Evening star., 1938-10-02
Landscape Club Has
Its Fall Annual
at Arts Club.
Etchinss Are Shown
at Smithsonian
Institution.
By Leila MechHn.

1ouSly, With special eXhlbltlOnS
in the various galleries and full
quotas enrolled in the several art
schools. The opening event at the Arts
Club will be the Landscape Clubs au-
tumn annual. a preview Of which will
take place this afternoon; in the
Smithsonian Institution an exhibition
Of etchings by r. w. Woiceske opens
tomorrow, and next Saturday there will
be placed on view in the Corcoran Gal
1ery of Art an exceptionally notible col
lection of water colors, pastels and
drawings by Mary Augusta Mullikin and
Anna M. Hotchkis of sculptures in the
famous Yum Kang Caves in Northern
Shansi, China Meanwhile at the Pub
lie Library the season is initiated by
an exhibition OF recent water colors
by Olin Dows.
So much for beginning; still more
tober there will be shown in the foyer
of the United States National Museum
collection of approximately 200
prints in various media. done by art
lists working under the W. P. A.
To return to the Landscape Clubs
exhibition. 1t will consist of oil paint
ings, water colors. drawings and prints
by club members. the majority OF
which have been produced during the
recent summer. From first to last, this
is club affair. the jury Of selection
being made up from the membership
of volunteers and the awards voted by
a committee OF the whole. These con-
sist of a silver medal OF merit and
several honorable mentions. Also this
year there will be special purchase
prize of $50 voted by the club for the
acquisition of painting as gift to
Benoit Basch in appreciation OF
his handsome design for the club
medal. the selection to be made by the
recipient. This exhibition will open this
afternoon with the usual tea. Charles
Dunn and Rowland Lyon acting as
hosts, Mrs. Dunn and Mrs. Lyon pre-
siding at the tea table. The prize
awards will be announced by H. w.
Moore. president of the club. at 6
o'clock this afternoon. 1t will con-
tinue until October 81 and will be
reviewed at length later.
Notable Exhibition OF Paintings
OF Sculpture in Yum Kdng
CdUes, China, Announced.
7 OOKING ahead to next Saturday,
word may be said concerning
the exhibition which will then open
in the Corcoran Gallery OF Art. Miss
Mullikin and Miss Hotchkis. whose
works will constitute the showing. have
resided for many years in Tlentsin,
China, worked and journeyed much to-
gether. Twice in succeeding years they
made a pilgrimage to the Yum Kang
Caves in Northern Shansi for the pur-
pose Of studying and painting the
remarkable rock-hewn sculptures
which date back to the 5th century
of our era and mark the introduction
of Buddhism into China at the same
time that they bear witness to the
cultural influence introduced and later
to flow over Northern China and on
through Korea into Japan.
They are the work of a multitude Of
eculptors set to work by the invaders
from Tun Huane to tell in stone the
Buddhist story.
To visit these caves one must journey
Is hours by rail from Peiping to
Tatung and from there by cart over
a desert road and up the bed of
dry stream, taking ones bedding and
provisions with one. Some of the
caves are dark and require artificial
light for working: others are exposed
to the blazing light Of the sun; the
difficulties of transcription are, it
would seem, almost insuperable, but
these two women artists have con-
quered them all.
When in China more than a year
ago, DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor of the
National Geographic Society visited
these caves and chanced in Tientsin
to meet these artists and see their
works. The result was that the COL
lection to be exhibited in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art and later sent on a
museum circuit was brought to this
country. An article by Miss Mullikin
partially illustrated by color reproduc-
tions Of the paintings and by photo
graphs taken by DR.. Grosvenor, pub
lished in the March number of the
National Geographic Magazine, through
whose cooperation and the auspices
Of the Washington Society Of the Fine
Arts the exhibition here will be held.
The works, unique in character, have,
1t Is understood, the endorsement and
approval Of some OF our leading Orien-
talists. This exhibition will continue
to and including October 30
Recent AcceSsionS By the
Corcor1n Gallery of Art.
THE Corcoran Gallery of Arts per-
manent collection has been aug
mented during the summer months
by some notable gifts and loans. Out
standing among these is the collection
Of etchings and dry points. % in num-
Der. by James McNeill Whistler. the
gift of the late Julius Garfinckel,
received recently on the settlement of
the donors estate and now on view
IN cases in the upper atrium. These
prints were selected with great good
judgment and exceptional taste. They
are all fine impressions of famous
plates and represent Whistler the
etcher-one Of the greatest-at his
best.
Works of this caliger never grow
old or lose their interest-the more
they are seen the more they signify
Also in such a small assemblage there
Is opportunity for close scrutiny and
intimacy Of understanding. We are
apt today to be so satisfied by quaint
ity that we lose our taste for quality
forgetting the Greek rule of every
thing In moderation. One addition
has been made to this collection. This
Is an etched reproduction of Boldini's
famous portrait of Whistler seated
on q side chair with his arms on the
back The etcher was Jacques Reich,
the giver Mr.. William T. Pheiffer, the
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