Evening star., 1947-06-15
News Of Art and Artist,

wood to Antonio da
Trento, who became celebrated for
his chiaroscuro prints, six OF which
are shown here.
Other 10th century Italians in the
exhibition are Antonio da Cremona,
with two prints; Alessandro Chan
DIM, Niccolo Boldrini, with five
including the toneful Child Driving
a Bull and an artist identified
only as the Master Y. H. S.
The work of Andrea Andreani is
well illustrated with nearly 20 ex-
amples, some of them the largest
on view. One is "Abraham's Sacri-
fee" made in different sections and
measuring about 2 by 4 feet. One
of his later works Is an engraving
of Triumph of Caesar" after Man.
tegna, which is shown in several
sections. Andreani was active into
the first of the 18th century.
Bartolomeo Coriolano, son of q
Nuremberg. artist who had settled in
Italy, worked there during the Sec
ond quarter of the 17th century
A noble "St. Jerome" after Guide
Reni, and two other prints by him
are shown. BY Parmigianino is a
print that closely resembles a pen
drawing. Works by other known
artists and some not identified in
crease the Italian representation
The latest of this school is Count
Antonio Maria Zanetti, Venetian
nobleman who made about 100
chiaroscuro woodcuts. Eleven Bib
lical and classical subjects of his
are shown; their beauty and grace
should make them popular with Wis
itors.
The chiaroscuro method in print
making, in various notifications,
has continued into the present time.
Some original wood engravers today
use it to indicate tone effects. Allen
Lewis and Rudolph Ruzicka are two
gifted American exponents of this
art.
Nicaraenan Painter Here
An exhibition of % recent paint
ings by the Nicaraguan artist,
Rodrigo Penalba, who arrived in the
United States last February after
nearly 10 years in Italy, will open
at the Pan American Union this
afternoon, to remain through June
80. Most of the works are land
scapes, still lifes and figures, in
Guiding one of an old woman after
the battle of Casino.
Penalba, born in Leon, Nicaragua,
in 1908, was precocious child; it is
said he had acquired reputation
as a caricaturist at the age of Is.
He studied for four years at the
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and
later in Spain and Mexico, where
he also served as a teacher at the
School of Fine Arts. He went to
Italy on a fellowship of the Mica
raguan government in 1898; attend
ed the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
in Rome, won several prizes and
graduated In 1941. During the Ger
man occupation he lived in a small
village in central Italy, continuing
to paint and finding ways of help
ing the Allied cause.
Penalba held a one-man show In
Rome two years ago and at the
Marquie Gallery. New York, last
April.
Openings at Library
OF Congress
Two exhibitions OF much interest
have Just opened at the Library OF
Congress, main building, to remain
for several weeks, along with the
5th National Exhibition of Prints.
recent additions to the
Lessing j. Rosenwald collection are
on view on the first floor, near the
entrance. Eighty catalogued items
include some of the most important
volumes ever issued by the presses
Of Europe and America from the
days of Gutenberg to the end of
he 18th century," according to DR..
A. S. w. Rosenbach in his foreword.
There are many Illustrated works
among them, which will be reviewed
lere in detail at an early date.
In commemoration of the Tooth
of the arrival of pioneer
settlers of Utah in the valley of
the Great Salt Lake, the Library
1as opened a large exhibition in two
parts, one in the west basement
gallery, the other in the south side
'econd-hoor exhibition hall.
In-Transit Exhibition
Community Education, Inc, is now
showing the second exhibition of
he in-transit group of Washington
lrtists. This group had its initial
how several years ago when Dante
2adice had a gallery on M street.
3ut all of these artists exhibit regu-
arly in other local professional
organizations.
Most of the 80 or more works on
lew by IA painters and sculptors |
eem to be uninhibited experiments.
)ne wonders why artists want to
how things that are still In the
laboratory stage, so to speak. They
lave little or nothing to recon-
mend them to lay visitors. But there
re a few exceptions in the present
how.
Frances Ferry's large Checker
Players" depicting boys in a quiet
painted in light browns
md grays, is one of the best things
have seen by her. Virginia Park
RS large abstraction, with we'll
elated oval and other curved and
angular shapes, is decorative and
,olorful without being garish. In
several water colors of Florida,
Douglas Brown has managed to
one down his characteristic raucous