Evening star., 1945-12-09

Pink Pants" breezy Watercolor OF
big city backyards, Is the work of
professional art teacher with sew
eral college degrees.
Debut Exhibits
At Art Club
Two Washington artists are hav-
ing their first solo exhibitions in
this city: Ethel Robertson Gath
and Mary Ruth Snow, at the Arts
Club, until December 81. They
have been here only a few years,
but are already well known in local
art circles and expect to reside here
permanently, or at least indefinite
ly, as their husbands are profess
sionally occupied here Maj. L. D.
Snow is stationed at headquarters,
Army Service Forces, and Andrew
l.. Gath is in the Department OF the
Interior.
Mrs. Gath is showing 18 oil paint
ings in the Arts Clubs gallery. Her
subjects are chiefly interiors and
still life. There also are a few ur-
ban scenes. Her work is charac-
terized by a precise, knife-edged
naturalism, which affords the pleas
ures of recognition, and should
prove popular with the public. =
In choice OF subject she inclines
to informal, intimate aspects. Most
women will find her closeup of a
kitchen sink, After Breakfast,
poignantly realistic. So, too, Ii
Sunday Morning which depicts a
living room cluttered with sections
of The Star and other local news
papers. Indeed, Mrs. ,Gath's ability
to paint with loving conviction
these and other domestic scenes
such as q collection Of dustpans
brooms. ETC., entitled Ready fol-
Work" is astounding.
While paying tribute to the au-
thenticity with which she conjures
up necessary but unglamorous
household objects, the reviewer pre-
fers other paintings in her collec-
ton: "Checkered Cloth" for in
stance, transcribing breakfast
nook with a table of fruit, painted
IN a close harmony of reds, red
browns and orange; THE Blue
Plate" happily contrasted with
oranges, ana The Crazy Quilt,
which won first honorable mention
for still life at the Society of Wash
ington Artists annual show last
season, the third award she has re-
ceived from that organization in al
many years.
Mary Ruth Shows exhibition
comprises oil paintings, few watel
colors and etchings, hung in ths
Arts Clubs reception room. Land.
scapes are her preferred subject mat.
ter, although nearly one-third o.
the works on view are flower paint.
ings, in which interest is concen'
trated on the flowers, painted
against natural backgrounds.
Her view of the C. 81 o. Canal il
Georgetown entitled Summer Fan
tasy," is one of her best. She ha
handled the same subject in waite
color and etching. Picturesque littl
houses in Georgetown have captures
her fancy and are Transcribed il
such paintings as yellow House o.
the Corner"
Mrs. Snow shows only three es
says in portraiture, the likeness c
her little son Peter" having tn
r most vitality.
Both Mrs. Snow and Mrs. Cat
. have studied art in New York an
( elsewhere, including our own Cor
coran Gallery of Art.
= Obenings
! An entire page would be needed
/ deal adequately with the exhib1
), tions which opened the first fe
!, days of December. In addition
/: those reviewed today, two importar
!. group shows are on view: Th
4 Phillips Memorial Gallery's annu'
: Paintings by Artists Of Washing
ton, Baltimore and Vicinity" an
a Modern American Artists" at tf
D Whyte Gallery. This afternoon tt
q Pennsylvania Society Of Miniatul
Y Painters 44th annual opens at tx
e National Museum, Natural Histol
a Building, for four weeks.
Is At International Galleries, 2012
# street, a two-man show by 1t. How
I'll ard Conant and Paul Lelar
s. Thompson Is on view for month.
el Under the auspices of the Amel
y ican University, an exhibition
e memory Of the late G. Law Watkil
t, will open today at 1901 r sire
n INV, to continue for . fortnigl
d or more.
Mr.. Watkins was for many yea
n associate director In charge Of ed,
Il -lcational activities at the Philli]
u Memorial Gallery and more late
l-Ialso head Of the art departures
+ lof the American University.
Il The paintings shown will be |
e his colleagues In both fields. The
-lexhibition ut this time takes (
added Importance through the ID
that they will 60 to the Americs
University as nucleus for . perm,
nent collection to be gradual
built up through gifts and pu
chases. A special fund for this p,l
pose has been established throut
the generosity Of an anonymo
donor.