Evening star., 1949-10-30

first studio in memory Of his wife.
Mrs. Hall said that a number of
other artists are planning to build
their own studios there, and even
tually leave them to the colony.
Still others are considering stu
dios as memorials to their families
Joshua Tree is located 125 miles
east of Los Angeles. near the
Joshua Tree National Forest. 1t is
5000 feet high. and has a par
ticularly salubrious climate, &C
cording to Mrs. Hall.
In the 1920s, Mrs. Hall con-
Quoted the Hotchkiss Studios Of
Music and Art here at Scott Circle.
Later. when her husband was At
tache in the American Embassy at
Constantinople, she inaugurated a
free school of art for Turkish girls.
Returning to the United States,
she opened a studio in Hollywood,
now her permanent home.
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Prints in All Media
The Society of Washington
Printmakers, whose 14th exhibi-
ton opened at the Arts Club last
Sunday to remain through Novem-
ber IL. actually runs gamut from
A to z in its IS prints: From John
Taylor Arms to Stanley Hayter.
Mr.. Arms panoramic view. Light
and Shade" is etched with ex-
quisite precision and lines so fine
as to give a wholly tonal effect.
Mr.. Hayter's two distractions (en-
craving and color offset) entitled,
Unstable Woman" and Failing
Figure" are cleancut in tech
nique and have lively patterns in
color. which also convey strongly
the ideas suggested by the titles.
These Hayter engravings and 13
other prints in color by past and
contemporary. masters in etching.
lithography. wood-engraving and
serigraphy comprise a special in
vitation section in the show, lent
by the Library of Congress and
other sources.
AS in previous years, the society
made purchase awards of two
prints for presentation to the
Library Of Congress, selected by
Alice Lee Parker of the Library,
and Prentiss Taylor, the society's
president. Both prints are alb
stractions: Marine Apparition,"
an aquatint by Jacob Kainen
(curator of the Division of
Graphic Arts, United States Ma
tional Museum, and Louis
Schanker's color woodblock print.
Birds in Flight"
These choices will doubtless be-
wilder many visitors who will see
at least 80 other prints in the
show that appear to be more
coyetable possessions. Miss Park
er was interested in filling gaps
in the Library's collections, and in
obtaining prints by experiment
talists in new techniques and ap-
proaches.
Washington printmakers and
many from other cities are in
cluded in this interesting and
varied exhibition, which has a
high level of competence. All the
major media are represented,
singly and in combination. Among
the arresting items noted in the
etching classification are Minna
Citron's color etching and engrav-
ing, semiabstract, Men Seldom
Make Passes; Inez Demonet's
I'm the Vieux Carre":: Yesterday
and Today" by Ruel P. Tolman
director of the National Collec-
ton Of Fine Arts until his retire
ment last year,: Evelyn B.
Wynne's "Carousel," very granular
IN texture, and BENJAMIN Rubin's
outline figure etching, Vera"
Drypoints include .Armin Lam
decks masterfully handled MAR
row Street" and Minnie Raul's ap-
pealing color drypoints Of wild
flowers.
Autographs represent Prentiss
Taylor, who shows a quadruple
self portrait done for the National
Academy when he was elected an
associate; Alan Cranes beautiful
"Guanajuato Street: "All Gods
Chillun Got Shoes" by Ruth Starr
Rose; the head Of a young boy by
Samuel Bookatz, and Benton
Spruance's Eyes for the Night.
color ithograph which won al
Library Of Congress 500 award
in 1913.
There is much variety in Ino-