Evening star., 1940-11-17
Impressions Of his prints to art in
stitutions Of assured permanence,
among which the National Museum
Is fortunate to have been included.
It Is q generous and undoubtedly
very welcome gift.
Two Shows at Arts Club

Two Sh0WS at Arts Club
Pastels by Hattie Burdette
and Autographs by Alison
Clark Are Displayed.
The Arts Club opens this after
noon two exhibitions, one of pasteb
by Hattie E. Burdette of this city,
the other Of Autographs by Alison
S. Clark of Pasadena. Calf.
Miss Burdette's pastels will occupy
the gallery and will consist chiefly
Of portraits, with the addition of
a few still-life subjects, all of which
are recent works not previously ex-
hibited. 1t is some years since work
in this medium of as serious char
acter as that which Miss Burdette
will show has been exhibited here,
for pastels after q short vogue In
the first decade of this century
seem to have relapsed in interest
and in use except as auxiliary to
crayon drawing, especially in por-
traiture.
There are two ways of handling
these colored chalks. one as pigment,
the other as pencil. It Is the former
which in this instance Miss Burdette
has chosen, working on canvas and
covering the complete surface after
the manner Of the pastellists of the
18th century in France, whose works,
by the way, despite supposed fragil-
ity, have retained to the present
time their beauty and freshness.
The majority of the portraits to be
shown by Miss Burdette are of wom-
en- and children to the characterize
ton of which pastels seem peculiarly
well suited. Two examples alone
may be mentioned prior to the
opening; one seated, three-quarter
length Of Mrs. Malcolm Matheson,
jr., wearing q lavendar gown and
seen against q landscape back
ground; the other of Miss Doris
Uppercue, In soft pink dress,
standing against q table on which
she rests her hands. The first is
somewhat in the manner of the Eng
lish school, reticent, very quiet, but
personal, and at the same time deco
rative; the latter is essentially OF
today, vital. dynamic and rhyth-
mical.
Hattie E. Burdette is q native
Washingtonian, and has received all
Of her art training here. For q time
she and the late Anna Sands shared
q studio on Seventeenth street, and
alike prof1ted by criticisms from the
late Harold Macdonald, who was
located in the same building. Other
wise Miss Burdette is largely self
taught. But she has executed nu-
merous important commissions and
made an enviable name for herself
by her portraits in miniature as we'll
as in oil and pastels. At the time of
the Sesqui-C Centennial she was
chosen to paint q full-length por-
trait of Washington in Masonic re-
gala from data furnished her COM
bined with material gathered by
diligent research on her part-a
very difficult commission fulfilled
with utmost success. Later she
painted, on order for Washington
Lee University, q portrait of Robert
E. Lee which many consider the
most satisfactory as q delineation of
character Of this great man In
existence.
Among her paintings in oils from
life may be mentioned as outstand-
ing those of Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford K.
Bergman and Mrs. Fulton Lewis.
With her miniatures are included
one of DIR. Wilmer and several of
members of the Dupont family. Her
still-life paintings vie with her por-
traits in excellence and are for the
most part privately owned here in
Washington and elsewhere. Miss
Burdette Is member Of the Society
Of Washington Artists, with which
she has exhibited regularly, but this
is the first one-man exhibition that
she has held for some time.
Alison S. Clark, whose Autographs
will be shown in the reception room
at the Arts Club at the same time
that Miss Burdette's pastels NIL the
gallery, was born In Chicago in 1876
and studied under Lucien Simon,
Cottet and Whistler tn Paris-later
under william NJ. Chase in New
York. In 1904 he was awarded q
bronze medal for . painting shown
In the st. Louis Exposition, and he
has been winning prizes ever since.
The list Of places In which his works
may be seen includes some Of the
leading museums In this country
and abroad. He Is instructor In
landscape in Occidental College,
Eagle Rock, Calf, and makes his
home In Pasadena.
Women's City Club Exhibit
Grace M. Ruckman Sho,Ds 30
Paintings tn Pleasing Collec-
ton.
Thirty paintings by Grace N.
RuckmAn may be seen all this
month In the Womens City Club
On jackson place and win be found
to be collectively pleading. The ma
jority are flowers and still life, but
Z few landscapes have been added
which increase interest and effect.
Mrs. Ruclman has au excellent
ssnss a eoloe, draws ws1 and paints