Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-25

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sored by the Kiln Club of
Washington Artists; on No
the Foyer will open the 10th
annual of the Society of
Washington Artists; on No
vember 8, a show of Con-
temporary American Paint
ings sponsored by the New
Jersey Chapter of the Amer
lean Artists Professional
League. and on December 7,
the 26th annual Metropol-
itan Art Exhibition spon-
sored by the American Art
League.
The Washington Gallery of
Modern Art, about to open its
second season, will conclude
the first a week from today
with the closing of United
States Government Art Prof.
ects-Some Disting u ished
Alumni. The second season
opens September II with
"Sculptors of Our Time"
monumental sculpture by
Europeans and Americans in
GLIDING Picasso, Moore, Gia-
CONFETTI, Arp, BrancuSi, David
Smith and some younger
artists. November S, the Mod
ern will open its first one
man show of the new year, a
retrospective of painter
James Brooks, another in the
Gallery's series of abstract
expressionists. From Septem-
Der 2 to September II, the
Gallery will be closed.
Pottery of Phillips
The Phillips Collection will
not begin its special exhibit
ton program until October
Is, with an exhibition of pot
terry by Shoji Hamada. The
major painting show of the
fall will open in December
and be devoted to the French
artist ManeSsier.
Also on October Is, the
Freer will open a special ex-
hibition of Japanese art Sc
lected from the permanent
collection.
The Corcoran Gallery of
Art, the only institution in
town which regularly sur
passes the Smithsonian's
Travelling Exhibition Service
in sheer volume, opens its
new year on October 4, with
a show of Contemporary
Painting in Belgium, selected
during the summer by Direc-
tor Hermann Warner Will
liams, jr.
On october 20, the Cor
coran will exhibit its own
sweet self in what promises
to be an extremely interest
ing show, Progress of an
American Collection" We all
too rarely are invited to
think of the institutions in
which we are so regularly
invited to think of art. The
show, in addition to display
ing some first-rate material,
will surely give some insight
into the problems of insti-
tutional growth.
On December 16, the Cor
coran will hold its 10th area
exhibition, but in the mean
time will continue its series
of one-man shows for area
artists. Coming up are Mimi
Bolton, October 8; Benjamin
Abramovitz, November IL;
and Gene Davis, December II.
At Librory Of Congress
The Library Of Congress
continues strong in the face
Of reports that the Division
Of Prints and Photographs is
about to lose its exhibition
space. On September 8 the
Division will open SELF
Portraits by Printmakers,"
with go examples from the
10th century to the present.
OF particular interest will be
successive self-portraits by
Rembrandt. Kaethe, Kohl
WITT and Mauricio Lasansky.
The Division is now planning
for December an exhibition
Of the beginnings of abstract
print-making with Kandin-
sky, Schwitters and Marin. |
Meanwhile, today begins the |
final week Of the Library's
superb exhibition Of contem-
porary American printmak-
ing and you ought to go and
see 1t again.
The high point OF the
whole fall season comes In
December. when the Nation
al Gallery Of Art will open a
show comprising a large part
Of the permanently exhibited
paintings OF New York's Mu-
scum Of Modern Art. Selected
by Alfred Barr, the works
will show the development Of
modern painting from the
Impressionists TO the present.
The only sustained high
quality university exhibition
program In town is that at
Howard. which opens its year
September Is with new works