Evening star., 1939-01-15

Works an Little" to Be Exhibited
By Miniature Society.
The Society of Miniature Painters,
Sculptors and Gravers will open its
annual exhibition in the Corcoran
Gallery of Art tomorrow, continu-
ing until February 7 and occupying
for the display cases in the upper
atrium. This will consist not mere
ly of miniatures on ivory. but vari-
GUS works lin little"-such as minia-
ture books, hand bound, illumina-
tions. sculpture in wax and other
media and a great variety of other
things. The society was fashioned
after one Of similar name in London,
of which Allyn Williams, who for
some years spent part Of each year
here, was president.
Pen Women Sponsor Exhibition
OF Works By Twenty
Women Painters.
The Twenty Women Painters"
will open this afternoon. with a pre-
view and tea, an exhibition in the
studio of the District of Columbia
branch of the National League of
American Pen Women in the Graf
ton Hotel. to which cards of invi-
tation have been issued, This ex-
hibition will continue to February
IS, and will comprise works by some
of the leading local artists.
Martin LeUis' Etchings to Be
Sho1c1, in Corcoran Gallery
OF Art.
In the Corcoran Gallery of Art
there will be placed on exhibition
the day after tomorrow, January II,
collection of etchings by Martin
Lewis, one of the most accomplished
and individual of our contemporary
American printmakers. So impor-
tant are Mr.. Lewis etchings as
works of art that the completion
of a new plate and its publication
is invariably announced as an event
of special note to collectors and
print lovers. Without question, Mr..
Lewis is at his best in his New
York street and night scenes. He
knows his city and interprets it
with accuracy and at the same time
full consciousness of its charm.
Three Works In Modern Sculpture
Exhibition to Go to Golden
Gate EXPOSITION.
The current exhibition of modern
sculpture set forth in the Museum
Of Modern Art Gallery of Wash
ington will continue for another
week, closing next Sunday, after
which the gallery will be dark for
week while this exhibition is mov-
ing out and new exhibition NOV
ing in.
Three of the works shown in this
exhibition have been invited for dis
play in the Golden Gate Interna-
tional Exposition, which will open
on man-made Treasure Island in
San Francisco Bay on February 10.
These are the 7z foot golden bronze
statue of Justice" by Romuald
Kraus; the little brown stone figure
by Henry Kreis entitled Indian
Summer" and Helene Sardeau's i'm
pressive "Kneeling Figure" The
first has been scheduled for the ex-
position for some time, but the two
others were recently invited by Ro-
land j. Mckinney, formerly director
Of the Baltimore Museum, now di-
rector of the Division of American
Painting and Sculpture for the COM
ing Worlds Fair. And this reminds
that the management of the San
Francisco Exposition has been both
most fortunate in snatching, or
borrowing, from American art mu-
seums, men in high positions, be-
cause Of expert knowledge and train
ing, to gather, not merely in Amer
lea, but from all the world, the
greatest treasures Of art, to show this
year In the great Golden Gate ex-
hibition. From the Fogg Museum,
Harvard University, it commandeer-
ed Langdon Warner to make collec-
ton from countries bordering on the
Pacific Ocean; to Europe it sent
Walter He'll, director of the Cali
fornia Palace Of the Legion of
Honor; for director of theme it
secured Philip Youtz, formerly
president of the American Fedora
ton of Arts and director Of the
Brooklyn Museum; from Baltimore
it plucked Roland Mckinney for his
knowledge of American. museums
and collections. Surely the result
should be splendni beyond concep-
ton, but will 1t be able to compete
with the popular midway" attrac-
tions, whatever they may be? That
Is the question.
TO return to the Modern Museums
show Of sclduture. The attendance