Evening star., 1938-03-06

straightest road to high attainment.
AS student in the National Academy
OF Design he won many prizes, among
them two-year travelling scholar.
ship to Europe. In 1906 he exhibited
for the first time in the National
Academy OF Design, New York, and in
1910, upon his return from Europe,
he held his first one man show in the
American Fine Arts Galleries. His
progress since then, both toward
achievement and renown, has been
constant. In 1915 he received a
bronze medal in the San Francisco
Pan-Pacific Exposition, and from then
on honors have been showered upon
him. Almost every prize within the
gift of his colleagues has been award
ed him. He is best known for his
easel pictures, but his two mural
paintings, The Triumph OF Justice"
and The Defeat of Justice" previ-
ously referred to, in the Attorney Gen.
erals office, are outstanding.
Prints by Joseph Mdrgn1ies
And Thomas Hdndtorth
To Be Re-eIhibited.
TWO printmakers who have ex-
hibited this year in the Smith
sonian Building, under the auspices
Of the Division of Graphic Arts.
United States National Museum, are
at this time filling what in the theater
world would be called return engage
ments." Joseph Margulies, whose
prints were shown at the Smithsonian
in November, is exhibiting from today
by invitation for a week at the jew
ish Community Center. and Thomas
Handforth, whose exhibition has but
just closed in the Smithsonian, will
show drawings and prints at the Arts
Club from today for fortnight. In
all probability. neither of these ex-
hibitions will be repetitions Of those
previously held, and the opportunity
of seeing these artists works a sec
ond time is one of which many will
be glad to avail themselves.
The Margulies exhibition will open
this evening, at which time the artist
will be present and give a demonstra-
ton of technical methods by making
an etching before the audience and
explaining step by step as the work
progresses.
Mr.. MARGULIES has been COM
Az niissioned to etch a portrait of
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau.
for which, it is understood, he is to
have sittings this week.
An Austrian by birth, Joseph Man
gulies came to this country with his
parents in 1899. At IS he won prize
at one of the National academy of
Designs exhibitions. He studied at
Cooper Union, the Art Students
League and later the Beaux Arts In
stitute. He has Travelled and studied
abroad. His prints are to be found
in many of the leading collections.
Arts Club Exhibitions
Opening This Afternoon.
THE Handforth exhibition at the
Arts Club. which opens this after
noon with the usual tea. does not
duplicate the exhibition shown re-
Gently in the Smithsonian Building
but is new collection made up es-
pecially to meet Arts Club require
ments. 1t will, of course, comprise
some of Mr.. Handforth's works done
in the Orient, but also, it is thought
and hoped, some of his earlier works
produced in this country before he
began his extensive travels.
The Handforth prints and drawings
will be shown in the clubs reception
room, while in the gallery will be
seen paintings by Baltimoreans, as
sembled by Mr.. c. Law Watkins Of
the Phillips Memorial Gallery and
Studio House, who is vice chairman
of the Exhibition Committee of the
Arts Club.
A Great Variety of Exhibitions
To Be Seen at This Time.
THERE are other exhibitions open
ing at this time. On March 8
the Corocran Gallery of Art will place
on view a collection of water colors
by Elizabeth Poe, who has attained
exceptional success in imaginative
work of an unusual creative order in
this medium.
Today the Junior League of WASH
ington will open its third annual
Photographic show. This will COM
prise a brief survey of photography,
from a daguerrotype by Matthew c.
Brady, made about 1850, to some Of
the latest works in this medium.
Those working in the Photographic
sections of the Government depart-
ments, it is understood, will be gen.
erously represented.
The Gallery of Modern Masters is at
this time putting on an exhibition Of
designs and impressions OF mountain
landscapes by Evelyn Carter Giles.
At the Public Library an exhibition
Of drawings and water coiors by Karl
Nyquist opened March /. to continue
throughout the month. Mr.. Nyquist is
a, house painter and makes his living
thereby, but he has for q considerable
number of years drawn and painted in
water color, when opportunity offered,
for the sheer pleasure of the doing and
the satisfaction he finds in the result.
This is his first one-man showing.
The Little Gallery of the Intimate
Bookshop In Georgetown will show
from tomorrow until March 81 an ex-
hibition Of etchings in black and white
and color, as well as paintings by
Ralph James Totten, retired member
Of the diplomatic corps.
The current exhibition in the Art
Gallery at Howard University consists
of 81 paintings and one drawing by I.
Rica Pereira, a woman painter whose
work has been exhibited in the Whit
ney Museum Of American Art, New
York.
Competition Announced for
A NeU Jefferson Nickel.
THE Section of Painting and sculp-
ture, Procurement Division, Treas
ury Department, announces q compe-
tition for n design for 4 new scent