Evening star., 1937-02-20

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The Government Announces q
Competition for Mural Paint
ing for interior Department.
THE Procurement Division, Section
Of Painting and Sculpture, of the
Treasury Department. has announced
within the past fortnight a national
competition for a mural painting to be
placed back of the stage in the audi
torium Of the new Interior Department
Building. now practically completed.
This will take the form Of a triptych
made up of large center panel meas
uring Is feet inches wide by II feet
inches high, and two side panels
feet 6 by IL feet 8. the area Of the
three approximating 265 square feet.
The sum to be paid for this work is
$500, which amount is to cover not
only execution but installation. Art
lists wishing to enter this open COM
petition must signify their intention in
writing to Edward r. Rowan. super
intendent of the Section of Painting
and Sculpture. Procurement Division,
and designs must be submitted by
April 80 Of the present year. Ger
tainly very short notice. The jury OF
award will consist of the staff Of the
Section of Painting and Sculpture,
assisted by Waddy B. Wood, architect
Of the Interior Department Building;
William Zimmerman of the Interior
Department, Eugene Savage, mural
painter member of the Commission
Of Fine Arts; Alexander Brook and
Hermon More. painters OF easel pic
lures, both of New York, and Daniel
Cation Rich, assistant director of the
Art Institute of Chicago. To assist
the competitors in selection of subject
q resume is given at length of the
activities of the Interior Department,
but the preference of the architect
for landscape treatment Is frankly,
and it would seem wisely, stated. The
main thing. of course. is" the an
nouncement reads, Ito have a signif1-
cant and distinguished design" With
this declaration none will disagree.
Oil Painting BY John Marin
Purchased for Phillips
Memorial Gallery.
IRON the current exhibition at
Studio House of paintings and
prints by John Marin, Mr.. Duncan
Phillips has purchased for the Phil
lips Memorial Gallery one Of the
more important canvases-an oil
painting of New York done about four
years ago. 1t is a street scene in the
skyscraper district Fifth Avenue
and Forty-second Street." and shows
sidewalks crowded by hurrying throngs.
More realistic than are his water
| colors. this painting still possesses Mr..
Marin's marked individuality. While
the Phillips Gallery owns quite
number of Marin's water colors, this
is the first of his oils to be acquired.
incidentally. the exhibition at Studio
House has been extended through the
2sth-a week and a day, including an
extra Sunday and Washington's Birth
day. legal holiday.
Writing of Marin some years ago In
"A Collection in the Making" Mr..
Phillips said: Downtown New York
is sensed as a world rocking with the
throb of energy. Whether or not we
like this staccato expression. We must
concede that it grows out OF our
age. Marin is one Of the most
provoking. challenging nnovators
since Cezanne" Apparently in the
wears that have intervened Mr.. Phil
lips has seen no reason to change
his opinion.
The next exhibition at Studio House
will consist of paintings in Oil ana
water color by men working under
Government projects in the Virgin
Islands.
Lectures and Studio Talks at the
CorcorGn School OF Art.
THE fourth lecture in the history
l. of art course by Eugen Weisz at
the Corcoran Gallery Of Art will be
on next Thursday evening, February
Is, at $50 o'clock, and the subject
will be "The Romanesque and Gothic"
Last Wednesday evening Hans Schu-
Ter of Baltimore was the speaker at
q studio evening at the Corcoran
School, talking informally on sculp-
ture and sculpture making. and illus
trating his subject by lantern slides
and works in the Corcoran Gallerys
permanent collection. These lectures
and studio discussions are proving
very instructive and at the same time
popular.
Richard Lahey, principal of the
Corcoran School, Is to give a DEM
onstration of portrait painting In the
Telfair Academy, Savannah, Ga, next
| Wednesday evening.