Evening star., 1951-07-15
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PenneH Collection
Acquires New Prints
For Library Show
By Florence S. Berrymon

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Nearly so prints have beer
added to the j. and e. r. Pennel
collection from the ninth nationa
Exhibition Of prints which will be
on view at the Library Of Congress
only two more weeks. The Library
has purchased A from the current
display and the Pennell Func
Committee had previously pur-
chased five which are also a part
of the show. This is approxi-
mately 20 per cent Of the total o1
l224 prints, and it represented a
real opportunity for the artists
whose prints were accepted for the
Exhibition.
It Is interesting to check ones
lchoices with those Of officials, al
though degree Of agreement does
mot necessarily have clear-cut sig
|nificance when a number Of fac
tors are involved. as in the present
instance. Technical competence is
high in the show. and the Library
passed up many fine prints, merely
because it already has their artists
represented in the Pennell col
lection.
At any rate, of the "a prints ]
mentioned in the review on May
Is. II are among the new pur-
lchases. These include Meltzer's
Noah" reproduced that Sunday;
four Washington area artists
works: Herb FIGHTERS "Old
Georgetown From the Potomac
Reproduced here June I'D, Mar
guerite Kumm's Quartet" Jack
Perlmutter's Dark Before Dawn"
and Prentiss Taylor's "Woman's
Club Carnival" Letterio Calapai's
dramatic "Erl King" Juliette
Fraser's arresting Animal Act"
Marion Greenwood's appealing
child at a window. Fletcher Mar
tins action-fllled High, Wide and
Handsome: Clare Romano's child
like "Toy Tree" and Janet Turn
Ier's effective "Pelicans."
OF the remaining 80 purchases,
there are about three times as
many conservative as modern
prints, a couple Of surrealistic
items and three or four satirical
and fantastic works.
Exceptional Landscapes.
Exceptional in beauty of subject
and mastery of medium are sew
eral landscapes. Winter Morn.
ling" by James D. Havens: j. j
Lankes' After Apple Picking" and
Warren Mack's Trade Winds. Sar
JUAN" all woodcuts or wood en-
cravings, and Thomas Nason's
copper engraving, BLACK Hall
River"
Prints in color, the large num-
ber Of which distinguishes the
exhibition as a whole, are well rep
resented among the purchases. In
addition to the Turner and Ro-
mano mentioned above, the Library
has acquired William Abrams
m o d ern simplified woodcut,
Maine: Theresa Bernstein's
'Fisherman's Harbor." a drypoint
and monotype with the effect OF
Ia gouache: Howard Bradford's
stylized serigraph, Birds by a
Beach; Hawaiian Drummer,
lithograph by Jean Chariot
which appears to be a descendant
of the Mayan sculpture which has
influenced so much of his work;
Eleanor Coen's lithograph of chill
dren playing in the Snow" on q
Icity lot; Richard Bartlett's seri-
graph, 'Rue Durantin." a typical
French street; Fritz Eichenberg's
monotype, the sinister Witches
Cat" (and fearless mouse) and
Carl Schurz Park" color linocut
by Woldemar Neufeld.
Alfred Bendiner, caricaturiSt
who had a one-man show here
last season at the American In
|stitute of Architects gallery, has
handled his lithograph Paris" in
a humorous manner; Jack Book
binders lithograph. "The Spirit
ual," a head of a boy with a
mouth organ, has character and
appeal. Roof Top" a wood en-
craving by w. L. Choi, is inter-
esting because Of its admirable
handling of textures, which also
distinguishes william Libby's
|lithograph "Off the Main Line. !"
Clare Leighton's wood engraving,
Ship Building" is superb in COM
position.
Visitors to the exhibition can
identity easily these and other re-
cent acquisitions, as all are marked
by small blue labels in the lower
|right-hand corners.
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Gross Retrospective
The Phillips Gallery has opened
a retrospective exhibition of