Evening star., 1947-10-26

a high school and community art
center, Chicago, and two years at
George Washington Carver School,
New York. He has painted murals
for Tuskegee, Hampton Institute, a
Chicago library and the Associated
Negro press there. He is represented
in seven permanent collections. This
is an impressive record OF achieve
ment for so young an artist. His
exhibition will remain at Barnett
Alden Gallery through November.
Pepsi.Cola's 4th Annual
Coming to Washington
1t is patiently unfair to Judge a
painting solely from glossy photo
graph of it, which is all I know as
yet of Henry Kallem's Country
Tenement" which has just won the
$4,000 first prize in Pepsi-Cola's
fourth annual Paintings of the
Year" competition. Nevertheless. 1t
seems to me that the most mirac-
ulous color in the world could not
make this painting the best in a
group of 159, which were in turn
winnowed from 4,739 canvases sub
mitted by artists all over the United
States. Washington will have an
opportunity to judge the show this
season, as it Is coming to the Cor
coran Gallery of Art.
Dean Stambaugh, art instructor
at St. Adams School for Boys, Is
the only Washington artist repre-
sented in this Pepsi-Cola annual,
His painting, Change and Decay
is more impressive as glossy pho
tograph than is the first prize win
ner.
Pepsi -Cola's total purse this year
was $35,950, of which $15,250 was
awarded in 20 prizes; $4,000 in four
fellowships, and $14,700 was paid for
paintings especially purchased for
the Pepsi-Cola 1948 calendar.
Paintings Of the Year" is spon-
sored by a national committee for
the exhibition, composed Of 1s direc-
tors of important art museums
throughout the country, among
them c. Powell Minnigerode, direc-
tor emeritus of the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art.
Minor Arts
Howard University now has de-
Ilightful exhibition Of ceramics, tex
tiles, metalwork and wood, ranging
from $50 3. G. to 1916. Drawn from
10 museums, dealers and private COL
lections, the show comprises about
100 actual objects in the four cate
gories, and a series of Photographic
placards with labels demonstrating
Itechniques.
The purpose of the exhibition is
to present to the university students
a selection of few choice examples,
each piece chosen as representative
and of a quality as high as could
be obtained. There is no attempt
to be comprehensive. Among the
lenders are the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and c. T. Loo
& Co. in New York; the National
Collection of Fine Arts. Smithsonian
Institution and Barnett Alden Gal
lery as we'll as Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Harris of Washington. The
American Craftsmen's Educational
Council Of New York has sent
large display of contemporary crafts,
which will be here only through
Friday The other loans will re-
main through mid November.
The objects are effectively in
stalled in the foyer of the founders
library, in new exhibition cases with
indirect lighting; and in the art
gallery. Greek. Etruscan, pre-Co-
lumbar, Near Eastern, Chinese and
European wares of past centuries are
among the items on view.
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Artists Cooperative
A large number of new names
are represented in the members
exhibition now at the Artists Co.
operative, to remain through No
vember H. Comprising between 20
and 30 works. mostly paintings, the
show was juried by w. T. Carnelli,
Paul Arlt and Ernest L. DAILY.
The collection impressed me as
considerably more experimental and
radical than previous displays at