Evening star., 1938-10-30
Henry z. Schndckenberq's
Water Colors to Be Sho1Dn
In Corcordn Gdlleru,

Water C0lors to Be Sho1pn
In Corcordn Gallery.
On Tuesday. November /, the Cor.
coran Gallery Of Art will place on ex-
hibition . collection OF water colors BY
Henry Z. Schnackenberg OF New York,
pupil of Kenneth HAines Miller, 4
member Of the Art Students League
and the American Society OF Painters,
Sculptors and Engravers-one of our
contemporary realists. Mr.. SchnAcken-
berg IS represented In the art gallery
OF Dartmouth College, the Addison
Gallery, Andover, Mass: the Wads-
worth Athenaeum. Hartford. Conn. :;
the Whitney Museum, New York; the
art gallery. University of Nebraska; the
Art Institute Of Chicago, as well as
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
the permanent collection of the Ma
tional Academy Of Design. He is now
working on murals for the new post
omce at Amsterdam, N. Y, q little
town not far distant from Albany
where. by the way, Mary van der Veer,
Of old Dutch stock. has long resided
and painted charming interiors and
still life subjects which, through their
excellence. have brought distinction
not inly the painter, but to her
home town.
Washington Gallery of Museum
OF Modern Art to Reopen.
The washington Gallery of the Mu-
scum of Modern Art, Seventeenth and
H streets, OF which Mrs. Dwight r.
Davis is chairman and Mrs. George
Angus Garrett Is vice chairman, will
reopen a week from today for the cur
rent season. The opening will take the
form Of q private view of an exhibi-
ton of 50 paintings by living American
artists. selected from the permanent
collection Of the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York City. This
museum. which Is agreeably housed in
an old remodeled residence at 10 West
Eighth street. has been showing for the
past fortnight or more q regional ex-
hibition entitled Artists West of the
Mississippi" the fourth of a series of
such exhibitions inAugurated by this
museum in 1898. This week It will
open its annual exhibition of con.
temporary American painting, present.
ing recent works by artists from many
sections of the country, which in turn
will be followed December IL BY q
memorial exhibition Of the work of
tho late William = 1,eo r, Al
exhibition to open here November 8
four Washington artists will be repre-
sented: Edward Bruce. chief of the
new Division Of Fine Arts OF the Treas
ury Department; Richard LAhey, prin.
cipal Of the Corcoran School of Art;
Marjorie Phillips, wife of Duncan
Phillips, and Nan Watson, wife Of
Forbes Watson, well known writer on
art. The governing board Of this gall
lery has been strengthened this year
by the addition Of Mrs. Peter 0oelet
Gerry, who owns q choice collection Of
etchings by Whistler and Is numbered
among the leading art lovers of Wash.
ington.
George washington University
Expands Art Department.
The art department Of George
Washington University has been ex-
panded and strengthened this year by
additions to the staff and certain revi-
sions in teaching methods. Among
those added to the staff are Philip
Bell, . graduate Of the Yale School Of
Art and painter Of the mural In the
library Of the Mckinley High School;
Rowland Lyon Of this city, painter in
oils and water colors and member Of
the leading local professional associa-
tions, and Elizabeth Ray Lewis. head
Of the art division Of the Public Ii
brary. The first two have been added
to the staff Of instructors in paint
ing and drawing, which classes are now
conducted on the studio method
models being provided and criticism
given. not at regular stated periods,
but when ssked for. tia tAachef In