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ance for the morrow. OF such char
acter is the large canvas by John
c. Johansen, a member of the jury,
hence hors concours, entitled Morn
ing" which has great beauty both in
conception and execution. On the
ground is nude figure of Youth"
arising from slumber, while above
flies Dawn" pushing away the
night. It is an exquisite composition
and beautifully rendered-truly the
f1gment of vision most fair.
AS pendant to this in the same
gallery hangs a canvas of similar
size by John Carroll of a nude
woman floating in the water, her
eyes closed, to which the painter
has given the title For Ships at
Sea" an imaginary conception
rendered lovingly and with delicacy
of feeling. though In spirit weird
and strange.
Between hangs a large, full-length
seated figure painting, "Portia Le-
brun," by Guy Pene de Bois, who is
best known for his small figure and
rose trace pictures, but in this in
stance makes rather imposing i'm
preston, through boldness of color
and handling. Whether sufficiently
so to rightly occupy the position of
first honor in the entire exhibition,
may, however, be open to question. :,
There can in this connection be no
doubt as to the beauty and merit of
the painting of Fruit on Black
Table" by Henry Lee McFee, which
hangs to the left of the allegorical
canvas by Johansen-a lovely bit of
color, fine In arrangement and mas
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Bulletin of Current Exhibitions
Art

CoRcoRAN GALLERY OF ART Seventeenth street and New
York avenue NWSixteenth biennial Exhibition
American Painting through
THE ARTS CLUB WASHINGTON. 2o17 street Nw-water
coors elsewhere Xavier
Gonzales of Amera Spain April
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Graphic Arts the Mall
at Tenth street SWLhogaphs
Club of London, through March,
NATIONAL MUSEUM Arts and Industries Rud
ing the Mall at Eighth street SW-Photogaphs by
the Associated Telephone Camera Clubs. through
Water coors by Mary Elizabeth Partridge
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART GALLERY OF WASHINGTON 1856
Seventeenth street NW"A Century Painting
April
GALLERY 17o7 street NW-Young Washington
Painters original the filming of Walt
Dneys Ferdinand and the Bull the former April
latter until April 20.
GEORGETOWN GALLERIES. Wisconsin avenue NWPaint-
ngs and drawings by Gustav Tros Robinson to
April
GALLERY O street Nw-Recen Paintings by
Bernice Cross, through April Is.
PUBLIC LIBRARY Library Eighth and
streets NV, Autographs Marguerite Burgess
drawings by children District Columbia
Branch Seventh and streets Sc paintings
Landscape Club through
CLUB place NW-Paintines bv DR.
Florence A. Everhart and Alma Fivaz o 81
LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WOMEN District of Columbia
Branch Grafton Hoe-Pantngs by Grace Merrill Rucknan
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ALLEGATIONS GALLERY. W. p A,
Sl6 Independence SW-Waer by Hugh Collins
David Morris and Nelson Rosenberg Howard
Swenson, through March.
cHnDRENs GALLERY ART PROJECT w. P. A., 1ndepend-
SW-Exhbon illustrations Russian children
poems by Pushkin through March.
GALLERY George Washington University street be-
Twentyfs and NW-Skeches and
portraits by Burles Baker through April g.
GALLERY MODERN MASTERS. 1867 Connecticut avenue-
Decorative flower paintings by Onka Hdy through March
HOWARD of graphic arts bv
City through April 15 Also exhibit
syvania Dutch handicrafts
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guessing contest of authorship were
set up in connection with this ex-
hibition as was lately conducted by
the Museum of Modern Art Gallery
of Washington the average Of cor
rectness would be very low indeed.
1t is good to extend acquaintance in
this way among strangers, but it is
pleasant to rewelcome old friends in
whose ranks in recent years too
many gaps have occurred. In ad-
dition to those already mentioned.
and members of the jury, there are
among those of long standing dis
tinction represented here, Frank w.
Benson. Clifford Beal, Eugene Hig-
gins, Alexander James, Charles Hop
kinson, Ross Moffett, John Sloan,
James Chaplin, N. C. Wyeth, Um-
berto Romano, Elizabeth Price,
Rockwell Kent, Robert BRAKEMAN,
Gertrude Fiske and Daniel CARRIER,
Between these and the painters in
the still larger group whose names
are to the majority quite unfamiliar.
are such men Of countrywide rep
utation as Millard Sheets, Paul
Sample, John Steuart Curry, Burch-
field, Sheeler and Hopper, all of
whom have made prominent places
for themselves as well as Nation
wide regulations. OF the big
three" Curry, Grant Wood and
Benton, only the first is represented
here this year and that by q rather
uncharacteristic landscape entitled
View Of Madison" But it is doubt
less through Mr.. Curry's interest
that the representation from Wis
consin is 50 large proportionately.
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ical. Happily, however, we find here,
in Gallery H, two very characteristic
and charming landscapes by Scho-
field and Redfield, whose names are
associated as both of the so-called
"plein air" school and because of
their notable contributions to the
art of America. Mr.. Schofield's
contribution to this exhibition is en-
titled "Springtime" and shows a
Cornwall village in the pale sun
light of this time of year, while
from Mr.. Redfield has come a win
ter landscape, "The River" very
skillfully rendered.
In this same gallery are to be
found a picture painted on the
coast of Maine-"The Young Birch
es," in all their whiteness silhouetted
against the water-by Jonas Lie,
the president of the National Acad-
emy of Design, and an impressive
snow picture, Clear Winter Day."
by Hobart Nichols, vice president,
both admirable. Harry Leith-Ross
is we'll represented by Summer
Shower" and Georgina Klitgaard by
Landscape With Blooming Tree"
while in the adjoining atrium may
be seen a sensitively rendered can
vas, "Squally," painted in the New
Hampshire hills by Aldro T. Hib-
bard-a strong painting but not one
of his best.
To be sure, one Of the much-cov-
eted prizes. went to landscape,
Spring Evening"" by Ernest Fiene,
another was voted Morris Kantor
for his picture Of Cape Cod Light
House." but the former Is painted
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Life and Unrest of the Day
Reflected in Paintings
Selection Made From 5000 Works
Submitted; Many New Names
Found in Catalogue
By Leila MechHn.

Whatever be said
OF Contemporary American
Gallery
is fully representative of the O he
To
First webanced appointed consisting of five
OIL hg standing of
then notifications inviting
operation At meetings held
1000 paintings were passed upon OF these despite
jury
were
selected
under authorization In other
Art c. Powell Minngerode
the Jury Maurice Serne of San Francisco Santa Fe
tarnsWorth of
Carroll Tyson Of Philadelphia have lookout for
works
standing the tact that the world fairs New
offering
which will
OF Arts biennial will be found current trends
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Art itself is undoubtedly at the
present time in a state of decline
Wide Representation.
1t is'true that the majority of the
paintings in this exhibition come
from studios in or near Greater
New York, which is logical. as that
is the art center of the United
States, but it should be remarked
That representation actually covers
the country. Painters have made
contribution from the East Coast
to the West, Maine to. California:
from the north boundary, Wisconsin,
to the Far South, Texas and Louisi-
ana. Outside of New York, Boston
Philadelphia and Washington. the
largest representations are from
California and Illinois, next to which
numerically come Texas, Wisconsin
and New Mexico. Eighteen paint
ers from Washington and vicinity
are listed among the exhibitors.
Only in a very few instances does
a painter show more than one
painting, therefore the display is
in the truest sense national in ex-
tent, and, individually, as widely
representative as possible. Also it
is interesting to note the number
OF new names which appear in the
catalogue of this exhibition, names
OF artists not heretofore included
and until now comparatively un-
known to Washington art lovers.
From this one might anticipate
freshness as from a youth move
ment. But such is not the case
and upon investigation it is found
that the majority of the new ex-
hibitors are in the last 3Os and
early 40s, men and women who have
perhaps lost their illusion, but are,
it would seem, striving to keep up
bold front.
Subject Picture in VOGUE.
To a greater extent than ever
before the subject picture has found
place in this exhibition and. in re-
verse ratio, the pure landscape has
disappeared. Still life is essentially
to the fore and nudes or half nudes
evidently popular But what must
shock the thoughtful observer is
the lack not merely of sheer beauty,
but of spiritual quality in the ma
jority of the works by the new
comers. Has beauty fled afrighted
and the divine fire burned low in
world terrorized by modern war
fare? 1t would seem so. Once we
were told that art was some ones
dream come true, but now, alas,
these dreams take the form of
Nightmares, engendered perhaps by
the fear of war which hovers over
all But, worst of all, it's the loss
of vision, the power to interpret
spirit as well as fact. Even the
great satirists of the past have
recognized the Divine spark in man
and beneath their satire let it be
seen. But unhappily in many of
the figure and genre paintings of
today, as exemplifled in the current
Biennial Exhibition, the intimation
is that this light has gone out
those represented are not merely
mundane, but spiritless-as Gales
worthy once said, to them life must
be as "the heavens without stars" I"
Certainly when art comes to this
pass it is very low ebb.
Fine Works GiUe Reinsurance.
Discouraging as all this may seem
upon first sight, there are. of course,
redeeming features, works which not
only compensate, but give reassur-
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The paintings, repro.
dnced on this page, are in.
clnded in the Sixteenth Ex-
Mbifion of Contemporary
American Oil Paintings at
the Corcoran Gallery Of
Art. Additional bhofo-
graphs of the exhibit may
be found on page too of
the r0fogravMre section of
foday's Star.
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Current Trends Well
Represented.
Whether or not one is in SYM
pathy with these trends is another
matter. In fact the more authentic
they are the more seriously they
should be considered. Art is, as it
has always been, mirror of life,
and what we see in that mirror may
reassure or alarm. There is no
doubt that our world of today is in
confusion and that culture is on the
downward slant. 1t is not astonish-
ing under these circumstances that
in the arts this unhappy condition
Is manifested.
Within the past few years many
of our ideals have been shattered
and values changed. Perhaps never
before in the history of the world
have people been called upon to
make such violent adjustments in
so short a period No wonder we
are bewildered, no wonder we feel,
and the artists with us, that we are
standing on shifting sands. But if
we are to survive the world cataclysm
we must not accept this as final, nor
abandon our faith in the power to
rebuild and recover. 1t is the start
ling need for such courage and de-
termination that the Corcoran Gal
lery of Arts Biennial Exhibition of
Contemporary American Painting
brings to us forcefully.
Those who have followed the
whole series of biennial exhibitions
held by the Corcoran Gallery of Art
will recall the delight and excellence
of those set forth in the earlier
years, when, upon each OCCASION
the galleries we're filled with works
which We'd with one another in Civ
ing expression to things of beauty,
rendered with all the art. as we'll as
skill, at the artists command In
those days one was stimulated by
shock of life in the raw. But then
art and beauty were synonymous in
the minds of the painters as we'll as
the public. and the power to inter-
pret truly as we'll as beautifully was
the standard of excellence.
There are still painters, and
among them some represented in
the current Biennial Exhibition, who
hold to this conviction, but they are
decidedly in the minority. Hence
after careful survey of the nearly
400 paintings catalogued, one is
profoundly and sadly impressed by
the sterility of the field covered,
the way in which the element of
beauty has been ignored and the
apparent lack of belief on the part
of the painters in God and their
fellow man. 1t is the ugly and the
vulgar which are given prominence
Obviously, neither of these things
is new-they have existed since man
came into the world, but they have
not been priced and exalted. Some
of the master painters of the past
have shown us ugliness and vul-
garity, but so great was their art
that they lifted it out of the gutter.
This poor art cannot do. To be
blundering today is to appear clever,
but through the blunderer subjective
ugliness seems to acquire additional
offense. Never before in the history
of art has so much painting been
done in given time as here in
the United States in the last two
years-or, for that matter, paint
ing so poor-therefore if the cur
rent biennial does not bear COM
parison with those that have gone
before, the fault is not with the in
stitution or those who assembled it
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with the sensitiveness of an artist
could endure the pain of rendition.
These speak for themselves and all
too loudly. What is the good of
them? What is the meaning of
them? They are neither satire nor
propaganda-and certainly they are
not art. In this exhibition such
genre are dominant class-doubt-
less in themselves a symptom of the
times-but one which fills one with
foreboding. OF these a conspicuous
example is Life Class-Monday
Morning." by Andrea Pietro Zerega;
"A Tisket, a Tasket," by Milton r.
Bellin; Summertime. ;" by Glen Ran
ney, and Five O'Clock" by Doris
Lee are of somewhat the same
character.
There are some subjects which
seem on first inspection quite i'm
possible of comprehension as Naked
Over New York, by Reginald Marsh.
and there are others which would
seem to have no other purpose than
to reveal squalor and ugliness. When
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world is indeed very sick.
But from these one may turn to
works of a more consoling nature,
such as marines by Frederick j..
Waugh, who it will be remembered
won the popular prize In the Car
negie International this past year
for the fifth time in succession, and
is represented here by an excellent
canvas, THE Master Wave" by
Henry E. Mattson, a former w. A.
Clark prize winner who shows a
midocean nocturne. Might and the
Sea-" and by Jay Connaday, who is
well represented by a canvas en-
titled Stormy Sea-"
NeD Names Among Exhibitors.
OF the 358 artists represented in
this exhibition, many are not only
new to us here but to the world of
art at large, still little known out of
their own circles and yet to make
their mark. Again this speaks well
for the hospitality of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art and its jury Of selec-
! ton. But the result Is that II .
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terly in execution. There are three
other still-life studies in this exhi-
bition which are likewise outstanding
"a little canvas, "Salpiglossis and
Fruit" by Nan Watson; "Peonies
and Crystal" by Herman Dudley
Murphy, and Celebration of the
Mass" three painted images of the
Italian Renaissance, by Harry w.
Watrous-all of which are exquisite
both In color and technical render
ing.
Scarcity OF Landscapes
Marks Change. -
Landscapes, which used to make
up the major portion Of every i'm
portant American exhibition, are,
as has been remarked, scarce in this
and other exhibitions Of the day,
possibly because painters seem to
have lost their interest In the Tyr
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AROUND
THE HOUSE


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For Grease on Carpet.-Rub in
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Grease ON Marble.-A paste of
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Jelly Glasses.-Glasses used in
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nor a victory for the New Deal, A
better guess is that the once noto-
rious poles of court conservatism
and New Deal liberalism have
grown less far apart.
Four Roosevelt appointees (Black,
Reed, Frankfurter, and Douglas)
have given the court iberalized col
or and today only two conservatives
(Butler and McReynolds) remain.
Middle-grounders are Hughes, Stone
and Roberts, and Mr.. Jackson had
to convince only one of these to
assure victory in any given case.
Yet, paradoxically, the recent term
brought new high in dissents and
divisions of opinions, q condition
which proves that New Dealish JUS
tees have merely added zest to
court arguments, and that they have
not yet settled into rut which per-
mits observers to classify them In
advance.
While the court grows more lib
eral, an important offsetting factor
too often overlooked is the lesson
Mr.. Roosevelt's administration
learned through disastrous defeats
Of the past. Today's legislation is
drafted more carefully and with
greater respect for constitutional
precedent.
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CZECHO.S LOVAKIA:
Rebellion

. rs
Last March Adolf Hitler marched
into Prague while stolid Czechs
lined the streets and booed hateful
ly. Unnoticed were thousands Of
Bohemians and Moravians who
slipped silently across the borders.
Unconsidered were IL Czech lega-
lions and some 70 consulates which
remained open throughout the world
in defiance of German orders. For
gotten was the national assembly's
failure to dissolve. These things
might well have remained unnoticed,
unconsidered and forgotten were it
not for the indomitable Czech will.
Symbolically. a few days after
Nazi occupation, spiteful Czechs
painted on rock overlooking
Prague: 1--WE don't want your spfen-
nigs! We want Benes!" The ref
erence was to Eduard .Benes, CO.
founder of the Czech republic Is
years ago with inmortalized Thorn
as G.. Masaryk; later the nations
president until he resigned after the
Munich crisis; now a lecturer at the
University of Chicago who wonders
if the Czech saga will repeat itself.
Recalled today is Czecho-Slo-
vakia's constitution, written in Chi
cago, and its declaration Of indie
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POLITICS.:
Plan?

Whatever his reasoning, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has shown political
wisdom in refusing to announce his
intentions for 1910. But campaigns
and conventions must eventually
settle the Democratic party's polit-
ical stew, and by early June cam
paign time was so near that third
term talk was definitely in the pic
ture. Enough other Democrats had
talked to give the voting public their
choice of two probable reasons why
the White House continued to re-
main silent:
Resolution. West Virginia's Sen.
Rush D. Holt began demanding that
the senate vote on his resolution for
bidding a third term. Until that
vote was made, Mr.. Roosevelt could
hardly be expected to declare him
self; if the resolution were passed
after he announced his candidacy,
the President would go down in
history sas villain, not a hero.
Contrariwise, if the resolution were
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pendence, adopted in Philadelphia.
Born first outside its own borders
by idealistic exiles, will Thomas
Masafyk's land be reborn in Chi
cago? ~ a3sfsog y Sit.ss t'
Three months after Czecho-
Slovakia fell, such a development
seemed possible. At Prague, Ger
man Konstantin Won Neurath lost
sleep over maddening passive re-
sistance on the2 part of his sub
jects. Rushing to Berlin,5 he con-
suited with Fuehrer Hitler over two
methods of fighting back Germany
could either dominate Bohemia and
Moravia by force, or try to recon-
cile the Czechs by encouraging
more intimate cultural and political
relations with Germany. - 4
What he cannot reconcile, how
ever, is the patriotic fervor Of
Czechs outside the Reich. In
France are reported 1000 exiles
waiting to enlist for The Cause.
Other thousands are in Poland,
planning swift military seizure of
Bohemia Moravia should Germany
become involved in war.
At her consulates and legations
the defunct Czech government main
tains semblance of official contact
with other lands, an advantage not
possessed during the first nationals
tic struggle. And from Chicago DR..
Benes is directing a worldwide
mobilization of Czech moral and
financial support, carefully avoiding
open commitments which would
"add to the difficulties of the u.
So President and department of
state" ss..s r. saASg5s
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AGRICULTURE:
NetU Uses

One major reason for today's
U. S. crop SURPRISES was the World
war. Then, and before, both the
agriculture department and farm
ers bent their energies to establish
ing production level that would
accommodate an export market
which annually took from $50 to 200
million bushels of wheat, eight to
nine million bales of cotton, al
most a billion pounds of pork, plus
large quantities of tobacco and fruit.
Since then three factors have con-
spired to upset farm economy. First,
U. S. export requirements were cut
drastically as other nations became
seI-sufficient; second, agriculture
became mechanical, cutting farm
employment and making it easier
to raise large crops; third, unscien-
tifically titled land burned out"
from too much repetition of the
same crop.
No cure-all, but an encouraging
move in the right direction will be
underway by next summer when
four regional laboratories begin
seeking ways to make the farm
source Of raw materials for fac
tories. Authorized by congress and
operating under the department Of
agriculture will be laboratories at:
Peoria, Ill.,, researching on corn,
wheat and agricultural wastes,
much of which is already used for
such purposes as industrial alcohol.
New Orleans, where new uses will
be sought for cotton, sweet pota-
toes and peanuts.
WyndmO0r, Pa, centering its ac-
tivities on tobacco, milk products,
apples, Irish potatoes and vege-
tables.
San Francisco, studying wheat,
potatoes, alfalfa, vegetables and
fruits.
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A S YOU see from the diagram,
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Cool, Comely Jacket Frock.
If you're looking for an extreme
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Another significant feature:

Another significant feature:
The construction industry, which
has suffered severely since 1929,
showed very little decline in
1888, indicating that U. S. housing
requirements have reached so criti-
cal stage that not even recession
can stop new building.
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