Evening star., 1939-01-15
Wild Flower Water Colors
Display All Varieties
Rowland Lyon Exhibits Pictures
With Wide Range of Subjects
At George Washington

British Columbia she has riddle,
through groves Of silverberry bushe;,
higher than her horses head; in
the Selkirk Mountains she watched
black bears gorging themselves on
whortleberries as big as cherries:
and has seen marmots carrying
plume anemone seed heads to their
winter caches.
Those who view Mrs. Walcott's
original paintings, now on exhibi-
ton, may be sure that there is a
story behind every one of these in
nocent-appearing flowers. But what
ever the circumstances under which
they were painted, the artist en-
deavored to make her sketches abso-
lutely accurate in every detail. Each
painting is the exact size Of the
original specimen, and. as the
whole group is uniform in size,
mating and framing, some Of the
flowers appear to be miniatures in
the center Of a large sheet, while
others occupy the entire surface.
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George Washington.
Mature in technique, fresh and
gay in spirit. are the oils and water
colors by Rowland Lyon now on
view in the studio gallery at George
Washington University. 213l G
street N. w. Mr.. Lyon is on the
faculty of the university's depart
ment of art.
His interests. are varied, and
numerous subjects have captured
his attention, with the result that
this exhibition, though numerically
small, is many-faceted. The group
of five oils includes the largest and
most serious works, outstanding
among them being "The Main
Spur" an excellent landscape with
a railroad track as its central
theme. and another landscape
featuring a lighthouse. Mr.. Lyon
applies his oil pigments with q
palette knife, which technique
gives his paintings an appearance
of clean-cut simpification.
His water colors have an in
fectious gayety, and are done with
a light touch. He eschews broad
caricature and distortion; his
humor Is subtle. For instance, there
are several pointings of the Wash
ington Zoo. In one of them, q man
leans on the iron railing (his back to
the spectator) and gazes upon two
species of deer, one of which stares
back at him with an expression
in its eye that recalls Samuel
Hodenstein's lines on a gnu:
'"The gnu is a remarka-bul
From all descriptions, ani-mul;
Yet how remarka-bul must you
Appear to the eccentric gnu!-
I have no doubt that even I
Must puzzle his peculiar eye" etc.
Mr.. Lyons brush also fiickered
over the elephant in his front gar
den," as well as the bear, each ami
NAL entertaining one or more
visitors. Nor does the artist stop at
living animals; he presents q
Merry Round" so colorful 1t
makes the beholder long to join
the children and wllirl until dizzy
on the backs of these wooden beasts.
There is also a glimpse OF the
poultry counter in the market, in
which the plucked chickens hang
ing above the butchers heads are
decorative notes of color. suggesting
to the beholder happy thoughts
Of golden-brown pieces frying in
deep fat.
One of the larger water colors
depicts small boat tied to . wharf,
one Of the best compositions in the
show, with a nice play Of curves
and rectangles. Another water front
subject is q garden overlooking tho
bay, with the buildings on the op-
posite shore giving . good sense Of
distance. Serveral paintings were
done In Mexico.