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First publication May 10. 1888. Last publication. July 21, 1888.
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imposing hall most engaging, as well
as unique. series Of undersea paintings
In water color by Else Bostelmann,
who. 1t will be recalled, has accom-
panied Mr.. Beebe on some Of his un-
dersea explorations.
In these paintings Mrs. Bostelmann
puts before our eyes q fairyland of
the existence Of which but few are
aware. She shows us flower gardens
Of exquisite beauty and fish Of many
shapes and colors in rhythmic mo-
ton. Here is marvellous abundance
Of motives for decorative design,
drawn not from imagination but
reality. A new world Is opened up
and with what would seem to the
utmost ease and naturalness. Tech
nically these water colors are ex-
ceedingly fine-very accurate. but suf-
flciently free In execution, fresh, vivid
and convincing. It is not conceivable
that they could have been done except
from first-hand information. The
artist herself must have been UNDER
seas and, as 1t were, kept company
with these strange, lovely creatures
that tnhabit the depths and shyly in
passing look out from her paintings
at us with such big, wondering eyes.
But above all else commendable is
the way in which Mrs. Bostelmann
has indicated motion. Despite the
precision of her work, which gives
1t scientific value, it is never static
q triumphant achievement, And what
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Current Exhibitions

THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF
ART-Swedish Tercentennary
Exhibition Of Arts and Crafts
closes today. Special exhibi-
ton of portrait studies of Qua
temalans and Mexicans by Eben
Comins, to June IL.
ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON
The National Capital Salon
Of Photography-to June 3.
NATIONAL MUSEUM - Tenth
street and Constitution avenue.
Exhibition Of Naval Historical
Prints from the Eberstadt Col
lection lent by the Naval His
torical Foundation-to open
June 3.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Original illustrations by A. B.
Frost; prints by contemporary
printmakers
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GAL
LERY-Exhibition Of Paint
ings Of Springtime" and little
paintings of the Italian Quarter,
New York, by Frank di Gioia.
PHILLIPS GALLERY STUDIO
HOUSE-Fifth annual exhibi-
ton Of work by students OF
Phillips Gallery Art School and
professional artists associated
Herewith.
ART GALLERY, DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR-College
Wing. Exhibition Of paintings
by students of the Big Ten"
Mid-western universities.
GEORGETOWN GALLERIES,
1924 Wisconsin avenue-Open-
ing exhibition Of paintings by
local artists and few others
from out of town.
WOMEN'S CITY CLUB, Jackson
place-Water colors by Ann
Goodhart Rowland; oils by Cara
Kimberly.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART
GALLERY - Paintings by
American masters lent from
the National Collection Of Fine
Arts.
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Main Build
ing-Drawings and water col
ors by Eugene Weisz. Mount
Pleasant Branch-Work Of stu
dents architectural department
Central High School. Tacoma
Branch-Paintings by Washing
ton artists.
CHILDREN'S FEDERAL ART
GALLERY, w. P. A-Exhibl-
ton of children's art produced
under w. P. A. instructors. Our
Neighbors."
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which in other fields would be classi-
fled as scholarship. Neither expert
craftsmanship nor brushwork seemS
to signify. The sheer beauty Of line
and the charm Of paint laid on can
vas by . pregnant brush in the hand
Of . knowing painter seem no longer
to exist. The artists one aim is, ap-
parently, to express himself in the
briefest possible way, employing q
hieroglyphic Of his own invention,
regardless Of its intelligibility to others.
This puts art on an entirely new basis.
No longer is the artist the seer and
prophet, opening blind eyes to unseen
beauty, enriching the world through
his discoveries, pointing the way to
vistas of unimag4ned splendor, lifting
civilization to higher plane. re-
storing, refreshing, renewing life itself.
No doubt in these Elysian fields some
thorns and thistles grew, for the up
roofing Of which not few flowers had
to be sacrificed-but surely not all.
That the young painters Of today,
and especially those represented In
the current exhibition at Studio House,
are deeply in earnest, there Is no
question, but surveying their works in
the aggregate one cannot but be i'm
pressed by the extent to which they
repeat and re-echo given formula
and the works of those under whose
influence they have come-Knaths,
Mrs. Phillips, John Marin and Mr.
Watkins, to mention the dominant
few most evident The one outstand-
ing exception is the work of Elizabeth
Poe. which is highly imaginative and
distinctly individual. And to an ex-
tent this one exception may be con-
sidered as proving the rule-that after
all the artist is born, not made-that
with patience almost any one can be
taught to paint and draw but no one
can be taught to be an artist. But
this gets us back to the traditional
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adequate and sympathetic medium for
the transmission Of artistic express
sion-but photography i an exact
science - well as an art. Things do
sometimes "happen' miraculously, but.
more often than not, good result are
brought forth by skill and UNDER
standing on the part Of the photog-
rapher. The elements Of utmost i'm
portance when the camera Is used as
q medium instead of the brush or the
etcher's needle are composition and
adjustment of light and shade These
are Of vital importance in the making
Of q picture, regardless Of media-but
the photographer has less latitude than
the painter or etcher-he must take
things as they are and adjust factual
circumstances to his immediate needs.
In other words, he cannot break down
q fence; he must climb over 1t. This
Is not ever easy nor always possible.
But what wonders these pictorial pho
tographers have accomplished Many
Of the prints included in this exhi-
bition show admirable composition, the
center of interest well placed, masses
Of light and shade well balanced. That
nature herself, or man IN his hap
hazard building, could have brought
about such result Is in itself subject
for wonder. But something must also
be said for the perception Of the pho
tographer. Even more impressive Is
the manner In which many Of the
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decorative value, the message Of Mr..
Bessemer's mural. To those of Winns-
boro 1t should mean-"my country
my land"
Mr.. Bessemer was born in Grand
Rapids. Mich, in 1909, but from the
time he was 1 years old until he was
13 he lived near Fort Meyers, Fla. In
1922 he came to Washington and the
following year went to New York.
From "a to '27 he attended Western
Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio,
working, however. in the summers as
an assistant to Willy Pogany, mural
painter and illustrator Of gift and dis
tinction. Later he studied at Colum-
bia College, at the Tiffany Founda-
ton and in the Master Institute Of the
Roerich Museum, at the last under
Howard Giles, to whom he acknowl-
edges great indebtedness. In 1888
Mr.. Bessemer came to Washington
under the P. w. A. p. to undertake an
elaborate mural. which Is still un1in-
ished. Since that time he has mar
ried and established himself here, and
for two years now conducted, In con-
junction with his studio, the Gallery
Of Modern Masters, at 1857 Connecti-
cut avenue, In which during the sea-
son q succession Of unusual and in
teresting exhibitions has been held.
Eliot O'Hard Publishes a Third
Book on Water Color.
WATER COLOR FARES FORTH"
Is the title of the third Of series
of books on this medium by Eliot
OHara, just of the press of G. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York Its prede-
cessors were Making Water Color Be-
have" written in 1882. and Making
the Brush Behave" dated three years
later, both Of which dealt largely with
technicalities and did much to increase
interest in water-color painting. The
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current exhibitors have handled prob
lens of light and shade-than which
nothing Is more subtle and difficult.
And by this is not meant the mere
contrast Of light and dark, but the
magic effects which such commingling
may produce-the use Of light which
illumines and glorifies, of dark which
enriches through transparent depths.
Obviously honors are no more even in
this than in other xhibitions-some
prints are by no means as we'll COM
posed as others, and in some cases
shadow has been used as cloak to
obscure that which cries to be seen.
But so much of the work is on the
higher plane that even these Short
comings can be overlooked.
ITO TURN now to some Of the out
standing examples. "Pueblo
Tesuque," by Walter d. Wilcox, is a
picture Of an adobe building seen at
twilight, enveloped as it were in atmos-
phere, intensely quiet, very impressive;
a remarkably artistic piece of render
ing through the medium of which
the commonplace has been clothed
with beauty. Equally subtle, but in a
different way, are Victor H. Cahalane's
pictures of wild geese in flight and
Lillian A. Guernsey's interpretations OF
flowers, especially Of "Styrax Obassia, "
in which she has preserved the feeling
of fragility while retaining exactitude
of expression. "A Rainy Day
Washington Square, New York, by O.
r. Mills, is q remarkably good compo-
sition and very successfully rendered
in half tones, but with sufficient en-
phasis. The washington Monument" F"
by Theodore Hoydczak, who contrib
utes q group Of four widely different
prints, is exceptionally fine in COM
position and the employment Of light
might light-as factor therein. Mary
d. Brown, in her print entitled
Through the Arch" also excels in
transcribing the intensity and lumi-
Mostly Of light which cuts the darkness,
dazzling with its brilliance, though
not dispensing 1t.
There are some excellent winter pic
lures taken both by day and by night
for example, winter Sunset" by Will
liam A. Ray, very delicately handled
with exquisite nuances Of light con-
trasted tones, and emphasis perfectly
placed. Equally meritorious for
strength and directness is Henry r.
Geiger's "Catalpa Tree"-its sparse,
heavy branches snow covered; and
Silent Night" by DR.. Earl s. john
ston-a small house doorway before
which stand bushes weighted down
with snow, white, cold and glimmer-
ing In the half light Of the door lamp.
Marv Jane Moor shows picturesquely
and well the Supreme Court Building,
Framed in Snow" against the white
ness by which its own marble Is
matched.
MANY of the subjects set forth by
AVA these exhibitors are Of local in
ception. but others have been found
far afield. George Lohr admirably
transcribes photographically paris
From Metre Dame" "Polparo" and
the skyscrapers Of New York City
"The National Pulse"-also the water
front st 'Looe." Any one Of these
would make . superb theme for an
etcher-and after all there are still
some potentialities within the artists
ooennsnd-such - the possibility Of
leaving some things unsaid-which are
beyond the reach Of the photo-picto-
rislist, But in these prints Mr.. Lollr
er,,roaehes yery clo9o tonhig fellow
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is more 1t is invariably artistic. In
the present day Of bewildered thought
and slovenly expression, work Of this
sort is especially good to see.
Georgetown Galleries-a NeU
Exhibition Pldce-Opened.
A NEW gallery for the display and
sale of works Of art, chiefly by
young local artists, was opened this
past week in Georgetown. The spon-
sors are Theodore Kane and Bobbie
Gladys Kerr, both of whom are well
known in local and out-of-town art
circles. This gallery, or these gal
| leries, for there are more than one
show room, will be found in quaint
old house at 1924 Wisconsin avenue.
The opening show comprises paint
ings by such well known artists as
Richard Lahey, principal OF the Cor
coran School of Art; Nicolai Cikovsky,
Arnold Blanch, Anne Goldthwaite,
Kimon Nicolaides, Orren LOuden,
Meyers Abels, Mathilde M. Leisenring
and Eugene Weisz. This exhibition
will continue through June 25, when,
if the interest on the part Of the pub
lie warrants, it will be replaced by
another.
The policy of these "Georgetown
Galleries." as they are to be called, is
to present for inspection and purchase
small pictures for the modern home
works of high standard and moderate
price. Also one-man shows by local
artists will be made feature.
A word concerning the sponsors.
Mrs Kane is graduate Of the New
York and Paris Schools of Fine and
Applied Art, established and con-
Quoted for many years by the late
Frank Alvah Parsons. She has also
studied with Mr.. Lahey in the Cor
coran School of Art. One of her
paintings was included in the Cor
coran gallerys most recent biennial
exhibition. The wife Of Maj. Norman
Kane, for some years stationed abroad,
Mrs. Kane has painted and exhibited
in London, Florence and Vienna. The
king Cole" mural in the Hotel Clar-
idge, this city, is her work. Miss Kerr
attended the King-Smith School in
this city, then the University of Gin
cinnati and the Cincinnati Academy
Of Art. More recently she has been a
member of Mr.. Lahey's portrait class
IN the Corcoran School of Art, and
has done some interior decorating and
won honors by her still life and flower
studies. This is an interesting venture,
First National Capital Salon of
Photography In the Arts
Club Well ReceiDed.
IT Is no longer necessary to justify
the inclusion Of photography among
the fine arts, but If it were, abundant
justification would be found in the ex-
hibition which opened in the Arts Club
Of Washington last Sunday afternoon.
This exhibition, which occupies the en-
tire gallery and comprises 107 prints,
Is styled the First National Capital
Salon Of Photography" and Is set forth
under the auspices Of the Washington
Camera Council. The committee in
charge Is headed by Lloyd Macurdy
and the jury Of selection had as chair
man Charles Bittinger, president of the
Society of washington Artists. Pre-
sumably, the exhibitors are men and
women who have taken up photog.
raphy as an avocation; . hobby, but
are employing 1t as an art. The average
merit Of the work shown Il very high
and even from this level some Of the
examples displayed are distinctly out
standing. The camera In the hands Of
] an artist can. ana doss, beeomH IN
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third volume, uniform in size and CO.
piously illustrated both in color and
black and white. has broader pur-
pose-that Of placing the medium on
an equal footing with oil color or other
media. From the very beginning, how
ever, Mr.. O'Hara had this object in
mind, for always he resented the fact
that water color was so generally re-
garded as a lighter sister to oil
painting" To this end he demon
strates with word and picture the re-
suits which have been and can be
achieved, using his own paintings and
those Of others, outstanding water
colorists, as examples, and explaining
how it has come about. It is the book
of a teacher as well as Of a painter,
and it is one which both students and
the general public, who want to know
more about art from the artists point
of view, will undoubtedly welcome
Mr.. O'Hara has just completed q
course of teaching Of watercolor paint
ing at Yale University, and leaves the
first of this week for Goose Rocks,
near Biddeford, Me-, where he has es-
tablished a most successful summer
school Of painting. Taking up first
drawing and then water color as recre-
ational pastime, Mr.. O'Hara has in a
few more than 10 years come to be rec
ognized as one Of the leading water
colorists Of this country, his paintings
being much in demand and commando
ing q high price. He has in that time
won four major awards, in addition to
a Guggenheim fellowship, and had his
paintings acquired by II museums and
public galleries-an extraordinary rec
ord, especially in these times Of strin-
gent as well as frenzied finance.
A Former Student of the
Corcoran School of Art
Scores Success Abroad.
olive BOHANNAN, former stu
dent Of the Corcoran School Of
Art, has, 1t IS learned, been honored
by the acceptance and display Of two
Of her paintings by the Paris Salon,
which opened on May II in the Grand
Palais des Champs Elysee. Both are
portrait or figure studies, one OF an
Arab potter, the other Of an italian
peasant woman. Miss Bohannan came
to Warrington from Tampas Fla. and
studied for two years under MP. LAney
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Seward Hume Rathbun; vice presi.
dent, Benson B. Moore; treasurer.
Eleanor Parke Gusts; secretary, Mar.
guerite Neale True; board of directors,
John Butler, Frances Hungerford
Combs, Ruth Osgood, Mary G. Riley
and A. H. o. Role.
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which has been laid aside-tempo-
rarily or permanently who shall say?
The new artist is first professional
and then, perhaps, a student, and
busies himself with trivialities because
he has not as yet mastered the power
of expression. But he may by this
strange and devious path arrive even
tually at new and farther goal. Who
shall say?
Summer Painting Glass
Announced by Eugen WieSz.
EUGEN WEIsz, instructor in the
Corcoran School Of Art, painter
and lecturer, announces . six weeks
course in drawing and painting to
begin May 81 and continue to July IL.
Students may work in oil or water
color or other media: criticisms will
be given daily. Further information
may be obtained from Miss Agnes
Mayo, secretary of the Corcoran School
of Art.
Mural for South Carolina
Post Office By Auriel Bessemer
Installed.
A UR1EL BESsEMER of this city
= has lately completed . mural
painting entitled Southern Industrial
Tapestry" which, commissioned by
the painting and sculpture section Of
the Procurement Division OF the
Treasury Department, has been in
stalled in the little Federal Post Once
at Winnsboro. 8. G. It Is long. mar
row, horizontal panel, I11 by 4 feet in
dimensions, and depicts q landscape
typical Of the vicinity. This country
is gently rolling; part Of the land is
under cultivation. part in use for graz
ing purposes. There are open fields
accented by groups Of trees, roadways
like ribbons unwound. In the center
of the composition one sees small
town, trinity laid out, and to the left,
adjacent, an extensive industrial plant.
All these elements Of composition have
been to an extent oonventionalized, but
excellent suggestion Is given Of space
and distance-of the length and
breadth Of ths land. The lesson Of
THE Good Earth" was mans close
relation to and dependence Upon the
soil-s lesson which we need today to
releaEn This too. H. eids from IL
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THE great tercentenary exhibition {

It is no wonder, then, that these SIM
pie natives worship mother earth, for
she means to them plenty-life'" !"
They are born on the earth, live on
1t, are the color Of it, receive their
food from it; and finally, when death
comes, are given back to their mother
for perpetual life"
The dominant tone of these portrait
drawings is brown, but they are en-
riched by the colorful costumes. So
deeply has Mr.. Comins become in
terested in the study Of the Indians
of the Americas that he sails about
June II for Peru and Bolivia, where
he will continue his inquiries and
mako additional portrait drawings.
Early In the autumn the collection,
now on view in the Corcoran Gallery
Of Art, Is to be exhibited at Wellesley
College, after which the entire set,
embracing the drawings made during
the coming summer, will be shown
IA tho Currier Gallery, Manchester,
N. H
Undersen Paintings by
Else Bostelman Exhibited BY
National Geographic Society.
THE National Geographic Society
L has, during the last few years,
held q number Of important exhi-
bitions Of art in its Explorers Hall, to
the left Of the entrance in the main
building on Sixteenth street. Memora-
ble among these are the exhibitions
OF sculpture-the races Of man-by
Malvina Hoffman; paintings by Alex
andre Iacovlef reminiscent Of his
journey by motor across Asia, and
paintings Of birds by Brasher. An
equally notable exhibition Of paint
ines by Indians by w. Langdon kim
y in prospect for another season, but
u present there = On WV IA ! ais
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-31
no WPA Workers On School Repairing
 Projects To Continue
Allotment of ,349 Given Formal Sanction By Pres ident Roosevelt -Watertown Also Aided By
 Appropriation for Aiding Needy Nurses

constructing ceilings, floors, roofs, partitions, walls, sidewalks, gutters, tables, steps and platforms; improv- ing and reconstructing statuary; placing brick and molding; caulk- ing; carpentry work; painting; ex- cavating, filling and grading; per- forming masonry work, vanishing; clustering; waterproofing; installing ventilators, railings, gates, windows, treads, water closets, catch and inlet basins, drains; erecting fence; re- moving floors, steps, platforms, roofs and boiler; lowering playroom; rak- ing. and pointing.
 The Watertown project, with an allotment of $691, will provide em- ployment for needy registered nurses in furnishing free nursing care in the public schools. Practical nurses and housekeepers will not be used on this project, and the work will not displace any nurses normal ly employed or any auxiliary of any nursing service now available.
 The three New Hartford projects carry total allotment of $25,015, for the building of new bridges as follows: On Goodwin road over Nepaug river; on Maple Hollow road over Nedash brook; on Wengart road over Weingart brook.
 The Waterbury allotment of funds is the proportion that the govern ment will pay in wages to 1l0 WPA workers now engaged in various school repairing projects. The city has provided $1O,O00 of an approxi- mate $22.000 total to pay for SUD- plies as it's share of the work.
 Originally the board of education cared for the cost of the city par ticipation in the school projects but lately the appropriat tion for this was exhausted and members of the school board appeared before the board of finance to request that the welfare department provide the necessary funds. After the matter had been passed upon by the well fare department it was approved by the finance board, with specific rec ommendation at the last meeting that $l0,000 be appropriated to take care of the expense until September when transfers from other funds is possible.
 The board of aldermen at their last meeting voted this appropria- tion and the project now is assured continuance through the rest of the year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-31

Japan plans to control its pottery sales abroad in order to increase them.