Evening star., 1949-09-25
Old Master Drawing Next Saturday
To Be First of Federation Events

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different paintings in the legend
Of st. Ursula.
The drawings are well labelled.
Visitors will find notes on the
media, brief comments on the art
lists methods of working, and for
what purpose the drawings were
probably intended. Some were
preparatory sketches to serve as
models for larger works; others
were designs for painted glass
panels. or for reproduction in
chiaroscuro woodcuts; still others
were done as ends in themselves,
and sold alongside of paintings.
Such a ''full-dress" drawing is
the Head of a Young Man in a
Cap" by Giovanni Battista Pia-
zetta. 18th century Venetian: an
other is the "Carneval Scene" by
Domenico Tiepolo, nearly half a
century younger. This is one Of
a hundred odd drawings, made for
their own sakes. which the artist
titled Fun for the Kids" cDiver-
timento per Ii Ragazzi."
The public is invited weekdays
and Saturday mornings.
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Artists Looks
In an ideal land undoubtedly
much less Interestingly world. we
would probably pass judgment on
achievements with no thought Of
those who accomplished them. We
would not pry into the personal
lives of actors. writer's. musicians,
artists. politicians, labor leaders
and what not. But since the public
takes a lively interest in men and
women who have risen above the
crowd in some respect. the Phillips
Gallery is justified in showing at
present, an exhibition Artists
Look Like This" composed of por-
trait photographs of noted painters
and sculptors, instead of their
works.
In these photographs by Arnold
Newman, which will remain
through October 10, we meet face
to face" some 80 artists, a number
of them internationally famous,
all of them nationally well known.
A few have been temporary Wash
ingtonians through residence here;
all have exhibited here, and not q
few have come here to be present
at opening of their own shows, or
to be Corcoran jurors, or in some
other capacity. Visitors to the
Phillips Gallery will surely recog-
nize some of them.
Perhaps the outstanding impress
sion one gets from these photo
graphs is how few artists look like
artists" or rather, like the shad-
owy, romantic figure In beret, long
hair, flowing tie, smock and un-
pressed trousers, bequeathed to our
imaginations by 10Th century
Paris.
Edward Hopper, Charles Burch-
field and Sandy" Calder (stand-
ing by two of his mobiles, look to
me like successful businessmen.
Franklin Watkins appears to be a
character actor, specializing in
Lincoln roles. John Sloan, too,
has a theatrical look, as he sits
dwarfed by his background of
voluminous drapes and stacked
paintings. David Burliuk, staring
with hypnotic eyes through an
empty picture frame, appears
capable Of a frightening perform
ance in a shudder-and-shriek
movie.
Jack Levine doesn't remotely
resemble one who paints such de-
Wasting satire as his; he looks like
a poet who writes incompre-
hensible free verse for thin little
quarterlies with small circulations.
Piet Mondrian looks like a college
professor who is tough with final
exams. Stuart Davis has the in
destructible look of a longshores-
man. Georgia O'Keeffe (the> only
woman represented) looks like a