Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1921, Page 20

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The lives of 3,510,000 starving children are on your hands THE SUNDAY STAR, JANUARY 23, T92[—PART T life when you could have saved alone, Americans, can save them d send it with your check, at once, European Relief Council, Federal rate famine conditions now obtaining in_that nation. ‘The Chinese have by to pass their responsibility in the outside world, |failure of crops so widespread that sort of people one likes to help, the country cannot supply its own re- present crisis_on according to the edaecator, but, en the the initial move in b1l 2o means tried | *rhe tions to co-operate the best of thelr|making large subscriptions, g Chinese students are having tag the farmers in the “The trouble 18.” says Prof. Burgess, |days. , . | heip ‘them rehabilitate themselves. “that the need is so colossal and the “The Chinese, by the way, are the There isn't a cent of that money They 'which hasn’t been paid back. This, time for lending |are honest, independent and self-re- | however gontrary. have themselves Supplied |lief. “Wealthy Chiness are giving to specting. They wouldnt accept char- \money. The need is too lmperative. u p: y: Chinese mer- |ity if they weren't dying. In a flood | We must order to save starv- ampaian and It 18 up o weatrn ne. |ohants’ mercantie. bsociations are |disaster several years ago tans of ‘tng milliona: & s isn't a and | thousands of dollars were Toaned te flood district to National Bank, Washington, D. C. $10 will save the life of a child. How many will you save? N2ME ccvvvescscoscnsccesonomsosssesssccescsssncssssss AdAreSS.ccececscsssomesscsscssssssscssfonssde asmososs BIG REDUCTIONS i Notes of Art and Artists The exhibition of portraits of dis- tinguished men of the allied nations, painted by eminent American artists for the national art committee, which opened last Monday in the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, New York, calls attention to the subject of official Rortraiture. This collection is pur- posed as the nucleus of a great ma- tional portrait galtery in Washington. it is both a war memorial of unique character and great historical value and a first step toward the assembling of such a collection of portraits of great men and women as is to be found in the National Portrait Gallery n London. Primarily the purpose is preserve likenesses of those of our n times who attain greatest dis- tinction in various fields of activity. In this instance this activity is in the line of statesmanship and the con- duct of a great war for liberty. Later on it is to be hoped that added to the ollection will be portraits of those who have excelled in other walks of life, men and women who have be- -ome pre-eminent in the arts and sci- nces, in letters, in other branches of uplifting and peaceful occupations. When the time arrives for the as- sembling of this collection it will be found that despite the fact that many official portraits have been painted by incapable artists, there are already in government ownership not a few por- traits of great men by great painters which may well dignify the national ollection, Take, for example, the official por- (raits at the Capitol, Many, alas, are Jut mere travesties, caricatures, but some are worke of the foremost im- portance. There are two portraits of Washington by Gilbert Stuart now hung in the Capitol, which, in the suction room would bring fabulous sums. There is a portrait of Wash- ngton by Charles Wilson Peale, who was one of the founders of the Penn- sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and who painted our first President from life fourteen times. A Wash- ington portrait by Gilbert Stuart was purchased about two years ago by the late Henry C. Frick of New York for 75,000, and a miniature of Washing- ton by Peale recently sold in Phila- delphia for $9,600. There is in national ownership a founth portrait of Wash- ington by Rembrandt Peale, son of Wilson Peale. Earlier in date is a portrait of Henry Laurens painted by John Sin- gleton Copley, who, it will be remem- sered, was born in Boston in 1737 and died in London in 1815, and whose | works are said to constitute a badge of aristocracy for those who own them. There is a portrait of Thomas Jef- ferson painted by Thomas.Sully, one of our earlier American painters, a pupil of Benjamin West, whose merit as an artist is being much more high- ly regarded today than heretofore. Both Daniel Webster and Henry Clay were paintéd for the government by John Naegel, who married a step- daughter and niece of Thomas Sally and who was direotor of the Pennayl- vania Academy of the Fine Arts|fyom 1830 to 1831 2 Chester Harding, one of the most interesting characters in the whole history of American paint{hg, {5 rep- resented in the Capitol by a portrait of Charles Carroll of Carroliton. Harding was born in 1792, the son of ploneers. In-the war of 1812 he serv- ed as a drummer boy, afterward be- coming a peddler, and 'he practiced cabinet making. His first efforts in art took the form of sign painting. He traveled about the: country get- ting orders and executing them at an exceedingly modest rate, but his por- traits are admirable. His portrait of John Randolph in the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art is comparable with the best that have been produced in this country. Coming down to later times, there is an example of the arf of Sargent, a portrait of Thomas B. Reed, and por- traits by Robert W. Weir, one time director of art in the West Point Mili- tary Academy:and father of the late J. Allen Weir; by Ellen Day Hale and others. E The exhibition of portratis now on view in New York, is attracting wide attention. There was a large attend- ance at the opening and among thos present were Hanry White of this city, chairman of the national art committee; Herbert Pratt, its secre- tary and treasurer; Albert Gelsey, architect of Philadelphia; Charles D. Walcott, secretary _ of the Smithsonian _Institution; . Powell Minnigerode, director of the Corco- ran Gallery of Art; Joseph DzCamp, Douglas_Volk, John C. Johansen end Irving Wiles, all of whom were represented in the collection, besides well known art critics and connots- Seurs as well as art iovers. The spa- | cious gallery was thronged by inter- ested visitors. At one end.hangs the portrait of Cardinal Mercler, painted by Ceeilia Beaux; at the other end hte portrait of President Wilson, by Edmund C. rearbell, Mr. Tarbell's portrait of Ge: Fech, representing him on horseback, has the place of honor on one of the long side walls, while opposite is Mr. Johansen’s group paintings of the peace conference. The entire collection will be shown in Washington in May at the National Nwuseym, under the ‘auspices of the Americaa Pedoration of Art. * ¥ ¥ While the finished protraits of the peace conference representativma are on view at the Metropolitan Museurm of Art, an engaging little exhibition is bding held at the Arden Studios, on Fifth avenue, of the sketches made by the artists preliminary to the execution of the canvass. As in most instances, the artists had to snatch the sittings when they could, so these prelimjnary sketches are of special in. terest pnd significance and go to show not only what difficuities were mct and surmounted, but also the artists’ way of working. It was an excellent idea to show them simultancously with the finished works. * K K K The Soctety of Washington Artists' .| thirtiett: annual exhibition closes the last of this week and will be re- placed on February 4 by the Wash- ington Water Color Club's twentieth annual display. Exhibits for the lat- ter will ba received at the New York avenue entrance of the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art Friday and Saturday of this week between the hours of 9 and 4, January 28 and 29. . * ok K ok The New York Water Color Club is holding, at the present time, its thir- ty-first annual exhibition in the gal- lerfes of the American Fine Arts So- clety, New York, and on February 3 the American Water Color Club will open its fifty-fourth annual exhibition at the Natlonal Arts Club in the metropolis ater color, as a medium, {s more prized in England than in America., but we have here water colorists who take high rank, their works bearing comparison with the best. * * X X John W. Beatty, director of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, an- nounces the twentieth annual interna- tional exhibition of paintings to be held during the months of May and June. As in former years, this exhibition will bring together a representative group of works by the best contem- porary painters of all nations. There will be more paintings from England and Scotland this year than last, and the representation will be me. Belgium, Italy, Nor- eden will also make con- This year, as heretofore, an inter- national jury of selection and awards will be elected by the votes of those contributing to the institute's inter- national exhibition, and these votes will come from practically every art- producing country in the worlid. A gold, a silver and a bronze medal will be awarded with prizes of $1,500, $1,000 and $500, respectively. Pittsburgh is the only city in the United States in which an interna- tional exhibition of paintings is held With our international interests in Washington, it is earnestly to be hoped that Some time arrangements may be made to have such exhibitions held here. * k K ¥ An unusual war memorial in the form of a pictorial tapestry has lately been presented to the Detroit Art Museum by George G. Booth of that city. It depicts a large group of old- world dignitaries—bishops, kings, statesmen, warriors and patriots— who have in the past ages worked and fought for liberty and Jjustice for the people of the old world, as- sembled to greet America, the great crusader coming out of the west. An American soldier is the central figure representing the spirit of the great republic. Justice leads both throngs, while above hovers the spirit of peace. This tapestry was woven by the Herter looms, the cartoon being painted and prepared for the loom by Albert Herter. Its weaving,.it is said, occupied more than a year. * k * % 3 Fdgar Nye of the Society of Wash- ington Artists is having an exhi- bition of forty-six pictures, both oil paintings and_water colors, in the gallery of the Woman's Club, Atlanta, Ga., from January 11 to February 11, under the auspices of the Atlanta Art _Association. ¥ The special guests of honor at the opening reception were Gutzon'Bor- glum, the sculptor, and his frierd, Prince Leon Alfonso Louis Jerome de Bourbon, infante, the half-brother of the king of Spain. The exhibition is attracting much cémment. LEILA MECHLIN.: SAYS CHINA IS HELPLESS IN AIDING HER STARVING That China, if she would, could care for ‘her_own stricken peoglo, Is_the statement made by Prof. J. 8. 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