Evening star., 1948-07-11
! Art
Members Show
Is Conservatives;
Library Display
By Florence S. Berrymon

The Members Show just opened
at the Washington Arts Club to re-
main through the summer, is curl
ously disappointing The majority
Of the paintings shown are pleasing,
but there are only IS representing
% artists i. which do not completely
f1ll the available space in the redec-
Grated gallery and reception rooms.
Many of the clubs outstanding
painters are not represented; prob
ably they did not submit anything.
On the other hand, the Art Commit
tee members, who juried the show,
must have been unusually strict to
have accepted too few works to
cover the walls.
A 1ury's job is tough one at best,
and comparatively thankless. In the
vast majority of cases. the persons
who accept such tasks must have
carte blanche to select only those
works which. in their opinions. will
make worthy display. But in this
particular annual, which affords
some artist members their only op-
rortunity to exhibit at the club each
year. 1t seems to me that works
should be accepted to the extent of
the wall space. NATURALLY, do not
suggest that they be hung from
ceiling to f1oorD Possibly small in
vited section would be feasible to
bolster the annual show. invitations,
of course, to be limited to club
members. And where, one wonders,
are the sculptors?
Conservative as a Group. !
This Members Show is conServa-
tive. as is usually the case with
these ANIMALS. 1t includes paint
ings in oil, water color and pastel,
and a few drawings. Among the
portraits and figure paintings are
an excellent likeness of Mrs. Uhler
Briggs. beautifully executed in COL
ored crayons by Helen E. Town. |
send: charming and spirited head
of q little boy by Margaret Yard
Tyler, new member and former
Waslingtonian, who had solo eX-
hibition at the club in April; an i'm
pres5ionistic double portrait of two
women possibly mother and daueh-
ter by Clara Saunders: Mlgnon
Atchison's attractive capture OF a
dark haired young woman, with
touches of scarlet against blue /
gray background, and Ethel Good S
head of young Negress, done in
pastelS.
Ruth Perkins Saford's lively
water color of Georgetown is con-
s1derably broader in handling than
her well-known interiors. Row
land Lyon depicted the corner OF
Third and F streets SW in his
colorful Early Spring" the season
revealing itself in anaemically bud
ding newly planted trees. Garnet
Jex shows a view of Harpers Ferry,
with a delicate overtone of violet
that seems to be the hallmark of his
paintings. Theodore Kane is repre-
sented with two works. one of them
a large street scene of Tepotzlan,
sketchier and more simplifled than
other paintings of Mexico she has
shown in the past year. Bruce
Howe went farthest afield for his
subject matter turning in two small
pencil drawings of Tangier. Omar
Carrington's entry, quiet, melan-
choly "Wayside Station" is a double
award winner first honorable men
ton in the Corcoran Gallerys Sec
ond annual Of artists of Washing
ton and vicinity last autumn and a
prize for unusual merit in the Mary
land artists exhibition at the Balti-
more Museum in March)
Still Life Is Well Done. .
Some of the most decorative and
we'll painted works are still life and
flowers. Anne Myers blue gold
pastel is charming; Eugenia Eckford
Rhoads' "Petunias" is excellent in
color and rendering. Other meri-
torious paintings in this subject
classification are Margaret Mess
Still Life" Catherine Ames' me-
ticulously painted miniature, Field
and Garden Flowers" and Sara
Redds "Magnolias." !
Among the landscapes, Alice
Riddle Kindlers Is the best I have
seen by her; it has suggestion of
early autumn. Margaret Herr's
little Early Spring" depicts young
men fishing in a woodsy setting.
Harry zichterman's Canal Over
flow in Autumn" is also small In
size, with a pleasing pattern OF
black branches against the green
and gold foliage, Charles Hatch
"Windings" is varia-
ton in greens.
Simon de Korsakoff has contri-
buted the single marine, a large
painting of the north Atlantic. aca-
demic in treatment. Alice Coe Nc
Glaufins glimpse of Ogunquit is
the only beach scene. Martha Mof-
fat Pache cootriblltpH the sole