
exponent of the Hambridge theory.
Water ColorS OF Virgin Islands
And Other Current Exhibitions.
OTHER exhibitions now current anc
later to be reviewed are waters
colorS by Mitchell Jameson, to be
seen in the little gallery of the Init.
mate Bookshop, 1904 o street, George
town, the invitation to which carries
quotation from Mrs. Roosevelt's re-
Gently published autobiography, "My
Day." commencing and telling Ct the
acquisition Of one of Mr.. Jameson q
paintings made tn the Virgin Islands:
exhibitions at the Public Library and
its branches Of works by local artists
and an exhibition of water colors by
Oscar Julius in the art gallery at
Howard University.
Laurence Saint to Lecture
On Stained Glass.
II JNDER the auspices of the Archeo-
logical Society of this city lee
ture on Stained Glass-Ls 1t Lost
Art?" will be given by Lawrence B
Saint, in the auditorium Of Gunston
Hall School, this evening at 8 o'clock
Mr.. Saint was for eight years director
Of the Washington Cathedral Stained
Glass Studio, during which period
were produced and installed the 13
windows tn the choir and the north
transept rose window, as we'll as win
dows in the chapels of st. Mary and
st. John. Prior to his association
here, he designed and installed five
windows in the Bryn Athyn Cathedral
near Philadelphia. He has made ex-
haustive study of the glass in the
great cathedrals abroad