Evening star., 1937-12-26

A. Mcneil. Frederick MacMonnies,
Lee Lawrie, John Flanagan, Paul
Jennewein. 0aetano Ceoere, Herbert
Adams, Albert IAessle. dorado Taft.
TAFT Mckenzie. Albert Stewart, An
thony de Francisco and Robert Aitkin.
A collection Of these medals was
recently shown In the Arts Club in
this city, and Is now on view in the
Mint Museum, Charlotte, N. c.
Artists and Art Museum
Celebrate Christmas
Appropriately.
THE Metropolitan Museum Of Art,
in celebration Of the Christmas
season. set forth . special exhibition
Of Christmas in Art. selecting from
its permanent collection works which
have = special bearing on the SUBJ
5ect. such as paintings Of the Nativity,
Madonnas and Saints. The Metro
politan Museum for some years has
been making q practice Of issuing
reproductions of some Of its works
Of this order as Christmas cards,
which thus possess . message from the
artist Is well as from the sender,
and emphasize the fact that artists
have joined in celebrating the great
festival, not merely for generations,
but centuries, lending to it, through
their art, joyous significance. This
year the association known Is THE
Artists Group" has given contempo-
rary artists an opportunity to add
to material Of this sort and has issued
As Christmas cards such works as
The Madonna Of the Olives" and
The Alteration Of the Shepherds" by
Agnes TAFT; The Great Birthday"
by F. Luis Mora. and two etchings
Of Gothic cathedrab. perpetual me-
MORALS Of the gospel OF Christ, by
John Taylor Arms.
Recognizing Christmas As the fes-
tival Of the Child, both the Brooklyn
Museum and the museum of the
Rhode Island School of Design have
arranged this year special exhibitions
Of those things In which children
find special delight, dolls and toys.
Thus the artists and the art insti-
tutions have joined in adding appro-
pirate joyousness to the season.
Christmas Exhibitions
Especially Successful
This Year.
THE Christmas exhibition at Studio
House has proved very sue
cessful. nearly two-score pictures being
sold. presumably as Christmas gifts.
There have been quite a number of
sales from the annual exhibition of
the Society of Miniature Painters,
Sculptors and Gravers in the atrium
Of the Corcoran Gallery Of Art, and
= few, not so many, from the Society
Of Washington Artists annual display.
incidentally. there are some ex-
cellent miniatures in the former ex-
hibition, notably those by Katherine
S. Page. Emma Siboni, Florence Top
ping Green and Mary McKechnie.
Katherine Pages miniature OF little
"Millicent Mcsherry,' Emma sibonis
Of Toby" Florence Topping Green's
Elizabeth Daub" and Mary McKech-
nie's Philip" are especially note
worthy, being painted with great tech
nical skill, simplicity of handling
and clarity Of color. Not often does
one come across better work in this
field. Much interest has been shown
also in an illumination Of q 18th Gen.
tury House Blessing" by Marian Lane,
who, Is binder, letterer and illu-
minator, has made an enviable repu-
tation for herself. This House Bless
ing" Is an excellent example of her
work, quaint In wording, beautifully
printed and Illuminated.
Waugh Wins the Popular Prize
In Pittsburgh This Year
For the Fourth Time.
IT IS more than = coincidence that
this year, for the fourth time In
succession, the popular prize in the
Carnegie Institutes International Ex-
hibition was voted to . marine paint
ing by Frederick J. Waugh. MIR.
Waugh is, without doubt, the out
standing marine painter Of this coun-
try, perhaps of al countries today,
but he Is q realist. He paints what he