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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Wood Block Prints on Exhibition at the Smithsonian—How the__prints Are Made—Lecture Series Announced by . Washington Society of Fine Arts. L 4 BY LEILA MECHLIN. HE division of graphic arts, United States National Mu- seum, Inaugurates its season of print exhibitions py an ex- ceptionally interesting one- man show, the work of Gustave Bau- mann, one of our foremost color wood block printers—-one who, as Mr. Tol- man, head of the division of graphic arts, aptly 8ays, is an exceptional col- orist and a fine technician. Mr. Baumann was born in Ger many, at Magdeburg, in 1881, but he has long resided in this country, of which he is now an adopted son. He is a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, also one of the Chicago Cliff Dwellers, # member of the Taos Soclety and of the California Print Makers' Society. For a number of years he has resided in Santa Fe, N. Mex., and the majority of his printe are of life and landscape in that re gion. Color block prints are those which are printed in color from hand-cut blocks. The design is drawn on a key block in black lines and masses and then the spaces are cut away with : knife gouge or a V-shaped tool. s that these lines and masses stand up in high relief. One block fs cut by ihe artist for each color in his design. The blocks are inked. each with different color, and then printed on a sheet of paper. one block after an other. The artists emploving thi method work in two different ways Some make use of a strong outline or, their key blocks and print it in blacl or some dark tint. The color block: are then used to fill in the spaces be tween the lines. Others, however, i they use a key black at all, print it in such light coler that it is not observ able, or superimpose upon it a celor block £0 that the outline is invisible Gustave Bauman employs the sec- ond method, with the result that his color prints have little or no kinship to the color prints of Japan. but in stead present the appearance o pastels or paintings in gouache. A: one of his fellow block printers has said, “he paints on paper, through th« medium of his blocks, a print of which any wielder of the brush might be proud. Perhaps the loveliest of all the prints in the current exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution are those ir which colorful foliage is a leading fac. tor. Trees turned gold by autmnal frosts, fruit trees blossoming in Spring alike afford him weleome opportunity for poetic and beautiful interpreta. tion. He {s an excellent draftsma: but he is a still better colorist. ang h! color comhinations, while brilliant, as befits his subjects, are invariably har monious In some of his pictures he has intro. duced, ag an ndditional element of in- terest. animals. One which is delight. ful as pure landscape fis entitled “Punch Hunting Chipmunks.” and close inspection reveals to the ob- server the hunter and the hunted, each taking its place in the composi tion as a decorative element. suggest. ing. in fact. that for their drama the &cene has heen set, but as inconspicu- ous as wild creatures invariably are in the wilderness. i Tt should be remembered that a color print of this sort is quite dif- ferent from a lithographic print re. producing a painting—quite as much an original work as the so-called art- Ist’s proof etching. But a wood block print, as a well known authority has #aid, must be “designed in terms of fhf" medium,” and is essentially deco. rative, The Japaness prints made by the wood block process have exerted a potent influence on the art of the Oc. | cldent. Tt was from Japanese wsod block prints. it will he remembered, that Whistler received much fnepira- tion. One of the first Americans to take up wood block printing in the Jap- anese method was Helen Hyde, who | went to Japan and studied under Jap- | anese masters, later winning awards in competition with Japanese students. | In recent vears wood block prints have become very popular, and so skillfully are they made, by not one but many cotemporary artists, that teday they take their place in all ex. hibitions of graphic arts with etch- ing. engraving and lithography. In fact, the American Federation of Arts is circulating this season among the leading American colleges a group of | Prii by American etchers and en. | gravers which consists of as many wood biock prints in color as etchings | in black and white. The remarkubl thing i€ that with a medium <o sim. | vle. and yet so citcumscribed, it is possible for artists to find such di- versity of expression. The wood block prints of Japan were purposed for the ma: they were the poor man's art. The wood blocl prints of today are likewise within the reach of those of extremely mod est means. Gustave Bauman's are samong the highest priced, but even some of his can be had for as little as $20 The current exhibition will continue until the 29th of this month, and will be followed next month by a collec. tion of wood block prints in color and very different in style, by Mrs. Bertha Lum of San Francisco. Other exhibi- tions to follow in this series are etch- ings, drypoints and wood block prints by B. J. O. Nordfeldt: French color prints by various print makers: aqua- tints by H. M. Luquiens of Honolulu; drypoints and lithographs by Chaun- cey Ryder, the well known landscape painter, and etchings by Lee Sturges. XA e “HE building of the new wing of the | Corcoran Gallery of Art to ac- commodate the Clark collection goes on apace, but thare is no prospect of completion in the near future. Mean- while Mr. Minnigerode, the director of the gallery. is preparing a cata- | Jogue of the exhibits, calling to his aid such expert advice as he may require, but giving to the work his own un- divided attention. The Clark collec- tion, it will be remembered. inciuds not only paintings but textiles. tapes- tries, rugs, woven fabrics, porcelains, majolicas and other objects of art. Because of the building operations and this Important work requiring so much time and attention, the number of special exhibitions held in the Co coran Gallery this season will prob- ably be “considerably reduced. This does not mean, however. that the local #rociaties, the Soclety of Washington Artists and the Washington Water Color Club, will be excluded. To the each will be allotted the spe- Meanwhile it should be noted that | the permanent collection of the C coran Gallery of Art js on view a usual, and that the gallery is open to the public without fes three week days—Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays—as well as Sunday after- noons. In paintings of the American school no gallery in the country can make & better showing, and for those whofind real pleasure in art these | quiet galleries. containing so much of real beauty coupled with pleasure. 2w THE _Washington Society of the Fine Arts announces for the com- ing Winter an interesting series of illustrated lectures on the fine arts. all of which, save perhaps one, will be given by a practicing artist in the particular field of which the lecture treats. The first of the series, on “Art and the Allied Arts.” will be by J. Monroe Hewlett, well known both as a mural painter, an architect and one of the leading authorities on decora- tion in the country. The second will be on Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the sculptor of the Adams Memorial, the Chicago Lincoln, the Shermah statue in New York and the Shaw Memorial in Boston, to-name only a few of his distinguished works. This will be given by his son, Homer Saint-Gau- dens, who is now director of fine arts at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. The third lecture will be on “Ameri- can Domestic Architecture,” by C. Howard Walker, at one time lecturer on fine arts at Harvard Univer- sity and later college lecturer for the American Institute of Archi- tects. This will be followed by a lecture by Arthur Shurtleff of Bos- ton, landscape architect and vice president of the American Soclety of Landscape Architects, on “Parks: Their Design and Recreational Use.” Finally, the course will be concluded by a clay talk, “The Sculptor's Stu- dio.”” by Lorado Taft, the sculptor, au- thor and teacher. Mr. Taft will bring with him a number of his assistants and set up on the stage at the Cen- tral High School a tvpical sculptor’s studio of the Italian renaissance, wherein will be enacted a little play demonstrating the sculptor's way of working. ‘This is perhaps the most diversified and interesting course given by the Washington Society of the Fine Arts for some years. e MA.\'Y will learn with regret of the death of Charles T. Carruth, who lectured here not only last season but in previous seasons for the Washing- ton Soclety of the Fine Arts. Mr. Carruth’s subjects were invariably on the art of the Italian renaissance. His lecture last season was on Ghir- landajo. His lecture given here two vears ago was on Della Robbla. Both were illustrated by the most beautiful color slides that have been produced, the collaborative work of the lecturer and two artists. Mr. Carruth was a life member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts and at one time the society’s vice president. * K oK ¥ 1SS MARTAN LANE has brought back with her from Ogunquit, where ‘she spent the Summer. a partic- ularly interesting serfes of pencil drawings of the fish houses and other characteristic Ogunquit scenes. These are done with remarkable accuracy of line, as well as engaging technique. Fifty or more vears ago students were taught to eketch with pencil in this accurate and effective manner. which later completely went out of style. Tt is being brought back now almost as a lost art and its return may be heralded as evidence of an increasing interest | in good draftsmanship. While she was in Ogunquit Miss Lane also made quite a number of col- orful studies of the rocks and sea in water color, handling her material | more broadly, perhaps. than in the past, and with considerably more free- dom. At present Miss Lane. who stands among the foremost bookbinders, a master craftsman, is finishing the binding of a beautiful Book of Re- membrance for the Woman's Auxil- iary of the Episcopal Church in the diocese of Maryland. in which will be inscribed the names of the de- ceased members during the 50 years of the organization's existence. The leather chosen for this binding is a rich dark blue morocco, and the tooled design, for which Miss Kibbey is largely responsible, is symbolic in the extreme; a very beautiful design finely executed. Miss Lane has also been cormissions the illustrated catalogue of the collec- tion of crosses given by Mrs. James T. Leavitt in memory of her husband to the Washington Cathedval. * % k¥ MISS ELISABETH SPALDING of Denver. who is well known in this this city and painted and exhibit- ed here. has lutely held. or is holding at the preesnt time, an exhibition of 40 water colors and efght oil paintings | ! under the auspfes of the Denver Art Museur. The majority of these are . but a few first picture to the I . Ronnebeck. acting director ver Art Museum, who lecty Washington, it will be recailed, last Winter, exhibition is a rare de- light.” Miss Spalding. he sa; in her works extraordinary jand is at the same time a master of her medium. This is high praise and well deserved. * IT End of the Trail, can - wo which exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, is to be put in perma- nent form and placed in the city of Waupun, Wis., by a W ness mar This st B plets an Indian warrior bowed in deep dejection, seated on his pony. which also crouches forward in distress. It * ¥ *x offer a place of retreat | b to bind a copy of | THE has been called a realistic picture of an Indian—the end of the sunset trail. Mr. Fraser will remodel the statue and ‘will make it 12 feet high from the bot- tom of the horse's hoofs to the shoul- der of the Indian. It will be cast in bronze and erected on a stone base 2 feet high, the whole mounted on a mound of earth representing the bur- ial mounds of the Indians. At night it will be flooded with light, so that the horse and rider will be visible against the sl This Is the second important work of art that Mr. Shaler has brought to Waupun. The first was Lorado Taft's statue of “The Angel of Peace.” Mr. Fraser, it will be remembered, s not only the sculptor of the Hamilton statue on the south steps of the Treas- ury, but also of the Ericsson Memo- rial in Potomac Park. It was he, also, who designed the 5-cent piece with the Indian head and the buffalo, still in use. < s Cities Could Save Billions in' Taxes (Continued from First Page.) to cut down city taxes. The commis- sion reorganized city departments so as to prevent them from financing themselves independently of one an- other. Under the old system account- ing was antiquated, equipment was ordered that was not needed, equip- ment was frequently duplicatec at an enormous loss, recelpts and expendi- tures were handled in a slipshod man- ner. Under the old system it took 134 workers to pay off city emplo; Under the new only 22. Under the new ‘system of accounting it was found that delinquent taxpayers owed the city $11.000,000. The old slipshod methods of accounting had covered this up. In all millions were saved the city. And vet Baltimore | is only one of thousands of other| C{Ues that need a similar reorganiza- tion. e | “Every State should have a State auditing board to review local taxa- tion and see to it that the dspart- ments of the State budgeted their re- quests for appropriations. Every unit of taxation, whether it be a State or a city or a county, should publish a hudget which should show at a glance how the tax money is going to be spent. This budget should be studied by an organization representing the taxpayers of every community, who should -offer suggestions as to how it could be cut or notify taxpavers when they are being gouged. If the citizen | understands the budget, which he will do if it is clear, he will do the rest “With only a little effort it is possi- ble to reduce State and loral taxation $1,000,000,000 right now. We can put an end to the indebtedness indiffe ence of our State and local goverr ments temorrow and an end to State and local tax oppression. We can either take hold of State and local | tax extravagance at once or continue to pav §3.000.000 a day. Tt is time | that we deliver an ultimatum of econ omy to local government.” 1 Athletics Help Peace Move in Pacific Area Evidence that the recent interna- tional swimming meet in Honolulu between Japan and the United States was a direct aid to cordial relations has been furnished. Within three s after the visiting Japanese se tet of aquatic stars had returned to | their homeland an invitation came from the Japanese Swimming Federa- tion and the Tokio Hochi Shimbun, large Japanese newspaper, to Ha- wail's watermen to visit the Mikado's empire. manager will sail from Honolul Warren Kealoha. backstroke sts and Johnny Wood, freestyle star.| will be two of the Hawailan team. Japanese athletic societies and news- | papers hail the establishment of in- | ternational athletic tournaments as | opening the dawn for a new era of | international friendliness cn the Pa- | cific. Irish Farmers Selling Direct to Consumers There is constant complaint in Irish cities of the great difference be- tween the price of agricultural prod- uce to the consumer and the price the farmer gets for it. In County Wick- low the growers are attempting to get | fair prices by displaying their goods | in the villages and at wayside cot- tages, appealing to the thousands of paselng motorists attracted by the beautiful scenery. 3 Many automobiles réturning to Dublin are full of vegetables, fruits and flowers bought at less than half the city prices. The newspapers urge the imitation of this practice in other countes. They say that it owes its origin to American example. | beauty Nine swimmers and a coach- | B IN PRINT EXHIBITION i “SPRING FRES BAU ‘Wil America's next gteat war be with Japan? Thomas A. Young, who for many vears has heen a forelgn missionary of the Disciples of Christ |in Japan. and whose work is con- ducted under the auspices of the United Christian Missionary Socfety, and who is now home on furlough, when asked recently ahout the pos- sibility of war with Japan sald: *“‘There can be no doubting the reality of the conviction held by many that war between the United States and Japan is inevitable, that the Pa cific area is to be one of armed con. flict. ‘Amid the p ce of the tropical of Hawaii one finds accom- modations for £0.000 troops. several forts, Pearl Harbor and Diamond Head, the Gibraltar of the Pacific. All ‘for defense against Japan.’ Viait chere in the United States and are soon approached with the ‘What is the probability of r with Japan?' Moreover, certain of our newspapers seem to find many indications of the inevitableness of this_conflict. More and more is it in danger of lLecoming accepted as a fact: this idea that some time in the future certainly, and very soon, the United States and . through a conflict of inreres find themselves facing each otk in mortal combat. What truth there in it all” “To one with a sympathetic under- standing and appreciation of Japan and conditions existing at the present time in_that country war with the TUhnited States seems to have no place at ail in the realm of the probable, while to place it in the realm of the possible robs it of any special significa In support of this state- ment the following factors, making for peace within Japan herself, may be cited: Four Factors Outstanding. 1D: will is “1. The close and constantly grow- | class ing commercial relations of the two countries. This has special signifi- cance to Japan. since the United States is the largest consumer of exports. The enlarging experfence offhut the Japanese people, bringing with it the dawning of a spirit of democracy and of world fellowship. “3. The growing feeling of oppo- sition in the matter of conscription and of militarization in general. _ "4, The inability of Japan to con- duct foreign offensive of supplies. “But the supreme and outstanding reason for the improbability of an American-Japanese war i8 to be found in the sincere regard and affection in which the Japanese people hoid the United States. “Following the opening of Japan by Commodore Perry the United States has assisted Japan in the development of her railway and educational svs- tems, she has followed with interest the development of Japan's diplo- matic service, she gave moral support to Japan in her war with Russia and in the annexation of Korea, while at the time of the great earthquake and fire the generosity of our country was unstinted. All through the years the United States has manifested a sincere friendship and rcgard for Japan and the Japanese people, in turn, have re- ciprocated with a deep and abiding gratitude and respect. Admitting all this, some one asks: perhape | HET.” A WOOD BLOCK PRINT IN COLOR, BY GUSTAVE WHICH IS ON VIEW AT THE S CLAIMS JAPAN NEVER WILL WAR AGAINST U. S. OVER ALIEN LAW Missionary Says Her Friendship for America Re- move# All Probability of Conflict—Declared Con- tent to Await Immigration Policy Change. on- | of s on any large scale an effective [ macy, so far from her base [ merce. * MITHSONIAN. “'But what about the immigration act burring Japanese from our coun- try? Does not Japan hate the United States for that?’ And the answer is a most emphatic ‘No." The passage of the immigration act did bring bitter disappointment to the whole Japanese nation: she was greatly troubled; she did question: she did doubt: even yet she cannot understand. why it had to be. but in spite of it all Japan has held firmly to her belief in the inher- ent sense of justice possessed by the rican people. apan will never war over the im- tion act! She will wait for thd tion of that injustice at the handsfl the peaple of the nation she s0 mudh admires. And Japan is confl- | dent that this must come. “True, war with Japan is possible. for almost anything is possible. But war with Japan is not at all probable for the reasohs cited above—to which must be added this further one. name- 1y, that no need will ever ®xist for any conflict in the real interests of these two great nations. .provided each de- sires sincerely the welfare of the other. The writer is confident that each of these two countries does desire the welfare of the other.” University of Beirut Working for Syrians In Syria, strange to say. there is! just onme institution working whole- heartedly for the good of Syrians. Tt is the American University of Beirut, founded by Dr. Daniel Bliss in 1883 as a Protestant college. but now a full- fledged nonsectarfan university, under the presidency of Bayard Dodge. M. A D., regularly incorporated in 'k and flourishing. Its first in 1870 graduated 16 stu- dents: the present senfor ¢lass num- bers more than 600. TIn the present student body of about 1,500 one finds Kurds, Armenians, Egyptians, Turks, Traki and even a Mexican and a Finn: the students are mainly from Beirut, the Lebanon and the surround- ing Syrian country. The fees are about $75 a yvear and woman students are admitted. Of the 52 teachers 27 are American or English. 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