Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-10-16
News Of Art and Artists

Works of Is Artists;
cry Locale
and with individual artists. She
has long been a resident Of Wash
ington, is affiliated with the Arts
Club and Society of Washington
Artists and exhibits frequently in
local groups and galleries. During
her career, she has taught at Vir-
ginia College and other schools,
and at one time in Army hos
pitfalls.
Unique Impressions
Mignon Atchison's IS monotypes
in the reception rooms makes an
engaging display. AS explained in
her catalogue, "a monotype is an
impression from a painting done
on metal. glass. plastic or linoleum
the process yielding but one print
If the visitor UNDERSTANDABLE won
ders why an artist should 60 to the
trouble of painting picture and
then pressing it off on paper, in
stead of leaving it on the original
surface, the reply is that the
painting produces a different
effect of surface and texture, with
presumably ensnarements not to
be found in the original painting"
Miss Atchison studied at the
Corcoran and Phillips Memorial
Gallery Schools of Art and has ex-
hibited here extensively as well as
out of town. She is member OF
the Arts Club.
Visitors familiar with her pre-
Tviously exhibited paintings and
prints will probably be impressed
with the more traditional charac-
ter OF the current show. Only a
few of the prints approach the
semi-abstraction Of most Of her
work. The majority Of these mono
types would At into any traditional
interior (the average home).
In view of the even level OF
quality, it would seem difficult to
select any one item as top; but !
think "Menemsha Creek" stands
out. The show is divided between
landscapes, harbor scenes. flowers
and still life. and birds. with few
scattered subjects such as Christ
mas Fantasy" which, with Snow
at Christmas" would make effec-
tive greeting cards for the festive
season.
Book Review
Architecture and the Spirit Of Man. BY
Joseph Hudnut. (Harvard University
If there is a more persuasive
advocate of contemporary archi-
lecture than Dean Hudnut, or one
better equipped with telling argu-
ments, I have not read him. In
this engaging volume. the author
urges our sympathetic support OF
an architecture truly expressive OF
the spirit Of today. He is not try
ing to cram down our Threats
purely unitarian machines to
live in" but buildings which will
be functional and at the same
time, living organisms, IN which
we shall find spiritual and emo
tional, as we'll as practical, salts
faction.
It is a serious work. but it is
covered with a toothsome me-
ringue of warm humor, apt illus
tration and engaging anecdote,
which make it highly palatable.
Furthermore, 1t ranges over q
vast territory - from private
dwellings to skyscrapers, from
prehistoric mans rude shelter to
the latest prefabricated dwelling,
from garden layout to city plan
ming.
In two chapters Dean Hudnut
aims his devastating observations
at our National Capital. which he
finds an incredible place. honor
ing Washington, Lincoln and
Jefferson with an Egyptian ODE
lisk, a Greek temple and a
Roman rotunda, respectively. He
ponders the prevailing style"
supposed to circumscribe Wash
ington architecture. which yet
permits 10 different styles, he
says, to face the Mall from the
Folger Library to Arlington.
In one Of the most entertaining
chapters he relates the history Of
a New England lady who lived
in a goth century Cape Cod cot
tage, furnished with the price
less spoils" from antique shops,
and one day In a department
store met that cool and rakish
seducer, the electric automatic
washing machine. which she adj
mitted to her home, with subse-
quent revolutionary effects.
It seems to me that this book
ought to be read and pondered
by every iterate person.