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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS Two Interesting Exhibitions at the Dunthorne Gallery—Photo- graphs of Classic Villas—A New Portrait by Eben F. Comins. BY LEILA MECHLIN. ‘WO very different but equally interesting and unusual exhi- bitions are on view at Gordon Dunthorne’s, on Connecticut avenue. These are water col- s by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith of 1arleston, 8. C., and etchings and ater colors by the late Ernest Has- 111, & stanch New Englander. Miss ‘Smith’s water colors, all of \ hich are of Charleston subjects, are 11 the upper gallery and make, col- ctively, a showing in which ex- uisiteness of color, subtlety of effect 'd distinction In style are dominant otes.” When one savs “Charleston +ubjects,” a vision of fine ald houses, i teresting iron grills and bewitching « d gardens is instantly summoned, i1t Alice Huger Smith paints none these things. Her pictures are of e environs of Charleston, the cy- ess“swamps, the rice fields with thelr intersecting canals, the live «1ks draped in moss, the haunts of e white egret and the blue heron, :en under exceptionally romantic « nditions—early moonrise, late after- ow, incoming salt mists. They reg- ter Invariably the impression made 1 an extremely sensitive vision at- ned to that which is artistic, but ihey are true interpretations of place #1d time and are rendered with con- siummate skill. There is n almost all £ element of the Japanesque. Alice Huger Smith is practically * if-taught, though to two artists in iwrticular she owes speclal indebted- 'ss for criticlsm and encouragement, iendly inspiration. These are Birge i1arrison, the well known landscape inter, for many years head of the ‘rt Students’ League Landscape £ hool “ of Woodstock, N. Y., and ithor of an admirable book on “l.andscape Painting,” who, for many - -ars, has spent part of his Winters i Charleston, and the late Helen ‘yde of Chicago, who learned to ake woodblock prints from the Japanese, and by the Japanese was #iven honor for achievement beyond that of cotemporary Japanese print- nakers. Miss Hyde chanced to go to ¢ harleston a good many years ago for the purpose of making a Southern ories of etchings and drawings. She ©nd Miss Smith met, and the result vas not only a close and lasting t ©iendship, but a valuable addition, in | e person of the latter, to the wood- lock printers of America. Alice uger Smith's “Celestial Figs” and Moonflower and Hawkworth,” seen » a New York gallery, were pur- hased by a Japanese collector and carried triumphantly back to that land of supreme woodblock printers. When Mr. Harrison first went to {*harleston, Miss Smith begged him 1o take her as his pupil, but he would not; he was there for rest. However, he was glad to give her friendly coun. sel and criticism. An Interesting lit- ile story is told by Marietta Neff in ‘onnection with the meeting between hese artists. ““Moss,” said Mr. Ha ison, “is not paintable.” said Miss Smith in reto what 1 think about snow."” rison is still painting snow pictures and, as this exhibition at the Dun- thorne Gallery admirably demon- strates, Miss Smith has proved that moss {s paintable. Miss Neff in the article already quoted, published last year in the American Magazine of Art, telis some- thing of Miss Smith’s method of pro- ducing water colors. She says, “Hours, days, weeks of thinking may have gone before the brushwork, but once the scene has been reconfposed at its most arresting moment, it is fixed upon the paper with magical speed and lightness, as if the essence of it had merely paused.” ‘The artist herself insists that the resuit is due largely to the materials used, which lay upon the painted un- escapable obligations. “Wrapping pa per and transparent color,” she ex plains, “forbid mistakes and second thoughts.” It is because of her direct method of working that she has been able to catch and hold extreme sub- tlety of impression. Among the most successful of her works in this exhibition is one en- titled “Mists From the Sea,” a broad view across rice flelds and swamp land, with a pale moon discernible through the mistladen atmosphere low on the horizon, mingling its light with the last rays of the already set sun. “Creek in Flood” is another typi- cal and excellent work. “Tops of the Pines” has an essentially Japanesque element in its composition and treat- ment. “Dusk in the Cypress Swamp Shown also is an admirable picture of the sea, “Breaking Wave,” rendered very much as a Japanesa artist of the best school would have rondered it. In these works one sees a meet- ing of the East and the West with the spirit of art, which is universal, uniting the two. Alice Huger Smith Is one of our American artists who has found essen- tially native and individual expression, not by deliberately seeking originality, but by giving free expression to her |own personality. ok ok HILDE HASSAM says of Ernest Haskell: “I think of his etchings as among the best that have heen made—absolutely and wholly personal —=s0 meticulously and highly finished that it may be said that they are really in the spirit of the old masters. [* ** His subjects, celebrating his own country from the farms on the granite of his native New England and under the long shadows of Mount Shasta, to the cypresses of the Bay of Monterey, are interesting to both Americans and Europeans. * * # Haskell was a big honest and lovable human being, with fine enthusiasms. He knew and admired the_ beautiful things in art and life. He hated sham. ‘The inner worth of his indi- viduality speaks through his work.” Ernest Haskell was born in West Waoodstock, Conn., June 30, 1876. His artistic career began when he was 19 and the editor of the Mail and Express in New York recognizing talent in some of his idle cketches and publishing them. Two years later he went to, Paris and worked by him- self for several years with the books of Leonardo da Vinci and the Rovin- ski Rembrandt catalogue for instryc- tors. It was at this time that he did his first etchings. In 1916 he did a serles of etchings in California. In 1923-24 came his delightful Maine series. In 1925 he painted water colors in California_and in Maine. Then came his sudden and tragic death as the result of an automobile accident. Full annreciation of Haskell's work has come recently, but it is only since his death that comprehensive show- ings of it have been made. It is now being much sought by astute collec- tors and it is very worth possessing. for Ernest Haskell was not only a her innate love of color naturally led her into the fleld of garden pho- tography, in which she = now making an unqualified success. _Early in 1925 she sailed for the Mediterranean to spend some months with her camera among_the gardens of southern Eu- rope, France and England. The pho tographs which will be exhibited and the illustrations for her lecture are the results of this trip. Her garden photographs have heen shown in the leading art gallerfes of the country. Miss Johnston studied art in the Academy Jullen in Paris and the Art Students’ League of Washington, and thus helped to develop her feeling for composition and the perfect color sense with which she fs richly en- dowed. Her ambitions were originally to be an illustrator, but she turned to photography later as a medium of ar- tistic expression and attained her pro- ficlency in the laboratories of the Smithsonian Tnstitution. In the Paris exposition of 1900 ehe received a gold medal and the rare distinction of a decoration from the French govern- ment, the Palmes Academiques. * % %k x BEN F. COMINS has lately com- pleted an interesting portrait study of what he himeself terms “the finest type of young American man- hood.” It is an extremely interest- ing work, the head and features strongly modeled, vital, expressive; the coat and shirt barely Indicated, yet sufficiently; the position of the head on the canvas giving indication, in connection with very few well placed lines, of broad shoulders and height of stature. Mr. Comins is at nresent at work upon four important portrait com- missions. * K ox ok N THE Smithsonian Building, under the auspices of the United States National Museum, there opened on January 3 to continue to January 29 a special exhibition of unusual in- terest. This consists of 24 French color prints of the eighteenth cen- tury, lent by Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., of New York and Paris. Some of the artists represented had much to do with the develonment of the art of color printing from aqua- tint plates, for instance J. F. Janinet am 813) introduced color printing into France. He s often credited splendid etcher, a brilliant technician, but an artist of keen sensibility, and whatever he efched was worth the effort. whatever he did nossessed dis- tinction. It is dificult to explain what it is that makes for greatness in an etch ing. To those who are familiar with the best, such brilliancy of success as Haskell's work displays manifests it- self at a glance. It is not merely what he says, but the way he says it—his use of line, his elimination or intro- duction of detail, the sensitiveness and at the same time firmness of his touch, his mastery of, medium. Few etchers have produced pure landscape etchings as fine as these of Ernest Haskell's—landscapes which include vast stretches of country and yet pos- sess an intimacy of interest which is astounding. His water colors done in transparent wash with a sparkle of the paper beneath indicate again his_recognition of the limitations as well as the possibilities of the medium in which he was working. They are with the invention of the process, but color-prints were being made 30 years before he was horn by Jacob Chris- tophe LeBlon #1670-1740), who used mezzotint plates. “Janinet,” says Mr. Tolman, chief of the graphic arts division of the National Museum, ‘should probably be given the credit of adapting aqua- tint to color printing. He used up to eight different plates to obtain his color effects. Louls P. Debucourt (1756-1832) brought the art to its high- est perfection in Francel He is repre- sented by nine examples. The print which is considered his masterpiece ‘La_Promenade Publique,’ {s in fine condition and an excellent example of the art. [Louis Bonnet ~735-1793) is renresented by three prints; he fs credited with being one of the in- ventors of the crayon manner of printing in colors. His prints imi- tate closely drawings in crayons. Gilles Demarteau (1722-1776) worked in a somewhat similar manner. He is true to nature, but they are dis- tinctly individualistic. By bringing these works of Ernest Haskell's to Washington 4Dr. Dunthorne puts lovers of aft here under a real obligation. T ROF. WILL HUTCHINS of the American University was a lifelong friend of Ernest Haskell, and, as a suitable tribute, will give an informal talk on Mr. Haskell and his work at e Dunthorne Gallery at 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, January 11, to which those especially interested are invited. * ok ok * COLLECTION of photographs of classic villas and their gardens of the Italian Renaissance, by Francis Benjamin Johnston, is to be placed on view at George Washington Univer- sity, Corcoran Hall, Twenty-first street between G and H, tomorrow, January 10, in connection” with an illustrated lecture on “The Gardens of History" to be given by Miss Johnston, at 3:30 o'clock. Miss Johnston, it will be remem- bered, was one of the first in this country to experiment with the vari- ous methods of photography in nat- ural colors. Her first experiments of the Wando” and “A Colony of Herons” are fine, typical scenes. were made when she still had a studio sometimes saild to have invented stipple engraving. Other engravers with work in this exhibition are J. B. Chapuy (ab. 1760-1802): Louis Le Coeur (flourished about 1790-1810); Charles M. Descourtls (1753-1820), and Gerard Videl (1742-1804).”” Mr. Tolman adds Interestingly: ‘“Genuine color prints never were very common, as it takes much time to print them, and they have been.always popular and the older they become the scarcer they become. Th old prints like the ones in this exhibit have become of high commercial value—really collec- tor's pieces.” A fuller description of this interest. Ing exhibition will follow later. Japam;:al;m_yk Planned in Brazil Brazilian land bought by a group of over fifty Japanese business men organized as the South American De- velopment Assoclation will be used to lure Japanese farmers and hands away from their homeland. Discontented over the high prices, and with the doors of the United States, Canada and Australia closed against them, the Japanese find a here'in Washington, on V street, but welcome outlet in Brazil. Norway Settles Query, Who Shot King Charles? | An anclent dispute between Norway and Sweden as to the circumstances attending the death of the gre ed- ish war hero, King Charles XII seems at last to have heen settled. King Charles was_ killed by a bullet while besieging the Norwegian fortress Fredrikssten in February, 1718. He was hit during the night, and from the moment he died the rumor has been widespread that a disgruntled Swedish _soldier shot the monarch from ambush. Swedish scientists have repeated] examined the wound in the Kking body, the last time only a few vea ago, but it has been impossible to establish whether the bullet from the Swedish or the Norwegian side. A Norwegian clergyman now publishes an old statement from a man named Jon Vedlo of Myking, whose grandfather belonged to the garrison of Fredrikssten during the siege and who shortly after King Charles’ death confided to his com- rades that he had fired the fatal shot. His report runs in part: “While walking the bastions during the night I saw dimly a gorgeously uniformed man on the Swedish side. I fired a shot and saw the man slowly sinking to earth.” Taking into account the staff re- ports that King Charles died in such manner and the historically substan- tiated fact that only one shot came from the besieged fortress that mnight, general opinion in Norway has settled on Jon Vedlo as the killer of one of the most brilliant war ings of Europe. 1 * $8,500,000 in Unpaid Insurance Premiums Unpald insurance premiums in Rus- sia amounting to$8,500,000 are due to the Moscow stafe insurance depart- ment, according’ to the Vetchernia Moskva. The principal delinquents and their debits are: Lithograph trust, $800,- 000; wood carving trust, $250,000; Rabotchaya Gazeta, $135,000; Com- munist Academy, $90,000; Economlcal Life, $60,000; Novaya derevnia, $50,000; electric trust, $44,500; Moscow small industry, $17,000; Novaya Moskva, $6,000. Some of the state industries have agreed to pay $2,750,000 back pre- miums. But leaving unpaid insur- ance, rehabilitations and other annual expenses which are considered neces- sary for normal business is a favorite means of showing a paper profit for the year. ONE OF THE CLASSIC GARDENS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ! A BIT OF THE SURROUNDINGS OF BENJAMIN JOHNSTON THE VILLA LA 'WHO IS HOLDING AN PIETRA, NEAR EXHIBITION IN FLORENCE, REPRODUCED FROM '\ A PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANCES CORCORAN HALL, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Library and lists of recommended reading will appear in this column each Sunday. Home Economics. Aldrich; L. W. 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Such be- | guiling ports as ““Out of Place We Know Best,” * ¢ | Comet,” and “Elysium” are - listed | here. Beside them are named bellev- able places like ‘‘Regent’s Park' and | “A Devon Estuary.” However, names { hardly count, since the same man projects them all. So here the fanci- ful corners of an imaginary world take on the substance of true beauty and wisdom, just as the sober realities of this spot or that one become iHumi- nated with little touches of glamour and fancy. It is a wonderful kind of iman to go away with, one who can keep you entranced by the hour, just sitting in a shabby boat, for instance, | while he recreates the various kinds of craft that have in the long past years been tled to the iron ring-bbit holding his own skiff. And, “sitting there, he actually makes poetry out of the golden rust and iridescent over- layings of that iron ring, re-creating a wonderful life about the spot. That's the kind of man this one is. A traveler who has much to say about the deep pleasure of staying at home, about the inadequacy of travel to fill one's dreams of it. But, once on the way, there opens up a perfect treasure of fact and fancy, all knit together in a beauteous fabric of sueh substance as to satisfy one completely, not for the once but for many and many a re- reading. And the way the woodcuts fit the spirit of the outfarings is one | more cause for happiness in this rare | adventure of going somewhere, or no- ‘where. * ok ok ok BILL NYE: HIS OWN LIFE STORY. Continuity by Frank Wilson Nye. illustrated. New York: The Century Co. ELVILLE STONE says, “Thi life has all the sparkle of Nye's work. Indeed, it is practically an au- tobiography. It is well worth reading by any one who enjoys drollery rather than trash.” Then in a short chapter Nye's son tells how he came to pro- Jject this work, how it seemed to him that it should be done, paying tribute, meanwhile, to those who encouraged and helped him in the undertaking. Beyond these introductory points the book is almost wholly straight from the hand of Bill Nye himself. Let- ters, conversations, lectures or ex tracts from these, intercourse in one form or another with acquaintances and friends all over the world, come together in a vital and immediate re- embodiment of a great humorist and philosopher. Here are the familiar wisdom and sound sense served with laughter, here is the well known wit, cutting butk indly; here is the genial man smiling at humanity through all kinds of weather. In a word, here is Bill Nye, just as of old, contributing to the world's substance through the insubstantial means of mirth and good cheer. The young Nye has done incalculable service to people every: where by this volume of writing straight from the hand of his father. LANT , AND JADE. By Samuel Morrill. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 'ALKING of China, Samuel Mor- rill is just here speaking of the ancient Summer Palace: “Here water fetes of the old imperial days were held, the Empress Dowager enthroned on a regal barge impersonating Kwa- nin, goddess of mercy, while eunuchs and maidens in jeweied robes posed about her as godlets, fairies and an- cient warrfors. Soft music and rip- pling water. . . . Chinese mermaids swam to the barge, offering pearls and jade and lotus in the rippling sliver of the moonlight. It is all gone now, but they say that on starlit nights faint music is heard and startled at- tendants prostrate themselves as of yore, kotowing to phantom files of princes and princesses clad in the bro- cades of another age, who glide to- ward them down garden paths, only to find on lifting timid eyes thes great ones vanished. The present oc cupants vow the entire place is haunt- ed—haunted by shades of sovereigns long since ‘mounted the dragor/; haunted by a ghostly gong, at whose sound mandarins pass with lanterns and banners: haunted by spirits of poor, frail princesses who died for love and whose souls, like will-o"-the-wisp. flit under marble bridges at twilight. Mr. Morrill, but throughout these ¢ nese sketches is there equal feelip and insight, even though the topic themselves do not invite the Iyric treatment. In and about Peking the author goes upon his daily quest— into the streets and shops, into temple and palace and plain house. Every one of these, and a thousand things besides, yleld richly to the searching eyes and questloning mind of this lured and captivated wanderer. An- clent customs and hoary rites step into the open here. And, besides these, there are pages of clear information about the current life of China and much of plain description of various industries and occupations. Favored by circumstances that permitted him to go everywhere, to see everything, Mr. Morrill, greatly improving these opportunities, has in turn passed over to readers a clear profit of reading that is as delightful as it is useful. * ¥ ¥ ¥ HARVEY GARRARD'S CRIME. By E. Phillips Oppenheim, author of Boston: Little, Brown & Co. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM has just * written a travel book, so they say, one making a clear departure from the large body of this author's work. Now that's fine, for “Harvey Garrard’s Crime {s proot positive that a change of direction will be good both for the writer and his host of devoted readers. The mnovel in hand rounds out the evidence accumulating now for a long time that, in the role of special Providence, this romancer is wearing a bit thin. He is too neat in his plans, where life itself is notori- ously without plan in respect to the individual. He is too tidy in his turns of fortune where life works in sloven- ly, slipshod fashion. He is much more intent upon the ultimate happiness of his little world than is actual Provi- dence {tself. Such excess of friendly zeal and its accompanying art, there- fore, work implausibilities that the critical ones are beginning to grumble berts, W. V. How Radlo Recelvers Work. TGC-R547h, United States Naval Academy, An- napolis. Radio Manual. TGC- Undor. United: States Bureau of Navigation Commerce). Ama- teur Radio Stations of the United St 1924, TGC-Undba. Not every minute a poet like this is “Prodigals of Monte Carlo,” etc., about. So. let's bave the new travel book. Here we have a thief, a clear thief, whose chief defender is the vietim. of the crime. This is a lady who turns lawlessness into essential virtusdinder the platitude of “the greatest good to the greatest number,” who also turns the exculpate criminal into her hus- band—that is, after he is rid of his|. wife. And here in the study of these two women Mr. Oppenheim uses agdin his famillar neatness of method. O is all unselfishness, the other is solid self throughout. The second ¢ne Is the wife, to be sure. Now peoplé don't come that way. All are a blend instead —something of good., something of il and a lot in between. Not in this case, though, for it is Mr. Oppentheim, neatly pigeonholing his characters, However, he is a beguiling spinner of smooth and comfortable tales, one with & child’s confidence that hiystory is a good one. And in a sense it is, for as a rule it makes the kind of world we'd lke to live in, rathér than in this hit-or-miss contraption where the hits so far outnumber the misses. PG b THE SUN ALSO RISES. By Erpest Hemingway, author of *In Our Time,” etc. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. "T'HIS novel belongs in the big class of fiction that is gathered. up in the name of the present new freedom. | Revolt is the keynote here, as it Is in the most of these current stories. The people set to objectify this’ mood of rebellion are a group of Americans self-exiled to the Paris Quartier, where for them life is ‘mAde up of"dancing, drinking, eating, of turning night ito day, of engaging in the cynical busi- ness of taking on and lettiig off new partners. A dull business, on the whole, for these are dull people.. -Never a gleam of wit, never a.strake of plain comménsense, never a lift above bru- ; redeems this crowd of e Hard reading this proves to be, since there is no open- ing out anvwhere toward even a promise of intelligance in any one of its many manifestations, One as- sumes that this author, for the pur- poses of clear exposure, has refrained from any possible easement that might inhere within the situation. It is hardly conceivable that these folks— or any folks, for that matter—could be so0 evenly and unalterably banal and preposterous. However, this is their standing in this story by an utterly frank and barehanded writer. No, not agreeable reading. That 1s not intent. Not quite impressive read- since it is too one-sided. Every- thing in the world has a couple of sides to it—at least, evervthing but “The Sun Also Rise: * BY CANDLE-LIGHT. By’ Gertrude Knevela, author of “Octagon House,” etc. New York: D. Apple- ton & Co. 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Nanking Picturesque As Wounded Arrive Nanking is 36 hours from Shangha by boat and seven hours by train Shanghai newspapers bring the ¢ velopments of the Chinese war in the Yangtze Valley. At the water fron boats reaching here from up river land ‘wounded soldiers, giving a sign of the violence and deadliness of the around Klukiang. ‘Wounded men able to hobble get into rickshaws and depart for the hospitals and camps and barracks in the citv miles away. Those serfously wounded are carried on stretchers. Occasfonal Iy when their bearers remove them carelessly, the unhappy soldiers writhe in agony and open their mouths for a good loud cry. The sqldiers wear shoes entirely of black cloth. extra layers tightly sewr together forming the soles. They cover the foot somewhat more adequately than slippers, but are bad for eam paigning. There is virtually no leath er In the actouterment of these sol- diers. 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