Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1921, Page 76

gallery and building. Plans and program for future development weré discussed and *carefully cone sidered. 2 3 It was strongly felt by those in ats tendance that the greatest need Wi “PEARY AT THE POLE.” PORTRAIT PAINTED BY JOHN C.JOHANSEN, N.A.. AND RECENTLY UNVEILED WHICH ADMIRAL PEARY WAS A MEMBER, IN THE KANE-PEARY TROPHY ROOM. MASONIC TEMPLE, The Arts Club of Washington, 2017 T street, is holding its annual exhibi- tion of paintings and sculpture by its artist members. There seven exhibits, and, collegtively, they make an attractive showing. The paintings are hung in the main re- ception room on the first floor and in the two lounging rooms on the second floor. Over the mantel in the former room, in what may be termed the place of honor. is a painting in water color by Louis Comfort Tiffany of “A Pottery Market in Wurzburg, Germany.” which, both technically and subjec- tively, is of unusual interest. In the market place are seen piles of table china, stacks of plates, cups and sau- cers, pitchers and the like. A num- ber of women are shown selling and others buying. A would-be purchaser 1s critically examining a pitcher. The treatment of the detail is very skill- ful and the effect engaging. Mr. Tif- fany aiso contributes a painting in are eighty-! tional collections might be suitably housed, and it is earnestly hoped that Congress may see fit at some time in the near future to make suitable ap- prg_firlnlon for the erection of such. e relations of the Portrait Gal- lery and the Freer Gallery to the National Gallery were taken under consideration, and a proposition was considered under which the National Gallery might be divided somewhat after the manner of the Louvre and Luxembourg collections and _into works by living artists and by those of earlier days. The committee on admissions, of which Edward W. Redfield is_chalr- man, passed upon a number of prof-. fered gifts, and authorized the grate- ful acceptance of the following: “Water Carriers,” by Frank Duve- neck; “Mrs. Hawkins and Family,” by Sir Willlam Beechey, anil “Rome and the Campagnia,” by Richard Wilson, offered by Rev. F. Ward-Denys; “Love !and Life,” by George Frederick Watts, | ’nm of a building in which the nh- given by the artist to the Amerigan | people in 1893, accepted by act of Congress in 1894 and since hung lnl the Corcoran Gallery, in the White House and now in the National Gal- lery. These were accepted for the National Gallery collection. For the National Portrait Gallery were accepted portraits of ex-Presi- dent Ulysses S. Grant, by Thomas Le Clear, national academician, the gift of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant,.Ji a por- trait of Miss Ellen Day Hale, by Mrs. Bush-Brown, the gift of Arthur Hale, as well as a bronze bust of Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier, by Moses Wainer; Dykaar, the gift of Gen. Squler, and a bronze bust of Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, by William Rudolf O'Dono- van, the gift of Henry Clews and & committee of subscribers. * x X %X A portrait of the late Admiral Rob- ert Edwin Peary has been painted by John C. Johansen for Kane Lodge,: No. 434, Free and Accepted Masons, | New York, of which he was a me - ber, and was unveiled in the Kane- | Peary trophy room at the Masonic Temple, New York, recently. This picture shows Admiral Peary clad in the famous suit of fur made for him by Esquimaux women, lean- ing on a pair of long snowshoes of the type that he personally designed, with a sextant in his right hand. Mr. Johansen, the artist, is_well known for his portraits of Haig, Joftre, Diaz_and Orlando, which he painted in Europe for our National Portrait Gallery under commission of the national art committee. During the war, it will be remembered, Mr. Johansen executed, under permission of the government, a notable series of paintings of shipyards. * ok kX The Corcoran Gallery of Art will open its great biennial exhibition of * k % X contemporary works by American painters next Saturday evening Wwith The National Gallery commission. |a private view and reception. This; organized last summer, held its first|exhibition, which promises .to be upi | meeting in this city the pust week. ! to the high standard previously main- | {Daniel ~Chester French, the well|tained, is regarded as one of the known sculptor, presided as chairman, | events of the American art world, and and those in attendance were Joseph [there will undoubtedly be large at- H. Gest, director of the Cincinnati|tendances at the opening of the fore- Museum of Art; Charles Moore, chair- i most artists from New York, Phila- man of the National Commission of! gelphia. Boston and other cities. Fine Arts; James Parmelee of this| The-jury, which met here last weelk, city, art connoiseur and collector;| was composed of Frank W. Benson,| Herbert L. Pratt of New York, secre- | Gifford Beal, Charles H. Davis, Viotor tary of the national art committee;| Higgins and Joseph T. Pearsonm, jr. John E. Lodge, director of the Freer et BY KANE LODGE OF MASONS, OF NEW YORK. Miss Edith Ogden Heidel, Miss Clara Hill and Mrs, Minerva C. Kendall. The exhibition will _ continue throughout the month, and is open to the public between 10 in the morn- ing and 4:30 in the afternoon. Gallery; Frank Jewett Mather, Mar- quard professor of art at Princeton and for many years art critic of the New York Evening Post; Edward W. Redfield, painter; Herbert Adams, sculptor; Edwin H. Blashfield, painter; Gari Melchers, painter; William H. Holmes, director of the National Gal- lery of Art, and Charles D. Walcot! | secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- | tion. Reports were presented by chairmen of the several subcommit- the On Wednesday evening, December 14, Rowal Cortissoz, art critic of the New York Tribune, will give the second of tfre series of illustrated lec- | tures on “Great Painters” in the Cen- i tral High School auditorium, under | the auspices of the Washington So- | clety of the Fine Arts. His subject will be “Great Figure Painters.” | " Mr. Cortissoz is an _illuminating ! speaker, having expert knowledge of |his subject, an original angle of ofls. a family group, painted. in all|teeq, guch as those on ancient Euro- vision and a delightful manner of probability. some years ago, showing hi= wife, three little girls and a nurse- maid in a field. possibly on his estate at Oyster Bay. which has now, through Mr. Tiffany’s generosity. been converted into a sort of past-gradu- ate school for artists and craftsmen under the name of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Mr. Tiffany is one of the most skillful craftsmen that this country has produced, a great student of the art of the east, and a skillful and successful experi- menter in technical methods. produc- ing novel effects in glass and enamel. Tn fact, Mr. Tiffany is one of the most interesting and unique personalities in Jur American art world. The place of honor in the upper room has heen ziven to a nainting by Miss Dewing Woodward. formerlv of New York and now of Florida. Miss Woodward for some years conducted an_outdoor summer school of figure painting at Shady-in-the-Catskills. She shows in this exhibition a very interesting study of nymphs in a birch grove. nudes auite exquisitely painted. Perhans a trifie more virile. though no less subtle, is her second contribu- tion. simply entitled “Studv in Light- ing”" a young woman's head. likewise painted out of doors, but without strong demarcations of light and shade. Marion Bovd Allen of Boston. also an out-of-town member. shows a large canvas picturing. life size. a bhoy and girl. about six and eight years of age. respectively. sitting on the floor before a glowing open fire, the light from which fllumines their countenances. ‘There are two delightful. sunny, outdoor pictures by Jessie E. Baker, full of color and dazzling sunshine, one entitled “Tied Up for the Win- ter,” a picture of boats, the other ‘From My Window,” a picture of old houses and roof tops. ‘There arc quite a number of =d- mirable flower paintings, two bv Miss Sawtelle, one by Miss Catherine €. Critcher. another by Miss Hattie E. Rurdette and one by Miss Tsabel Co- hen. Miss Hattie Burdette also shows an attractive figure painting of a voung girl in a yellow silk gown =eated beside a bowl of old-fashioned flowers. Mre. Zimmele contributes to the exhibition an excellent little painting. entitled “The Bonfire,” showing a group of children about a bonfire kindled in an open fleld. Mrs. L. M. Yelsenring is represented by a de- lightful head of a girl. painted in her characteristically skillful manner. There are several attractive paint- ings of mood in nature. Julie Sturgis contributes one, entitled “Falling Twilight;” Nicholas R. Brewer sends a nocturne of Santo Diezo Mission by starlight, and Cleon Throckmorton shows a landscape, entitled “After- moon Harmo: in which there is a blending of ‘tones. Mrs. L. MacD.- Sleeth. who i% per- haps best known for her sculpture, makes interesting and valuable con- iributions of two paintings, one “Eucalyptus Trees” the other ‘“Near Arch Beach. California.” Mrs. Lesley Bush-Brown shows a study entitled “Sunday Morning™ and an admirable charcoal drawing of Justice Stafford, a fine plece of por- trafiture. Miss Sarah Monroe contributes two characteristic paintings, boldly ren- dered and strong in color. Lillian Griffen is represented by a little beach scene, spirited and remarkable for merit. Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews is repre- sented by an ambitious work, allego- rical in character, which is entitled to Face,” and represents men ana women wrestling with théir souls. Acress the lower portion of the can- vas are the words, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the world and lcse his soul?” Paintings of this sort are by no means common today, vet since the earliest time have been em- ployed as an instrument in teaching. Among the other /painters repre- sented are Mrs. Casey, Miss Neu- hauser, Miss Dorothy B. Trout, Ralph Davol, Miss Charlotte S. Cullen, Yar- nall Abbott. Theophilus Parsons and Miss Alice E. Edwards, all of whom make pleasing contributions. The sculptors represented are George Julian Zolnay. president of the club, who shows photographs of some of the flgures he has modeled for the parthenon in Nashville, Tenn.; i pean paintings, prints, sculpture, American paintings, mural paintings, ceramics, Origntal art, modern Euro-| pean paintings, architecture, portrait | i i I 77777722 | presentation. He is without question | the most notable lecturer on art in this country today. LEILA MECHLIN. iPortuguese Saw Possibilities of Panama Route Centuries Ago i V. /-7 7 7y 3 V /7 4 7 | I ] nC . P AP aa s == ¥ NS S SO\ /Z77 77777 NN\ COPY OF THE FAMOUS MAP OF THE PORTUGUESE NAVIGATORS, SHOWING PROPOSED ROUTE THROUGH ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. THE MAP-MAKER'S IDEA OF THE NOTE EXTENT OF NORTH AMERICA. conterence on Pacific and far eastern questions, together with the personnel of the dele- gation picked to represent that coun- try, makes timely a-reference to an ancient map which is now reposing in the archives of the famous Geograph- ical Society at Lisbon, and which brings vividly to mind the vast en- terprise of the Portuguese navigators of the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turles. This map specially empha- sizes the route from Portugal across Panama to the west coast of South America, and although no mention of a canal appears where the route-line crosses the Isthmus of Darien, those familiar with the activities and fore- sight of the early Portuguese are con- vinced that the drawing implies a cgnal. -+ 'Two of the three representatives of Portugal at the conference are enthu- siasts_and experts on geographical and chartographical matters. Capt. Ernesto Vasconcellos, the second dele- gate, is_permanent secretary of the Geographical Society of Lisbon and the author of numerous important geographical works, while Mr. C. A. Montalto, the secretary general of delegation, has specialized along the same lines and has lived in_ many parts of the world. It is to the lat- ter that credit is due for unearthing the anclent map in the collection of the Lisbon society. In 1912 he furnished {Cyrus E. Woods, United States min- ister to Portugal, with a phbotograph thereof. The minfster presented/it to the National Geographical Society here, through whose courtesy the I map, redrawn for purposes of repro- duction, is used in The Star. Three famous routes were indicated by the ancient chartographer, who, though possibly an Italian, was deal- ing with Portuguese-affairs. He used lines of different sorts to indicate them. The line from Portugal across the_Atlantic to Panama and thence to Peru, is evidently after the route | tollowed by Pizarro, conqueror of Peru, and was considered of so much importance that the mapmaker used a heavy gold line. * * ¥ ¥ HE fainter and much longer solid line represents Magellan's famous voyage around the world. The dotted 1line represents the voyage of Gaspar Corte Real, discoverer of Canada, who sought to reach the Pacific through a northern_passage and whose fate is shrouded in mystery. The name of Corte Real, whose exploits rival those of Columbus, is comparatively little known in this country. His tragic although indefinite fate has been util- ized as the basis of a charming and thrilling plece of fiction by Mary Ray- mond Shipman Andrews, “The Lost Caravel,” a yarn delightful to fisher- men and other lovers of the great out- doors. Tmmediately after the voyages of the very early explorers, the ques- L4 i PORTUGAL'S participation in thel tion of cutting a canal through the continuous barrier formed by the isthmus was raised and as early as 1550 a Portuguese navigator named Antonio Galvao published a book to demonstrate that a canal couid be cu at Tehuantepec, now a part of Mex- ico and the site of a transisthmian rall- .| road; or in what is now Nicaraugua or Panama. The following year Gal- vao's judgment was backed up by the Spanish historian F. L. de Go- mara, who submitted 2 memorial to King Philip II of Spain urging him to undertake the project without de- lay. The government of Spain, how- ever, saw certain disadvantages and dangers connected with the enter- prise and always opposed it. Afons® Albuquerque, conqueror and ruler of Portuguese India, early in the sixteenth century, tried to con- nect the River Nile with the Red sea, a waterway which would have func- tioned as the present Suez canal does. Facts like these make it probable that the heavy gold stripe on the ancient map which passes directly across Pan- ama, almost at the location of the present canal, was intended to Indi- cate a projected continuous water route from the old world to the Pacific and to the rich lands of western South America. G * % % % THE quaint map here stown is the last of eleven manuscript charts jcontained in an octavo volume richly 1bound in wooden board and leather. *'There is -no ‘inscription on the gilt cover, except the almost illegible title, “Os Mappas.” Nor is there on the fly leaves or elsewhere anything to indicate either the origin or the delineator of the charts, according to Mr. Montalto. The manuscript catalog of the famous Lisbon Geographical Society also fails to clear up the mys- tery. Although this map is not so richl: ornamented, the drawing and hnnd! writing bear a.close resemblance to the famous charts of Vasco Dourado and other .well known Portuguese chartographers of old. On the other hand, from the use of some Italian wording, such as *“Capo di Bona Esperanza” (Cape of Good Hope), this particular chart is supposed to be of Genoese and, possibly, judging by the prominence given that city, of Vgrl;fll:’n ol'll[ln.‘ i £ e drawing is in green and gold on vellum. Owing to the fact f:‘! Australia 18 not represented at all, the chart probably dates from the close of tne sixteenth century, hefore that island continent was discovered. The odd shape given North America, only a part of which was then known; the wide and apparently easy north- western passage which Corte Real died trying to find: the size of the largely unknown land lying south of the Straits of Magellan, and the curi- ous and greatly exaggerated flatten- ing of the earth at the poles, all com- bine to bring vividly to the imagina- tlon the days of swashbuckling ex- ployers and intrepid tors who, in ridiculous cockle-she! of . eraft, visited the énds of the earth for the glory of their sovereign and for the aggrandizsement of their realm. - . “tion leather ........... D. C, DECEMBER 11, 1921—PART i This'ladies’ desk —mahogany or genuine ut; with stationary rack and drawer.. 524.75 Folding card table —stands_rigidly; 52.95 cov- This tea wagon —Golden Oak ma- hogany or walnut finish; with glass bottom tray. Rub- ber, tire wheels. 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