Evening star., 1937-01-09
IDEAS ARE DOMINANT
Who Have Achieved Presented Through Work
Marble and PlaseBats and Birds Are Represented Landscapes
in Women's City Club Exhibit.

with silver spots inset, and touch Of
the extremely modern in his-shall
we say "styhzed" baboon? But his
fauns and does are as they have always
been-shy and Of the forest. OF spe-
cial interest, too. are Mr.. Manship's
models of birds-heron, flamingo,
hornbill, owl, stork, crane, pelican.
and penguin, single figures done with
evident care and great distinction.
In considering this exhibition, 1t
should not be forgotten that, compre-
hensive as 1t is, 1t covers only part
of Mr.. Manship's production. Many
Of his works have long since found
permanent placement in the leading
art museums or in private collections
in homes and on great estates. What
is given here is. however. sufficient
for the visitor to fix his place in
American contemporary art and by so
doing extend ones own boundaries of
understanding. Sculpture Is indeed
a noble art and seldom does one see
1t so well employed, Again We say.
pausing on the threshold of this ex-
hibition of Mr.. Manship's sculpture,
How beautiful 1t isl"
Excellent Shouting of Landscapes
In Women'S City Club.
NOWHERE in this city are paintings
= shown to better advantage than in
the Women's City Club. Jackson Place.
where monthly exhibits Of local work
are hung on the walls of the reception
and lounging rooms. Here instead Of
being ION parade" they take their
place in the environment which the
club has created as in a measure
background for this phase Of contem-
porary life. And this Is as 1t should
be. for paintings are meant not to be
stared at, but lived with.
At present, members Of the Land
scape Club of Washington are exhibit
ing here by invitation. and through
their works the outdoor world has been
brought within. To turn to nature
for inspiration is, according to the
advanced school, to be quite outdated
but so long as the divine spark remains
in man, much of our art will be de-
rived from this source. There are in
fact comparatively few persons who
do not react to the beauty which is
found in nature, and it is the works
of artists which reveal such beauty
that have lasting significance and
charm. Landscape painting. other
than as background or decorative fea-
ture, is comparatively late art. Only
during the last hundred years has it
had place distinctly its own. Our
Hudson River School endeavored to
record American landscape with the
semblance of truth and accuracy;
Inness led the way to broader inter-
pretation; the impressionists, headed
by Hassam, brought in the sparkle Of
sunlight, and the plein-air painters
literally threw open the windows. Then
came the post-impressionists who re-
stored structure and emphasized design
until lost in the wilderness of the many
new-made isms. But nature herself
has not changed.
The various kinds Of landscape
painting and the stages through which
it has passed are for the most part
reflected in the works now on view in
the Women's City Club. Some give
us facts, some open vistas, some mani
fest the value of simplification-but
practically without exception, they
reveal beauty which the painter him.
self has discovered and been moved
BIZ. It is delightful little exhibition.
One does not need to particularize.
Richard Lahey to Glue Demon
Stration of Portrait Painting.
THE Washington Society Of the Fine
Arts January lecturer will be
Richard Lahey, principal of the Cor
coran School of Art, who, on the even
ing Of the 18th. will give, in the audi
torium of the United States Chamber
Of Commerce, a Demonstration of
Portrait Painting" Mr.. Lahey will at
that time paint portrait from a liv-
Ing model before the audience, ex-
planning verbally each step in its de-
Velopment. He calls the lecture 1.-THE
Artists Point of View" and it is this
which he unfolds through exposition.
There are in this country compare
lively few artists who either write or
lecture; MIR. Lahey is one Of these-an
ardent painter with an exceptional
gift Of speech.
Water Colors of a Carolina Rice
Plantation to Be Exhibited.
A T THE Arts Club tomorrow after
noon a unique exhibition-water
colors Of a Carolina rice plantation
by Alice r. Huger Smith of Charleston
will open with private view and tea.
OF the 40 paintings to be included in
this showing, 80 were made as illus
trations for book by Herbert Ravenel
Sass, just published. These have been
effectively reproduced in color, and
the originals given by the artist to the
Carolina Art Association by which
they are lent. There is none who
knows the old South better than Miss
Smith. lifelong resident of Charles
ton and of distinguished South
Carolina lineage, and none who has
more sympathetically interpreted its
beauty. Of aspect and spirit through
the medium of water colors and wood
block ppAAA n aeaox. Tha South. both