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scheme of orange, green and gray.
Mary Thoenen's meticulously drawn
Adam and Eve" Is al5o a still life
of antique sculptural fragments.
Robert F. Gates and Eugen Weisz
are represented with dark-toned In
dustrial scenes, but it Is difficult
for the average home-owner to fall
in love with railroad tracks and fac
tories, however much one admires
their implications.
Special Exhibits Feature
Student Work.
A few of the special Art Week ex-
hibitions were offered with the idea
of demonstrating. what students
could do, rather than with the pur-
pose Of making sales. Such. was
that at the Abbott Art School,
where a large number of exhibits
was displayed. About a third OF
the exhibitors were alumni, the rest
students. Posters, designs for tex
tiles and wall paper and drawings
of many types Of objects, clothing,
ETC., published in newspaper adver-
tisements, indicated that the stu.
dents are putting competent in
struction to very good use. Rem
behring's in water color drawings Of
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character OF the EXHIBITS and the
recurrence of demonstrations have
given it lively aspect. AS a re-
suit, the strongest impression re-
tanned will be of something doing
in the art woodland certainly
there is.
One of the special exhibitions
which will be held over is that of
300 water colors, on view in the Sec
ton of Fine Arts quarters, on the
fourth floor of the Federal Ware
house, Seventh and D streets NV.
These were approved by the jury
which selected from 10000 water
colors submitted by painters all
over the country for purchase at
$50 each 300 to decorate Marine
hospitals, especially the one To-
Gated at Carville and segregated
for lepers. This second selection
of practically the same number is
now offered to the public at the
same amount. Thirty dollars is a
small price for a good water color
but a large price for a poor one;
however, this matter of value is
something which the would-be pur-
chaser must decide for himself
Among the 300 paintings from which
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Members Get Medal
Mans Victory OUer PoDers
of Destruction Epitomised in
Tinze1u Work.

Mans Victory OUer PotDers
of Destruction Epitomised in
Timely Work.
The Society of Medalists has Just
issued its 22d medal to its constit-
uent membership. 1t is the work
of Walter Hancock, and the theme
is THE Victory of Man and Nature
Over the Powers of Destruction"
The diverse shows two nude men
pulling down the column of a tenn
pie and bears the inscription-taken
from Longfellow's Castle Builders"
There will be other towers for
thee to build"-while on the re-
verse is depicted, in low relief, the
broken stump of mighty oak tree
set against the disk of the everlast-
ing sun. On this there is no in
scription, but the thought was de-
rived from the following lines from
'In Time of Mistrust," by Robert
Hillyer:
And in l this shattered forest which
DESTROYED beyond the hope Of future
springs,
The lonely guard against oblivion
wrought
It's dream of new leaves and return
ing wings.
AS IN shattered world, the lonely few
From the old wisdom must create the
new.
Nothing perhaps could be more
appropriate to the present time or
more reassuring. Walter Hancock
was born in st. Louis, Mo-, studied
in the st. Louis Art School and
then in the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts and the American
Academy at Rome. He Is . member
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pioneers of this graphic art and for
titioners. From 1872 to 1894 Mr..
Closson gave almost all of his time
to making wood engravings for the
leading book and magazine pub
fishers in New York and by all au-
thorities he is cited as one of the
best of his day.
wv. B. Closson," says Frank Welt
enkampf in his authoritative book
on American Graphic Art" ode
lighted and excelled in the repro
duction of hazy, vaguely defined eff
fects such as appear in the ightness
and deicacy of his engravings from
a drawing by William Rimmer
cMagdalenO with its effect of soft,
broken, crayon or charcoal lines, or
even more in his excellent 'Winifred
pysart' after George Fuller. Later
he engraved blocks from his own
designs, the preference for not too
sharply circumscribed forms still
evident"
Closson was what was known as
nter-engraver-one who sought
in his use of line the effect pro-
duced by brush and pigment. It is
not strange, therefore, that when
the demand for reproductive en-
craving, for illustrative purposes,
practically came to an end with the
advent and perfection of the half
tone, he should have taken up
painting and carried it to success.
In the National Collection of Fine
Arts Mr.. Closson is represented by
painting of mermaids and water
babies at play-and in the print col
lection of the Library Of Congress
by proofs of some of his finest wood
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Wood Engrovings On View
Southern PrintmakerS Rep
resented at National Mu-
SPu111


resented at National Mu-
scum.
In the north lobby of the National
Museum, Constitution. avenue at
Tenth street, there will open today
an exhibition of wood engravings by
six members of the Southern Print
makers Society. These are Grace
Arnold-Albee of Springtown, Pa;
Frank Hartley Anderson, Mount
Airy, Pa; Fred Geary, Kansas City,
Mo-; Warren B. Mack, State College,
Pa; Leo j. Meissner, Yonkers, N. Y,
and Charles E. Point, Georgetown,
Conn. Practically all of these are
new names to Washington print
lovers, but apparently, from bio
graphical data made available by
the graphic arts division of the Mu-
scum, these wood engravers one and
all are well trained and of more than
usual experience.
Mr.. Anderson, who, incidentally
was born in Boston, is both founder
and head of the Southern Print
makers Society and for four years
has been teaching art in the South,
first at the University of Alabama
and now at the Atlanta (Ga) Art
Center. He himself studied in Bos-
ton, Chicago and Cleveland, and has
painted murals as well as engraved
prints. He is a vice president of the
National Committee of Engraving, to
which we are indebted for the splen-
did exhibition of One Hundred
Prints by American Printmakers,
shown in the Corcoran Gallery in
connection with the All-States' Elk
hibition of Paintings.
Under Mr.. Anderson's presidency,
the Southern Printmakers' Society
has attained enviable reputation
through the shows it has sponsored
and the prints it has published and
distributed to its lay members. The
1910 presentation print was "Grasse,"
by Louis c. Rosenberg; that for
1941 will, it is announced, be "Portu-
guese Fisherman's Daughter No. 81
by Arthur william Heintzelinan.
Associate membership emitting to
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period interiors were especially at
tractive. A large group Of fashion
designs revealed widespread inter-
est in this field, which is becoming
increasingly important since the de-
cline of Paris.
In addition to the major exhibit
tons by Hattie Burdette and Alison
Clark at the Arts Club, a special
Art Week show of figure drawings in
charcoal and red chalk from living
models by members of the Sketch
Club was displayed in the basement
galleries.
The exhibitions mentioned here
were arranged only for the week
which ends today. But number
of other National Art Week exhi-
billions continue through the COM
ing week, and some of them remain
until the end of December.
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leaf1eSS, Sn0W-c0VereQ trees, was an
outstanding canvas. Several others
combined land and water in an en-
gaging manner, among them Lois
Jones high-keyed white Yacht"
near q dock; Alexander Clayton's
fresh looking Little Cove" in a
simple blue and green color scheme,
and Lee Atkyns' "Tangier Island,
Sunrise" simplified and limited to
gray-blue and tans.
A colorful Street in Taxco, Mex
ico," by Susan B. Chase; Carl Ny
quist's appealing and somewhat
nostalgia "Carcassonne, France"
also showing an ancient, winding
street, and Lottie Fahrenbruch's
"Churchtown, Pennsylvania" a
spirited representation of an old
house in a village, with a horse and
buggy in the foreground, brought
to the visitor glimpses of lovely
places, all of them painted in water
color.
G. w. Shows Works
In Various Media.
Another Art Week exhibit-this
one consisting of IA works in vari-
GUS media-occupies the studio GAL
lery of George Washington Univer-
sity. Some of the works smallest
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in size are the most pleasing. DIN
Dows' Geese at a POOL is charm
ing; the snowy geese whose bills
are orange accents are seen against
sunny green foliage. Mitchell ia
mieson is twice represented with
water colors: Cane Cutters fig
ures and animals against tropi-
cal background, and RAIN" far
reaching hilly landscape in soft
blurred earth-red and grays. A
tiny block print of horse and colt
entitled Might Pasture" by Regene
Putnam, has strong contrasts of
black and white which carry its
pattern across a room.
Sarah Magnussen's 1.-THE Fan"
with flowers, is simplified in form
and freshly colored. Oke Nord-
gren's large oil, Still Life" is ma
turalistic, and in a lower. simpler
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tempting cash prizes are offered,
all of which were initiated by the
late Senator Clark of Montana at
the Corcoran Gallery's 1st Biennial
Exhibition, held in 1907 and perpet-
uated by him through endowment.
These are: First, $4,000, accompan-
led by the Corcoran Gold Medal;
second, $500, accompanied by the
Corcoran Silver Medal; third, $1,000,
accompanied by the Corcoran
Bronze Medal, and fourth, $500,
accompanied by the Corcoran GER
tificate of honorable mention.
The jury of selection and award
has not yet been appointed but
will be announced publicly on or
about January Is, .1941. Works ell
gible for these prizes must have
been produced within the last two
ennial Exhibition was held. Fur
thermore, the artists who have pre-
viously received awards in these ex-
hibitions in the past cannot COM
pete for prizes of less value than
that previously received.
AS almost every Washingtonian
knows, at the time the Biennial
Exhibitions of Contemporary Amer
lean Paintings, practically all of
the galleries in the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art, except those in the
Clark wing, are dismantled and
given over to the present-day dis
play, so ample opportunity is afford
ed the public to view and estimate
the current output in this field.
AS the expectation is that the Ma
tional Gallery of Art will be opened
in March or April of the coming
year, especial interest and impor-
lance attaches to this 18th Bien-
NAL, which will thus afford oppor-
trnity for comparison between the
old and the new-that which "gen-
erations have agreed to admire" and
that which reflects the life and
trends of today.
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This BewiIdering New Art
Christmas Sale in PhtLttpS
Memorial Gallery Shows
3 Little Change.

Christmas SAFE IN FHlLtIpS
Memorial Gallery Shows
Little Change.
TIE Christmas sales exhibition OF
work of artists of Washington,
MARYLAND and vicinity, which
opered in the print rooms of the
Phillips Memorial Gallery on No
vember "a, to continue to December
q, is an annual affair and differs
very little this year from past sea-
sons. The majority of the artists
represented are the same and the
character of the work seems to have
changed little This is not true of
the work of Robert F. Gates, which
has altered greatly. Instead of
using a full brush and painting in
broad washes of strong color he
now paints dryly and employs black,
jagged lines for emphasis, in man
ner more akin to drawing than color
work. One wonders why.
A newcomer. is Laughlin Phillips,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan Phil
lips, who shows two still-life sub
jects, strongly influenced appar-
emily by admiration for and study
of the works of prague. Mrs. Phil
lips contributes painting of a tea
cup and saucer in her usual naive
style; there are paintings by Law
Watkins, Mrs. Gates, Bernice Cross
and James Mclaughlin, all men,
bers of the staff of the Phillips Gal
lery school. The majority of these
are not for sale. There is a very
good head by Raphael Cesar and
excellent prints, in an album, by
Olin Bows and Inez Demonet, as
well as a composition in color by
Auriel Bessemer. Aaron Soper con-
tributes several humorous drawings
of people seen in local hotel lobby
and lawmakers in Congress.
This is by no means the art of
tradition-the beautiful art" as the
French called it, which brought con-
ISOLATION and gentle dehght-but in
stead, the art of the present when al
seems confusion and the future very
dark. Perhaps, however, it has hid
den in it, that smoldering spark
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Teaching Work Extended
O'Hdrd to Conduct School of
Water Color Painting in Ari-

- duTU 70 CONQuCL SCHOOL "
Water Color Painting in Ari-
zond.
Eliot O'Hara of this city, who has
become generally recognized as one
Of the leading water colorists of to-
day, left here this past week for
Tucson, Ariz., where, beginning early
in January and continuing into
March, he expects to conduct a
school of water color painting this
year as last. Mr.. O'Hara has a sum-
mer school at Goose Rocks Beach,
near Biddeford, Me-, the enrolment
at which during the past summer
was larger than ever before. In ad-
dition to his teaching and painting
as well as getting out an occasional
book, Mr.. O'Hara finds time to give
special intensive courses in universe
ties between seasons and to serve on
juries of selection and award for i'm
portant water color exhibitions. He
was one of the jurors who passed
upon the 10000 water colors recently
submitted to the Section of Fine Arts
for purchase for the decoration Of
marine hospitals, and he was also a
member of the Philadelphia Water
Color Clubs jury for its recent 38th
annual exhibition in the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts.
As the fruits of his last winter In
the West Mr.. OHara brought back
with him last spring large number
of water colors painted in Arizona,
California, and along the coast as
far North as Alaska-three of which
have been acquired by American
museums and others distributed
among various current exhibitions.
Among these were some of the finest
that this clever and accomplished
painter has as yet produced-work
done with all his great technical
skill but also with more than usual
dramatic feeling and strong emotion.
MIR. O'Hara has representation OF
10 water colors in permanent collec-
lions of museums and associations in
this country, England and South
America. Through his work and his
teaching he exerts a strong and
pervasive influence on water color
painting as practiced today.
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which may yet burst into flame and
tighten the way. At least none can
doubt its sincerity.
Corcoron to Hoh Biennial
Exhibition for Spring Is An
nounced by Trustees OF Gal

LeTy.
Just as National Art Week was
opening, the trustees of the Cor
coran Gallery of Art announced
the gallery's 18th Biennial Exhibi-
ton of Contemporary American Oil
Paintings, to be held from March
% to May 4, 1941.
In this announcement the trustees
expressed the hope that this ex-
hibition would cover comprehen-
sively the field of oil painting as
practiced today by American paint
ers; that in its scope and quality it
would stand as high as any similar
exhibition which has previously been
presented, and that the American
painters will keep in mind the dates
and purpose and submit. to the jury
of selection their strongest and most
recent work.
AS incentive to the artists four
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engravings. Never before, however,
has a comprehensive collection of
his work been shown here.
Both of these exhibitions will con-
tinue through the entire month Of
December,
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ORGANIZATIONS to Exhibit

ligious subjects.
Organizations to Exhibit
Water Color Club and So
ciety OF Artists to Haze An
nudl EUentS.
The Washington Water Color Club
will hold its 45th Annual Exhibition
in the Corcoran Gallery of Art from
December IA through January 10,
and the Society of Washington
Artists will set forth its 50th An
nual Exhibition under the same
auspices from February l through
February %. During the latter
dates and in conjunction with the
S. w. A. Society of Miniature Paint
ers, Sculptors and Gravers, will have
its annual display-space in the
upper atrium of the Corcoran CAL
lery of Art being assigned to this
society for such purpose.
The Society of Washington Artists
exhibition will be especially empha-
sized this season inaSmuch as it
marks the semi-centennial of its
founding. This society, organized
in 1891, has not only upheld high
standard in its exhibitions but has
done much to encourage art and
increase appreciation here at the
National Capital. 1t was, in fact,
through the excellence of its exhi-
billions, which, in the early years of
the present century, attracted out
of-town exhibitors of high stand
ing, that the potentialities of
general exhibition of contemporary
American painting were realized
and the Corcoran Gallery of Arts
great biennials established. Those
desiring to submit works for inclu-
sion in the forthcoming anniver-
sary exhibition should apply for
entry blanks to the secretary, Mrs.
Samuel Kimberly, Pip o street
NV. The president of the society
is Rowland Lyon.
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Pennsylvania Academy Aid

One of the most important of the
out-of- town exhibitions Of contem-
porary art held during the season
is that of the Pennsylvania Acade-
my of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia,
which has just announced its l36th
Annual Exhibition to be held from
January rs to March 2. This or
ganization has an unbroken record
of aid to American artists and
hence In the interest of American
art since its inception In 1804-and
during the last 10 years, through
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National Art Week Ends
With Central Collection
Classed as Great Fair
Christmas Sales Exhibition
Presents Works of Many
Persons in This Area
Bv Leila MechLu.

National Art which with national
in celebration will continue well into not through the
Auditorium not these it, today the last exhibit
ton has been described
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Art Word-Revews of Current Exhibitions and News of Artists
Attractive Paintings Shown
In Special Exhibition at
A. A. u. w. Clubhouse
Studio Gallery and Abbott Art
School Also Have Displays
In Art Week Program
By Florence S. Bergman.

part National which closes today
paintings with proportion pleasing subject
color and handling held at the clubhouse Of the
Association Of University Women Each oil painting water
different artist and the show enhanced by It's
intimate various of the club
the Potomac beyond two great
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Great Works Exhibited
Notable. Roudult Collection
to Be Seen by Washington

to Be Seen Oy WGSHt"gto"
Public.
During the past few years the
Washington art loving public has
become acquainted with the art Of
Georges Rouault through repre-
sentation in the Phillips Memorial
Gallery. Now, however, opportunity
will be afforded for comprehensive
survey of his work through which
better understanding and hence
evaluation should be obtained, for a
very considerable number of his
paintings have been assembled to be
shown in Boston, San. Francisco and
here. The sponsors of this enterprise
are the Institute of Modern Art,
Boston, the San Francisco Museum
of Art and the Phillips Memorial
Gallery-to the last named Of which
It will come the middle of this month.
This exhibition win comprise 30
paintings and . group Of prints. and.
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according to those who have re-
viewed it in Boston, places Rouault
among the greatest painters of the
day-especially as a painter of re-
ligious subjects.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-09-26
Further Development
Of Deep Creek Lake
Discussed At Meeting

Further development of the Deep
Greek Lake section was discussed at
a recent meeting of representative of
the Confederation of Western Mary
land communities, in Cumberland.
Representing Garrett county were F.
P. Smith, Ralph Weber and C. E.
MacMurray
Mr.. MacMurray called attention to
the rapid development of the Deep
Creek Lake area and stated he an
ticipated a summer colony of at least
ten thousand persons in the near
future. He urged establishment of
parking areas at various. points and
construction of sidewalks along the
highway adjacent to the lake. He also
suggested a parking area on Route
219 at the Cove.
There was discussion of a definite
program of landscaping around the
lake and turnouts and highways pre-
pared. H. C. Buckingham, district for
ester, referred to popularity of the
cabins at Harrington Manor and the
picnic areas around Swallow Falls,
stating that on one Sunday this sum-
mer the Forestry Department checked
5000 persons.
President James H. Gambrill, il,
reported that plans were. being made
for tourists at Table Rock and at Big
Savage mountain. He emphasized the
Importance Of conserving natural re-
sources and the development of high
ways.
Another meeting will be held at
Town Hill in October.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-09-26

Rutherford Stottlemeyer, Cassville,
West Va, visited The Republican of
fee while in Oakland this morning.
Several farmers of the county and
John H. Carter, County Agent, are
planning to attend the annual Aber-
deen-Angus Breeders Show to be held
at the Timonium Fair Grounds, Balti-
more, on Saturday, October 5.
A new front is being built at the
office of the West Penn Power Com
pany on Second street, and when com,
pleted will present a modern and up
to-date appearance. The work was
authorized by the Offutt heirs, owners
of the building.
William Lauer, Washington, D. c.,
is visiting this week at the home of
his brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Frye, at Cabin Lodge, on
Deep Greek Lake. He is now recuperat-
ing from an operation which he re-
Gently underwent.
Miss Helen Selby, clothing special
list, was here with Miss Barton arrang-
ing for the following years program
among homemakers clubs of the coun-
ty and also comforting with Mrs.
Zelda Gnegy, State clothing chairman
at Mountain Lake Park
Mrs. John A. Schueffer, Baltimore,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ilario Lambert for several days. Miss
Mildred Lambert, in training for a
nurse at the Church Home and In
Urinary, Baltimore, was also a visitor
here for a few hours on Tuesday,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Dewitt, of
Hoyes, and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert De-
Witt, of Oakland, returned last Fri
day from a motor trip to Vancouver,
Washington. They were accompanied
by Miss Elizabeth Dewitt, who has
taken a position this year to teach in
the Washington State School for the
Deaf in Vancouver. Miss Dewitt for
merly taught at the School for the
Deaf at Romney, West Va.