Evening star., 1940-10-13

latter with q light, sensitive touch.
Drawing Is the backbone not only
OF painting, but sculpture, and none
who has not mastered it can paint
or model well. How great, however,
is the tendency to overlook this
fact today! Daniel CARRIER Is well
taught and a good teacher. He
has been for years a member Of
the faculty of the Pennsylvania
Academy. But beyond q matter Of
fundamentals, art cannot be taught.
1t Is not merely the correctness of
line, but the feeling In 1t, which
gives meaning and distinction. 1t
is because Of the possession of this
quality that his drawings and paint
ings are set apart. He pictures q
barnyard, and one sees in 1t
homely beauty; he does a portrait
study. and one finds in it character:
he sets forth a group of trees in a
meadow, and one realizes the love-
illness of growing things. This is
art of the kind which has withstood
wars and other cataclysms, and has
brought, even in their trail, joy
and consolation-the art of which
we now stand in such great need.
To the public. paintings will. in
all probability. always have greater
attraction than drawings, but to the
art lover, drawings have an init
macy which not only delights but
leads to better understanding. In
the present instance, we are for
tunate in being able to see both
drawings and paintings by the
same artist under one roof
Paints MuroIs
D. C.. Artist Completes Tpo
Works for Virginia Post Office.
William H. Calfee of this city has
lately completed two murals under
commission Of the Federal Govern
ments Section of Fine Arts for the
post office in Tazewell, Va. One
goes over the door leading into the
postmasters ONCE and the other
dUOtC tllC SCNCl dL l1Clo VI 4ONh h-oShSo
for those receiving mail.
The former Is long. narrow panel
presenting an idealized rural scene
a young woman Is seated on the
ground with q sturdy man-child
standing beside her, gazing across
rolling country to the distant hills,
which mark the horizon. To the
right is a gentle COW, to the left a
group of sheep, and beside the
mother lies a lamb. It is an at
tractive composition. very well han
died, not in the way that Costisan
would have done it. but somewhat
similar in spirit-a work fresh, full
of sunlight and delightful feeling.
The panel in the post-box alcove
is more realistic, but In accord. In
1t is pictured the runway Of q small
mine, standing in front of which
are two men, one young, the other
mature. Both paintings recall the
life lived in the town and its vicin-
ity, but they do not attempt to re-
produce it realistically. They are
decorative and thought-provoking,
and they have-at. least, the larger
of the two has. without question
inherent beauty. There is some
thing gratifying in this. for it would
indicate that the tide is, or may
be, turning from the repetition Of
the so-called American scene" in
absolute literalness to its interpre-
tation along lines which are more
significant and no less true.
Mr.. Calfee, who, by the way. Is
both painter and sculptor, pupil Of
the Academic des Beaux Arts in
Paris ana of Miles at the Gran
brook Academy, already has exc
cuted several murals for Govern
ment buildings either % the result
of open competitions or through di-
rect commission. OF these, mention
should be made Of those in Peters,
burg, Va; Bel Air, Md; Selbyville,
Del, and Fresno, Calf. He Is in
structor in art ut Hood College,
Frederick, Nd, and in the Phillips
Gallery School.
National Museum Shows
Much may be said in praise Of
the portrait drawings Of Lily E.
Smulders and Hester Merwin
(Ayres) which constitute, at the
present time, two separate exhibi-
tions In the National Museum, the
one under the auspices of the Ma
tional Collection of Fine Arts, the
other the Division Of Graphic Arts
Of the museum.
Lily =. smulders 10 . Hollandsr