Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-11
ART OF COLLEGES
TO Be EXHIBITED
Work of Students Goes on
Display Saturday in In
terror Building.

College art is coming in for national
recognition at the first of series of
exhibits opening tomorrow evening in
the college wing" of the new art
gallery of the Interior Department
Building.
In this first exhibit, approximately
$50 oils have been submitted by stu
dents of art in many of the leading
colleges and universities, as well as
art schools. Under plan worked out
by the Art Committee, the west wing
of the handsomely equipped gallery on
the seventh floor of the new Interior
building has been reserved especially
for exhibits of these student artists.
On Saturday the exhibit will be
open to the public and will continue
through February. The second coll
lege exhibition planned will be an ex-
hibit of architectural drawing, and
the third, opening in May, will in
clude fine arts Of the Big Ten uni
versities in the Middle West
Mrs. Roosevelt Sponsors Opening.
The opening tomorrow evening from
8 to 10 O'Clock was announced as an
"evening dress" affair. Mrs. Franklin
d. Roosevelt heads the hist of sponsors
for the opening. This is the first time,
the Interior Department announced,
that a national exhibit of college art
has ever been arranged in this coun-
try. Admission to the first night"
showing is by card only.
Among other sponsors are Secretary
Ickes. Dr. John w. Studebaker, COM
missioner of education; Miss Leila
Mechlin and other art critics. A sec
ton of the United States Marine Band
will play and the center gallery also
will be utilized for the exhibit
DR.. Walter j. Greenleaf of the Office
of education is making all arrange
ments for the shows and is serving
as curator in charge of exhibits.
Assistants were engaged today in
hanging the oils in the gallery and
some of the individual works of art
caused favorable comment from
chance visitors to the gallery.
Local Schools Represented.
The local schools represented in
the exhibit are the Corcoran School of
Art, Howard University and the Mary
land Institute of Art.
Oil paintings covering a variety of
subjects were submitted from Yale,
Chicago, Tulane, Kansas, Notre Dame,
Washington of st. Louis and Syracuse
Universities, from such art schools as
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts. the Copper Union of New York,
the Art Student League of New York,
the Rhode Island School of Design and
the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
There may be some scholastic eX-
amples of the futuristic or realistic
schools of art, but this was not in
evidence in the few pieces unwrapped
early today. The one that seemed to
attract the most praiseworthy COM
ment was life study submitted by
Jack Clifton of the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts. This has an
unusual f1esh-colored background and
the lines of the figure were declared
remarkably fine.
Large MuraIs Included.
A number of large murals seemed to
predominant. One striking mural with
an African motif was submitted by
Eva Williams of Howard University.
An unusually fine study of q girl, the
work of Marthae Anne Chapman of
the Maryland Institute of Art attracted
much attention for its coloring and
distinctive lines.
The college art unit is expected to
become center of interest in Wash
ington, giving art students an oppor-
tunity to exhibit nationally.
No awards are to be given, but suit
able identification marks will be at
tached to each subject in the exhibit.
The schools will pay the incidental
costs.
The Art Committee includes A. E.
Demaray, associate director of the Ma
tional Park Service; Miss Olga Jones
of the Office of Education and Floyd
e. Dotson, chief clerk of the Interior
Department.