Evening star., 1941-02-02

certain well-known painters. is SIM
pie in treatment and impressive.
American Primitive.
The vogue for the American prirn-
tive is seen to have had its in
fuence-as, for example, in the
painting of Child With Dogs
Bone" by Betty Lane; Vermont
Country Church." by G. Watson
James, jr., and Winter Sports, -
by Clara Hanna.
Richard Lahey, principal of the
Corcoran School, is represented by
a large still life which might well
be entitled Study in Gray"-an
elaborate piece of painting, done.
it would seem, for the sheer in
terest inherent in the doing the
surmounting of untold difficulties.
At Best in Portrait.
Robert Franklin Gates of the
Phillips Gallery School is at his
worst in picture of a group of
red-broWn factories in rather
drab landscape, and at his hest in
small portrait Of woman stand
ingI The latter is a little canvas
readily overlooked but very beau
tifully painted.
Eugen Weisz, best known. as is
Mr.. Gates, for his water colorS, is
represented by a study of a nude,
sympathetically handled. showing
not only command Of meo.Im but
artistic sensitiveness to both form
and color.
Benson B. Moore and Robert E.
Motley are represented by land
scapes in what today may be termed
the old manner - representative,
realistic and pleasing in compo-
sition. Mr.. Benson's is of The
Canal in Winter" M. Motley's of
Pennsylvania Wheat Field" in har-
vest time.
The president of the society. Row.
land Lyon, shows only a single
small canvas-"Bradford Street.
high in key, clear and very pleasing
in color, extremely simple in treat
ment, modest but very acceptable
contribution.
From Clara +. Saunders has come
a spring landscape painted with
great simplicity and lightness of
touch-a souvenir of Natures annual
miracle
In painting of two yellow box
cars on a siding-"S Shifting
Rittase has rendered for our delecta-
tion very charming sky. His Red
Tank" also is colorful but less well
pulled together in the matter OF
tone and color values.
Figures abound in this exhibition
and run in scale from the little por-
trait by Mr. Gates already mentioned
to a colossal canvas representing
Nelson Rosenberg in painting garb
much more than life size-the work
of May Ashton, who also shows a
rather modernistic still life. flowers
of many kinds in a much-crowdec
vase. dropping.
Patricia" by Mary Jane Corr
which won an honorable mention, is
somewhat stylized but very vel
rendered; "Nonna," by Catherine
Vagoni, while perhaps less finished
has character and spirit, and Mary
C. Cores Negro girl, "Junein,' is
charmingly expressive despite the
fact that it, too, ventures into the
realm of the occult.
Still Life.
There is quite little still life
in this exhibition, and among the
best such works are Pewter Pitcher
and Summer Still Life" by Nelsor
Rosenberg; Scarlet Ibis" by Wilma
Dinowitzer; Blue China Ladle," BY
William N. Thompson, and Apple.
and Sunfowers," by Esther Lyme.
Wilma Dinowitzer also has con-
tributed a painting entitled Quar-.
tette, Library of Congress" which
as piece of satire, is extremely
clever.
1t is difficult to know whether tt
class Monday Banners" by Eliza
beth Muhlhofer. as still life or ,
city picture. The banners" ar,
colorful clothes hung on Monda,
wash lines in back yards OF sombe
dwellings glorified by a blossomini
fruit tree-all very meticulously ant
accurately recorded, a new departure