Evening star., 1950-04-09
News Of Art and Artists
Crowded April Program; Rosenwo|d at Gallery Today

ington, in which is shown the best
advertising art done by local COM
mercial artists.
The latter show is composed of
more than 200 exhibits in six
classifications: color and black
and white illustrations, cartoons,
color and black and white photo
graphs, and design of complete
unit. Three nationally known
artists judged the show: viii
Burtln, Arthur Hawkins, jr., and
Bra d bury Thompson. They
awarded one blue and three white
ribbons and certificates of merit
in each class.
In the color illustration class,
Henry j. Bausin's tempera paint
ing of a war-devastated landscape
for the American Red Cross, won
the blue ribbon. Second awards
went to Jes Schlaikjer's large oil
painting of young woman Red
Cross worker; to Vernon Nye's
tempera painting "The Doctor" :"
full of human interest; and to
Edward Waltons painting of a
Chinese subject. Mr.. Walton
received blue ribbon for another
Chinese subject featuring the
Great Wall, in the black and white
Illustration class. William Richie
barger. Grace Carter and Hoff-
master fetched second awards in
class two.
For cartoons. Ralph Robinson
received first and second awards
for his humorous figures of men
and animals. Other honors went
to Samuel Abbot and Leo Hersh-
field.
Glib Crockett, The Star cartoon
ist, has two beautifully executed
entries, tempera painting poster
for the Notre Dame Navy game:
and an Illustration for the United
States Treasury. Indeed, so many
exhibits are technically excellent
and interesting as to subject
matter the judges must have
had difficult time making
awards. .-.
This exhibition remains only
through April %.
Joint Exhibition
Paintings by Laura Glenn Doug
las and sculpture by Maxim Elias
are on view at the Playhouse
Theatre art gallery through
April. Both artists have had years
of study in Europe and the United
States. and both are alumni Of the
Corcoran School of Art.
Miss Douglas is showing a group
Of 13 abstract and expressionistic
works in oil. watercolor, gouache,
pastel and colored crayon. Glass,
Fruit and Flowers" impressed me
as the best in color, composition
and execution. A few works give
the show biographical interest,
among them Magnolia Gardens"
miss Douglas was born in South
Carolina). Memories of the Nc
DoweIl Colony" and Marine
Grande. Capri Zone of the places
she studied.
Mr.. Elias has seven sculptures
at the Playhouse. beautiful little
stone torso, two hammered figures,
an early wood sculpture "Shy
Girl" and several works construct
ed Of separate pieces of oak. This
Russian-born artist is a geologist
with the Department of the Inte-'
rior. and is an instructor at the
School of Adult Education of the
YWCA.
Fifty Best
Fifty Books of the Year" exhi-
bition, the best known annual
event of The American Institute
of Graphic Arts. opened the past
week at the Library Of Congress,
to remain only through April 18.
Five other identical sets of the
jury's selections opened simulta-
neously in New York. Boston,
Chicago and San Francisco librar-
les, and in Philadelphia's Poor
Richard Club.
John Begg of oxford University
Press, Serge Chermayeff, presi-
dent of the Institute of Design in
Chicago, and Lewis Gannet, book
reviewer of the New York Herald
Tribune, composed the jury. which
chose these so volumes from 678
entries Of books published in 1949.
In this show, the excellence is not
literary merit. but esthetic: de-
sign, Typography, and quality Of
Many of these books
are beautifully illustrated.
Masterpieces Of Sculpture from
the National Gallery of Art" by
Charles Seymour. jr.. and This II
Saw" Qife and Times Of Goya) byl