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ubc Invited to Cast Ballots Most Popular Painting This
Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

THE coRcoRAN GALLERY ART Seventeenth street and
rary American OIL Painting Also drawings by
THE ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, street NV
Memorial exhibition Of paintings by Mary Riley May
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION the Mall at Tenth street sw
UNITED STATES NATIONAL. MUSEUM Tenth street and
Constitution NWModel Gallery Art
which under construction Echngs paintings sculpture
from National Collection Of
I'D UNITED m STA STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, AND INDUS
TRIES BUILDING the Mall Eighth sWwork by mem
bers Of the Arlington (vao Camera Club. Through April
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY 1900 Twenty first street
Msy p"0''sS ana water '00 by Harold Weston through
80. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART GALLERY OF WASHINGTON,
April II to May ~
The WHITE GALLERY l7o7 Naturalization Fan
to osS MS american A works of 10th and goth century, April n
PUBLIC LIBRARY AND BRANCHES: Central Library Eighth
through April Mount Pleasant Branch Sixteenth and
Lamont streets NW-Dawngs children District
members of Landscape Club To April IS N'A''' ~
woMEN's CITY CLUB 1876 place N.w-waer oolors
Of flowers and Spanish missions by Miller
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ALLEGATIONS GALLERY, w. p
to ax-suppored institutions To April g.
Finland Through April.
NW-Pantngs and prints by Ohnka Hrdy Through April.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY-Exhbion Of oils
May " ~
Group exhibition of works by local April May
THE LITTLE GALLERY 1904 street Nw-water coors by
Nelson Rosenberg. To May 13.
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WASHINGTON Massachusetts
nue. NW-Fourth annual Photographic April to 25
CHALET NoNPARE11, ART GALLERY, 71os Old Georgetown
by Founders Group the Society
THE STUDIO GALLERY GEORGE WASHINGTON UN1vER-
sIY 2s street of paintings and sketches
GALLERY DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ARTISTS
UNION $50 Seventeenth NWBackyard the Nation
slum clearance To April 30 Open week days. l to pm.
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ingly interpreted, not theatrically,
but with calm assurance and the
conviction of one who knows. In
deed, 1t is in large measure the
frank simplicity of these paintings
that gives them their substantial
and unusual value, value which
certainly will be maintained, If not
heightened, through intimate and
long acquaintance.
Also mention should be made of
their colorful quality and the free
dom with which the medium en-
plOyed has been handled. In COM
position almost as simple as block
prints these paintings are essential
ly three dimensional and very rich
in color and tonal effects. Appar-
emily the artist himself has found
joy in what he has seen and That
Joy has found its way into his paint
ings. Autumn Afternoon" and en-
dian Summer" are excellent exam
Piles, but equally delightful are
ross-Country Road" and Winter
Drive" which set forth unmistak-
ably the crispness of frosty winter
air across dazzling snow fields or
fields snow-clad.
With the landscapes in gouache
are seen certain figure paintings in
the same medium, such as a self
portrait, picture of the painters s
little son playing solitaire; one of
a little girl practicing at a piano,
and another of possibly the same
lassie reclining in a clothes ham
per on a piazza reading fairy tales
called "Once Upon a Time" The
SELF portrait, aside from personal
lnterest, shows how, with . flat
piece OF gray paper and . few
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paints, the artist is able to create
a ree-dimensional and very realis-
tic picture to which even the mat
is given reality through clever brush
strokes. The likeness is not flatter-
ing. but in painting figures Mr..
Weston inclines to strength of i'm
preston rather than subtlety in the
matter of Interpretation.
This is especially exemplifled in
his paintings in oil above stairs.
which. at first, rather shock by their
immobility and emphasis on bulk
rather than form. But at times these
qualities resolve themselves into
simple statuesqueness. as in his por-
trait of his young daughter in whom
he finds a kind of classic beauty
and a courage which challenges the
worst that the world may have in
store for the youth of today Also
out of the ordinary and a distin-
guished piece of work is the still
larger canvas, The Hunter" which
is actually a portrait of physician
of st. Huberts in hunting togs with
his gun, standing in front of a bit
of mountain woods in winter. The
drawing here Is most skillful, the
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Win PIoudits
Washington /
in NeU York.

Washington Artists Exhibit
in NeU York.
With increasing frequency WASH
ington artists are exhibiting in New
York and other cities. Miss Mar
guerite c. Mum recently held a
most successful exhibition in the Ar
gent Galleries, New York, showing
landscapes painted in New Eng
land and abroad and flower studies
rendered with a firm touch but
sensitive feeling. Alberta A. Emo,
Catharine C. Critcher and Lillian
Giffen have all made contribution
to exhibitions Of contemporary art
to be held by the Studio Guild at its
galleries on Fifth avenue. Natalie
Hays Hammond is showing individ-
ualistic landscapes and still life
studies in the Marie Sterner Caller
les, and oil paintings by Hobart
Nichols, formerly of this city and
now vice president of the National
Academy of Design, constitute the
current showing in the Grand Cen
trail Galleries. on Fifty-first street at
Fifth avenue. Also from May / to
13 an exhibition of paintings by
Felix Conrad Schwarz will be held
in the Thicker Galleries, West Fifty
seventh street.
Meanwhile announcement has
been received Of an exhibition of 30
Photographic portraits in color of
notable personages In social and Of
fetal life by David Hare, to be
shown in the Walker Galleries, East
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Water Colors of Hawaii
Work OF Eliot O'Hara Marks

NeU High LeDel.
Eliot O'Hara spent the greater
part of the winter in Hawaii paint
ing, with the result that he has
brought back to Washington one
of the best and most interesting
groups of water colors that he has
as yet produced. Thirty or more of
these were shown in the Academy of
Arts in Honolulu, by invitation,
when he was there, and the COM
ment of residents was that none
other had so well interpreted the
feeling and spirit of the place. This
must be true, for even to the un-
initiated they carry conviction, and
show not merely the Honolulu Of the
tourist, but of those who know it
year in and year out until it has be-
come part of themselves.
Not only did Mr.. O'Hara paint
the famous beach and the sea,
Diamond Head with its magnificent
contour, but also, and for the most
part, up the valley and on the noun
tain, where vegetation Is very rich
and the outlook most unusual.
Honolulu is at the present time,
it seems, fully art minded, the lovely
little Academy of Arts providing an
ideal center for art activities of
many sorts, and visiting artists are
tempted thither not only by the
beauty of the place, but opportunity
afforded for Work and study. Both
Maurice Sterne and Georgia
OKeeffe were among the visitors
there while Mr.. OHara was paint
ing in the islands.
For the fourth year Mr.. O'Hara is
ut this time giving IN intensive
course In water color painting at
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Oils and Water CoIors
Exhibited

Paintings By Harold Weston
Sho1On in the Phillips Memorial
Gallery.
Harold Weston is holding at the
present time an exhibition of oils
and water colors in the Phillips Me-
mortal Gallery, in the permanent
collection of which he is repeatedly
and especially we'll represented. The
oils are in the south gallery on the
second floor and in the adjacent
hallway, the water colors are in the
two basement print rooms and on
the walls of the stairway.
One may begin the survey at
either end, but the writer is glad to
have seen the water colors first, as
they would seem to give a KEY to
the painters art as well as a back
ground to his achievement. Almost
without reservation they are COM
pletely charming. Invariably they
are in gouache on gray paper and
for the most part they are land
scapes painted in the vicinity of
Mr.. Weston's home at st. Huberts,
N. Y. This is, as every one must
know, the Adirondack country, where
mountains conclude the vista and
bound the field of vision. It is not,
however, mountain pictures that Mr..
Weston has painted. but pictures
OF country in which the mountains
are an integral part.
There is something simple and
homely about the views he has set
forth. as there is in the poetry of
Robert Frost, written across the
border in Vermont, but in these very
qualities the painter, and now the
observer, finds actual beauty. We
have talked much of the American
scene but here we have it at its
best-our American homeland, our
roads, our flelds-yes, even our
mountains and our skies, which are
especially appealing.
And, as always. it is not the thing
itself which signifies, but the way
in which it is rendered-the effects
of light through atmosphere, the
hour, the day that in variance ap-
peal and entrance. Above all, the
quality of light in these very simple
and direct paintings is most charm
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Brief Reviews of
New Books
Continued From Page F-4.)

that. Probably not a bad idea,
either, if you can teach it.
WORD MAGIC. BY Elmer Wheeler.
New York: Prentice-Hall.
A key to tactful conversation put
up on the popular form of the quizz.
Amusing perhaps, but it's hard to
think of anyone taking it seriously.
Health.
TEN POINT WAY TO HEALTH.
BY the Rajah of Aundh. New
York: David Kemp g. Co.
Yogi exercises, we are told. They
seem to be getting popular.
Sport.
TABLE TENNIS COMES OF AGE.
BY Sol Shift. New York: Henry
Holt g. Co.
Rules and advice on the jumpiest
game. No doubt very helpful, too.
Negroes.
THE NEGRO IN BRAZIL. BY Ar
thur Ramos. Translated from
the Portuguese by Richard Pat
tee. Washington: The Asso-
ciated Publishers.
A study of the part played by the
Negroes in Brazilian history. In
teresting.
Novels.
NOT FOR JUST AN HOUR. BY
Fanny Heaslip Lea. New York:
Dodd Mead g. Co.
Ladylike romance, done in boldly
modern" overtones. The old stuff,
just the same.
THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER.
Anonymous. Hollywood: George
Palmer Putnam Co.
A long short story of another
imaginary death for Hitler. The
idea seems to be entertaining the
public considerably.
Mysteries.
HE'LL! HOLLYWOOD. BY Jack
Preston. New York: Reilly &
Lee.
Murderer suicide-all cluttered
up with neuroses and those brilliant
young executives of the well-known
movie capital. Average.
MURDER IN STAINED GLASS.
BY Margaret Armstrong. New
York: Random House.
Murder comes close to the coun-
try's foremost artist in stained glass.
while he works on a window for the
cathedral. Bizarre and quite enter
tanning.
THE CASE OF THE CRUMPLED
KNAVE. BY Anthony Boucher.
New York: Simon 81 Schuster.
The victim is found dead with a
crumpled playing card in his hand
and only fancy that, now! Pretty
good.
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Yale University. This will continue
until the 1st of June, after which
he will go to Goose Rocks Beach,
Me-, where, as usual, he will have
his summer school, Not only does
Mr.. OHara paint and teach-both,
incidentally, with great success-but
he writes. He has just finished his
fourth book on water color painting,
a treatise in the former of a primer
for art teachers, telling how and
why; giving away, as it were, his
best secrets, as has. since his first
book came out, been his accepted
wont.
Returning momentarily to his
water colors of Hawaii: The reason
that they would seem to be the best
yet is not that they are more than
commonly accomplished technically
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Women's City Club

FloWer Paintings and Land
scapes by Iona Miller KEEP
linger on Exhibition.
Water colors by Iona Miller KEEP
linger constitute the April exhibi-
ton in the Women's City Club and
bring to the clubrooms much of the
colorful charm of the outdoor world
at this season. In the two reception
rooms hang chiefly paintings of
flowers, gay in color, charming in
arrangement and skillful in rendi-
ton, while in the adjacent assembly
room, put to various important uses,
will be found series of paintings of
Spanish missions, likewise very we'll
rendered. Mrs. Keplinger not only
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Cash Prize Goes to Work
Washingtonians Prefer
Every Visitor Will Be Permitted
To Vote on Biennial Pictures
At Corcoran Gallery
Bv Leila MechIin.

Ins Is the week that the public the privilege
painting to receive the offered
" Tor the most popular shown 10th
contemporary OIL Painting The of this
ee the public
the coming week. beginning tomorrow visitor will
cast ballot for the painting that she likes every
eatalogued will be regarded eligible for
There is often difference best and
what is best perfectly distinction in
which
good another matter of personal
opnonit has wherefore through the agree
ment OF those most understanding
personal appeal
edge Merit cannot be measured
such thing as an art yardstkthe variations
1ty with which association
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Out-of- Own Queries

Old Fauorites Still Popular
With the Public.
Perhaps as a foil, in a third GAL
lery are being shown at this time
a few of the paintings in the Cor
coran Gallery of Arts permanent
collection, which. since the early
days of the institution, have been
so popular that visitors from out of
town eagerly ask for them and are
disappointed if they are not on view.
Among these outstanding are The
Helping Hand" by Renouf; "The
Lost Dogs" by Otto Won Thoren,
and Charlotte Corday in Prison" !"
by Muller. Obviously the appeal in
each instance is subjective, but none
can deny that secondarily it is artis-
tic-that the works are well done
In fact, so we'll done that in their
presence one forgets both painter
and pigment. There Is, as Kenyon
Cox once said, no reason why a
painting should not tell story, pro-
vided the story be worth the telling
and that it be told well.
. The majority of the paintings in
the current biennial exhibition tell
stories, are pictures of contemporary
life such as it is, but the stories they
tell are rather horrifying and in
many instances told crudely, if in
sistently. The fact that they may be
true does not alter the situation,
for truth may be ugly as well as
beautiful. 1t may inspire or de-
press. The artist first, and then the
public must make its choice.
It has been done. Stop in passing
from the west wing back to the
front galleries containing the bien-
NAL exhibition and study for a few
minutes the painting in the Clark
Collection by Chardin, Woman
With Sauce Pan" What could be
more humble and at the same time
more entrancingly lovely? Here, in
deed, one has q measure Of merit
that can be trusted and put to use.
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Fantasy on American Art
An Exhibition in the White

Gallery.
1t is difficult to understand how
any one can find the products of a
diseased or unbalanced mind anus
ing. yet 1t is this. neither more nor
less. that is shown today as engag-
ingly fantastic. Some one has aptly
said that dreams are only of inter-
est to the dreamer, and if this is
true Of good dreams. how much more
so 1t is of those which are bad. In
connection with the exhibition en-
titled Fantasy in American Art of
the 10th and Goth Centuries" which
opened in the Whyte Gallery on
April IL to continue to May 3, ex-
planation is made that fantasy is
here understood "in the sense of
imaginative creation of the mar
velous or unreal undertaken mainly
for pleasure or the common need for
escape and not for religious, philo-
sophical or political ends" Sup
poSedly the manifestations set forth
are spontaneous and healthy rather
than sophisticated or ignorant, but
certainly they have nothing to rec
ommend them by way of beauty.
Some are nightmares, some absurdi-
ties, some simply puerile. If this is
art. what end does 1t serve? It is
hard to understand. At a fake"
show 1t might be funny, but as a
manifestation of art its interest can
only be for alienists.
Certain pictures which are in
cluded in the catalogue of this ex-
hlbltion would scarcely seem to be-
long here; for instance, Elisabeth
Poes imaginary landscape "A Dream
Within Dream; Albert P. Ryder's
Might and Sea-" Maurice Prender-
CASTS Sunset and Sea Fog" and
The Moonlit River" by Eilshemius.
Also THE Virgin of the Ranch"
an early Mexican painting, although
fantastic in one sense, actually rep
resents the sincere simplicity of the
painter and was rendered obviously
with deep conviction of verify in
the matter Of symbolism. But what
OF Kuniyoshi's "A Dream? "The
Letter." by Milton Avery? "The Cap
tain's House" and Mother and
Child" by Morris Kantor? And
"Hallucination." by John Graham?
To say nothing of the Portrait of
Henry Mcbride" by Florine Stett-
helmer. and the Sacred Calf" by
Loren MacIver-to mention only a
few of the more extreme.
Nothing could be more fantastic
than Walt Disney's representation
OF the land of gnomes. dwarfs and
fairies, but it is jolly world he
shows us, one to brighten our hearts
rather than sadden us by echoes
such as these from a madhouse. Art
used to this end is perversion of the
worst sort. The fantasy of Blake
and Of the creator of alice" never
descended to such a level. From it
one turns with horror and depres-
sion.
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School Exhibitions
w. P. A. Sho1US PAINTINGS.

w. +. A. SnO1CS PQ1nI1ngS.
Rotating exhibitions of painting
and sculpture executed by artists
on the District of Columbia Federal
Art Project under the w. P. A..
have been arranged for a number
Of the high and elementary schools
in Washington. The specially
chosen exhibition for high school
children opened on April 18 at the
Roosevelt High School with the CO.
operation of Mrs. Mary Ashton, head
of the school art department. The
paintings will remain there for two
weeks before they are sent on to the
Jefferson Junior High School. A
different exhibition, to interest
younger children, opened at the
Bancroft Elementary School on the
same date. Some of the exhibits
have already been shown in the
District of Columbia ALLEGATIONS
Gallery at BIG Independence avenue
S.W., and all of them are for in
definite loan to any institution
wholly or partially tax-supported.
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but that they combine with great
technical cleverenss the spirit of
time and place, merging, with bril-
nancy of effect, a little more pro:
fundity of feeling and registering
greater depth of sincerity. This Is
a matter of increased maturity and
marks real progress.
Arts Club
Memorial Exhibition of Paint
ings by Mary G. Riley Opens.
At the Arts Club this afternoon a
memorial exhibition of paintings by
Mary G. Riley will be opened. Miss
Riley, who died suddenly and much
too soon a few months ago, was
lifelong resident of Washington, a
member of both the Society of
Washington Artists and the WASH
ington Water Color Club as well as
of the Arts Club OF Washington, the
National Arts Club, New York, and
the National Society of Women
Painters and Sculptors. She had
exhibited with these and other out
of-town organizations, held one-man
exhibits in New York and at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art and more
than once had been a prize winner.
In the Arts Club Bulletin, In which
announcement of the forthcoming
exhibition is made, the following ex-
cellent estimate of the quality and
value Of her work is given.
Miss Riley's painting is record
Of a vital personality. It is force
full. yet reserved, always distin-
guished in its outlook and handling.
In it, frankness, sympathy and
breadth contribute to the expression
Of q keenly sensitive appreciation
Of nature and a love of life."
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Corcoron Gallery

Background for current Sho1u-
ing proDided by special exhibit
drd1Dn from permanent COL
lection.
Partly, perhaps, to provide meas
ure of merit and partly to give back
ground to the current showing of
contemporary art, the Corcoran
Gallery of Art has placed on view
during the period of its biennial ex-
hibition a well-chosen collection of
paintings by distinguished American
artists from Copley to those living
and producing today. These come
from the gallery's permanent COL
lection and have been hung in two
galleries in the west wing beyond
the Clark Collection.
The first and smaller is given over
exclusively to portraits, the latter
and larger to landscapes, figures,
genre, etc. 1t is profoundly in
teresting and thought-provoking
showing. What remarkable exam
Piles of portraiture are these. How
was it possible that the painters with
so little background and training
were able to accomplish such works
of art? Certainly they must have
been richly endowed and also they
must have respected their art. In
this assemblage we find not only
~Copley and Gilbert Stuart, but Jo-
seph Wright and Rembrandt, Peale,
Sully, Neagle, Chester Harding, In
man and others-each divulging his
own personality, but primarily in
terpreting that of his sitter, to
whom, through his Interpretation,
consummate art, he gave immor-
tality. What more can one ask? Here
at least liking and appreciation
must 60 hand in hand.
In the center room, as keynote,
Is hung the large painting by In
ness, Sunset in the Woods" which
is vitally true Interpretation of
Nature-a work inspired and in
spiring-realistic but full of beauty
opening ones eyes to that which
Is most lovely, and emotionally STIR
ring. Nearby. in different vein, but
no less significant, are landscapes
by Redfield and Schof1eld, both of
whom, by the way, are represented
in the biennial display. Across the
gallery is Metcalf's May Night" F"
which won first award in the first
exhibition of contemporary Amer
ican oil paintings held by the Cor
coran Gallery of Art in 1907, and
was great favorite then as now
with both painters and public. Here,
too, are works by Hassam and by
Garber-technically miles apart
but artistically, in the matter of
conception, very close together.
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Solo Exhibition
By Florence S. Berrvman.

Fine Arts Instructor Exhibits
at George Washington.
Mary Whitney Thoenen of tho
fine arts departments faculty al
George Washington University is
having a solo exhibition in the
University Gallery, at 2031 G street
NV. Six crayon portraits of fac
ulty members of the university are
featured. All of them are in
cisively executed in the traditional
mode, and each has the individ-
uality which betokens faithful like
ness Inquiry of student as to
whether these portraits resembled
the respective professors elected an
emphatic Eyes, exactly like them"
Miss Thoenen not only includes a
self-portrait in this group. but also
has a self-caricature entitled "Judg-
ment." OF five oil paintings, two
portraits are done with technique
as linear as her graphic work,
whereas the still life and boat paint
ings are more broadly handled. Her
two gouaches are markedly different
from her other work, as they are ex-
ecuted in fiat simplified masses.
The artist studied at the Corcoran
School of Art, where she received
prizes for life drawing, composition
and painting.
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and SensltlveneSS OF perception will
go a long way toward correct esti-
mate and comprehension.
Much laughter has been spent
on the oft repeated statement, II
do not know what is good, but I
do know what I like" the fact is,
however, that liking is the first
step toward appreciation. Indeed
art is meant to be liked; if this
were not so it would not be created,
but liking should, as far as possible,
keep stride with knowledge. If
people would only think for them
selves, seeking refreshment at
original sources, rather than ac-
cepting as pure gold haphazard
expressions of the moment, we
should have less confusion today,
and, incidentally. better art. Be-
cause some large museum has pur-
chased painting by contem-
porary artist, or work has re-
ceived an award in an important ex-
hibition, does not inevitably estab-
lish merit, any more than does the
price brought in the current market.
These are mere happenings for
which changed circumstances are
soften responsible. There are fads
in art and exploitation. OF these
let the public beware.
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fully commands her medium but has
fine color sense. Her treatment of
floral subjects is naturalistic but at
the same time very decorative, for
which reason her work has not only
immediate charm, but lasting in
terest.
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Fifth-seventh street, under the
patronage of the Secretary of Labor,
who honors the artist by personally
calling attention to his display.