Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1928, Page 32

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FEBRUARY 3 1928— PART 2. INS FIGURE NTING AWARD Favorable Impression Created by Paintings and Sculpture Shown' Under Auspices of Society of Washington Artists. Prizes Are Announced. HE Society of Washington Artists | opened its thirty-seventh annual exihibition of paintings and sculpture in the National Gallery of Art, United States National m. yesterday afternoon to con- to February 29. The display pies three galleries—the largs main galiery and two adjacent small galles for some time occupied by the n collection. The major its are by local artists. but there is & scattering of paintings from out of tosn Ferguson, who has succeeded in placing in A gray atmosphere a number of figures ag an Alpine background, with admirable effect In the little gallery to the left one finds of special note. two city pictures, | architectural subjects, rendered in a colorful, artistic way. by Eleanor Parke an admirably painted, sunny ndscape by Margarcte Lent: a fine picture by Ruth Osgood in stance is particularly well . a landscape by Garnet Jex which the trees make a decorative extraordinary delicacy. such as a glimpse of the Canyon near Bright Angel Trail, and a close view of a boil- ing spring in Yellowstone. Her picture of the Santa Barbara Mission shows ex- cellent drawing and atmospheric effect. Her whole series, in fact, is varied and encaging. The collection will remain on view for another weck In the upper room at the Arts Club a collection of silk battk murals by Lorena Freeman Atwood, a pupil of nn Fisher. Pratt Institute, Henry Perl- REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS ISurvey of Modern Spiritual Ideals Is Presented—Business and Science in Partnership—Thoughts Inspired by Recent Examples of Fiction. | } stead IDA GILBERT MYERS. ecing, of a thousand passing contacts ! > A the dull matter of laying roads to | THE REFORMED CHURCH PULPIT.| [ the (Uil matits Of (ayiig Soacs o | By Frederick K. Stamm. Introdic-| ppyico [ustead. every mile of the way [ tion by Joseph Fort Newton. D. D., | (fHEG (e Toers bt o v Tite | Litt. D. "New York: The Macmitlan | {}, "ihee 0 PAY Cb8 Cote Ot e i i i | No, Instead, for awkward Pelix N n a deep maternal pa G0 And 50 we, too, come into posse dide: fiis goeat HE sermon has come back. Onc even the most casual glan shows, the sermon made up the i bulk of Colonial literature. It i constituted almost the wholc reading of the people. Then, through the rapid march of events, common in- seenes that change wit ing so swiftly tor car T strange pa infrequent o2 weird sunse culiar rac the under the amb land itself spre a charming child portrait, ley Shawl” by Ruth Ander- on. whose still life in the lery ha ready been men- bowl of zinnias in pastel Lona Miller Keplinger, and of flowering dogwood. by G. Abbot, both rendered site delicacy and feeling 15 an interesting and novel { forms as seen sil- nst the misty sunlight of house,” A conservatory, by a work intense sineer istic and promising siill Wililam M. Chase and Henry B | s on view. These are figure | ions, well drawn. unusual ir ather exotic in style and sup- of the Orient, but very weil At a glance the impressi the work shown is lligent. colerful, up to date. ¢ can be asked? These ext Snell, comp eolor. gesiave done On the evening of February 7. Mrs Atwood. who lives at White Plains, N Y. will be the guest of honor and will give an informal talk on silk murals. Mr.and Mrs. James True will be hosts. [ At the Yorke Gallery, 2000 S street, from February 7 to February 18, a col- lection of landscape and figure paint- ings by Jean Negulesco will be exhib- prizes. as previously ar were awarded by & 1 Garber and uld also be made a terest turned in other directions calling | for themes more in step with the m | terial advance of the expanding Colo- | nial life. The sermon, therefore. b came in certain measure subme Q"vd | But now, by virtue of the very lnr\-r- | that sent it into comparative obscurity | —the force of public demand—it has | come back again. It is the Great War. no doubt, that has within the past few years turned people in upon themselves, Qquesting a new hope, a safer anchorage a surer sanctuary than that resting within the possibility of a world again obsessed with hatred and slaughter. Cer- tain it is that the present is a llv,\]v’ of dress, or that their ways of h ding and bringing world. tra:n movin new 1l future of ti e ia en orderly : ked and crowded ac- fail to feel spirit. that lifts the entire ad o the zone of comp t that holds the g lar Mr. Jame- of 1Wo canvases co! is artist. both excellent o a group of objects bear jered in dull tone by J. Washington. Pa.. and a s e awarded to Angelo Zir i r simple in_cesign, gnificant in treatment From the far West have come two pes of California, both evidencing on the part insight. training and sl on Rainier,” a snow- ain picture vigorously Evylena Nunn Miller of ¢ showing ts small—five modeled portrait busts. Kidder Sparrow; by Mr Y at h bronze portr of a little child. 3 h Cresson: the | by Ziholi, and a litt in wood, by Paul fe. which is interesting a veness. In t gs by Marv E. F Anderson, both extremelv e and attrac tion might have There are among us. such as Richard Meryman, Carl Elizabeth Sawtelle. Eillen Day abrielle de V. Clements, who nately are not represented, it 1s more than a credit and one which compares favor- with local exhibits in other ci L. M artists is Baker Mose, Hal ful color scheme but an ex of light and shade and use of shadow. Ri ing is less subtle e, 8 bow] of gay coiored with much sympa rative feeling Marguerite Neuh: same wall a very att flowers of several kinds 1. jug of Italian peasant pot- She, 100, evidences a fine color sense as well as technical mast { tween Ruth Anderson's Notes of A: and Artists, ction of water colors by Nicolay now on view at the A Club, 2017 I street, is deserving of much more attention than it may dne to the overshadowing in- of the Bal Boheme and the Society of Washington Ar- ual exhibition. Nicolay is so well known as thinly painted. but extremelr ing in pattern, well drawn. decorative, unique. Balancing the Co: Tight is a large canvas by Ale: entitled “Passing Age.” & px sione arched bridge in some foreigzn edieval town, strong In color, boldly rendered, with sn evident keen appre ciation of design. Mr. Man cne of those who adopts a single st¥le or confines his work within 2 I ed field He is essentially “various” and siways interesting. Beyond the Many hangs an ®ith figures by Clars Saunders, @oubtiess. while in Japan, an #rd interesting essay. and to tf a_city picture, a noct tie E. Burdette, which is extr engaging. and goes to sho ubjects are pilenti hand if one has the discerning Burdette's picture is wn Washington. though it will; r very foreign o the majority.| Miss Burdette is represented by no less than four works in this exhibition— picture already referred 10. two fiower paintings. one of blue hydangzas. another of zinulas. and 8 still life—an ©l3 china teapo! and grapes. a: ©f which sre brillia rendered, Vi and handsome. On other walls in this same large Al be a picturesque figure stud: 1 yellow gown, by Ber- es. a figure painting of Indians | by Catherine Critcher, up 0 best standard of the now interior Here. 10, 15 an ed ;. Prank Niepoid i of Emil Carlsen. & idren in 8 ficl riter that there is danger also of regarded as an amateur in but the fact is i capable pai wouid un- al distinc- by J now on view er on a tr not f DUt are renderea 16 beauty none 0o co water-color painting. Mis ough modernistic, -to-date and her art sough continuous 3 10 be unpaintable painted it and ch pictures a sense ir. yet re imple sincer s suggest intd Some of h has rendercd 4 are not is essen- as prac- i bt Her Y a r Asturlay Peasants, ited. Jean Negulesco was born in Ru- mania in 1898 and studied in the art schools of Bucharest. In 1920 he went to Paris and became a pupil of the Julien Academy. Last Spring he came. 1 America and took up his residence ew York. Duncan Phillips of this ! as written a foreword to the catalogue of this exhibition. and Rich- ard Le Gellienne and Rockwell Kent have both written appreciatively of his work. * Aquatints by William Daniell of Eng- land and Scotland one hundred vears ago. and Jithographs by Joseph Nash of old English mansions, together with a fine collection of old English china and pottery, are on view now at Gordon nthorne’s Gallery, 1205 Connecticut * ¥ ok % * ik onian Institution, divi sion of graphic arts, is to be rrough February. an exhibition of etch Armin Carl Hanson of Monte : & painter, etcher and teach netion. * ok os % Tomorrow afternoon the local chap l‘ E ()F ter of the League of American Per Women is giving a tea at the Willarc Hotel in honor of Sally James Farn- ham, the distinguished woman sculptor among whose works is the equestriai statue of Gen. Bolivar in New York. * v ow % On Thursday evening at the Centrs High School. under the joint auspice of the Community Institute of Wash ington and the Washington Society o the Fine Arts, Gerrit A. Beneker wil give an illustrated lecture on “Art i Everyday Life.” Mr. Beneker is a well known painte | intimac {the La seel i5tilde “Peri and Prssis,” by Eben F. Comins, in exhibition of Society of Artists. ‘Washington carde Hamiiton, lately shown at)east. This house was for a short time sallories. in this city. will be |after the burning of Washington used the rooms of the Woman's | for the Capitol and has interesting his- 21 First street north- | torie associations. LEILA MECHLIN. PANISH BOOMING U. S. TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICANS on v Natic Knowldge of Language Is Credited With Furthering Commercial Dealings With Latin Republics. New Records Established. BY 0. K. National F | panied by a corresponding change in | the character and qualifications of R American _commercial representatives e "}‘\’.’:m’";‘h:dh‘;\':{u:{“: for Latin American countries. “Simp” e honls Funkh has been replaced by “simpatico e in e witn | Brass tacks have given place to tact the near future, L ¥ould not undertak® to say whether b “There go it is this better understanding that has Which s more rapialy Produccd all the better trade or wheth- practical use among, T, JUProving trade has aiso improved 0 vears engageq | nderstanding and relations. Surely it fmternnional | 1S not 5o very far feiched to infer that td by ereater better and more widespread knowledge 1 AlfT of the Spanish language has had its derstanding with | & American peoples who. for ¢fect in both directions. their part have turned to the United < as never before to appreciate and embrace the American standard of DAVIS, ade Counen) I b suggest in .o no ianguag increased Americans in the last in all phases commere n THE PUBLIC LIBRARY i living ! America di | particutarly “Indian Women and Corn,” a Taos, N. Mex., subject, by Catherine C. Critcher. Supplier of goods to every republic in and has won special distinction through his paintings of industrial workers and industrial lfe. During the war he was employed by the Navy Department to make posters and drawings, the purpose of which was 1o keep up the morale of he labor_contingent erecting buildings for the War and Naw Departments Later he was emploved by one of the eat industrial organizations in Cleve- land and later still by the General Elec- Co. in Schenectady, with the @wed purpose of bringing into the lives of the laboring men an interest in art which would put life for them on a r plane. He i3 represented in the nt exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Aris by a por- tratt. Mr Beneker has lately given a series of lectures on the relation of art to life in New York. under the auspices of the newly formed Arts Council . w o o 11 Prom February 6 paintings by | | Ame in | the reason | there £ i erea | cooking by | thii Similarly, we understand and respect | the Latin Americans, for our part. more than tver beforc. And we find our- selves committed to selling them one- third of all the manufactured goods exported from this country. a vear-by- year process of intricate mutual deal- ing in which thousands of young Burrow Americans are going to be called on to carry on the connection in future growth offers more un- Ov27a. limited possibilities thau this new un- Roche, A. S. What I Know About You derstanding between the Americas, and BI-R584w no American with imagination doubts Thomson. M. K. The Springs of Hu- that the future development of Latin| man Action. BI-T386s uring the twentieth century will rival the growth of our own Nation | during the nineteenth Exports Highly Developed. The boldly outstanding fact in American trade development during the last 15 years is the astonishing progress made by our producers and traders in the art and science of exporting, and of exporting to Latin 1 of whose 20 republics save e Spanish language United States is now_ the first Recent accessions at the Public brary and lists of recommended reading will appear 1n this column each Sun- day. Psychology. ‘Trigant. The Soctal Basis of Conseciousness BIF-B94s No element Overstreet, H. A. About Ourselves. Bl Travel in France. Grayv’'s Publishing Co. New York. Trav- el Outlines of France. G32-GTut Gwynn, Stephen. In Praise of France G39-Go9 Ha Andre. The Spell of Provence G39Pr-H13s Laughlin. C. E. France. G39-L364s. Mavo, A. De H. An American Lady Paris. G39P-M45 Miltoun, Francis, pseud Brittany. GI9B-M646s Oakle: Mrs A, E. Cloud-lands France. G37-Oad5c Music. Evans, M. G. Primer of Facts About Music. 1909 VWF-E Herter Norton, Mrs. M. D. String Qu tet Plaving. 1825, VVIC-H44 Pochon, Alfred. A Progressive Method of String-Quartet Playing. 4\ VYC-PT5. Russell, C. E VVe3-Ro1 : You're Going America e The Spell America except Paraguay, and 1 per cent difference be- tween the British trade with Paragua and ours. The great preponderance of our exports touthward 15 made up of | finjshed manufactures. Practically one- fifth of « export trade finds its market countries between the Rio C our mports m Latin America are habitually greater in value about a hundred million dollars than our ex- ports 1o those countries. ‘The total of our foreign trade with them is ap- | roximately $2.000.000.000 a vear. | B This represents astounding de- | Bagger. E 8 ! velopment r 15 years of Austria. F B 14 wrica have | Bratlsford, H How alue since 1913 Work. F3466-B734h « to the markets | Fay. Bernard The Revolutionary Spir- nde ageregated | it in France and America. F393- Last year they F20F were well over $000.000,000. In 1910 | Kerenski, A F. we furnished 14 per cent of South! — F5466-K452c America’s imports. against 86 per cent ! Lehmann, E. A, and Mingos by the rest the world. Last vear| The Zeppelins. 1307931 our share was 28 per cent, and the rest ! Sanford, A° P, and Schauffler of the world had dropped to 72 per! eds. Armist cent | Shanks, D C. As They Passed Through the Port. F30792-Sh 12 Record Established. Central America and the West | cambined our share of their im- ade grew in the same period | AsCasubl per cent to 371, per cent l:‘ Becker: o Dt e Hernandez, Jose. Martin Fierro in the world has made HA12m Hurtaco, Juan, and others, eds. An- tologla de la Literatura Espanola Latin there is only n nde th and Cape Horn 1 History, Francis Joseph, Emperor the Soviets than trebled in that year ovr s south of the Rio only about $300.000 000 The Howard of New In Indie I Spanish. Hilario A28 [ Santos Vega. 1919 Central af from 40 per ¢ other country such a record “Throughout o owe products tor Apal competitors and France - put v ity of fnterent o Ydopr- the whol of Latin are selling more of our | i0jokla do than ate our three prin- o S ey ght, BoRInd “""‘"“‘! Mundo. X40R-K744e getiier, Our prior= | o HOED: R firmly established, and | 1ATT% M. Jde. 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