Evening star., 1937-03-20
POST OFFICE MURAL PLACED
Tom Lea Artist Finds Subject in DustBlown Region With
Striking Scene Presented--Water Coors and Other
Art Exhitts-Prize Awards

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of artistic expression. How great Is
the gap between these works and the
dainty and rather effeminate water
color drawings" of earlier days!
WCiceske's Etchings Found
to Haze Universal Charm.
MR.. WOICESKE'S etchings cannot
fail universally to charm and
cheer-they are artistically so skillful
and inherently SO pleasing. The
fashion today Of presenting the ugly
and the vulgar Is SO prevalent that to
find so much sheer beauty in the work
of q contemporary artist as Is here
deScernible Is something Of a shock.
And strangely enough, Mr.. Woiceske
| comes from Woodstock, NJ Y, where
originated and still thrives the school"
which Graded and propagated the
cult of the ugly and deformed. In the
"a etchings by Mr.. Woiceske now on
view in the Arts Club, the etcher shows
us "a beautiful aspects Of nature, and
without loss Of strength or exaggera-
ton. There Is a tendency today to
discount the value of beauty. Some
go so far as to insist that its de-
termination is merely personal
equation. That it is difficult of def
milton all will agree but that it is
actual none can doubt.
In the first issue of : new art maga-
zine, Art and Artists of Today"
which, by the way, is dedicated to
Alfred Stieglitz, Albert C. Barnes,
Duncan Phillips and Forbes Watson,
the sculptor Maillol, arch-modernist,
is quoted as saying of this thing called
beauty" the following: Beauty is
something about which everybody
disagrees theoretically, but about which
we all agree In fact. Philosophically
beauty is an abstraction, but in reality
it Is quite concrete. It is thing
that we do not seem to be able to
analyze, but that we can perfectly
feel I look for beauty, and I know
when and where l find it; and when 1
do, I am sure that others will see it
in the same measure
The beauty which Mr.. WoiceSke
manifests in his etchings is that OF
open, rolling country, seen under dit-
ferent lights and climatic conditions
in sunlight and moonhght-in the
fullness of Summer and under the
magic spell of Winters blanket OF
snow. Especially well does he draw
and etch trees-bare trees, with their
limbs and twigs exquisitely traced
against the sky. And how very sue
cessful he is in combining the broad
| distant view with the nearby, domi-
nant interest, welding the two into a
unified composition! What JOY he
himself must find in Nature to be
able so to pass on his enthusiasm! !!
Obviously, no artist is always at his
best-Mr. Woiceske is fallible and
occasionally slips-but the average
of his work is exceptionally high. AS
a craftsman he is exceptionally skill
ful-as an etcher he has fine, SEN
sitive line. That his work should en-
JOY popularity Is by no means re-
markable; that it also stands high in
the estimate of his colleagues Is
equally understandable. Among the
finest of his plates in this exhibition
are Milky Way" study of the
starry heavens subtlely rendered, and
Winter Moon" in which broad
landscape is seen literally bathed in
the pale light of the heavenly body.
There are others, however, no less
charming.
Associated Telephone
Camera Clubs Make Fine
Shouting in the National Museum
THE same discernment OF beauty
and power of Interpretation
through another medium Is found in
the work of members Of the Associ-
ated Telephone Camera Club, now on
exhibition in the Arts and Industries
Building of the National Museum.
This showing has become an annual
affair, and because of the merit of
the work, one to be pleasurably an
ticipated. The current exhibition up
holds the reputation Of these photo
pictorialists, who are, incidentally, all
employees of the American Telegraph
& Telephone Co.-amateurs in the
true sense of the word following this
branch of art as avocation.
Outstanding for artistic quality as
we'll as technical excellence are the
prints of Edward Alenius, who hap
pens, it seems, to be fellow Of the
Royal Photographic Society OF Great
Britain. His Winter in Central
Park" is a charming subject, tall
buildings with lighted windows max
ing delightful background for the
snow-covered foreground; and ad-
mirably handled. Equally good is his
picture of the Long Island Coast"
very sensitively Interpreted. G. T..
Lewis shows very engaging land
scape, incident to .shich is a man
reaping-an excellent composition,
well rendered as to tone and effect
K. A. Webster has contributed a BEAU
tiful print of branch of cherry blos-
SONS as seen against a clouded sky,
and from Harry B. Rose has come
decorative panel of a pine twig. The
Japanese printmakers and the ancient
painters of China rendered, with de-
light, flowers and foliage in much
this manner. The portraits and fig
ure studies are fewer in number and
less conspicuous for merit, but man
smoking, by C. zmcher, and a nurse
in uniform. by Kjeldsera, are both
memorable for skillful treatment
the one strongly modelled, the other
delicately delineated. But Of all these
works most amazing is a genre by
r. H. Ross which pictures a little
child and an elderly woman, prob
ably the grandmother, before an open
fire, their faces and figures illumined
by its Pickering ught-a beautiful
composition flawlessly rendered-a
monumental achievement through the
medium OF photography. This exhi-
bition continues throughout the
month.
Works by Herbert Hicks on
Exhibition in Wonen's Citu Club.
PAINTINGS in oil and block prints
by Herbert Hicks ~ THE NJ " nm