Evening star., 1938-11-27


or training-ideas, but inadequate
powers of expression. Horrible as
are the sounds made by an amateur
orchestra the players know that they
can do nothing acceptable save
through the discipline of training.
Strangely enough this knowledge is
rarely impressed upon those who
would practice the art of painting.
Is it, one wonders, because of its
quieter nature? But for those with
eyes to see and sensitive perceptions
the painting crudely made may blare
no less loudly.
Paintings by Washington
Children ShoWn in the
Public Library.
The exhibition of the works of
school children at the Public Library
is much more engaging-but these
child artists it must be remembered
are under tutelage in private art
schools, attending Saturday morn
ing or other special classes. The
intent has been, in every instance,
apparently, to encourage the creative
instinct, and some of the work on
view is very promising. From the
Yard School of Art have come three
colorful and imaginative compost
tions-"Purple Mountains" swiss
Scene" and Man in the Moon" 4"
which show creative instinct and a
reaching out for beauty by children
IL years Of age and under; to the
credit of Abbott School stand very
interesting harbor scene with boats,
rendered in color crayon pencils, by
= boy of -, and a farm scene in
water color, including a man plough
ing, by another small boy, which
has merit in composition. Quite
astonishing in Characterization, COM
position and drawing is a market
scene with numerous figures by
Peter Woodside, age 13, pupil in the
Saturday morning children's class
at the Corcoran School of Art. There
are also y couple Of spirited sketches
from life by pupils in the National
School Of Fine and Applied Art. The
ability to draw and to paint come
intuitively to little children but is
lost in the self-conscious years of
adolescence. If this can be pre-
vented through a logical cultivation
OF the creative instinct and IA
with the means of express
sion, great service will be rendered.
Lahey Represented in
american Groups Christmas
Publications.
Again the American artists group,
with headquarters in New York. is
striving to make known to the
general public the works of leading
artists through the repro
Of paintings, etchings, wood
cuts, etc., and their distribution as
Christmas greeting cards. Twenty
flve additional artists have joined
the group this year, including Jonas
Lie, president of the National Acad-
emy Of Design; Charles Burchf1eld,
Paul Sample, Millard Sheets, Peter
Hurd and others no less well known.
1t is interesting to note that one
of the paintings included in the
exhibition, lent by the Whitney
Gallery Of American Art, and now
on view In the Museum of Modern
Art Washington Gallery. the i'm
pressive still life, "Sentinels," by
Brook, is reproduced in
the current set in full color. Also
among the more important of the
cards In color is one reproducing
q painting, Skating Pond" by Rich
ard Lahey, principal of the Corcoran
School of Art. Rockwell Kent Is
by an excellent repro
of his painting, THE Trap
per-; Sheets and Sample each, like
wise, by typical winter pictures.
Turning to the black-and-white Sec
ton, one finds reproductions of
by John Taylor Arms,
r. w. Woiceske, Mahonry Young
and others. A few of these paint
ings and prints have presumably
been made for the purpose to which
they are now put, but, for the most
part, they have, to the contrary,
merely been adapted to it, and there
fore have no actual association
with the great religious festival.
There has, however, apparently been
an effort to make the selection ap.
to the season by the use
Of winter scenes and works of in
herent beauty. The purpose and
spirit underlying the project cannot
fail to receive commendation.
Paintings by Bernice Cross in
the Phillips Gallery Haze a
Touch.
A special exhibition Of paintings
by Bernice Cross opened in the
Phillips Memorial Gallery on No.
40, to continue to December
1. The card Of announcement is
by . drawing Of a little
black angel child standing on the
clouds among the stars with q
radiant halo around her wondering
little head. This decoration is to
an extent indicative of the exhibi-
ton as a whole, inasmuch as it has
humor and pathos intermingled-
and not too much Of either. At
'"The Poet" and 1.-THE Artist as
Young Man" one knows full we'll
that the painter is smiling, but not
in derision. Noah's Ark as pictured
by Bernice Cross is completely child
play-deliberately funny-but her
picture of Mountain Children"
although lightly tossed OF, is sober
and pathetic with pathos that is
beyond words. Her "Sancho PanEa,"
done In scratched lines rs well as
painted, we have seen before and
are glad to see again because OF
|ts excellent feeling and chasae-