Evening star., 1947-05-04

water, Okla, is responsible for the
aquatint, Tropical Washday," with
Its strong contrasts of dark and
light areas, somewhat more modern
than the prints in his one-man
show at the Smithsonian two or
three years ago. THE Old Fire
place." an etching by Carl M.
Schultheiss Of Kew Gardens, N. Y,
recalls his comprehensive one-man
show at the Corcoran Gallery two
years ago.
Clare Leighton's striking wood
engraving, CLAN Diggers. Cape
Cod" was described on this page
a few months ago; it was the Sec
ond presentation print for 1916 of
the Woodcut Society, with head
quarters in Alexandria, Va.
It is equally gratifying to find
prints by artists Of experience and
renown whose names are familiar
to all of us who frequent galleries,
and by those whose names are new,
but whose work is good. Among
the former are Eugene Higgins and
Daniel CARRIER (whose prints are
among the 80 purchase selections), !,
Thomas Hart Benton, John Costi-
gan, Gordon Grant, Arthur W..
Heintzelman, Louis Lozowick, Luigi
Lucioni and others.
Many New Names
About one-third of the artists
names are new to me, although
many of them may have had long
experience in their respective COM
munities. Among them are Shirley
Thomson of Swampscott, Mass
whose Huntington Station" a
wood engraving, is done in an ex-
quisite technique, and Joseph H.
He'll of New York City, whose two
prints In etching and aquatint, are
concerned with insect forms n1etic-
ulously rendered, which have an
abstract impact. All of these are
among the purchases.
An outstanding modern print is
Stanley Hayter's abstraction, "Un-
stable Woman" in engraving, soft
ground etching and offset color. It
is the wittiest item I have seen by
him and is so effective In its colors
and composition in suggesting the
theme, that it seems as though its
significance would be obvious to
conservatives as well as to those
with modern sympathies.
The sole foreign printmaker whose
work is included among the pur-
chases, Is Marietta Lydis, now liv-
ing in Buenos Aires, but a Viennese
by birth and Partisan by adoption.
This hthograph. "Juana," of young
girl holding turkey, appears to be
a variation of the "child-woman"
theme. 1t is beautifully executed,
depicting face of interesting bone
construction, and contrast between
the eye-expressions of the girl and
the bird
The Library of Congress provides
ample opportunity for Washington
mans to study the National Exhibi-
tions of Prints. The current edi-
ton will remain for three months.
y
Spain and Mexico
Justin N. Locke. a young Wash
ingtonian. is having his first one
man exhibition "a four-year retro
spective, of pictorial photographs at
the National Museum, section of
photography, Arts and Industries
Building, through May OF so prints
on view, the majority were made in
Spain, where he was an attache of
the American Embassy for two years
during the war, and in Mexico,
where he recently spent two months.
Long interested as an amateur
in photography, Mr.. Locke decided
during his sojourn in Spain, to be-
come a professional. He was par
ticularly inspired by the work of
the Basque, Echague. Actually, his
present collection shows a number
of influences, for he does not appear
to have settled, as yet, on single
approach. He warns to beautiful,
romantic and picturesque subjects,
both landscape and architecture, of
which he had a profusion in Spain
and Mexico He has also essayed
character studies and a few COM
monplace subjects arranged and
magnified with an eye to pattern
and texture. Most of his prints are
straight photographs. In few in
stances, he has manipulated mega
tives to emphasize some detail: in
others, he has used soft focus, and
also shows some double exposures.
Mr.. Locke. bern in California in
1920, was taken at the age of to
Europe for a decade. He began his
education at International School,
Geneva. Switzerland, and Travelled
extensively in his boyhood, visiting
Europe's great art galleries. Coming
to Washington in 1888, he attended
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