Evening star., 1949-03-13

aph by Minna Citron in her solt
She has a flair for turning to her
advantage, the size and shape
limitations Of wooden blo> 9. and
a feeling for the varied color md
surfaces of antique oak driftwI>
pine, cedar, tulip and applewood,
walnut and others.
Born in Russia. the artist came
to the United States as a child,
studied under outstanding sculp-
tors Laessle and Hancock at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts. She has lived in Washing
ton most Of the last decade.
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Knaths' Annual
The Phillips Gallery opened last
Sunday it's annual exhibition OF
paintings by Karl Knaths. which
this year is composed OF six from
the gallery's permanent collection
and nine loans from the artist, all
recent. They completely fill the
large gallery on the second floor,
where they will remain only
through March 20. This after
noon an exhibition by Joseph Sol
man will open in the Phllllps
printrooms, also to close March 20.
Color impressed me most in
this latest Knaths display. In his
earlier years he was SO strongly
attached to browns, grays and
black, only sparingly high lighted
by brighter notes, that the gen.
erous use of fresh and varied color
in the present show seems un-
inhibited. Two of the most inter-
esting of these new paintings
saul" and Chariot" involve
grifins and other creatures from
classical mythology. as we'll as
sphinxes and pyramids, all meta
'morphosed into cubist compost
tions.
Washington Artists
The Washington Hebrew Con-
gregation recently opened at the
Temple, at 822 Eighth street NV,
an exhibition of paintings and
sculpture by D. c. artists, ar
ranged by Sydney Kellner, who
hopes this show will be the first
of a series of several annually. 1t
is on view in the vestry and library
through April 8.
The majority of the 18 artists
represented, each with several
works, are we'll known in local art
circles. Samuel Bookatz's paint
ings range from the conservative
Girl in White" which won a
Washington Area Artists show
prize in 1947, to more expert
mental work such as was in his
show at the Corcoran last sum-
mer. Jack Perlmutter's Clothes
line" Benjamin AbramoWitz S
Lovers" in a moody landscape
Jacob Kainens Brooklyn Corner"
in a misty gray-blue tonality
Henriette Iauterman's water color
"Ellicott City" and Norma Mazo s
cheerful primitive playground
were my preference OF these
artists groups.
Several exhibitors new to me
are David Leibovici, a physician
who paints for recreation; Mau-
rice Newman, chief of a section
in the Engineer Research Develop
ment Laboratory at Fort Belvoir,
by whom are a good conservative
portrait and a glimpse OF George
town, and Anna Cohen, who shows
naturalistic landscape and flowers
The sculpture section includes
an attractive group of small fig
ures In several materials by Sarah
Silberman, q number of Leo
Steppat's admirable animal sculp-
lures and a group by Shirley
Lichtman, headed by her lime
stone bas-relief, LET My People
Co."
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Austrian Artists Solo
Ernest Lothar's one-man show
which opened last Sunday at
United Nations Club. is his fourth
in Washington in eight years. He
has also participated in several
group shows here. and his work
should be fairly familiar to regu-
lar gallery-goers. He has been
swayed by a number Of influences
(African sculpture, stained glass
Oriental art, Cubism, Modigliani)
which he has welded into an
emphatically personal style.
Mr.. Lothar has had an eventful
and, for an interval. troubled
life. Born in Vienna, where he
obtained his art education at the
School Of Fine Arts and Crafts,
To- nS~fict