Evening star., 1949-02-06
District ScuIptors' Work Goes
.On Exhibition in Shop Windows

oIICCG INV. =, q SCCICCdAy wiz PduoCo
to examine a statue in the window
Of International Business Machines,
I'LL Connecticut avenue NV. This
way persons who would not usually
60 to an art gallery will become
acquainted and interested in art"
Appropriate Display.
"Since displays in store windows
have become vehicles of artistic ex-
preston, we feel the appropriateness
of presenting art works of mu-
scum quality to the public through
this medium said Miss Katharine
Safer, executive secretary of the
sculptors' group.
Sculpture is excluded from
many art exhibitions,' Miss Safer
explained. Often the size and
weight of some sculpture makes it
hard to show. We wanted to show
Washingtonians what their sculp-
tors are doing here and 50 we
neaved our works into shop win
dows with the kind permission of
the proprietors. They certainly
have been enthusiastic"
One is apt to see an art work in
stone. wood, metal Or precious stone
almost anywhere. Florists. pho
tographers, dress Shops jewellers,
antique dealers, real estate,7 firms
theaters and music and book stores
all have taken a few of the works
for display. The group tried &c
make each display appropr7st tie
BOY, and Pony" by Florence Siggs
is in Rleanor Lemons chilartns S ap-
parel Shop, 1901 O. street NV. An
abstract bronze, Tile Dancer" by
Jane Love, founder Of the WASH
ington Sculptors' group, contrasts
with IBM's machines.
Waitress Among Artists.
The artists whose works are on
view this mcnth are an enthusiastic
group who would be sculpting full
time if they did not have to sup
port family or keep house. There
is Minnie Barr, for instance, a
Union Station waitress VINO took Up
art when some artists got inter-
ested in my dooGles."
Il still can't draw a cows hind
leg" she said, "but it's art, art, art
for me now" She is married and
lives in Mount Rainier.
Then there is Edward Bush, a
former jewelry store owner here
now teaching arts and crafts in
New York. A Marine pilot during
the war. he used to hold art classes
at Pacific island airstrips, where
he carved drift wood. A lepidolite
piece carved by him is in the
Schwartz jewelry store at 1905
street NV.
Another veteran is Russell Hous-
ton of Kensington, Md, whose
"Balinese Dancers" are in the IBM
Offices. Winner of 16 art prizes
during his Navy service, he is now
a War Department architect and
engineer. He formerly was a COM
mercial sculptor and also designed
war memorials for the Army.
Other Works Displayed.
Works of other prize winners are
also on display, such as sculpture
by Maxim Elias, winner of a sculp-
ture show at the Corcorsn Gallery
of Art last year, and josef Herr
brun, winner of the Corcoran's re-
cent exhibition by artists of Wash
ington and vicinity. Also among
the exhibitors is Lilli Gettinger
Corcoran sculpture teacher and
winner of a $1,000 fellowship given
by Sculptor Grace Turnbull of Bal
timore for studio maintenance. Miss
Gettinger won the Corcoran School
of Art prize in 1916.
The Washington Sculptors' Group
was founded in 1916 by Mrs. Love
of Westgate, Md, North Carolina
latin teacher who came here ir
1918. An artist all her life, she
divides her time between her studio
and keeping house for her husband
Joseph j. Love, Budget Bureau
analyst, and her son. She also ha;
married daughter.