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THE The De Laszlo Portraits of the President and Mrs. Coolidge. Dykaar's Exhibition of Portrait Busts at the National Gallery—Other Works on View. BY LEILA MECHLI ORTRAITS of the President and lavs. Coolidge, recently painted by Philip de Laszlo, were placed temporarily on exhibi- tion in the Corcoran Gallery of Art vesterday. They are both admi- rable likenesses and supreme works of art. The portrait of the Pre m seated with a pape » document or one hes, in his hands. suit of clothes, but there is a glint of white edge to the waistcoat and a touch of high light strikes a button and the watch-chain, breaking the dark Obviously, interest is centered in the head. The eyes are turng itly to the left; the are closed, but not too firmly: the ex- pression is thoughful yet alert. Mr. de Laszlo has painted the President in his capacity for leadership. He has done what the great portrait painter should always do, interpreted personality and rendered character. This is not merely the image of a man; it is a living man, one who will con- tinue to live through the work of an artist, even if he did not do so by right of achievement. It is by no means the usual official portrait. It is not the office but the man that Mr. de Laszlo has painted, yvet that dignity which comes with office, with author. ity, is indicated. e portrait of Mrs. Coolidge is no less satisfactory. Because it is in- tended for her alma mater, the Univer- sity of Vermont, she s represented her academic gown. Again the ad is turned to the left and the eves ok straight into those of the observer, -but are fixed on a distant object. Again there is interpretation of character, and character with dig nity. It is a characterful, rather than flattering portrait, one which gives indication of intellectuality as well as personal charm. - It is to be regretted that this is not to find place in the White House. Both splendid ex- amples of the work most em- nent portrait painter o ROBABLY the most noteworthy of the nume exhibitions 1s that of po in_marble and bronze by the erstwhile Russian sculptor, Moses Wainer Dykaar, lately shown in the 1 ork, and now on v tional Mu seum under t of the Na- tlonal Gallery Born in Wi in 1885 Russian parents, Dykaar at age gave evidence of such exce) talent that the Russian nment offered to pay for his artistic educa tlon in Paris. The offer was refused. The young artist preferred to make his own way, and did so with such marked success that at one time the French called him “the prince of mar- ble Coming to this coun a season or more v working in an improvi placed at his disposal in the National Museum It was here that he modeled the portraits of William H. Holmes, the disti the National Galler: dent of the two leading loc tles; Dr. Charles D. Walec of the Smithsonian Tnstitution; Justi Wendell Phillips Stafford of the D trict Supreme Court, eminent both i jurist and poet: the late Dr. Alexand: Graham RBell, President and Irs. Coolidge, to mention only a few. The portrait bust of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, Mr. Holmes considers one of the finest works of portraiture in sculp ture that b to his attention The busts of Imes, Dr. Walcott and Justice rd are all excellent ., boldly rendered dent show: . possibly a ot his own He wears a mass h do not Art an ear tional of Art rt socie- t, secretary lips | the son of | Boston Art Club, the Copley Society and other well known organizations— one who at an earlier date employed rather a precise manner; Carl G. Cut- ler and Marion Monks Chase, both former pupils of the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The works of these painters are all essentially in’ the modernistic style. they are bold renderings of ings seen, not as they appeared, but the artist has seen fit to interpret them. According to the language of the modernists, they are simplifica- tions, daring simplifications, in which structure and color are employed ac- cording to a formula. There is no doubt that art of this sort Is a distinct revolt against the spineless paintings of the weak sisters ind brothers—paintings which afm to wccurately reproduce nature but have no structural strength or clarity of expression. The swing of the pendu- lum was inevitable, but it would seem unnecessarily lonz. Fine design, beau- tiful pattern, entrancing color, are all to be found in woven or printed textiles. Symbolism pure and simple employs accurate form. These paint- ings seem not to give us as much as the textiles, on the one hand, in pure aesthetic delight, because of their lack »f orderly arrangement of units; and, on the other hand, they do not satisty our demand for truth, they do not erve even as interpretations, making known that beauty which may haye »scaped attention. Just what their purposg is it is a little difficult to understand, and vet, failing “to under- stand, one is regarded as perverse and foolish. What is it all about Must we really learn to find aesthetic beauty in this strange vernacular? Obviously all of the pictures in this exhibition are not unintelligible, or ompletely in the new vein, but the ajority are essentially modernistic in tendency, representative of the new school, those who seek a new world. * k X% *x X the library at the Arts Club there is now on view a group of water colors by Warren W. Ferris of this city which will be found more intelli- gible and appealing to those whose minds have not yet become adjusted to the innovations of modernism. Here is a cellent interpretation of the A Memorial, that great in sculpture by Augustus Saint-Ga dens in Rc Creek Cemetery which many make pilgrimage. . he spent | rshington, | studio | iished director of | and presi- | ene Debs, on see- | bust imed humility, try- 1y con in my hou: that inspire a soul possesses.” Indicative pr as a lahar In : is o sugg tradition today gre: But with 1s by righ tive and ele lent grasp call pla the foreh He secure instance, but personality rather than su its strength much worse; a few This_exhibition oper and will continue until } * ok Kok T the Arts Club, 2017 T street 4X is a group of intings by ton artist contributin fifth of the sho The arf resented are Charles Hopk it will be rem red, was on artists sent to Europe by the Art Com to paint portraits of persons. emin connection with 1 war; Harley Per s, art critic of the Boston Transcript; Charles Hovey Pepper, a member of the New York and Boston Water Color Societies, is posi h we best modeling is in he portr: most every not interpret he His there five one rep. who, son, ional in obvious | the | excel- | THE DYKAAR BUST OF JUSTIC! rill went to London in 1908 to_study mural decoration with Frank Brang- wyn. Almost immediately she fell under the spell of the church towers of London, so many of which were de- signed by Sir Christopher Wrenn. Taking a studio, she etched a series of churches and other subjects, some of which later found their way into the Paris salon. Her line is heavy and broken, her style somewhat reminiscent of Brang- wyn's. Her earliest plates show a boldness of treatment and richness of hadow. Later her style became more graceful, her touch lighter. Her draw- ing is strong and sure and her work- manship competent. There s a certaln similarity between Miss Mer- rill's etchings and Mr. Dykaar’s sculpture. Both deliver their message immediately, neither is subtle nor introspective. Among Miss Merrill's most interest- ing exhibits are “‘St. Dunstan’s in the East,” “Quimperle,” “The Warder's Chartres” and the Spanish scenes. Miss Merrill is a member of the Chi- cago, Brooklyn and California Socie- ties of Etchers, also of the National Association of Woman Painters and Sculptors. She is represented in the print collections of the Library of Congress, the Public Library of New- ark, the Hackley Gallery of Art, Muskegon, Mich., and other public in- stitutions. * ok k% COLLECTION of etchings by John W. Winkler is to be seen at the Smithsonian Institution this month. Mr. Winkler lives in Paris, but he is a Californian, and some of his best subjects were etched in San Francisco and its vicinity. He, too, member of the California, Chicago Brooklyn Societies of Etchers, and his works likewise have found their way into numerous public as well as private collections. If one were to seek in Mr. Winkler’s work for kinship with the great, Meryon, perhaps, would be recalled. Mr. Winkler is a most accomplished technician. His draftsmanship is im- peccable. No subject is too compli- cated for him to attack, and his rendering is invariably fine, almost too fine, in that it seems to lack, to a degree, spontaneity. But it is marvel- ously skillful, and some of his little plates lead one to exclalm, ‘“Rem- and brandt,” recalling the great works of that master. WENDELL PHILLIP NOW ON VIEW IN THE NATIONAL MUSEU 1 beautiful interior of an Alexandria | home and a very pleasing representa- {tion of the old Smithsonian Building, quite imposing with its turrets and towers. Mr. Ferris has even found artistic charm In the old Post Office Building, with its clock tower, seen {across the Mall, steeped in sunshine. { Here is good draftmanship and a nice | sense of value, as well as evidence | or technical skill. Mr. Ferris heartily to be congratulated upon his showing. [ N the room downstairs, etchings by Katherine Merrill, which were shown last month in the Smithsonian ilding, are now on view. Miss Mer * ok ok k DYKAAR'S BUST OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, " is | | trial Some of the etchings in this ex- hibition at the Smithsonian Institu- tion are scarcely more than 8 by 8 inches in dimensions—gewms of art. None are large. There are figures, a few landscapes and architectural themes. There are some broad, sweep- ing views, such for Instance, as San Franclsco Harbor viewed across a portion of the city. Nothing seems to have daunted the etcher, and out of a mass of detail he is often able to secure a unified, simple impres- sion. 'Whatever his subject, the ele- ment of beauty is ever present. %k % ok I\' the Washington Auditorium, in connection with the Annual Indus- Exposition, some of the Wash- ington artists are making a display. It is an excellent thing for the artists to join such an enterprise as this with the business interests of the city; but it is most unfortunate that a higher standard is not upheld. Some of the best of our local artists are not repre- sented at all, and some of those who are represented are by no means seen at their best. Moreover, the pictures are hung in a double line, frame to frame, in a way which is bound to create a bad impression. It is such weak, ineffectual work as is shown in this collection which has brought fourth the extravagances practiced by the modernists. It would have been much better had a well chosen exhi- [bition of commmercial posters been set forth instead. . Of course, there are some good works included in the collection, such for | example as two excellent Winter pic- tures by Benson B. Moore, landscapes by W. M. Hyde, Willlam S. Jamison, Marguerite Munn, Roy Clark, Alice Ferguson, Mrs. Sleeth, Arthur Mus- grave and Mrs. Bush-Brown. Carl Bakemann shows a clever interlor, a picture of one of the principal formal {rooms at Mount Vernon, re-peopled. Catherine C. Critcher shows one of her admirable portraits of an Indian, Margaret French Cresson exhibits her |head in bronze of an Itallan peasant | woman, sympathetically and strongly modeled, a fine interpretive work. In the midst of all this representative painting are to be seen two_purely symbolic paintings by Victor Kubinyl —one symbolizing “Impertinence,” the other “Success.” If one wishes to visualize qualities and to use form symbolleally, why not do it in this manner, using Iimaginative forms? Here is 'something tangible and at the | same time essentially original, some- thing which does not trespass upon the domains of nature. * K ok Xk D URING this month there will be sery the fourth of the series of exhi- seen at the Phillips Memorial Gal- bitions illustrative of the so-called for- ward movement in art. This com- rises recent paintings by Maurice terne, nine in number, one of, which SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, MAJ. GEN. GEORGE 0. SQUIER. has been lately acquired for the Phillips Memorial Collection. Mr. Sterne was born, we are told in the introduction to the little cata- logue of this exhibition, at Libau, on the Baltic Sea, and emigrated to New York's E Side with his widowed mother during his early boyhood. At the academy schools he won a travel- ling scholarship which led to his dis- cevering Cezanne in Paris and Piero della Francesca in Italy. He has lived in a monastery in Greece. He has painted in Mexico. He is now estab- lished in a studio at Anticoll in the Sabine hills. He is one of those whose works have created most discussion and have called forth from exponents of the modernist school highest praise. They should be thoughtfully studied. A fuller review of this exhibition will be given later. % HE Baltimore Water Color Club's thirtieth annual exhibition, which opened in the Baltimore Museum of Art on February 16, continues to March 21, and will well reward a visit. It is a brilliant display, one of the best balanced exhibitions of water colors that has yet been set forth. Several of our Washington artists are represented therein—L. Morris Leisen- | ring, Elizabeth Sawtelle, Benson Moore, Roy Clark and Mary K. Porter. Julius Delbos, who contributed to the | Washington Water Color Club's exhi- bition, 18 represented, so also is M Elisabeth Spalding of Denver, who is spending the Winter here. J. Walter Dawson of Philadelphia, who is con- nected with the University of Pennsyl- vania; George Pearse Ennis of the Grand Central School of Art York; Alice Huger-Smith, of Chr ton, §. C., and Charles W. Hawthorne of Provincetown, are among those who have contributed notable works, so the representation. lition to the water colors this exhibition inclides a large group of miniatures, many of them excellent— a far better showing than one of the miniature societies made in New York this ye: everal of these are by Gladys Br an, formerly of this city; two are Eva Springer, a Washingtonian. Lilian Giffen, president of the Balti- more Water Color Club, is showing a collection of her paintings at the Maryland Institute, Mount Royal ave- nue, opening February 24 and continu- ing to March 11. This consists of oil paintings and water colo In the Maryland Institute at the present time the Lucas collection, be- longing to the institute, is to be seen in the m y. a noted the is open this month on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 11 to 4. nnig by * * % AHE Corcoran Gallery of Art closes = on March nd will not re-open until April 4, as all the galleries have to be cleared to make place for the biennial exhibition of cotemporary American painting, which will be set forth in the gallery from April 4 to May 16, Inclusive THE PUBLIC LIBRARY | | Recent accessions at the Public Library and lists of recommended read- | tng will appear in this column each Sunday. Medicine and Health. | Baker, S. J. Child Hygiene. QPE-B| 178c. | Campbell, C. M. A Present-Day Con- ception of Mental Disorders. QFN-C 152p. Casanovas, Joaquin. pine: QN-C26d. Dakin, Florence. Simplified Nursing. QDY-D 14s. Dorsey, G. A. Human Beings. esight Conservation Council America. Bulletins. 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Being illustrations for “Paradise Lost,” “Comus” and the Bible. McPherson, Kansas: Carl J. Smalley. New Kansas s Sons. NGLISH: THE John Gals- New York: ages must settle to produce the marvel -| THE D. U, MARCH 7, 1926—PART 2. Mencken Given High Place in Letters—Lights on British Do- minion in India Prove Interesting—Several Other Volumes Are Discussed by Reviewer. BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. THE MAN MENCKEN. By Isaac Goldberg, Ph. D. New York: Simon & Schuster, - IME is the chief ingredient of the legend. So the schoolmen used to tell us. There would be a grain of truth, they said. | or maybe no more than a shred | of fancy, at the heart of the matter. | But upon this—and here is the main point—the slow i of long | and the glamour which, together, con stitutes the lezend Nowadays all is changed tific and magically electrifi has so speeded up events and achieve: ments as to make each passing decade equal in effect to many of the preced- ing centuries and to promise for the next 500 years more of growth than the whole of the recorded past can show. In this general speeding up the legend is no longer of necessity the product of time. Indeed, nowadays, it may be made while you walt, as suits are pressed and boots hecled. Now- adays, indeed, & man may stand by looking on to see himself translated into the stuff of hoary myth and fable. Here is a case In point. “The Man Mencken” is the record of such trans- lation. The seed kernel of truth in this legendary growth is that Men- cken is different. So different is he from his cotempor and exceptional, that he is lifted above them to a high remoteness which in a horizontal and receding projection would carry him back and place him, clearly, among the wonder-men of an clent story. Now whether or not this Mencken from Baltimore commuting to New York for the purpose of his peculiarly inflammable professional pursuits i really of legend implication doe not greatly matt which doe int_is Isaac Goldberg's handling of “The Man Mencken.” He goes at him with Rabelaisian gusto. Not enough to picture the fellow. He stands Mencken up before one, measuring him, pointing to the color of eyes and hair, touching this physical stamp and that one—the stooped shoulders, the horn-rimmed glasses, the self-man- feured hands, the sort of tie, the num ber of ladies who have proposed to this confirmed misogynist joyously paying his bachelor tax with a gleeful shout that it “is worth it.” From the gossip and the showman Dr. Goldberg asily nd competently becon the biographer and the critic, tracing witi punetil care the Mencken from it [Juropean source, to gather it may be, certain influences that have produced the Baltimore Mencken, this savage vouth cutting right and left wherever a head shows above the bush. Dr. Goldberg, historfan, is as plodding and as u German scholar habitus As critic he is above all fair-minded, citing Mencken facts and documents—letters, poems, articles, formulated theories of art in more than or jts aspects and pur: Th the support of his al judgments. As a writer he is ntly concrete, pointed, vivid, pic turesque. This i$ a subject exactly fitted to his hand, and to it he does a rich and satisfying just Such a man as Mencken coupled with a man like Isamc Goldberg—something like a legendary pair creating such a stiv that a part of the wonder lies in the fact that one pair of book govers can hold the two! * % ¥ DOMINION. LOST w York: G. 3 nam’s Son: GNA Y purpose in writing this treatise is merely to give an account of the fall of the British dominion in India.”” And to meet this purpose the author goes back to Tudor days when, under the impetus of trade and the desire for markets, England reached out and finally became into practical possession of India. from this point he advances along the way of Eng Jand'’s imperial policy toward this new domain, along the way of her many changing plans to meet the greatly difficult situation in the East where a huge population was broken into elements inharmonious toward one an- other, unwilling as a whole to submit to the domination of a race distinctly alien. It is in substance and effect an account of the gradual opening of India toward self-government. It is the record of England’s plan to en courage such self-government One gathers from the straightfor ward setting out of the facts here that the plans of Englahd, while in har mony with the liberating spirit that now so generally animates govern- ments, are, nevertheless, running ahead of the fitness of this eastern part of the empire to govern itself. Here is the implication that such a plan is premature, that it is therefore a dangerous plan, not for England alone, not for the people of India alone, but for every part of the world that has progressed beyond the status of this populous and unorganized native cen- ter. An impersonal account, dealing with facts, never with individuals who, in, India, have represented the crown. Many are the lost possessions of Eng: fand. From some she has been driven in battle; others she has abandoned through negligence; others she has surrendered as useless and mnoxious; some have been bartered. The case of India is up to the present the first and only example of the abandonment of a valuable possession on moral grounds.” A premature relinquish- ment for the good of the world itself— such is the gist of this clear and aight and impersonal analysis of ingland’s policy in India. * k & % ANDREW BRIDE OF Henry Sydnor Harriso “Queed,” etc. Boston: Mifflin Company. o his own countrymen the expatri- te is an interesting character. That is. he remains an object of keen inter- est so long as there is hope that he may finally come to his senses in a re- turn to his native land. When this hope fades the self-banished one fades too. quite out of the concern of the home folks. So it with Henry James and William Astor. They final- Iy ceased to count on this side. An- drew Bride is not of Paris at all. Of Columbus, Ohio, instead. But a touch of genius and a breath of distinction in critical and poetic writing went to the head of Andrew Bride. Ho was honest about it and sincere. The boy actually believed that in Paris alone was there food for the writer’s art. The story—a clean-cut, intuitive, prac- ticed story—concerns itself with the PARIS. By author of Houghton, Etchings and Aquatints by John Taylor Arms Gordon Dunthorne 1205 Connecticut Avenue with the wholly engaging means of his conversion to the very good thought that an American would bet- ter lend a hand toward making his country a desirable place for all of her children than to turn tail and run off to some supposedly rarer and better atmosphere, Understand, you are not to despise Andrew Bride. He is us en guging as any one you've met in a long time. Trust Mr. Ha on for that. He was just mistaken as youth is likely to be. The story throughout gives the satisfaction that any touch of art, finer than the average does give, regardless of the importance or no importance of its theme. * ok k% EAST OF EDEN. By Lynn Montross. New Yo Harper & Bros. HIS novel of American farming goes back for its beginning to that moment when the farmer, r the urgency of war, was reap- ing gold in_the shape of grain. And, somehow, the farmer thought that his prosperity had come to stay. He couldn’t have reasoned that the war was going to last forever. Probably he didn’t reason at all. Too busy. In- stead, he maneuvered and scrambled for more land in order to secure big ger harvests and more and more money. Then the war ended. Prices fell Acres, unpaid for, brought the farmer to the very edge of things. Then began, that which is now going s, both average | on, the efforts of farmers to set their business house in order. This meant, as a matter of fact, beginning to learn the alphabet of business, a lesson that the farmer had deliberately neglected having nothing to do with his case of an individualism that has, in all history, never been before ap proached. Then began the experiments in co- operation around which associations and bureaus sprang in a night an vanished in a day-—all with loss, and disillusion and hatreds and new ven- tures of rehabflitation. That which all other industries had long ago achleved agriculture was then, is now, just beginning to learn with pain and labor. “East of Eden"” is a clear mov- ing picture of this situation, narrowed for the purposes of drama, to a com- munity and, in specific point, to a single family. And this is not a mov- ing picture of artificially constructed castles and make-believe hazards and triumphant issues. No, the camera moved right beside these fields, right into the hearts of the people so deeply affected by the new experimentation in the laws of economic stability. It snapshots hope and despair in their actual alternations and, with courage and invincible logic, it brings the mat ter to the only ending that, at this age and in the situation set down here, could posibly come. 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