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Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

THE CoRCoRAN OF ART Seventeenth street and
Naturalization Of etchings and points
by Martin exhibition of the Washington
Society Miniature Painters, Scuptors and Gravers
THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON 2ol7 street NW-Water
by Carol Dudley Of New York City and Cara srouo
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Graphic the Mall
at SW-Exhbon of etchngs and color wood
blocks by Cyrus e Roy Badridge of New York City.
UNITED STATES and Industries Build
ing the Eighth street SW-Exhibiton OF pictorial
photographs Estele Campbell and Dorothy
Connabe City.
stitution Naturalization color sketches OF
flowers of national parks by Mary vaux Walcot
Drawing exhibition of paintings by Edouad WILLARD
Print Autographs by WILLARD and Bonnard water coors
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART GALLERY OF WASHINGTON
1856 Seventeenth Naturalization Of modern American
and European sculpture closes today.
THE WHYTE GALLERY Naturalization of paint
ings by Ncolai CikovSky
PUBLIC LIBRARY, building, Eighth and streets NV
Exhibition OF architectural renderings by j. Rowland snyder
Branch photographs forests by the
Forestry Service Northeast Branch paintings by members OF
Landscape Club of Washington.
FEDERAL ART GALLERY 86 Independence avenue
sWExhibiton Of paintings and drawings by Polish children
Exhibition Of paintings drawings and sculpture by local w. p
A. artists
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Eighteenth
and Naturalization Of oil paintings by
college Supplementary exhibit work by children in
GEoRGEToWN GALLERIES. 1924 Wisconsin Nw-speca
exhibition of works by Auriel Bessemer and others -
paintings drawings portraits by Carl Nyqu Of WASH
woMENs CITY CLUB 1856 jackson place paint
ings by Mrs. Lillian Moore Abbot.
LIBRARY CONGRESS- Department of Fine Ars-Exhibiton Of
original illustrations by Walter Taylor for books and stories
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GAILERY-Exhibiton of Al Amer
paintings lent by the American Federation of Arts closes
STUDIO GALLERY George Washington University 2l3l
street Of recent paintings by Rowland Lyon
Of the District Of Columbia branch Of the National League Of
American Pen Women the Grafton HOTEL
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at the piano. Mrs. King is the wife
of 1t. Col. Archibald King, U. S. A.,
of this city.
Priscilla Allen Gilmore shows two
excellent portraits, one of an old
Negro woman, the other of a little
boy, Patterson Barnes" From Ro-
sina Cox Boardman of New York
also comes two notable works.
Green Bands" and Blossom Time"
Others we'll represented are Emma
Siboni, Florence Beecher, Ida NJ
Wilde and j. TrueWorthy. Some of
these works were included in the
most recent exhibition of the Penn
sylvania Society of Miniature Paint
ers, Philadelphia.
Of the works in graphic art in this
exhibition much might be said If
space permitted These range from
about the size of an airmail postage
stamp to that of mans hand. The
smallest is an etching by John Tay-
lor Arms of fragment from a
Gothic cathedral and is entitled
"Jewelry," with which is shown a
somewhat larger plate, but also a
much more extensive composition,
by the same eminent etcher, of a
section Of a foreign city reflected in
the quiet waters of a bordering
stream "Afterglow." Benson B.
Moore shows group of five etch-
ings, in monotint and in color, of
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Exhibition Reveals
FIRST PRESIDENT BOUGHT PRINTS
Society Miniature Painters Scupors and Gravers Produces Fine
Showing Corcoran-Dry Points of New York and Other
Works of Interest in Local Art Circles

wax by Ethel Frances Mundy, deli
cately modelled in low relief and also
charmingly colored. One of a young
girl, Betty" circular in shape, has
a blue background and is very subtly
handled.
There are other interesting small
works in sculpture, some in pottery,
others in carved wood, by Marguerite
Sibley, Louise H. Williams, Albert
M. Walker and Margaret Howard
Thompson.
One upright case is given over to
little flower paintings by Elizabeth
Mulhofer-six in all-of which one
is of dogwood, one arbutus, one mar
cissus and one marigolds, while two
emphasize still-life objects, all very
colorful and well rendered.
Among the paintings on ivory,
mention should be made, in this
connection, of one of white Or
chids," in a glass bowl, Swedish or
American, so finely and exquisitely
painted that it is almost unbelieva-
BILE, it's beauty at the same time leav-
ing the beholder entranced and
breathless. This is the work of Alex
andrina r. Harris of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Another out-of town artist, Vir-
ginia Hollinger Stout, scores high
through the merit of her miniatures
of a Chinese Actor" and of Chi
nese Women" but especially for the
former, which is fresh in handling.
colorful and admirably drawn. Pre-
sumably. as the artist is a member
Of the Shanghai Art Club though
now living in Trenton, N. JD, these
were done in China.
Unique in character are three tiny
little subject pictures on ivory by A.
Cortizas of Philadelphia, "Bathers,"
Monks in Procession" and Colo
rado," all of which have the quality
of works of large dimensions.
Among those contributing portraits,
Mary Elizabeth King is most gen.
erously and best represented. show
ing no less than five, all of which
uphold a high standard Several of
these are of children and one, of wee
Charles is no larger in dimensions
than a 10-cent piece but very ex-
preSsive and vital With her other
outstanding contributions are por-
trait of a lady entitled, because of
the color scheme "Russet," and an
other of Mrs. Edward MacMorland
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the National Museum as seen from
across the Mall.
The little paintings in this COL
lection include group of three
studies in oil Of landscapes, color
full and significant. by A. H. o. Role,
as well as number of water colors,
such as Spring in Williamsburg"
by Ruth Perkins Stafford, and two
flower compositions by Frances
Hungerford Combs. How so much
variety can be found in such small
compass is remarkable Surely the
smallest home can find place for
such works as these and almost the
slenderest purse permit their pur-
chase.
Martin Le1Uis' Dry Points
OF Ne1D York Outstanding.
An exhibition of etchings and dry
points by Martin Lewis opened 81
multaneously with that of the So
ciety of Miniature Painters, Sculp-
tors and Gravers this past week. 1t
is set for in the southeast corner
gallery on the first floor of the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, and comprises
about so prints dating from 1925 to
the present time. Martin Lewis is
one of the enigmas of art-or per-
haps one might more properly say
miracles" for up to the time he
won recognition as an etcher he had
nothing in his favor, except percep-
ton and courage, and everything
against him.
Born in Australia, he began at a
very early age to earn his own liv-
ing and, with little familiarity with
art and no great amount of cultural
background, felt the urge for es-
thetic expression and was swayed
by 1t. He found his way to the
United States, in some way picked
up information concerning etching,
and almost from the first showed not
only aptitude, but skill. His first
work, back in 1915, was done in New
York, as has his best work ever since
in fact, it has been said, and with
reason, that none has interpreted
not merely the aspect, but the spirit
OF that great city as we'll or as truly
as has he.
In 1917 he made two aquatints,
IN 1918 two mezzotints, then for
about seven years he was in the
Orient and did no publishing. When
he returned to this country in 1925
he began making dry points, and
with but few exceptions this has
been his chosen medium from then
to now. 1t is medium which he
handles with the utmost skill and
at the same time exceptional di-
versity-a medium which he fully
commands and puts to admirable
use.
Perhaps Mr.. Lewis is at his best
in his pictures of night life in New
York and in its suburbs. He has a
most excellent understanding of the
relation of light to shade, he knows
better than most how to represent
textures-of a board fence or a wet
street-but more than all this he has
the ability to extract pleasure from
what he sees and to make that
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which four are of birds and one Of q
"Cottontail," all very cleverly inter-
preted.
A CLINT of humor creeps into this
exhibition through prints by Mar
guerite Kumm of The Mems Gal
lery, United States Senate" and pet
Shop Window" both very funny. and
also by way of print entitled
Science Goes to Town." the work OF
Effln H. Sherman.
Minnie L. Briggs is at her best In
a color print of Blue Moon Flowers"
and Ruel P. Tolman, acting director
of the National Collection of Fine
Arts, makes valuable contribution in
dry point portrait study entitled
Sarah" as well as in his sensitive
little etchings of the National Gal
lery Of Art under construction and
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By Florence S. Bergman.

DV AIO7eHC6 y. De| pUIUHs
Twenty Women Painters" of
Washington are responsible for an
exhibition which opened last Sun
day with an art tea at the studio
of the District of Columbia Branch,
National League of American Pen
Women, to remain for one month.
Actually, not all of the Twenty" are
represented; but those members who
are have contributed works COM
petently executed and pleasing as to
subject. They call to mind the
comment few years ago of we'll
known museum director; impressed
with the excellence of an exhibition
of the National Association of Wom-
en- Painters and Sculptors, he said
he could not understand why the
women voluntarily lodged them
selves in a sex pigeonhole.
Perhaps the present show, despite
it's numerically small size, affords
an answer: There is not a single
unpleasant picture on view. There
are flowers and still life, portraits
landscapes, street scenes, river and
harbor views. There are no slum-
scapes, no "dustbowls," no battle
fields, no drab desolate figures lean
ing their heads on their fists. Per-
haps (but this is merely a guess
women painters organize their owr
groups, in order to exhibit pictures
which are appropriate for the aver
age home-decorative and cheerful
The place of honor at the Per
Women's studio is occupied by one
of Mathilde NJ. Leisenring's flower
paintings-a handsome harmony ir
green. gray and white. Flower!
are also contributed by several 9TH
ers. including Ruth Osgood and Mar
garete Lent; the latters water color
shows a tree-shaded street seer
from an open window with flower.
ing plant on the sill, the whole pre-.
sented as a near-abstract pattern
Mrs. Mulford's japanese lanterns
in vase on blue velvet cloth con.
stitutes an attractive color scheme.
Bertha Noyes shows one OF hel
sympathetic studies of native types
a Colombian Indian" There is also
a portrait sketch by Clara Saun'
ders. Figures are an important part OF
Eleanor Parke Custis gouache, depict
ing a street market or bazaar in the
Orient. In Beulah Weaver's Farm,
with its effective handling of dis
tance, figures are merely incidental
Emily Nourse Steuart's forceful i'm
preston Of Quebec and Susan B
Chase's street scene in Dalmatis
(both water colors) bring picturesque
glimpses of other distant places.
Landscape is the subject OF water
colors by Marguerite Mum anc
Lucia Hollerith, and Of an oil BY
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This is a valuable and important
acquisition.
The American Art Annual Has
Been Issued by the American
Federation OF Arts.
The American Art Annual, OF
which volume "a has Just come
from the press, is an invaluable
directory Of art activity In the
United States, a reference book
which should be, on the shelf Of
every art museum, art school and
public library in this country.
1t was conceived and first pub
lished by Florence N Levy of New
York, and it is worth noting that
although minor changes have been
made in topography. the formal
and the general character of con-
tent remains the same through
changing times and ideals. About
Is years ago the publication was
taken over by the American Fed
Grafton Of Arts, by which it is still
issued. For the past 10 or II years
it has been edited by Mrs. Alice
Coe McGlauf1in.
Originally the annual comprised
also the Who's Who in Art" a
directory of artists, but of late,
both activities and artists have so
y1,111tjo1ioI fhot tho lot
peared on alternate years under
separate cover. Likewise, the an
nual is now biennial.
The current volume covers the
greater part Of 1887 and 38 and
brings the record practically to
date. Not only does it list art
museums and schools, but works
OF art sold at auction over a GER
tain price, art periodicals, news.
papers having art reviewers. and
other statistics to be found no.
where else. Also it gives COM
prehensive Introductory survey OF
The Year In Art" compiled and
written in the present instance
by Miss Florence S. Bergman,
which. despite remarkable con-
ciseness, records ar almost be-
wildering activity during this period
on the part of artists. art irlsti-
tutions, the Government and deal
ers, surprising to even the well
informed. Certainly America has
in this day and generation become
fully art conscious" and the slogan
of the propagandists-"An art
museum Gas well as public library
in every city'-does not seem sc
remote a possibility as it was once
thought to be.
Annual Exhibition OF the
Washington Water Color Club
Scores Success.
The Washington Water Color
Clubs annual exhibition In the Cor
coran Gallery OF Art attracted
unusual attention this year and wa
very favorably received. Several
water colors and prints have beer
sold and the sale Of others is in
kprospect. The exhibition closes to.
day, as does also the exhibition By
| Alice AcheSOn,
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Water Co1ors By T,Uo
Out-ot-To1Dn Artists to Be
ShO1Dn at Arts Club.

The Arts Club of Washington
opens today, with the usual tea and
preview, an exhibition of water COL
ors by Carol Dudley of New York, a
pupil of the New York School of
Fine and Applied Design, Eliot
O'Hara and George Pearse Ennis,
and also works in the same medium
by Clara Stroud of Point Pleasant.
N. j., who came originally from New
Orleans, but studied at the Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn. and is men,
ber of the New York Water Color
Club. The former will be shown in
the gallery, the latter in the recep-
ton room.
Works to Be Allocdted to D. c.
Institutions on Vie1D
In w. P. A. Gallery.
The District of Columbia Alloca-
tions Gallery, under the Federal
Art Project, at 816 Independence
avenue S.W., opened a new exhibi-
ton last week, to continue through
out the month of February. This is
given over exclusively to local pro-
duction and the current show in
cludes works by Melvin Buckner,
Ralph Cesar, Carl Nyquist, Bruce
Connor, Hugh Collins, Jean Leache,
Joseph Goethe and Richard Massoni
more than 20 in all. These will
eventually be allocated to public
schools, hospitals, libraries and other
tax-supported institutions of this
city as indefinite loans. This ex-
hibition is open to the public only
from / o'clock to on week days
and from 10 am. to 5 pm. 90 Sat-
urdays.
Iruinq Wiles Portrait of His
Father and Mother Purchased
BIZ the Corcoran Gallery OF Art.
At a meeting of the trustees Of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art held
last Monday the portrait by Irving
r, Wiles Of his father and mother.
reproduced on this page With COM
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pleasure manifest to others. The
commonplace Of New York. which

pleasure manifest to others. The
commonplace of New York, which
fills the sensitive visitor with delight
and engenders sense of human fel-
lowship, fellowship with the crowd,
Is expressed so we'll in his prints
that 1t becomes an entity, renewing
for the observer experiences which
may have passed into the limbo of
the half f-forgotten. In this sense they
spiritual. But his work does not
always attain to this height. 1t is
uneven-at its best supremely good
at It's worst, good but unispired
and hence uninspiring.
Epitomizing his best is GLOW of
fire escape looking across the roof
tops of New York toward the sky,
lighted by the glow of the great
metropolis. Clothes on a line, dry
ing, making a pattern against the
sky; church spire cuts into and
centers the composition, to the right
are rows of lighted windows in a
typical row Of cheap dwelling houses,
broWnstone fronts and brick rears-
but in this outlook the etcher has
seen and made manifest something
moving and splendid. 1t is, without
qualification, a distinguished work
of art. If Martin Lewis had pro-
duced but this one print he should
be entitled to remembrance. But he
has done many of almost similar
merit and significance. 1t is a re-
markable record-that OF very
gifted and sincere artist. That he
paints in water color almost as we'll
as he etches is worth knowing, but
also it should be remembered that
it Is not medium that counts, nor
subject matter, but message and
skill.
Auriel Bessemer to Hare
One-Mdn Exhibition
In Georgetown Gallery.
The Georgetown Galleries will
open this week, with a preview
Tuesday evening, an exhibition Of
paintings and drawings by Auriel
Bessemer, supported, as it were. by
group of artists who have studied
with him or have worked in his
studio. Among whom may be men,
toned his wife, Cleo Bessemer:
Koren Kasparian, Lee Atkyns, jr,
and Mary Duffy.
Mr.. Bessemer was born in Grand
Rapids, Mich, in 1909, and studied
first at the National Academy of
Design under Leon Kroll and later
with Howard Giles at the Master
Institute of the Roerich Museum.
He came to Washington in 1892 to
execute a mural for the American
Museum of Natural History in New
York. He has executed in recent
years for the Government mural,
South Carolina Industrial Tap
estry," for the United States post
Office at Winsboro, S. c., and has
lately been commissioned to do
murals for post Offices In Arlington,
Va, and Hazelhurst, Miss. For some
years he has been at work upon a
large painting. presumably to be
used as mural which will set forth
the OBSTRUCTION, Regeneration and
Redemption of Man. The original
sketches for this will be included in
the coming exhibition. as we'll as
some of his portrait studies in pen
Gil oil and other media
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Hoyas in Debut Here
Tonight Against
Terror Five

Georgetown University's courtmen
open their home campaign tonight
at Tech High School. meeting West
ern Maryland at $3.50 o'clock in the
feature half of twin bill George
town. Freshmen and Western High
School clash in the inaugural at 7:15.
Coach Elmer Ripley will start the
same Hoya lineup that bowed to
Baltimore University last week in
the Orioles bailiwick, but expects
more satisfactory results tonight.
George Pajac and Dick Dieckleman
will appear at forwards: Jim Giebel,
center; Capt. Johnny Schmitt and
Irving Rizzi, guards.
The squad has been augmented by
the addition of Reds DAILY and AL
Matuza, football players who re-
ported late after a brief vacation
from athletic endeaSors, but neither
will see action unless the opening
quintet rolls up comfortable lead.
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Dobson Gets Coaching
Berth, but Cannot
Divu|ge Place

Frank Dobson, former University
of Maryland football coach who re-
signed at the end of the season just
ended, admitted today that he has
signed to coach next year, but could
not divulge the name OF the school
where he will assume control of foot
ball.
Announcement of the tall, like
able strategist's new afiliation will
be made December 13, he said, by
the proper authority. Location of
the school was shrouded in secrecy,
although 1t was rumored to be in
this area. Dobson was non-com-
initial on that point.
University Of Maryland alumni
are planning a banquet in Dobson's
honor December IA at the Lafayette
Hotel. 1t was to have been a fare
we'll affair but news of his new ap-
pointment probably will turn it
into a celebration of another sort.
Dobson is one of the most popular
coaches in Maryland history and has
legions Of friends in this city.
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Pirro, Card Fu||back,
Gets Offers From
Two Pro Teams

Rocco Pirro, Catholic Univer-
sity's hammer-hitting fullback, has
received offers to play professional
football with the New York Giants
and Brooklyn Dodgers.
The broad-shouldered Cardinal
line -wrecker, who graduates in
June, has made no secret of his
desire to perform in paid ranks. He
attracted widespread. attention by
his excellent work this season. He
was secuted frequently by both the
Giants and Cardinals and made a
favorable impression.
Pirro will be free to choose his
afiliation If his name is not placed
in the draft at the annual National
Football League meeting. If it does
go into the hat, however. the lower
teams in the league get first call on
his services.
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FiIchock 10 Toss Up
Ball al Helyichs'
Opener Tonight
Revomped Team to PIoy
Borons on First Loop
Contest at Home

Frank Filchock, Redskin backfield
star, will toss up the first ball when
Heurich Brewers open their home
American League court campaign
against the Wilkes-Barre Barons
at 9:15 o'clock tonight. .
Filchock's appearance is one Of
several features of the inaugural,
which owner Chris Heurich hopes
will be the most entertaining and
spectacular in the teams history.
A novelty musical feature is In
cluded on the program with Col.
Jimmy Lake officiating at the MI
crophone as master of ceremonies.
The Brewers will show a revamped
and improved team tonight as re-
suit of Heurich's numerous swaps
and straight cash deals during the
past two months. Two former Dis
trict stars will appear with the Wis
itors in Mickey Schonfeld and Dee
Martens, both Of whom played here
last season.
The Brewers starting lineup will
include Coach Mack Posnack, pur-
chased from Troy. and Ben Gold
fadden at guards; Mike Bloom,
bought from the Philadelphia Spahs,
center; Dick Lee, acquired from
Wilkes-Barre, and Eddie Boyle or
Whitley Wilson, forwards.
A preliminary game at 8 o'clock
brings together two Of the city,s bet
ter amateur teams, Jewish Com
munity Center and Delaware and
Hudson, in q Heurich Amateur
League fray.
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By PAUL ]. MILLER.

Under the leadership Of Winfred
Horn, the Social Security Chess Club
invades the Washington Chess
Divan tonight at 7:30 to make Its
debut in interclub competition.
Horn for the last two years has
been one of the drive-wheels in the
progressive development of the
Divan organization. He also turned
his energy and enthusiasm toward
the building up Of a strong chess
group among employees OF Social
Security Administration.
Probably Is boards of match chess
will be contested this evening at
1885 I street and the games should
be filled with thrills and spills.
Visitors are welcome, says Simon
Naidel, chess director.
Koltanowski Gets Around.
Georges Koltanowski during his
recent simultaneous exhibitions here
made q host Of friends. His sense
Of humor, his 'bag full OF chess
anecdotes and his heart-warming
smile jolted few Of the old-timers
who love to think of world cham
pions as men Of stone.
But Koltanowski was different. He
knitted your favorite hero with =
smile-and you felt that he had
presented you with bouquet. HIS
wit was rapier keen, and withal ne
possessed most likable personality.
Concerning American dollars, ne
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intimated that he had very few, that
If he had a job with living income
he would consider himself one OF
the blessed. You would listen and
never know that the Belgian blind
fold chess champion of the world
had taught dramatics at university
in Spain, was an interpreter of note,
speaking f1uently seven languages,
that chess to him was a livelihood
of temporary" nature-a profession
created by prodigious mental labor
within the last 10 years.
Last week the blindfold expert
paraded his powers before a large
assembly of chess enthusiasts at
Jackson, Miss.
Against the Mississippi champion,
ex-titlist, and score of city cham
pions, Koltanowski jousted like
Lancelot and won the honors OF the
evening.
Next day he faced the strongest
players that the birthplace of i'm
mortal Paul Morphy could assemble
on short notice and the New Orleans
pawn pushers bowed. Then he hur-
ried off to a longer ride to meet the
chess aces of the Lone Star State at
several points.
Radio Chess.
On the air at 7:45 every Friday
is the "WMAS Chess Club of the
Air" from Station WMAS, SPRING
field, Mass, with Richard E. Gleason
as instructor.
December 6, 1939)