Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1921, Page 68

“THE TROUBADOURS,” A DRAWING BY ANNA MILO UPJOHN, IN CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART EXHIBITION. [Notes 6f Art and Artis;fs Three special exhibitions opened|tho scope and character of the ar- simultancously last Thursday in the|tist's work. § ~ Miss Perrie is essentially a Wash- Corcoran Gallery of Art. In the semi- ington painter, having spent her en- + eircular gallery is set forth a unique col- | tiro lifetime here and belonging, fur- lection of drawings by Anna Milo Upjohn | thermore, to one of the old Washing- of child life in Albania, Czechoslovakia, | ton families. She studied at the Art : 1 Students' Loague, and her works have Serbia, Rumania, Greece, Montenesro. | foung welcome in the leading exhibi- Italy and France. Miss Upjohn was|tions held not only here, but in New sent to Europe to make these draw- | York, Philadelphia and other citics. e is an accomplished watercolorist. ings by the junior department of the | ™, Ty mber of years she was sec- American Red Cross, with the PUT-|retary of the Washington Water Color Pose of awakening interest in this|Club, and since the death o James ldren | Henry Moser she has been instructor country in the welfare of children || oCo o g at the Corcoran School abroad, and more especially in the| o o4 countries which suffergd most in the | Her work is simple, frank and sin- war. gere, very’viv;clr(lmu. ;yery workman- i | like ‘and of enduring interest. at- She has performed her dificult mis- | %0, °Goes is well seen and ele- sion admirably, interpreting the-chil-| pmentally sound; she does not resort dren of other lands with sympa~ |to short cuts or trickery to obtain thy and artistio skill. She has pre- |results or effect. Those who have sented not only the pathetic, but the |lived with her pictures as companions humorous, and has in many instances | know their worth. Eiven her sketches the homely touch | Spending many of her summers at which makes for universal appeal | East Gloucester, she has made a spe- There are few so sinful or so hard- | cialty of boats, and her rendering of ened as to fail to respond to child-|these subjects has been and is pe- hood's winsome smile. The attitude|culjarly successful. But all of her of the child confidently counting upon | outdoor pictures are fresh and color- friendliness _brings own reward; |yl and imbued with the spirit of na- such confidence cannot be disappoint- | ¢y.* ed. In any group of people the en- P trance of a baby is always marked DBy a quickening of interest. Sad. in-| The third special exhibition at the eed, would be the worl s were ot the case. It is to this fundamen. | COTcoran Gallery of Art is that of tal human inclination that Miss Up- | photographs of cathedrals assembled Jol;:;: ‘:llx;‘a:!gi: kxn:-\;: rthle‘:reflg;l.rt!os:-, of |20 set forth under the auspices of art.one finds not & great many ar-|the National Cathedral Association, tists who have devoted themselves to | which held its annual meeting in picturing children. To be sure, the|Washington last week. This comprises early Italian painters glorified all{about sixty-five photographs of an childhood in their pictures of_ the |extraordinarily interesting type, en- baby Jesus, the child Christ. Wit-|jargements from exceptionaily good ness many of the great Madonnas,|negatives made most skilifully and and particularly those by [farnacl |artistically by Levin C. Handy of th's - | city. naissance, Valesquez left perhaps the most notable paintings of children in | o the, contral Toup represcnts tho his pictures of the children of the | CETARATRl of B FRter AN O Bt royal family. Later. Van Dyck painted a number | Alban. This cathedral, of which the of “pletures of royal children. which |apse has already been erected, is in ‘‘are childlike and lovely today as|the Gothic style and is found to com- then. Rubens painted most charm- |pare most favorably with the finest 1y his own sons. cathedrals of the old world. Two n” England and Scotland there are | views are given of the exterior and the delightful paintings of children |four of the interior as the architect's by Reynolds and Raeburn. which will | perspectives show them. There are ever hold high place. The German |alse three photographs showing the school of 1560 produced numerous |work which has already been accom- genre pictures of child life, Knaus|plished—the apse looming above the particularly of this school producing |trees and two interiors of the charm- ‘works of great interest and very con- | ing little Bethlehem Chapel. It is in- siderable merit. In France, about the | teresting to know that in size and de- same time, Edouard Frere painted in- |sign this cathedral which {s being teriors with children of a charming here at our National Capital type, soberer both in tone and sub-|w{]] dare comparison with the cathe- Ject matier than those-by his German | drals in other capital cities. temporaries, but. veghz:l:- e To l;; mre. wo are rtmlay Nmelf‘: own_ coun POTtralt | £rom the past, We are car painter, Lydia . Emmet, who has given | ¢ borrow the best we cannot go far almost her entire time to children's por_ | wrong, and when the time is ripe, as Ctmits, is immediately recalled, 20d|it was when the Gothic came into ex- among illustrators such artists as J isten e ice, we shall be able to develop a e S e DT OFf2 | style of our own which will in turn Tectly to mind. Perhaps, however, there | be worthy. Jas never been so sympathetic an inter- | This exhibition of cathedral photo- pretation of childhood as that presented | STaphs emphasizes several things—the + during a period of twenty or more years | relation of architecture to the other during the latter half of the last century | arts, the value of setting. Stained in Holland; Josef Israels, Neuhuys, Kee- | glass, sculpture and wood carving vor and others among the modern Dutch | form consp!@uous factors in the de- | painters so picturing children in theirsign of the 0ld cathedrals. The loca- simple home surroundings that they not | tion of thess cathedrals either in the m‘vmcd to all, but were peculiarly mu-tmn of the g:letu or with landscape B setting goes 0 increase their In- Mention should also be made ef the|terest and besuty. If any one ques- tions today the value of such build- ing® to the people these photographs alone should dispel their doubts, for certainly their beauty must fire in- spiration, their character aspiration. ‘This exhibition will remain on view until May 1, after which it is purposed to send it to & x;unhubarb:: the leading fhey merely attempt-to suggest the con- | cities by whom ft has besn requested. dittons o hiia Tie abrost n ordee to |1t ehould thus sarve not merely. to establish more firmly & common rela- | emphasize the desirabflity of having Lonship. & great national cathedral on Mount Miss Upjohn's Intimacy with 1ife in|St Alban. but also the importance of Burope is the result of many years of| fine building and the significance of Tesidence abroad, dueing which time|art in everyday life. she studied art in England, France, . % 5 & lland, Germany, Spain, Portugal Austria, Russia and Sweden. She was| An exhihition of paintings. chiefly abroad in 1914, at the tims of the oul- | portraits, by Jultet Thompson, for- break of the war, and went at once Lo | merly of this city and now of New France, where she volunteered {or re- | York, will be opencd rext Thursday, Jief work among the refugees under|under the patronage of Mry, Kikins, the fund for devastated villages. She|in Mrs. E. ¥, Andrew< studio, 1232 was engaged in this routine im the|16th stree, which she his gencrously war zone when the American Red |loaned, Cross established jts European com-| Miss Thompson was a student of mission in Paris. Immediately chere|the Corcoran School of Art, and has developed a need for an artist and il- | made a distinzuished pimes for her- lustrator to further the Red Cross re- tclf amonx cotemporary portrait habilitation and health program, and Fun(en. Bha enrly attained success. an appeal was made to Miss Upjohn| Her portraits and paetets, briliantly to devote her talents as an artist te, €xecuted, wers for & nu this end. Bhe acqui _although in- | notable features fn the exhibitions gisting that ghe regarded sketching|held in this city by the Washington 2nd painting as a plessure and felt | Society of Artists and the Washing. {hat the war called Zor.a more direct|ton Water Color Club. The paintings, and peracnal sorrics. which will be shown here, have just One of her first wrt eontrfbutions|been exhibited at the Knoedler Gal- war a series of healtlnposters for the|lery, New York. Tene They wers Sketentd Trom lifs b 0 2 E ro and - wers posteaits of children, of| Dorothy Dent wifl hold an eshibi- jdealized figurcs, and were reesived|tion of illuminations and decorations with widespread approval, They were|at Jane Bartiett's Shop en Conneati- first exhibited in Toulouse, where cut enuUe mest Weeld, opening on noted French art eritie saw them, Ho| Monday, There will be about ene said: ~After all, it does take a Preach-| hundred examples. The mest ambi- man to do this sort of work” and it|tious and important of thess s &« was difficult to convince him that it!lengthy quotation from Valentine ‘was the work of an American womaa. | Kirby, hat Art Means to Me,” The posters placed at the dispesai| which' was done as an order for a of French mothers information that|lawyer of Willlamstown, Pa. The would 2id tehm in keeping their chil-| lettering is excellent and the decor- dren well and strong. and thus en-|8lions are very handsome. Miss Dent courage the men at the front through | has made an almost exhaustive study the knowledge that their children |©f Persian, Hindoo. Javanes ere being cared for. After serving|8nd Siamese art of this order their purpose in Prance, the posters|lOWS closely oriental metnods and were rent to Washington and hung {n | Style. She is elso showing with the the Red cross national headquariers| i/luminated manuscripts a number of building until a few weeks ago, when | 9ecorated plagues and trays. they were requested for exhibtion| Miss Dent studied firat at the Tech. Purposes at the Gemeva headquniters| nical High School in this city, then at e e s e taaa the Pennsylvania Museam and School Miss Upjohn was born in New Jer-|0f Industrial Art and at the School of sey and has Deen known for twenty. | Applied Design for Women, which is five years as @ painter and ilustrator.| &ong, 17, Philadelphin She has re- She 18 a member of the National As-|pon vk has met With very pesti rociation “of Women Painters. and|Der work has met with very grati- Scal She is still abroad, engaged | /"5 “PPrOdation v in Red Cross work, continuing the LEILA MECHUIN, sommisston that was given her in 199 for pictures of child life in vari- Veal Ragout. This is a delicious dish. Place a piece of butter the size of a walnut ous countries. The exhibition will continue for a. fortnight. Nt i in a saucepan, add three finely chop- In the cases in the atrium of the|ped onions and fry until brown, then €orcoran Gallery, where Mr. Benso: add three sliced tomatoes. Wash a etehinga have lately been shown, is |Piece of veal from the neck or breast and put it into the saucepan without new on view a collection of water| rying it 'Add two diced carrofs. ber of years colorm by Miss Bertha B. Perrie of|two tablespoonfuls of chopped par- this cfty. There-are in this collectiond sley, salt and pepper to tuste. and one ,about thirty plctares, matted, but un- | tablespoonful of sugar. Jramed, giwag an excellent idea of'stew for two hours. “ . he . Cover and “If you would know the value of money,” says Poor Richard, “go ont and tryto borrow » Money today is worth 6%, 8% and 10%—even more. Loaned money is credit. Installment stores that do not charge for credit are trying to give something for nothing. It can't be done. Money, like .goods,: must be.paid for. Somewhere in the process of selling the mer- chant must cover “unlim: ited credit” in the higher price of goods. 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