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in all-but the impression is very
pleasing. Two are of a street in "Old
Newport" narrow and borderei by
rows of houses, small, shabby and
low These are offset. however, by a
glimpse in a Newport Garden" ira
dltlonaly SumptuouS and picturesque.
There are three paintings of bvely
patio and one of the arches Of its
cloiSter, which might be anywhere,
but most suitably in the South; and
there is long, green garden vista
(again NeWport) down which one
looks to an enchanting fountain. Un-
doubtedly Miss Searcy is one who,
discovering beauty, gives herself fear
leSsly to its Interpretation. From this
angle, her work is very refreshing.
II is interesting also to note thai her
manner of transcription is quite va
rled. Sometimes she employs cellar
wash, but at other times she use: dry
color which gives almost the effect Of
pastel. She unquestionably has fine
pictorial sense and in her rendering
lightness of touch.
Pictorial Photographs By
Eleanor Pdrke CuStiS Exhibited.
ELEANOR PARKE GUSTS, d1air.
man of the Exhibition Commit
! tee of the Arts Club, is we'll Known
| here and in other cities for her paint
ings in gouache, her illustrative work
| in black and white and her coorful
designs for book jackets and mag zins
| covers. She now appears, and fT the
| first time in this city, in a one.man
exhibition under the auspices o. the
Division of Photography in the Ma
tional Museum, Arts and Industries
Building, as a pictorial photographer,
using the camera as a medium for
artistic expression. The utter dis
similarity between her painting and
her Photographic work is mos, re-
markable and quite the revere Of
logical expectation. With her ,rush
and pencil she is very exact ant de-
lights in the rendition of themS in
detail; in her Photographic Hates
| her renderingS are broad and exceed
lngly free, spirit tranScending fact,
Possibly it is her power to see brady
and at the same time completely that
enables her in her paintings to as
Semble many items in a unified de.
sign, but certainly there are few who
have so diverse and varied a Iew-
point. Miss CuStiS has been deeply
interested in the potentialitieS Of 3ho-
Biography as an artistic medium for
some years, and her photographs lave
been widely published in some OF the
leading pictorial magazines. Also
she has exhibited extensively in this
country and abroad with other photo
pictorialists. Included in the current
exhibition is a print, a nude with
floating rapery-"Decorative Fteze"
for which she recently received a
silver medal in an exhibition he'd in
Belgium and to which has just been
awarded silver cup as token O. ex-
ceptional merit in an exhibition at
Bishop -Aukland, Great Britain.
Many of the prints which Miss
CuStiS shows are of subjects FUND
in and around Gloucester, where her
Summers for some years have been
spent, and, testifying to the pic
turesqueness of town and harbor ex-
plain its attraction to the artist fra
ternity. But others were mad. on
the Mediterranean cruise from which
she brought back q couple of years
ago such a wealth of paintable ma
terial, and still others are souvenirs
and delightful as such-of the trip
TO Guatemala from which she has but
| just returned. AS interest is .spe-
cially focused on Central America at
present, this group will probably take
precedence over the earlier ones,
which are, however, no less good.
Here are engaging renderings Of
little church in the Guatemslean
highlands at San Antonio, view Of
the church at Chichicastenango, set
on the top Of high, stepped pyramid,
which is becoming world renowned
through pictorial presentation and of
streets in Guatemala, sun-steeped
and crossed by network of shadows.
After all, the camera, plus art, i, ca
pable both Of bearing reliable witness
to fact and at the same time mani
testing beauty. When so employed, as
here, the result Is fully worthy Of
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