Evening star., 1937-01-30

hibition Is much larger than ever
before and of higher standard.
Twenty-seven pieces OF sculpture in
bronze and stone and other media
are included, while Of paintings there
are, all told, but 78. Owing to exigen-
cies of space and time, the sculpture
section will not be reviewed until next
week, when it can be considered more
fully. The exhibition continues until
February %. approximately three
weeks from the time Of opening.
Biennial Exhibition
OF Works In Little.
THE Washington Society Of Nina
ture Painters, Sculptors an d
Gravers Is exhibiting in the Corcoran
Gallery simultaneously with the So
ciety Of Washington Artists. and IS
putting forth most interesting show
of works in little in various media.
This society Is the child of much
older and better known organization
Of similar name in London, Of which
for many years Allyn William, the
distinguished miniature painter Of
London and Washington. was presi-
dent. Its purpose Is to show minia-
ture works in painting, etching, sculp-
ture, bookmaking, Illumination, bind
ing, and other arts which, II exhibited
with works larger and hence out OF
scale, would lose in effect and signif!-
of fiv,1n nv,orho-
size the charm and intimacy Of sure
creations. The local society has not
exhibited for a couple Of years. owing
to the scarcity of exhibits in the class
the organization desired to show.
Further comment will be made on
this fascinating exhibition later.
Water Colors OF Spain
By Wells M. SaUyer.
AT THE Arts Club. 2o17 I street
northwest. two exhibitions Of ex-
ceptional interest open tomorrow
afternoon with the usual tea at which
Mrs. Ralph Graves and Miss Marie
E. Walcott will act as hostesses. These
will be both of water colors: the
painters Wells M. Sawyer, formerly
of this city, and Russell Train Smith
Of Chapel Hill, N. c. Mr.. Sawyer,s
paintings. which will be shown in the
gallery. are all Of Spain and were
painted in that country, now war
racked and despoiled, during the past
10 years. They give glimpses Of the
coast of Mallorca, of scenes in Malaga.
in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains and in the High Pyrenees,
as we'll as in Granada, in Andalusia
and Catalina. These paintings found
favor among the Spanish critics as
well as public. and were exhibited by
invitation in the National Gallery Of
Modern Art in Madrid and In the GAL
lery Of the Bellies Artes Section Of the
Friends of the Country in Malaga.
Some of them were shown here in the
National Gallery and in the galleries
Of Mich and Ferergi in New York.
They have most lately been exhibited
in the gallery Of transient exhibitions
of the Telfair Academy in Savannah
At the present time. when all eyes
are turned to Spain in fear and hope,
they are of both sad and poignant
interest.
Russell Train Smith to
Exhibit at the Arts Club.
THE paintings by Mr.. Smith, who
by the way Is assistant professor
and acting head Of the lately organ
lied Department Of Fine Arts Of the
University Of North Carolina, are
recent works done to an extent in
modern manner-not modernistic, but
up to date, fresh, vigorous, significant.
Some presumably will be souvenirs Of
q sojourn in Yucatan when the
painter was a member of the Carnegie
Institutes expedition and engaged
chiefly in making measured drawings
Of the Maya masques and other works
In sculpture. But others will be
transcriptions Of New England land
scape, we'll seen and sympathetically
interpreted-as were for instance his
two Winter pictures included in the
Washington Water Color Clubs most
recent annual exhibition. Russell
Train Smith was born in Concord,
Mass, in 1905, graduated from Harvard
with B. A. degree in 1927, and three
years later from the Harvard School
Of Architecture. Winning the Nelson
Robinson scholarship, he then had
year Of travel and study abroad, when
his interest definitely turned to paint
ing. This Is his first one-man exhibi-
tion in Washington, but he has previ-
ously exhibited in Boston, New Or
leans and other cities.
Paintings by John Marin
To Be Sho,Dn in Studio House.
STUDIO HOUSE. 1914 Twenty-frst
street northwest, announces an ex-
hibition Of Is water colors and
oil paintings by John Marin, from
February 3 to 81. A retrospective ex-
hibition Of Marin's work was held in