Evening star., 1940-02-11

ton. Mr.. Arlt's Portrait Of Sue" Is
half-size full-length-the subject
being pictured indoors and in q long
yellow dress. Miss Osgood's 'Por-
trait in Brown" is a sound and con-
servative piece of work, rendered
with evident sympathy and UNDER
standing.
Very Difficult and Successful
Achievement in Picture Of Old Paris.
There are in this exhibition some
paintings which would do honor to
any group. Such is large horizon
tai canvas by Edith Hoyt entitled
Rebuilding Old Paris" It is q view
from high window of the city
being remade, streets evacuated,
traffic rerouted, more or less con-
fusion, but brought together In a
well-balanced composition, q picture
fascinating to look upon-a remark
ably difficult and successful achieve
ment.
In interesting contrast, but no
less alluring, is a landscape pre-
sumably painted in Vermont
Mountain Farm" by Minor s.
Jameson, purple-blue mountains
bordering the horizon and, irf the
middle distance. on a plateau, a tiny
farmstead which, in implication,
embodies the spirit of America.
There is something very Spacious
and profoundly impressive in this
landscape, rendered with such
breadth and distinction.
There are other very attractive
landscapes-such, for instance, as
Winfield Scott Clime's "R. F. D. 262,"
simple theme so treated that its
inherent charm is made manifest and
a painting by Garnet w. Jex, After
the Service, Haymarket, Virginia."
which represents an old church Of
Colonial design standing in a grove
OF trees, the tops of which are illu-
minated by the midday sun. Will
liam F. Walter and A. H. o. Role
both show paintings made in Rock
Greek Park, the former winter
scene, the latter an autumn one,
Roy Clark's landscape, Across the
Tracks is boldly and strongly
handled, and in Somewhere in the
Valley" Sheffield Kagy has made
good use of fresh color held in
simple mass.
Landscapes also come from c. Law
Watkins, Robert F. Gates and Mar
garet Gates, all sincerely painted.
but inclining to the style and color
Ing of the Woodstock School. Edgar
Nye, who was one of the innovators
some years ago, seems almost tradi-
tional now in his picture OF the al
bany Post Road" which, however,
is scenically more like Arizona than
New York. On the other hand, Alice
Acheson shows a picture of Corn
Husking," in the fields, not, as of
yore, in the commodious barn, which
is much in the style of Van Gogh
and quite a brilliant Interpretation
with an originality all its own.
Canvas Showing Merry Go Round
Is Gay and Blithe in Treatment.
Prominently placed on the west
wall OF the gallery is large canvas
by Hortense Ferne entitled Clown
Alley'-one clown, almost life size,
lying in the foreground, and many
others variously employed doing
nothing in the background-which,
incidentally, is bit too near to
justify the shrinkage in size. Not
withstanding this apparent error in
perspective, the picture is well paint
ed and amusing. Quite appropri-
ately, nearby is hung little canvas
by Rowland Lyon, now president of
the Society of Washington Artists,
Of a "Merry-Go-Round," savoring
OF the circus or the amusement park,
gay and blithe in treatment. Mr..
Lyon uses invariably simple palette
and keeps his colors clean-which,
after all, is what they should be.
Madeline E. Pereny provides, par
adoxically, amusement in a painting
entitled Alarm" which would seem
to represent bombs falling on vii
lage protected by Nature by wall
of hills, and the Negro inhabitants
scampering down the street to
escape annihlation. There is some
thing so gay in its presentation, one
can not take it seriously. Perhaps it
is surrealistic, and its true meaning
not properly understood. However,
a picture of this sort now and then
in an exhibition has a Tightening
effect, offsetting the solemn and
dreary-as, for example, Beulah
Weaver's very correct picture of
Thomas Circle during construction
of the new underpass, and Margaret
Cumberland's Ex-Salon," a house
so hideous that even drunkards
would shun it. Ada r. Entwisle
pictures-and well-"Water Front
Tanks" without, however, the least
semblance of beauty; and the noe
turnal view Rover Rittase shows us
Of 'Moonrise in Foggy Bottom" does
little to engender local pride on the
part OF Washingtonians. It is a
curious thing that today, when the
war-torn world is SO greatly in need
of the consolation and encourage
ment that art can give, so many
artists are giving themselves and
their best to add not more beauty,
but ugliness, to our store.
Works in Still Life Group
Are Entitled to Distinction.
This cannot be said Of the paint
ers of still life-especially Of those
whose works are included In this
showing. Hattie E. Burdette, Lucia
B. Hollerith and Elizabeth Muhl-
hofer all make contributions In
this field which lend distinction to
the exhibition. Miss Burdette
shows flowers in a white Vase" on
a mahogany table, gravely but
beautifully painted; Miss Hollerith's
contribution is entitled early Rose"
referring to variety of potato
which, with fruit, is seen strewn on
a kitchen table (plain things, but SO
charming in color and exquisitely
rendered that they distinctly stir
the emotions; while from Miss
Mulhofer has come composition in
which anlaryllis is the chief unit,
more broadly rendered than is her