Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
Art
Notable Collection
Of French Art at
National Gallery
By Florence s. Beyyrm0n.

and from individual donors, will be
on exhibition beginning this after
noon.
This collection is a part of the
large loan of French art of the 18th
century. from which oil paintings
have been on exhibition at the
gallery since last March. The water
colors and drawings were also
selected by M. Rene Huyghe. cura-
tor Of paintings at the Louvre. and
have been shown in the United
States under supervision of Rene
Battigne.
The group to be placed on view
today has range of a century and
half. from David to Matisse, in
GLIDING the entire 18Th century,
when French art reached its height.
IN the opinion Of M. Huyghe tand of
many other authorities. Indi-
vidualism is the outstanding char
acteristic of the period.
David, who made neo-classicisn
popular In France, is represented
IN the present group with wash
drawing for his famous painting
The Sabines" The superb
draughtsmanship of his great pupil.
1ngres, Is seen in pencil drawing,
The Stamaty Family" dated 1918.
1ngres, incidentally, was one of the
nrst artists to use the newly de-
veloped lead pencilD The serenity
OF this well-to-do family group, in
their fashionable clothes and with
evidence of culture and comfort
IN furniture and toys. is strongly
contrasted with the mood of an
other drawing in the collection,
Daumier's Soup" Here. too. is
a family group, but the man and
woman are coarsened by poverty
and toll and are tackling their
scanty meal with wolfish concen-
tration.
Gericault and Delacroix, leaders
81 the Romanticists, the men of
Barbizon, the Impressionists and
great individuals such as Daumier,
and also the sculptors Rodin and
Bourdelle, are all represented with
important drawings or water colors
contemporary leaders of French
art. Matlsse and Picasso, and other
well known moderns, including
Duty and Lurcat, carry the survey
OF French graphic arts and water
color paintings UP to their present
developments The collection will
be on view indefinitely.
Gift Of Whistler Etchines
To National Gallery.
The National Gallery of Art has
announced gift of 80 etchings by
James A. Mcneil Whistler, pre-
sented by Mr.. and Mrs. j. Watson
Webb Of New York. in honor of Mrs.
Webb's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. O.
Havemeyer. They are known as the
First and Second Venice sets" and
were published in London in 1880
and 1856, respectively.
These etchings belonged to the
Havemeyer collection, from which
Goya's portraits of the Suredas
were given to the National Gallery
more than year ago by another
daughter, Mrs. P. H. B. Freyling-
huysen. The etchings will be placed
on exhibition in the near future.
Abstract Paintings on Vie,c
At Phillips Gallery.
Two markedly different groups of
abstract painting are now exhibited
at the Phillips Memorial Gallery:
Decorations by Augustus Vincent
Tack in three second-fo rooms,
and paintings by Liz Clarke in the
print rooms. Mr. Tack's work will
remain until March 81. and will be
reviewed later: Mrs. Clarke's exhibit
ton closes after next Sunday.
She appears to have experimental
with abstract painting under diff
ferent influences: Picasso, prague.
Klee, Bauer. Rouault. At any rate,
those are the names which will oc-
cur to some observers as they view
her variations. 1t is probably more
diverting for the artist than for the
public, generally speaking. Her lit
tie fantasies entitled Bears and
Moons" and Man With Balloon"
which seem to be all her own. i'm
press the writer as the best work
shown, along with Fruit" and
"Chanticleer,' the latter of Cubist
derivation This exhibition came to
the Phillips Gallery from New York.
where it was shown last month at
the Bignou Gallery. Proceeds from
any sales in the current show will
be given for the benefit of British
prisoners Of war.
Formerly Californian, Mrs
Clarke has studied art and has lived
in many parts Of the world. She be
gan her study Of painting in Prov
inCetOWn and continued at the Ma
tional Academy in New York. Sub
secuently she studied in Paris and
on her return to the United States,
she worked with Alexander ArChi-
penko She came To Washington in
1871 with her husband. Humphrey
Clarke who is third secretary at the
British Embassy.
80 This Is Nerico.'
Opening At the American
Union next WEDNESDAY, is an exhibit
ten by Row Vincent MacNlcol.
which will remain THROUGH March
q II j. the 35rd c-o-man show,
hut the FIRST in We '@'D" on, by tbs
p~tiye Ne" N0ric- Who rnw macs
h hcno IN 1eXco A bioera0hi"al
ac~owt r. him vas '4."U ~ this
Pc lo-t Se0tem Ner. when he last
v'eitfd va hngton.
Art Of the Valiant GreekS.