Evening star., 1937-10-09
Bv Leila MechHn.
TINE Landscape Club of Wasl

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TINE Landscape Club of Wash
ington has set forth an excel
lent exhibition in the Arts
Club. This organiza ton is
composed chiefly Of men who turn
to art as an avocation-painting
usually given over to recreation-the
pure pleasure of the doing coupled
with potential achievement. But the
works they are showing are fully up
to professional standard. OF course
some of the exhibitors are profess
sional, such. for instance. as Charles
Bittineer. who shows not a landscape
but an interior, The Drawing Room
at Arlington House; Winfield Scott
Cline, Alexander Clayton and others.
The entire gallery is given over to
works in oil and among these are
canvases displaying strength in exc
cutlon and individuality of viewpoint.
s. Peter Wagner exhibits dramatic
landscape suggestive of the crags and
valleys of the English lake regions:
while on An opposite wall hangs a
no less impressive transcription Of
colorful mesas in our own great
Southwest. painted forcefully by
Alfred Schmidt.
Roy Clark contributes a very dec
orative transcription of plowed fields
bounded by trees. And from Edward
s. Shorter of Georgia. a nonresident
member. has come painting of
Southern farm country rendered
with directness and outstanding SIM
plicity.
Rowland Lyon shows two small
canvases, one lighthouse without
buildings and the other of two small
boats on the sands awaiting en in
coming tide. both very pleasing in
color and skillfully rendered, high in
KEY. fresh in handling.
Ruel P. Tolman. in charge Of the
national art collections Of the
Smithsonian Institution, as we'll as
head of the division Of graphic arts
of the National Museum. shows a
small painting of sea and sky, a
nocturne with which it would be
His colleague. Allen Sherwin, is, by
the way. represented in the adjacent
reception room by an etching of a
boat with sails set. an admirable COM
position and very sensitively etched.
Minor Jameson makes but a single
contribution, fairly large canvas,
and painted presumably this Summer
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leading up to distant hills which
mark mistilv the high horizon. Deli
cate in color and subtle In subject,
this painting in unity of expression
and lyric quality stands quite by itself.
Somewhat in the same category are
landscapes by Frank J. Mackenzie.
Benson B. Moore, Tom Brown, the
last at his best, in landscape en-
titled Shenandoah Mountains" a
simple composition with foreground
interest and well-defined planes.
Roger Rittase has sent striking
picture. "Gaspe Countryside, a grave
yard with crosses as markings of DOM
mating interest.
Alexander Claytons contribution is
of cactus flowers: Winfield Scott
Cline sends an elaborate and beauti-
fully rendered composition, regal lilies,
with shell and bowl as accessories;
also an elaborate theme. village
nocturne. 1t is early evening: there
Is light in a nearby window, people
on the street and a ghost of church
steeple may be discerned starding
guard on the hillside.
THERE is in this exhibition no end
of variety in subject matter. A.
J. Ted Muerer shows the doorway OF
the Lafayette House. Alexandria, with
Its charming fan-light; William F.
Walter contributes a painting OF
bridge in Yellowstone Park; James r.
Turner sends picture Of a steel mill;
Oke Nordgren has painted sand pit.
One Of the two places OF honor has
been given to painting by o. r.
Carrington of an old house, Lands
Meadow" built in 1850, with its out
buildings. well grouped. above which
Is nung an equally colorful work, THE
Greek Farm" by Robert E. Motley.
A. H. O. Rolle, A. J. Schram, Garnet
Jex. r. Bruce Horsfall and John U.
Perkins are all likewise represented
at their best. Some of these painters
are found represented by work in
other media hung in the reception
room and hall where water colors,
etchings and block prints occupy the
walls and may be seen to excellent
advantage.
Prize awards made for the first time
In the Landscape Club exhibition were
announced last Thursday (after these
notes were in type) and will be pre-
sented tomorrow afternoon at the
tea previously noted. On account of
the "Foire aux Croutes" to be held at
the Arts Club on the 14th, 18th and
18th, this exhibition will be taken
down on Wednesday the 18th and re-
hung the following Monday, the 18th,
continuing then until the 22d.
Dru Point Portraits and
Landscapes by Cdd1Dallader
Wdshburn OF Rare Merit.
MO ONE who is interested in prints
or a connoisseur of etching can
fail to ind delight in the collection
of drypoints by Cadwallader Wash
burn now on view in the upper atrium
Of the Corcoran Gallery of Art OF
the IS prints in this exhibition nearly
ti1ree-fourths are portraits and the
others for the most part landscapes
The variety in subject heightens, on
the whole, the effect This is not the
f1rst time that Mr.. Washburn has ex-
hibited in Washington. A collection
q his drypoints was shown in the