Evening star., 1947-11-23

FOrmerly 0OteQ Tor her Sprlghtly
transcriptions of the circus, she has
become interested In abstract work,
and the current exhibition of about
20 paintings, reveals her change
more emphatically than isolated
canvases in group exhibitions the
past few years. Browns, gray-blue
and dusty rose are the colors which
now dominate her paintings, and
her forms are largely angular and
sharply defined. Her interest in ex-
perimental painting Is not recent,
however: she studied in the 1920s
under esthetic radicals, Arthur
Carles in Philadelphia and Andre
L'hote In Paris.
She also studied at Pennsylvania
Academy Of Fine Arts, and under
Hugh Breckenridge, a traditionalist
One painting in the present eXhibi-
ton, "Old Pine" is conservative in
handling, and exemplif1es the way
Miss Baker used to paint. Cat least
I assume it is the earliest work in
the show, as it differs from all her
other exhibits; but none are dated.)
1t is still-life arrangement, beau
tiful in form and color.
Miss Baker shows two paintings
of clowns, one loaned by the Phillips
Memorial Gallery and done in her
earlier manner. The second is more
akin to the clowns of Rouault The
little Pink Hat" is self-portrait,
but not close likeness.
Impressions of Chile
Carolyn Bradley's painting Is so
indomitably North American that
the majority of her water colors (on
view at the Pan American Union
through tomorrow, which depict
scenes in Chile, might easily be mis-
taken for views of the Rocky Noun
tains, the Maine coast, and else
where in the United States.
Miss Bradley began her study of
art in her native State, Indiana.
under the noted Hoosier painter,
William Forsyth, and at the Heron
Art Institute. She subsequently had
instruction from Henry B. Smell, w.
Lester Stevens and George Pearse
Ennis, all eminent painters as well
as excellent teachers. She became
a professor of fine arts at Ohio State
University.
These chapters in her career seem
to have made a lasting impression.
She later studied in Mexico at the
University School of Fine Arts in
San Miguel Allende, with Ruflno
Tamayo Chavez Morado and Carlos
Merida, two of them internationally
famous. But I cannot perceive the
remotest trace of their influence in
her work.
Miss Bradley has travelled extern
sively in Europe, also in Canada and
several countries of Latin America.
While in Chile, for the Inter-Ameri-
can Educational Foundation in 1946,
she painted many of the water COL
ors in the current show. She also
taught at the summer school of the
University of Chile.
Her water colors are broad in
handling, with good carrying quail
ity. About IS of the % on view are
mountain and coast scenes. The re-
manning third Of the show comprises
portraits of Mexicans and Guate-
malans, and one or two villages,
which have Latin American flavor
solely because of their subjects. Par
ticularly good are panorama,
From San Cristobal," and a beau-
tiful young native woman with q
tray Of food. Miss Bradley has re-
ceived many awards for her paint
ings during the past 20 years, mostly
for those in water color, her favorite
medium.
How VS.. What
trsists' Cc-o' >-.ative ef Washing
ton has recently opened two one
man shows-paintings by Ernest L.
Daily in the front gallery, etchings
by Gustav Trois in the center gal
lery. The former Is a modernist,
the latter a conservative. Visitors of
different tastes should find some
thing of interest in one or the other
Offering.
Mr.. DAILY, graduate of Catholic
Universitys School of Architecture,
and himself an instructor until re-
Gently, studied under Cikovsky and
at Corcoran School Of Art. He has
exhibited In the Corcoran alumni
shows, and received honorable mem
ton in the current area annual.
He is now giving all of his time to
mural painting and architectural
rendering, having recently opened
his own studio on Twentieth street.
| He is showing eight or nine oil
paintings, all modern, but varying
in degree of abstraction. He has
allied himself with 'the prophets Of
progress" who, he says, "are for the
most part foredoomed to public os-
tracism." Their reward presumably
lies in their conviction that they
are contributing to leadership in