Evening star., 1942-07-05
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New Acquisitions on
View at Library
OF Congress
By Leila Mechlin.

cdIludly, lIOkIi tiiC ClAiCi o'AN
Hubbard funds, for its permanent
collection.
These are for the most part works
by contemporary print-makers-
etchers. photographers and engravers
the Pennell fund being available
only for the purchase of works pro-
duced within the preceding hun
dred years, but while special en-
phasis is put on current production
outstanding works by deceased
artists are promptly secured and
included. For instance, there are
among these recent acquisitions a
charming etching of a rather
typical American landscape by Ed
ward Moran, several Autographs by
George Bellows-one OF the prize
ring, Introducing John L. Sulll-
van" and two, very memorable, OF
children: also a pictorial transcript
ton of AN Artists Evening. IN
which are portrayed several OF the
print-maker' associates, and be-
sides an etching by Ernest HaskeL
Of a storm-twisted tree.
Time has proved all these to be
masterpieces. but in this connection
1t is interesting to note that sloe
by side with the Haskell has been
placed an etching of similar SUP
iect by Helen A. Loggie OF WASH
ineton State, who has come into
prominence within the past decaoe
and now takes her place with the
foremost graphic artists OF the oay
She has made speciality OF trees
and renders them with exceptional
skill and feeling, The work ac-
ouired by the Library OF Congress
is entitled THE King Goblin" ana
while grotesque, is very engaging
It is essentially in the Haskell splrlt
and shows his influence WltnouI
being in any way initiative. :.
A beautiful impression OF Dawn
Nv Prank w, Benson, is one OF the
gems of this collection and as nne
an example of this distinguished
artists work as is to be found. "A
mock of wild ducks is seen in f1lght
against an early morning SKY across
which the rays of the rising sun
are reaching. There are seVerai
etchers now who specialize In de-
nictinp wild birds and fowls ana
do it we'll, but none as well as MI.
penson. whose vision Is as swift
and accurate as that OF an orlentai
and his power OF expression oo'il
subtle and great.
Especial interest in this exhloltlon
attaches to a group OF Wooo en-
cravings by Thomas Mason OF Lyme
Conn, who has brought this art'
As an original medium, to excep-
tional heights. The wood engraV-
ines of Timothy Cole and Henry
wolf showed to perfection the po--
tentialities of the medium. but
chiefly for reproductive purposes
For The Century and for Harper
magazines these artists made wooo
enpravings Of paintings by the Ole
masters and the leading contem'
norarv artists. They were copylsts
using their medium with superlatlve
skill but not creatively. Mason en-
ploys it to interpret subjects wnich
he himself finds alluring, and ms
interpretations are essentially IN
dividual and personal. In design
they are usually simple but they
convey a sense of beauty not to be
thoughtlessly passed by or soon Tor
gotten. Three such in the current
showing are pennsylvania Land
scape," Maine Fishing Village" anc
March Thaw."
A thoroughly up-to-date subject
admirably rendered, is that entitled
Reserves" showing an Army trucE
slithering toward the observer over
4 rough road and rolling like a
drunken sailor on a high sea. This
is by James E. Allen who is perhaps
best known for his drawings ano
etchings of industrial workers-per
haps the best Of the sort we have
had.
Abbo Ostrowsky, who with Auer-
bach-Levy has done much to cultl'
vate a love of art among students oi
New York's East Side through theil
teaching and exposition, is repre-
sented here by an etching made
some years ago, "Croton on -Hud
son." which holds its own with the
best. BY birth Mr.. Ostrowsky Il
Russian, but coming to this countr,
In early youth he brought rich gifts
1t is impossible to mention all the
American printmakers represented
in this uncommonly well selected
exhibition. but to give indication o1
the breadth of view of those whc
made the selection it may be vel
to name, as among others honoret
by acquisition and display, Rockwell
Kent, Sloan, Landeck, Barker
Rosenberg, Winkler and Costigan-
still emitting many.
The British printmakers max
quite q fine showing with no les
than six prints by D. Y. Cameron
and single examples of such well
known men as McBey, Brockhurst
Blampied and Griggs. The French
section includes charming prints o
landscapes by Corot, Millet an
Daubigny. incidentally, "L'Autumne
by the last has some of the qualit,
of reserve and beauty found in tn
American landscape by Moran. Blu
at the other end of the circle, whicl
is all-inclusive, are Autographs il
color of people by Toulouse-Lautre
that bring the observer abruptly u
to revolution in taste and the ne'
viewpoint now so widely accepted.
For dynamic quality nothing ca
exceed the etchings by zorn, c
which several have here found in
cIusion. There are two especial
Impressive masculine themes-th
well-known "Vicke"-a violinis
playing with almost ferocious arde
and 1.-THE Toast" which include
several figures, but most consplcu
ously that of a bearded man step
ping forward precipitously with win
glass in hand. Zorn was one OF tn
last great artists to retain and eX
emplify in his work a definite ma
tionalistic strain-art today bein
completely internationalized. T'her
are several Zorn portraits anon
these recent acquisitions, but mos
diverse and lovely by him is llttl
nude, a young woman bather o