Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
|ationaI Art Week
opens Tomorrow With
0 Exhibitions Here
Move Seeks to Creote
Interest in Works at
Within-Reoch Prices

The celebration of National Art
Heek, proclaimed by President
Roosevelt, begins tomorrow and
pntinues through December l with
bore than 80 exhibitions Of works
contemporary artists, mostly
Zeal, being held in Washington.
lore than 1,4OO such exhibitions
Ire scheduled throughout the coun-
". For these displays, $4,000 ar
ksts and craftsmen have entered
pc 900 paintings, sculptures and
rt objects. These arrangements
ave been made by 1853 local COM
hittees with a membership of 5000,
hcluding representatives of art
museums and schools.
The purpose of National Art Week
to create a market for the work
contemporary artists by bringing
the attention of the public the
possibility of acquiring original
Forks at moderate prices. All Of
be works shown in these Art Week
Exhibitions will be for sale and no
omission charges whatever will be
hade.
From 50 Cents to 10000.
The principal Art Week exhibition
b Washington will be held in the
Departmental Auditorium on Con-
titution avenue between Twelfth
I nd Fourteenth streets NV. and
bill open tomorrow at pm. This
Rill include works of artists and
6raftsmen from every State as well
Territory and possession of the
United States. The prices Of these
FORKS will run from SO cents to
10000, the last being the value
|laced on a work in sculpture, THE
boxers" by Akron Ben-Schmuel,
Eeighing two tons, which has lately
cen exhibited in Philadelphia.
Included in the auditorium exhi-
|ition will be works not merely by
he proverbial struggling young
rtist but by those who have won
|istinction-such as Kenneth Adams
II New Mexico. Tom E. Lewis of
california, David McCosh of Oregon,
Gustav Dalstrom of Chicago, Clifford
Peal Alexander Brook, John Folins-
zee and others OF New York. Well
known ceramists and printmakers
Pill also be represented. Demon
|trations will be given and other
means taken to increase appreci-
[tiOn and understanding
Water Color Exhibit.
Second in Importance on the long
list of exhibitions will be that of
Fater colors in the Section of Fine
Arts, Public Buildings Administra-
bon, Federal Work Agency, at
seventh and D streets S.W. These,
everal hundred in number, by
[rtists from all parts of the country,
Fill be selected from the 10000 sub
nitted in the recent competition
or works in this medium to deco
ate marine hospitals. They will
|e uniformly priced at $50 each.
National Art Weeks program is
headed by Holger Cahill of the w.
P. A, with Edward Rowan of the
section of Fine Arts actively in
|harge, and the cooperation of an
Advisory Council composed chiefly
II museum experts, with Francis
Henry Taylor, director of the Metro
|olitan Museum of Art, chairman.
The slogan is American Art for
Every American Home; the hope,
b translate interest into patronage.
List Of Exhibitions.
The official list of the sales ex-
Iibitions to be held under these
|uspices this week in Washington
ollows:
Abbott School of Fine and Com
hercial Art, 1143 Connecticut ave-
|ue NV, paintings and designs by
tudents.
ALLEGATIONS Gallery, Sl6 Independ-
nee avenue NV. paintings by
rtists of the District of Columbia
Work Projects Administration unit.
American Association of Univer-
lily Women, 1884 I street NV,
'aintings by District artists.
American House, Twenty second
nd K streets NV, paintings for
modern homes.
Arts Club, 2017 I street NV,
forks by members of the Washing
on Sketch Club.
Bookshop of Washington, GIG
street NV, Autographs
" Joe Jones and others.
Capitol Theater, F at Fourteenth
treet NV, exhibit illustrative of
american art.
Carrie Weaver Smith Bookshop,
a. Seventeenth street NV, paint