Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1925, Page 48

THE SUNDAY News and Notes of Art and Artists ke Exhibition of Paintings by Willard Metcalf—Splendid Examples of the Artist's Work in Washington — An Exhibition at the Austrian Legation—Etchings at HE exhibition Willard L, opened in the Corcoran lery of Art January 3 and continue through Febru- ary 1 of the most interesting and att ive of the many which ve been held in this city, not only this Winter, but for several Winters. Washingtonians are not unfamiliar with Mr. Metcalf’s work. He is rep- resented in the Corcoran Gallery of Art by his beautiful turne, “May Niglg,” which received the principal Clark prize when shown in one of the earliest of Corcoran Gallery's cot by of paintings Metcalf, by 3= thy “ ing landsca also ich the through a be Oyster. The Mr. Metealf's picture entitdel wh was in- the American rnational ex- from time shown i wh Cor- rom coran ( ed Mr he late Summer Birches," Summer he gr quest e. A have be bitions. paintin re char- feeling, and a certai without, however, exp! ctural breadth, Metealf is elegance losing t vigor and str Mr » the “BENEDICTION,” A PAINTING BY WILLIAM METCALF, NOW ON EXHIBITIO! PFrench Wpened to of v formin impressionist school which all the windows | letting in light and trans- he world the & atmosphere st; he To a degree paints what he sees. Whistler, the rks have a certain Iyrical | be found Dpainters such as nd Symonds, to name © one has ever painted snow pictured than ong which “The Snow Bearers,” owned and lent to this exhibition by Mr. Glover unsurpassed. As In- ness is said to have interpreted in his ,' of Niagara the “little loveli- ness these majestic falls, so Met- calf us the winsome side of Winte the frosty air, the biting cold caressing touch of gold- en sunl the mantle of the now resting ever so lightly on the| shoulders of the world In the matter of subject calf chooses well, but it i what he paints, but the wz it. the time he chooses, light, of atmosphere. And how dif- ferently he goes about it, according to his theme! Sometimes the canvas scarcely covered; now and then the paint is piled on, but not often. Mr. Metcalf knows the value of fine sur- face, and though to an extent he fol- lows the lead of the French impres- sionists in the of broken color and short brush strokes, b not bound by it, and the majo f his paintings one can with pleasure close to well away. How beautifully he has the green Midsummer glimpse of woodland * than which no nothing moro difficult And what 1ght” and “Be moonlight ed? The o188 colonial « “May Night” show of the famous old town be is a He terpr was an in-{ ter of mood. On other hand, his v quality not to those the ple fiel in not Dbut the Mr. Met- not just he paints effect of use is fa painted a Green Canopy lovelier, terpret f his nocturnes—“May nediction”? Was ever exquisitely portray- represents’the Lyme, as the facade of one that tran- the artists looks up stars and peace, the sensa- stands on holy things sacred— all's well with more Benediction” auil little loved of Tooking at th pict into the heavens feeds the hush and tion that here ground—a_sense ¢ ‘God’s in His heave the world.” It s, Willar lovelier pretty, but full beauty th which leads me to exclal Stevenson. “The world is so full of a number of things: T'm sure we shodld all be as happy as kings.” Willard Metealf 1858, in Lowell, Mass cotton mills and manufactures, birthplace Whistler, but which can boast little beauty. He tudied with George L. Brown as an apprentice and at the Museum of Fine Boston, and later in Paris at the Academy under Boulanger and He is member of the Ten American Painters, the American Water Society, though he Is not a fr contributor to their exhibition of the Architectural League of New York and of the American Academy of Arts and Let- ters. His prize winning began in ris in 1888, when he won the hon- ble mention at the salon, and com- prehd almost all of the honors which could be conferred upon him by his confreres He is represented in the permanent collections of al- most all of the leading art museums, which goes to show that even mu- seums like pietu which have in- herent beauty provided they are well painted, and, furthermore, that they do not hesitate to patronize liv- ug painters of our own land. An attractive little catalogue show- ing a photograph of Mr. Metealf and the that not just that lovely world séts before us; should be, not of inspiration Metealf than it of outdoors was born July 1, famous for its the city quent which | by Red- 11" contalning an appreciative foreword by Walter Jack Duncan has been is- the Smithsonian. exhibition was specially the artist. * % kW . OMORROW, January 1 Austrian Legation, will be shown special invitation a group of por- traits' by Leo Katz, the Austrian art- ist, who is at present residing in the United States. Referring to an exhi- bitlon of Mr. Katz's work held at the Ehrich Galleries in New York last Winter, a writer in the Studio, a Brit- ish publication, said: “The peculiarity of the portraits of this artist is that they are both decorative and realistic same time. Thelr backgrounds 1 full of elaborate detalls in In some cases the inner- desires and aspirations of the e represented there in sym- forms. The portraits are flatly treated, but they are thoroughly vital. Mr. Katz studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, and then for a while in all the important countries of Europe, including England. The study of Albrecht Durer and Leonardo da Vinei has helped his growth. He has also absorbed something of the ideals of the artists of the Far East, India and Persla.” Mr. Katz is an accomplished drafts- man, showing in many of his portraits the influence of Durer and Holbein He is something of a modernist, but whom _ this assembled by GALLERY OF ART. modernism with him leads back to scholarship in art, to beauty as well as vigor of expression. Mr. Katz came to this country on the invitation and at the suggestion of Frank A Vanderlip of New York, and he has painted portraits of all of the mem- bers of Mr. Vanderlip's family. He works in oils and in water colors and he makes occaslonally a very beauti- of | ful silver point. The public will be given opportunity see a comprehensive collection of Mr. Katz's works very shortly at the National Gallery of Art, where they he, | will be shown after the 15th of this month. Mr. Katz is to give a series of talks on art to a group at the Woman's University Club while | Washington. * 5 AN _exhibition of drawings by Roi Oakland, the Calif, is now division of graphic onian Building, where it ma be seen throughout the month of Janu- a Mr. Partridge is one of the most distinguished of our cotemporary American etchers and his works have been purchased for the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the etchings and Partridge of on view in arts, Smith- “SANTA ROSITA,” AN ETCHING sraphic arts section of the Smith- sonian Institution, under the auspices cf which this collection is set forth, says, it is a very beautiful showing. Amazing as it may seem, these beau- tiful prints, sought by the leading art associations and libraries for their permanent collections, sell at from $5 to $25 each. Mr. Partridge is associated with the art department of Mills College, Cali- fornia, which is erecting at this time a fine building for a gallery of art. 3 Rk the Vandyck Galleries recemt by Artur E. Halmi, lately shown at the Knoedler Gal- leries New York, will be placed on exhibition January 15. Mr. Halmi follows the lead of the English por- trait painters of the eighteenth cen- tury, and his portaits are of a pic- turesque type, calculated to' please the sitters but not representative, perhaps, of the highast type of art. | However, many of his sitters have | been those whose names have a | &lamour ot only in the- social regis- ter but the art world. He has paint- led Mrs. Joseph Duveen and Miss Dorothy Duveen, Mrs. George Gould, Miss Edity and Miss Glorla Gould, Mrs. Anthonv Drexel jr. and Col T portraits in AT THE CORCORA William Jay, among others. This ex- hibition will be free to the public. AT JMARION H. BECKETT of thls city is holding an exhibition of pic- tures—portraits and still life at_the Montross Gallery, the former New York. Among are portraits of John E. Lodge and Miss Katherine N. Rhoades of the Freer Gallery, and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, ir, of Wash- ington. ANYOUNCEMENT is made that the Walters Gallery in Baltimore will open to the public. This Is one of the most interesting of the private gal- leries in this country. It comtains not only the valuable collection -of the nineteenth century European paintings collected by the present owner's father, but also his famous collection of porcelains, the Mas- saranti collection of old masters, ac- quired by the pr nt owner, a replica of “The Thinker” by Rodin, a com- prehensive collection of Barve bronzes and a beautiful series of period rooms, besides miscellaneous works of great Interest There is an ad- mission fee of 50 cents, which goes .to the poor fund of Baltimore. Tick- ets may be ordered through the office i BY ROI PARTRIDGE, ON EXHI- BITION AT THE SMITHSONIAN. ‘Worcester Muséum, the Art Institute of -Chicago, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Carnegie Institute, Pitts- burgh, and the Walker Art. Gallery, Liverpool, England. He was born in Centralia, Washington State, in 1888. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York and is a mem- ber of the California Print Makers’ Society, the Chicago Society of Etch- ers and the California Society of Etchers. He uses chiefly pure etch- ing. His plates are all sharply and clearly bitten. His line is a little rugged and heavy, but very positive and very firm, and his prints show charming use of a combination of light and heavy stroke. The collection now on view. in- cludes landscape, architectural sub- jects and a few portraits and figure Studies. He has found his themes not only on the West coast, but in varfous parts of the United States and also in Europe. Eight drawings are included with the 65 etchings, of the Family Welfare Association, Calvert and Lombard streets, Baltl more, or may be purchased at Harris & Shafer's, 1308 F street, Washington, and at the entrance door of the gal- lery. The gallery will be open on Wednesdays and Saturdays in Janu- ary, February, March and April, also Easter Monday and February 23, * ¥ ¥ X HE Charcoal Club of Baltimore and the Maryland Institute opened their sixteenth annual exhibi- tion of contemporary American Art on the evening of January 6. The ex- hibition will be free to the public un- til* February 2. Tea w(l} be served every afternoon at 4 o'clock in the gallery. * k ¥ X T the Baltimore Museum of Art, Mount Vernon Place, is to be seen an exhibition of modern French art, which comprises abput .50 paint- ings and an equal number of draw- ings. etchings and lithographs by some of the most important workers cued k. the Corcoran Gallery, .foxjand, as Re.P. Folman: in charge of-ihe:nf. thig- schogl,' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY T, 1925—PART 2. U. S. Wants Frank War Debt Statement From Paris Cabinet (Continued from FY, of the facts In the case. an examination like that of the Dawes Commission, because France cannot be treated as could m ocon- quored enemy. It must be a wholly amicable and equal discussion. And, of course, the samo procegs must ob- tain in the case of Belgium and Italy. But such an examination will have to include all the elements. For ex- ample, Italy does not 6we the United States alone, neither do France and Belgium. Our claims have no greater legal force than those of Britain. The capacity of France, for example, to pay her debts to ps must be settled by establishing her ability to pay pari passu upon the sum total of ail of her debts, that is, of her forelgn debts. She owes us $4,000,000,000, she owes Britaln $3.500,000,000. Thus her debt is $7,600,000,000, and the sum she will annually be able to pay must be divided between the two debtors on the basis of the shares in the debts. Italy and Belgium must be considered similarly America cannot in practice say to her European debtors: “Look here, 1 don’t care how you settle your debts as between yourselves, but all of you must pay me in full, no matter how You pay each other.”’ She kannot say. to the British: “You get out of the road now and let me settle my affairs with France, and if there is anything left over of French capacity to pay, you can then present your bill.” Showdown Is Wanted. Nor, in practice, can America say to France or Belgium, which depend largely upon German payments: “I am not interested in whether Ger- many pays you or not, that makes no difference with the valldity of my bill, with the obligation on your part to pay or in any other way.” For if, under the Dawes plan, payment is based upon capacity, capacity in the French and Belglan case will be It cannot be rain and the younger men of the pres- ent day. There are important exam- ples of the work of Cezanne, Matisse and Van Gogh, as well as of the earlier painters. Among the more re- cent artists represented are Modig- liani, Vlaminck and Metzinger. * % % ¥ T the recent annual exhibition of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors a minfature of Mrs. Sawtelle of this city, by Margaret Foote Hawley, re- ceived honorable mention. TR OBART NICHOLS has recently been awarded the -Vinzen pur- chase prize for one of his paintings in the Salmagundi thumb-box exhibition | debts of our former ass | given Club's annual LELIA. MECHLIN. o4 333333288 Flannelette Gowns Pull cut and good color. 59c First_ Floor. greatly affected by the extent to which Germany pays. It fs plain that Washington is eager to have some kind of a settle- ment. It is not unwilling to be gen- erous In the matter of a moratorium and even In the rate of payment, but it wants to get the whole matter down in black and white and out of the area of debate. It wants to be able to figure on an annual income from the French debt as it can from the British. This is a perfectly nat- ural and understandable point of view, But the Frenchman and the Italian, as well as the Belglan, want to be sure of their ability to pay anything before they sign up to any terms. And the Frenchman and the Belglan feel that they cannot know anything about thelr ability until they have discovered the ability of Germany to pay plus German willingness. Of course, all the Continental States, and Britain as well, would be perfectly willing to pay their debt to us in full, provided we would accept German obligations at their face value. But we have always refused any. such transactions. Dodge Definite Pledge. Suppose then that France, as I be- lieve she will, while always affirming her intention to pay, declines for the present to agree to any definite schedule of payments, pending the establishment of the Dawes plan in practice, what will the Unlited States do about it? What can we do about it? The single resource suggested has been a refusal to let private cap- ital be loaned to France. That might be a serious blow to the French, it might even lead to a collapse of French credit and of French ex- change. But that would not get us pald. it would be as futile as that other resort te force, the occupation of the Ruhr, was in yielding actual cash. It seems to me that a great deal of nonsense enters into the discussion. There is no present basis for any ex- amination of any moral obligation on our part to cancel or scale down the ociates. This county does not recognize any such obligation, any such duty, and that settles it. France should not be for- her debt because she suffered more than any other country, as she did, because America does not recog- nize that as a valid argument. We have got beyond ali those sentimental factors. It may o® may not be r grettable, as one happens to feel. But It fs the fact The United States is out to get its money back. It feels it is entitled to its money, it is angry and suspicious about the attitude of its debtors and is in no mood to listen to any at- tempt to revive wartime feelings. When the French point to their death lists or the costs of reconstructing | their devastated areas they are wast- ‘to arrive at a fixed contract ing their time. Some of us may wish this were not the case, but it is the case. Getting Paid Is Problem. But accepting the fact that we want our money batk, we are faced with the fact that getting it back depenids upon the capacity of the debtor to pay, in the first place: upon his willingness, in the second place, and upon his self-interest final- ly. Now, we shall get nowhere until we determine the capacity of each of our debtors—France, Italy and Belgium—and it is obvious that the capacity of each is different. As to willingness, it is idle to pay much heed to this, None of our debt- ors, the British Included, will pay willingly because none of them be- lleve in the justice of our claim. For all Europe we are Shylock with the law on our side this time. What the mass of Europeans think of our policy would, if it were reported over here, come pretty near to appalling those Americans it did not anger be- yond expression. As to self-interest, the final point, Britain paid us because the policy of paying seemed the single way to re- store the pound sterling to par. France, Italy and Belgium might pay us something, perhaps something con- siderable, to preserve their credit here and their source of future loans. But no nation would pay more than the element of self-interest required and many Englishmen feel that Mr. Baldwin pald too much in his ar- rangement. British Did Not Straim. But the sum which Britain agreed to pay was not in excess of her ca- pacity, while it seemed in direct rela- tion to her self-interest, therefore the British paid: but what they think of the Insistence on our part need not be discussed. As for the French, the Belgians and the Itallans we shall not advance a step until we have found some machinery for fixing upen capacity and then have the matter of self-interest equally clearly deter- mined. All our efforts to get the French to come down fo brass tacks—and the same is true in the case of Italy and Belgium, although the whole matter has more or less rested upon the French Issue as a sort of test case—have faled, for the simple rea- son that none of these countries is willing to enter into a fixed contract with us while it finds itself unable in the matter of its assets, although in the Itallan case the foreign assets are in- considerable France does not intend to enter into a fixed contract to pay us or to pdy the British, while the contract of the Germans to pay is not fixed, in the sense that it remains wholly problematical how much France is going to get from Germany. If the Dawes plan had fixed a sum beyond any debate or outside the limits of evasion, a sum which Germany must pay and insured a settled, a myre way of collecting, then it would be posible to bring the French and the Belgians to some decisive point We and they would then know thelr $23213232223 8383839322 222383283238223222222838383333233 situation, the elements essential to determine capacity would all be pres- ent. Elements of Doubt. But, if.it {s demonstrated that Ger- many cannot be made to pay $600,000,- 000 a year, if it is demonstrated, for example, that she cannot pay or be made to pay any considerable part of it, then tho case of France and| Belgium and Italy, with respect of their debts, will take on a wholly different aspect, for it will be plain that what cannot be demanded of Germany cannot be asked of nations which are not in any similar sense industrial and, therefore, exporting countries. But what would be- the situation of France, Belgium and Italy it they had, on the assumption of German payment to the maximum un- der the Dawes plan undertaken to pay us and to pay the British in proportion? French capacity to pay is x if the Germans pay and y if they do not, with a third possibility based upon the amount of partial payment the Germans may make. Moreover, French capacity to pay will continue to be In a measure regulated by the continuation of German payments, but who can estimate this element in advance? It is a fair assumption that Ger- many might evade all payments and yet that French capacity to pay something would still be demon- strable, just as British capacity to pay, although she is getting nothing from her own debtors and next to nothing from German reparations up to date, has been proven. But practice it may fairly safely be as- sumed that if Germany cannot be made to pay substantially, it will be impossible to make her principal cred- itor, namely, France, pay. Mistake in Fremch Policy. The trouble with the French case in the United States grows out of the faifly general bellef that French policy s directed toward an ulti- mate evasion of payment in any case, that it rests upon the assumption that in the end it will be possible to ar- rive at virtual cancellation. United States has no desire to ungenerous, but it has an uncom- fortable feeling that it is being made | the victlm of a very real willingness to be reasonable. The weakness of the American case in France arises from the fact that we seem to be, pressing for a pay- ment without regard to capacity of the debtor and without willingness to apply to the French situation pre- cisely the principles which we have invoked in the case of the Dawes plan. In a word, we seem to be in- slsting on the onec hand that France, as the creditor of Germany, accept certain principles which we, as the creditors of France, decline to reckon with. The Inability to bridge the differ- ence between the two public opin- ions grows out of the fact that there is Mo present measure of French ca- pacity to pay and none in practice, it not In theory, will be available until it is established how much France is going to be pald. As a in| consequence we seem ta be demand- ing payment without regard to pacity, while the French seem to be evading payment with a similar dis- regard for capacity. If we could be assured France would pay ail she could when and as she could, if the French were satisfied that we would demand no more than was reason ably possible, then the trouble would be adjusted easily. Recriminations Indulged. But the absence of any measuring rod leads to the unhappy situation in which we speak of the French as dishonest debtors, and they describe us as rapacicus Shylocks. I am bound to say, giving a personal opin- fon, that this present disagreeable situation can hardly have any solu- tion until the French come forward with a clear and definite statement of their present and prospective situ ation, accompanied by an equally clear evidence of a readiness to pay when they arrive at a better pos- ture. What the French have to deal with is mot an unreasonable creditor, but a creditor who has pretty definitely reached the conclusion that his debtor means to get out of paying if he can, without regard to his ability to pay. I do not suggest this is an accurate or even a partially acourats view, but I am convinced that it is the American point of view and ex- plains most of the passion of ve hemence with which the question has | been debated in Congress and in the | press recently. And this, after all, | was the real burden of the somewhat blunt words of Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, about the best friend France has in American public lif today, who spoke as a friend Clear Statement of Fri clear convic it to herself very clear state cannot now mak{ Desired. As a friend have the very France now owes to us to make a ment of why she and The | be | is both DHBIG any payments, a fact our Treasury officials accept, and why canr |now make any definite commitmena to make payments of a fixed amo ‘ at any specified date, her « pacity must continue be con gent upon her ability to collect wh owed her. Or, to open anothe | possibllity, of why’she cannot und. take more than relatively insignifi cant payments until she knows wt {she is to get from Germany | That. after the point have now reached the debt cussion with France. If w there the results like iattractive « sid ocean and in both opir (Copyright, 1925.) Women to Present Flag. 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