Evening star., 1948-03-07
Art
Water Color Club
Offers Challenging
Show in Month
Full of Interest
By Florence S. Berrymon

The Washington Water Color
Clubs SD annual exhibition which
will open his afternoon in the foyer
of the Natural History Building.
National Museum, seems to me the
most interesting of the March pres
entations. The new month is prod
igal In its art offerings, with the
fine exhibition of European old mas
ter drawings at the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art, the 18th annual exhibi-
ton of the miniature painters,
sculptors and engravers adjoining
the water color show at the museum,
a trio Of Washington artists at the
Phillips Memorial Gallery, Jean
Chariot being shown both in the
Smithsonian Building and at the
Artists Cooperative, Edward Rosen-
field at the Whyte Gallery and a
number of others recently opened
or about to open.
The water color annual comprises
135 paintings, both aquarelles and
gouaches, and 100 prints .in all me-
diuns. (The latter group will be
reviewed next week. The show is
closer to conservatism than to mod
ern idions, yet it impressed me as
having just as many progressive as
academic works. The majority take
an intermediate path. The public
should find the show lively and at
tractive. Furthermore, the jury OF
awards. composed of Burtis Baker
and Kenneth Stubbs, painters, and
Thomas M. Beggs, assistant direc-
tor of the National Collection Of
Fine Arts, bestowed the honors upon
paintings and prints which are tech
nically competent and pleasing and
not calculated to irk or bewilder
the public.
Water Color Prizes
Of total of 10 awards in paint
ings and graphic arts, Washington
artists and an Alexandrian took six.
Henry Gasser of Newark, N. j.,
whose New Hope, Pa" fetched the
first water color prize of $100. is be-
coming a perennial winner in this
annual, having received prizes here
in l945 and 1946. The current win
ner depicts old frame houses, silvery
gray with age, in a green and sunny
setting.
Joseph Katulski of Washington
received the second prize, for THE
Attic" an interior painted in SIM
plifed naturalism, making a compo-
sition of rectangles. Housewives
will admire its clean and orderly
appearance Mary Eta Sharpe of
Alexandria was awarded third prize
for her cheerful painting OF neigh
borhood of red brick houses and
snow covered ground, in which peo-
pie are making snow men or shovel
ing paths.
Honorable mentions went to
Katherine S. Sunny, art teacher at
Central High School, for her broad
ly painted Gala Lilies; to Carl
Nyquist of Georgetown for his warm
painting of "Tepepen," Mexico" in
which native houses climb to the
church on the height. and to Roy
Clark, president of the Washington
Water Color Club, for his Florida
Palms"
National Character
The annual was selected from q
large number of entries sent liter
ally from ali over the United States
from Maine to California, from
Illinois and Texas, and all the re-
gions in between. Subject matter is
varied, covering portraits, land
scapes, still life, flowers, interiors,
marines and coast scenes, city
scapes, animals.
Invidious though it seems to-
mention only a few, I shall name
those which inspired a penciled
notation in my catalogue. Harry
Andersons well-painted "Barnyard"
is interesting throughout its sur
face. Frederic Whitaker's Bayou
Boat" is done with virtuosity. II
liked Richard Reasoners lush
Palm Jungle-Key West" and
Viktor Schreckengosts gray and
green House of Memories" S. H,
Buffers "Re-Bop," one OF the
smaller paintings, also one Of the
more contemporary in handling.
is q colorful and successful inter-
probation of lively music by per-
formers on various instruments.
Washington artists hold their own
well with those from elsewhere.
Ruth Perkins Safford's Dresden
Room is exquisite in detail and
depletion; Carolina van H. Beans
"Bit of Washington" in pencil and
colored chalk is admirable. as is
Josephine Danforth's quite different
"Street Scene, Georgetown. New