Evening star., 1947-05-11
Biennial Travelling Show j,

Biennial Travelling Show
Duncan Phillips, director of the
Phillips Memorial Gallery, who has
long been associated with the
American Federation Of Arts, as a
trustee, sustaining life member, and
now on it's editorial board. has
selected from the Goth Corcoran
Biennial a travelling exhibition to
be circulated by the Federation.
The show will start on its circuit
within a few weeks.
From So paintings chosen by MI.
Phillips, the Federation expects to
obtain the loans of 35 more. To
date, it has received the consent of
l27 artists, sufficient number to
assure an interesting group. In
cluded are four of the seven winners
Fof prizes and honorable mention: :
Stephen Csoka S Green Light
"The Evening Meal by Sol Wilson,
Walter Stuemphg Two Houses"
(Which received Che second Clark
prize and Corcoran silver medal and
was recently purchased for the Gal
lery's permanent collection; and
Hobson Pittmar's Conversation" !"
18th prize winner.
Two of the jurors have promised
their works: Louis Bosa his elfin
Pilgrims Hill, Central Park" and
Harold Weston his excellent Figure
on Green" Three Washington
artists are represented: Andrea
Pietro Zerega with 'The Bench, y
Margaret and Robert Gates with
Landscape" and Summer Soli-
tude," respectively. All of these
have been mentioned and some re-
produced on the art page and else
where in the Star on various Sun
days since the Biennial opened.
Among other paintings to be in
cluded are Herman Maril's stark
Near the Mines; Maurice Sterne's
harbor scene, Before the Storm, :"
broadly handled, in grayed colors;
Prairie Dusk" one of Darrell
Austin's eerie nocturnes, and two
solidly painted urban scenes by the
Martinos, Antonio and Giovanni.
Carlos Lopez admirable little Rain
Over the Lake." should prove to be
one of the most popular paintings
in the show. There is one war
scene: Aaron Bohrod's realistic gray
ruins of "Periere. Normandy"
The travelling Biennial" will have
proportion of semi and pure alb
stractions by Robert Motherwell,
Lyonel Feininger, Will Barnet, STAN
ley William Hayter and Charles
Howard.
Today is the last opportunity to
see the Biennial. Washington men,
bers of the American Federation of
Arts may be interested in searching
for the travelling show selections and
thus getting glimpse of the cross
section to be shown in cities
throughout the United States.
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Opening With Art Film
An exhibition of student paint
ings will open today in the studios
on American University's campus.
In conjunction with this opening,
moving picture of Matisse (erni-s
nent French painter and leader OF
les fauves" 40-odd years ago. at
work in his studio, will be shown
several times during the afternoon.
The public Is invited.
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Southern Prize Winners
Washington artists seem to be
doing very well in out-of-town ex-
hibitions. The latest from which
I have heard is the Southern States
Art League, in whose annual ex-
hibition. held last month at the
Virginia Museum of Art in Rich
moad, three Washington artists
were represented: Andrea zerega,
Mrs. Ethel Robertson Gath, whose
oil painting, "Neighbors, won the
500 Woodward prize, and Omar
Darlington, whose water color. Red
Southern Moon" won the James
Lee prize of $50. These prize win
ners were purchased by the Virginia
Museum and the Mint Museum of
Charlotte. N. c., respectively, for
their permanent collections.