Evening star., 1947-09-07

scale models, one of the most i'm
pressiye of which Ito me)' is the
Corps of Engineers model of the
Veterans Administration Hospital,
Louis Justement, York and Sawyer,
associated architects Drawings of
the same building are dated only
last May.
Personal Exhibitions
Among Government architects
showing personal exhibitions is
Oliver Whitwell Wilson of the Army
Map Service, War Department. He
has a group of II watercolors OF
architectural subjects, landscapes
and harbor scenes. I liked best his
colorful and picturesque "Junks at
Dairen.'
Work in various media by Sal Di
Giacomo of the State Department
fills one alcove wall. A pencil sketch
of fishing boats, a glimpse OF Mt.
Vernon, and a watercolor of the
man-and-horse sculpture group out
side the Federal Trade Commission
building, stand out. Albert P. Erb
shows exquisite measured drawings
of His Lordship's Kindness in
Prince George County, Md.
Howard Page and L. r. Warthen of
the Navy Departments Bureau of
Yards and Docks have varied dis
play. Mr.. Pages watercolor of a
lockhouse, c and o Canal, an old
homestead in Falmouth, Va, and his
own coat-of arms illuminated. and
Mr. Warthens large oil of snowy
landscape. struck me as particularly
good. Julian Brown of the same de-
partment is exhibiting a group of
pictorial photographs, many of
characterful types. Vernon F.
Duckett and John Knight are re-
sponsible for some effective water
color renderings of official work for
this bureau.
w. Ellis Groben of the Forest
Service office building. is represented
by the only presentation documents
in the show. beautifully lettered
and illustrated in the borders.
Judges for the exhibition (Which
remains on view only through Sep
tember 16) were Julian E. Berla,
president of the Washington
chapter, American Institute of
Architects, Waldron Faulkner, Louis
Justement, Louis P. Si1nons and
John L. White, jr.
Aden's Group and Solo
The Barnett Alden Gallery inaug-
urated the new season Monday by
opening an exhibition of IL paint
ings by as many artists, and a one
man show, the initial gallery ap-
pearance of a young painter, John
Farrar. Both displays will remain
through October Is.
The group of IL has many facets.
There is a nostalgia New York land
scape by the late Glenn o. Coleman,
who was an interpreter of rather de-
pressing aspects of the metropolis,
such as little old streets like Minetta
lane, which knew better days long
time ago. Another striking street
scene is that entitled "Benediction"
by Charles Davis of Chicago, who in
this canvas has depicted squalid
section of the Negro slums in that
city, over which a church presides
under lowering sky.
A portrait of AlonZo j. Alden, di-
rector of the Barnett Alden Gallery,
just completed by Laura Wheeler
Waring, is a close likeness of the
subject. 1t was presented to him by
the artist, as an expression OF appre-
citation for his Is years of museum
work. and efforts to further opportu-
mites for living artists. James A.
Porter shows a strong. simplified
portrait of a Haitian girl. A vivid
likeness of little girl is that done
by her father, Oded Bourla, one of
the first Palestinian-born artists to
exhibit in this country.
Archibald j. Motley. one of
Chicago's best known Negro artists.
is represented with large genre
subject, "Plotters," in a green, red,
blue and violet color scheme which,
with the mild distortion of its
figures, heightens the feeling of
stirring movement and excitement.
Benjamin Abramowitz' "Flotsam."