Evening star., 1938-11-27
" GIVEN TO PAINTINGS OF CHILDREN

| Drawings and
| Paintings
terization, but "De Land Of Cotton"
Is new and equally delightful. There
Is good color In . little painting
of iris and originality throughout
In manner of treatment. II this
were all 1t would not be enough, but
under the surface twinkle there is
sober sense of artistic values
which assures Of still better to come.
A little nonsense now and then
does not prevent a good painter
from eventually growing up.
Art Dedicated to the "Ne,D Deal"
In Cooperative Bookshop
Gallery.
II there we're little more nonsense
and less terrible sobriety in the ex-
hibition set forth In the gallery
opened recently by the Cooperative
Bookshop at 9l6 Seventeenth street,
it would be well. This exhibition,
dedicated to the New Deal, consists
of 20 large paintings and a few
drawings by artists of New York who
have been or still are employed by
the w. P. A. Art Project. assembled
and sent here for display by the
Contemporary Gallery of that city.
1t is from first to last propaganda
not for the New Deal, but for what
the painters have understood 1t to
mean-tae abolishment of wealth
and the exaltation of the laboring
man. Labor is not pictured as heroic
or noble, but rather as hurtful and
lowering; scorn is heaped on those
who have been regarded as intellec-
tual leaders and for the man of
wealth who is an employer no heaven
is provided. If the keynote of Mr..
Corbino's paintings is violence, that
OF these is anger and hate. Great
evils may require stern remedies, but
art, when so employed, loses its
power and magic. The great art of
the world which has survived the
cataclysms born of mans greed, has
pointed not down into the pit of
woe, but up to the calm Of the
heavens, and has bound together the
brotherhood Of mankind in a COM
mon love Of beauty. Painting Is
painting, q language IN itself; and
art is art, dif1cult both to under
stand and to define, but since the
days of Phidias the great artists Of
the world have been forever seeking
Ito find God in man, man in God,
and fix them kin" Propaganda
which overlooks this fact will fall by
its own impotence.
Conservation of Wild Life
Theme OF Medal Issued by
Society of Meddlists.
The Society Of Medalists has just
issued to its members in Washing
ton and throughout the country its
second medal for 1898, the eighteenth
which the organization has put out
in the furtherance Of its campaign
for greater appreciation of medalic
art. This is the work of Gertrude
K. Lathrop, member of the Ma
tional Sculpture Society, an asso-
ciate member of the National Acad-
emy of Design; pupil at one time
of Solon Borglum and also of Charles
GRANNY. The medal has as its theme
the conservation of wild life, and
shows on one side the prong horn
antelope and on the other the wood
duck, both of which we're a few
years ago fighting for existence but
now, through the efforts of con-
servationists, have been given a new
lease of life. Miss Lathrop herself
is an arden conservationist, and not
only has created this charming
work of art-which can be held in
the hand. and be felt as we'll as
seen, with delight-but has written
most sympathetically on the subject.
The Society of Medalists is non
profit organization entirely supported
by the very modest annual dues of
members, and it has done much,
since its founding nine years ago by
the late George D. Pratt, to re-
create interest in this form of art
and to. stimulate finer production
therein among American sculptors.
Statue Commemorating Army
And Many Nursing SerDice By
Accomplished Young Sculptor.
About a fortnight ago, and Incl
dent to Armistice Day celebrations,
a full-size figure in stone of pro-
fessional nurse in cap and uniform
by Frances Rich was tremendously
unveiled in the United States Ma
tional Cemetery at Arlington, in
memory of the unselfish and in
valuable service rendered by Army
and Navy nurses. Frances Rich,
the sculptor, was born in Spokane,
Wash, and studied under Malvina
Hoffman, Alexander Iacovlef and
Carl Miles, most excellent |
combination. The figure that she
has produced is rendered with almost |
archaic simplicity, and thus repre-
sents not one but ala composite
of character and ideals. To be
simple and yet sincere and signifl-
cant is no easy task, nor is it slight |
praise to say that the sculptor in