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Paintings of Gothic Cathedrals on View at the National Gallery of Art—Corcoran Gallery Rehangs the Permanent Collection. BY LAILA MECHLIN. T the National Gallery of Art there is now on view a collec- A cathedrals of France by Pieter Van Veen, & painter of Dutch birth, who has become an American citizen. These works are displayed in the large central gallery in the new National Museum, on a series of bur- lap covered screens placed against the wall most effectively. | ries includes 27 canvasses of moderate size. The majority picture exteriors of the great French cathedrals, in fact, in the entire collection there are only four interio iwo of Chartres, one showing the Rose Window, one of | Bourges and one of the Cathedral of | Rouen. These are exceptionally inter- esting. The exteriors include the fa- cades of the cathedrals just named and Baveux, Evreux, Louviers , Senlis and the churches of Moret. St. Maclou and St. Ouen, Rouen. All of these show claborate carving. lace work in stone, sculptural detail multiplied indefintely. Obviously the painter has suggested rather than completely told the story of this carving, presenting an impression of the elaborate finished work rather than the work in detail. He has chosen to represent these great through a veil of m evening light—her demarkati of without st ess of outlin a dreamlil lity about these p ings. rather than an impression of ity but there is no doubt that the Jjects have been most carefully studied. Elihu Root, referring to the building of cathedrals. once spoke of them as | created through “the m: of art” end [ surely nothing has been created by the hand of man more beautiful, more mag- ical. These Gothic cathedrals of France tion of paintings of the Gothic | tions for the coming year. In architec- ture, graduates of accredited schools will be required to have had architec- | tural office experience of six months, and men who are not graduates of such | schools may enter the competition if | they have had at least four years of | architectura! office experience and are highly recommended by a fellow of | the American Institute of Architects. | “Entries for all competitions will bs received until March 1. New York will present free membership in the galleries to the painter and sculp- tor who win the Rome prize and fulfill the obligations of the fellowship. Circulars of information and applica- tion blanks may be secured by addrass- ing Roscoe Guernsey, executive secre- | tary, American Academy in Rome, 101 Park avenue, New York, N. Y. | Miss Marguerite B. Neale of the Parker- The Grand Central Art Galleries of | | Arts Club, all open daily, there is for - THE SUNDAY | quality, decorative quality, spirit of | Cairo, and technique. The judges of the competition will be Clifford K. Berry- | man, cartoonist of The Evening Stai | Brawner Lithograph Co., and Miss Dor- | othey Trout, a member of the Arts Club. | The ‘prizes to be awarded will be: First, $13: second, $10; third, $5. Further information may be had by addressing the chairman, arts commit- ce, Arts Club, 2017 I street. * oK oK ¥ ESIDES the exhibitions noted at the National Gallery, the Corcoran Gal- lery, the Freer Gallery, the last with its rare Oriental collections, and the lovers of art, both resident and tran- sient, the exceptional opportunity of viewing on special days the Phillips el e THE Corcoran Gallery of Art has been, during the past week, taking down the exhibition of contemporar: paintings by American artists, dispes ing the collection and rehanging its own permanent collection temporarily dis- placed. In former years the’ gallery | was closed during this period, but t ar the lower floor and the Clark a Corcoran wings have geen contin open. The first special exhibition of the season will b2 a small collection of water colors by Mrs, B. Ch this city, which will be shown in cas in the upper atrium. It is very gratify- ing to have a local artist thus honored Several important one-man exhibi- | tions are planned for the Corcoran Gal- | lery for the coming season, but no defi- nite announcement in regard thereto can be made as yet. x XK HE Washington Water Color Clnb! announces its thirty-third_annual | Memorial Gallery, 1604 Twenty-first sireet, with its interesting tri-unit ex- hibit; and the Textile Museum estab- lished by George Hewitt Myers, 2330 S street northwest. which contains rugs, tapestries and_other textiles of the Near and Far East. The Phillips Memorfal Gallery s open to the public on Tuesday, Satur- day and Sunday afterncons from 2 to 6 pm. The Textile Museum is open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday | from 2 to 5 p.m, admission by c cbtainable at the office of G. H. My 1508 H street northwest. | Often it is the little gallery which | provides for the real art lover the! maximum of delight through the possi bility of quiet study and intimacy of contact. Undoubtedly this is true in both of these instances. T 'THE Baltimore Museum of Art is| holding during this month exhibi- tions of paintings by William H. Singer, Jr., an American artist residing in Nor- STAR, WASHINGTON, AMONG CATHEDRA RAL HI( Al OF AMIENS, CATHEDRAL GALLERY OF A OF THE_GO THE, NATION PAINTINGS D. C, DECEMBER I6, . PAINTINGS BY PIETER VAN VEE! . ONE NOW ON VIEW AT RT. Rich. Illustrated by Charles Cope- land. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 9 1928—PART REVIEWS OF WINTER BOOKS A Wide Range Is Covered in the Holiday Offerings—New Fiction by H. G. Wells—Irving Bacheller IDA GILBERT MYERS. MR. BLETTSWORTHY OF RAMPOLE ISLAND. By H. G. Wells, ‘autho; of “The World of William Clissold, ete. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co NEW story by Mr. Wells. In truth, two stories—an upper and an tnder. The onme on top follows the outer and man- ifest career of Mr. Blettsworthy. The one down under follows the greater adventure of the man’s mind. The reading done, one wakes up to the fact that this very world—the whole I and now of it—is, in truth, Ra Island, and that we, the essentia are all Blettsworthys. Howev going much too fast. One thing at a time. First, here is the record of Ar- nold Blettsworthy, an English lad of the best stripe, a youth at Oxford, a young man sailing away from South America. In midsea a wreck—A tremendously exclting experience even to read about and then the rescue with Rampole Island as a refuge. A strange island, sunk deep between high cliffs in a narrow gorge at whose far summit only a streak of skylight sifts below. Strang people and things in possession there ~slow-moving gigantic slothlike ani- mals, sinister of intent, deadly in ac- tion and manlike cre bent- man and beast—upon destruction. Luck- ily for him, Blettsworthy, by his oddi- ies of behavior, was given the role of cred Lunatic,” against whom no hand could be laid. Time passed and finally came the return to civilization, with a World War in full battle to in- dicate something of the quality of that civilization. This ended, Bletisworthy, disabled, settled to the business of looking ‘out upon life with comments upon its course and seeming intent. The real Wells story lies under such surface movement. ~Rampole Island, | ‘ " | Sion. | both | Writes of Boyhood. | distinction, adding most appropriately to | the artistry of the whole. | > W | SCARLET SISTER MARY. By Julia | ™ Peterkin, author of “Black “April." | Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. FTHE world is poor in understanding, | poverty-stricken in this respect. It | is such lack more than any other that | accounts for the deep cruelty of prac- every aspect of human inter- Sounds a shade sententious, tious, too. Yet, it is intended to cnly the good word that here is |a book, a novel at that, which stands a true treasure house of comprehen- No, it is not a preachment. An, thing but. It is, on the other hand, a | | highly dramatic, deep-dyed story of | Gullah negroes living on the great Blue Brook Plantation. The big house bandoned, the place is run by the black folks. ‘These hold complete ssession of this romance, too. The amazement comes, and comes speedily, at the author’s deep knowl- cdge of these Gullah negroes. Their beliefs are rooted far away from any- thing that we know as civilization | Yet, Mrs. Peterkin has felt them out | and comprehends them, as she does the borate ritual that attends every act its strong claim to attention here— means and end In complete harmony By way of such union Peadar O'Doxn- nell has delivered the Arranmors iflanders over, body and spirit, into the hands of those who are so fortunate o3 to read “The Way It Was With Them." COMING UP THE ROAD: Memories of a North Country Boyhood. B; Irving Bacheller, author of “Eben Holden,” etc. Indianapoli The Bobbs-Merrill Co. YEAR or so ago, roaming through this same North Country, Dr. Billy Axt of the “Capitol Theater Family” nade up a lovely tune to tell, in his way, of the joy of that out-faring. “Ambling Along” is the name of that melody to which now and n oof n Sunday night we listen. The song goes with these memories of the sam locality revived here ving Bach I, too, go with both, as does every na- tive of the New York State count A trifle farther west and south my grandfather's farm—round Weed: port way—where as a little girl I live on that farm. The life there was « pattern almost point by point of that described here in the pict s of thi thousands of r tribe, and. of the day, as she does the blend of tion and religion that se such ardors of joy or grief to sa | their souls. It is upon such a bas of understanding that the s y of | Sister Mary is built. “Scarlet Oh, lall of that, a houseful of unsired | children mal clear. And yet, and —Mary is so simple, so honest, so motherful, so dear, that— we are with a chance to a little exercise in the wholesome business of comprehension. However, if this is too much of a tax upon un- used processes—why, just let us shift cl the whole ki-and- will hurfy to relieve those unforgetta days by way of this book. Beside ti personal delight of the book to count | Iess people, there is her | place for it, s | this_one serve to | warming it to a deeply p | on from generation to gen | these miracle days of such recorded m passing purpose in their of the past. A beautiful b its spirit and in its ways of recordin sure, BOOKS RECEIVED THE SHADY HILL PLAY BOOK. By Katharine Taylor and Henry Copley dark save for the single thread of sky- Aot sl traTeTAraicy. Ot @ffee light, is the modern world. Its people under the dominion of collective igno- rance, themselves a part of it, grope of an are not only the glory of that nation | exnibition to be held in the Corcoran | i i i Ty of e way: drawing: s strovi but of the world, withessing both (0 Gallery of Art from January 6 to Feb- | Czofhoslo\':\r;(l:nbé‘;llll;)?:r i the faith and to the skill of those bY | yary 3 inclusive. This will consist of | modeled two cquestrian Indian statues | whom they were erected. So long otk h sl thiy Sha”‘mmm. Prance will remain jflrlsmal works not before publicly shown | for Chicago, and a collection of printed THE PONY TREE. By Charlotte Brate. Illustrated by the author, New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Co. AMELIARANNE KEEPS SHOP. By jo admiration of the art of this writer [in creating a tremendously interesting | | romance on a subject of much dubiety | and many handicaps. away into forgetting: Not alone own particular setiing but through the country where condition 2 place of pilgrimage for the people of | the world hungering for beauty and for | the expression of a living faith. Mr. Van Veen hints in his paintings of the beauty of both the exteriors and the interiors of these great buildings. happily giving to the observer a glimpse | B " Chase, secretary, at the Arts Club, | Washb of the magnificent colored glass of iChartres, for it is the glass of these &nthic cathedrals which goes far toward glorifying them, a glory which those who remain outside can never realize. To these who have read and are fa- miliar with Henry Adams’ book Chartres the paintings of that cathe- | dral in this exhibition will have special significance. Viewing such an exhibit, | the writings of Ralph Adams Cram are likewise given added significance, and the fact that we in this city are at the | present time rearing & Gothic cathedral on Mount St. Alban adds timely in-| terest to the showing. ‘The painter of these canvases, Pieter Van Veen, came, we are told in an in- | troduction to the exhibition catalogue, from a long line of illustrious painters 2mong them ‘Rubens. And the work which is here shown occupied him for | eight vears. It was done with the ut- most_care under many difficulties, and | 1n spite of all obstacles. It was the Cathedral of Chartres| which first aroused in Mr. Van Veen a desire to produce this serics—Chartres seen in the silvery early morning light | “faintly veiled in a gossamer of rosy | moisture just vanishing in the sun's embrace.” One of the most interesting | of the works uhdoubtedly is that of “La Tour de Beurre, Rouen,” that| wonderful creation which derives its name from the fact that the people of | Rouen deprived themselves of butter in order to contribute to the cost of building 'this magnificent tower, and thus it came into existence. | And what an inspiration these Gothic | cathedrals of France have been to artists—more especialiy etchers! Com- missioned by the. Century Co., Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell made a pilgrimage to them years ago which re- sulted in their splendid book, “Cathe- crals of France,” written by Mrs. Pen< nell, illustrated by her husband. Many others have drawn and etched them since, but none, perhaps, with greater enthusiesm or more sympathetic under- standing. These paintings by Mr. Van Veen are shown under the patronage of the French Ambassador, Paul Claudel. ey will remain on view throughout | this month. =N * 'HE National Gallery Commission held its annual meeting in this ¢ity last Tuesday. Those in attendance were Dr. Abbot, secretary of the Emithsonian Institution; Willlam H. Holmes, director of the National Gal- lerv of Art: James Earl Fraser, sculp- tor; E. C. Tarbell, painter; J. H. Gest, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum Charles Moore, chairman of the Na- tional Commission of Fine Arts: John | Lodge, director of the Freer Gallery of Art, and James Parmelee. As long as the National Gallery of Art is lim- ited by its present restricted quarters there is little opportunity for develop- ment, sibilities of securing tangible aid for promising young artists in America; in other words, to the encouragement 21 protection of the specially talented, a! he development of a native art. P UNDER the auspices of the Washing- 1on Community Institute, the Washington Society of the Fine Artsand the Washington Public Library, Henry Turner Bafley will give an illustrated lecture in the Central High School Thursday evening, December 20, on “How to Look at a Picture and What to Get Out of It.” Mr. Bailey is a director of the Cleve- #and School of Art and the John Hunt- nd ingion Polytechnic Institute of Cleve- | land adviser in educational work at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He was formerly State supervisor of drawing for Massachusetts and editor of the School Arts Magazine. He has been one of the representatives of this country | 10 the great international congresses on art held abroad and is both teacher and | lecturer of international standing. There is probably no more popular Jec- turer in the field of art on the piat- form today than he. Among his pub- lished writings are “Nature Drawing,” “Twelve Great Paintings,” “Art Educ: tion,” “Photography and the Fine Arts,” “Symbolism for Artists,” “The Tree Folk” and most lately “The Magic Realm of the Arts.” just from the press. Mr. Beiley is himself an artist, sketch- ing with freedom and skill, making his own Christmas greeiing cards, leading his pupils through his own _expert knowledge. While essentially & dreamer and exceptionally sensitive to beauty, he has a dynamic personality and is therefore one of very wide and effectual sccomplishment. His ambition and his life work have been to open the eyes of those with whom he has come’in contact to the significance of beauty. R [HE American Acedemy in Rome, which is chartered by Congress, holds annual competitions for fellow- ships in architecture, landscape archi- tecture, painting.and sculpture. These competitions are open to unmarried men, not over 30 years of age, who are citizens of the United States. The sti- pend of each fellowship is $1,500 a year for three years, with allowances of $500 for transportation to and from | Rome and $150 to $300 for materials and incidental expenses. Residence and studio are provided at the academy and the total estimated value of each | poster board and shellacked suitable | 1s a jovial old fellow who never molests | therefore the commission gave | most 'of its time to discussing the pos- | nd | in this city, in water color, pastel, draw- | ings in black and white and etchings. | Works to be submitted to the jury | must be received at the Corcoran Gal -] lery of Art not later than January Those desiring to_ exhibit may secure | entry blanks by addressing Mrs. Susan * x 'HERE is now on view at the Arts Club a collection of craft work by | local workers, an exhibition which was | reviewed in these columns at some length | 2017 I street. | * * | | when shown recently at the Dunthorne | town in honor of Mme. Livia Kadar Gallery, formerly the headquarters of | the local society. Besides which a | group of etchings of dogs by Morgan Dennis of Provincetown is on view. * Kk X X | HE chairman of the arts committec of the Arts Club has announced | during the past week a poster contest | for the annual Bal Boheme to be held at the Willard Hotel January 28, 1929. Art students registered in any art chool, high school or as special art tudents at any private school in the | District are cligible to compete. All posters must show the atmosphere to be maintained at the Bal Boheme which will be the “Streets of Cairo.” They must be done on extra heavy for window display, size to be 15 by 20 inches. They must be done in tempera and any number of colors may be used. The lettering on posters should reac “Arts Club Bal Boheme, Willard Hotel, January 19. 1929." All posters will re- main the property of the club, and are to be used to advertise the ball. Any stu- dent wishing the return of his poster will be notified of its location and may call for it the day after the ball. The name and address of the student and of | the school must be plainly written on the back of each poster. No student’s name is to appear on the front of the works. : Posters must be delivered Arts Club, 2017 I street northw: or before 4 pm. January 7, They will be judged on advertising | auspices of the New Haven Paint and fabrics of the toiles de Jouy. i xx T Gordon Dunthorne'’s, 1726 Con- necticut_avenue, there are to be seen until December 17 Cadwallader 's new series of drypoints of the Riviera and an exhibition of etch- ings and drawngis by Livia Kadar, the last shown under the patronage of the Minister of Hungary and Countess Sze- chen; Mr. and Mrs. Dunthorne are | giving a tea at their home in George- eightecnth century— this afternoon. Mr. Dunthorne is also showing, through the courtesy of the Gardenside Book Shop of Boston, a collection of old and rare books, mostly from English private libraries, interesting not only as examples of fine printing but artistic binding. UNDER the auspices of the American Civic Association, the Washington Committee of One Hundred on the Fed- eral City is holding a series of round table conferences in order to discuss fully the provisions of various bills in Congress concerning planning and parks | in the National Capital. The first con- ference was held on December 10, the second is scheduled for December 17| and the third for January 7. The sub- ject under discussion at the December 17 meeting will be “Measure to Author- ize Purchase of Great Falls Park.” Frederic A. Delano is chairman of this * ok ok % ‘committee, John De La Mater secretary. * Kk Kok THE exhibition of paintings by Prank Townsend Hutchens at the Yorke Gallery has been extended to Decem- ber 2: I * ok Kk % N the Fall Exhibition of Little Pic- tures, held in New Haven under the Clay Club, honorable mention was given to Gladys Brannigan, formerly of this city, for a painting entitled “Wild Achill.” Member of Bear Family Hits Lapland Tradition | One of Lapland's most pleasant old | traditions, namely, that Nalle, the| gray grizzly bear common to the region, human beings, was blasted recentiy when a couple of reindeer herders i | the parish of Arjeplog encountered one of the creatures. The bear, that ap- | parently had never read the story books, | laid one of the pair low with a single | swing of his paw while the other beat | a hasty retreat up a tree. As the in- jured man lay inert on the ground the bear apparently repented and after dis- | appearing for & moment returned and | licked his wounds. Later the man was removed to Arjeplog Hospital, where he | recovered. The incident has aroused much discussion before the firesides of ‘the Lapp cottages, the final decision | being that Nalle really is a nice ani- | mal who forgot himself for the momen and proved his good will by returning to care for the unfortunate man's wounds. The Lapps are rather dead- | set in their friendly attitude toward | other inhabitants of the cold north | country and a single incident of this kind cannot shake their conviction that | nature, after all, is kind. | | Historic Benedictine Abbey to Be Shrine| That historic Benedictine abbey ai| Farfa, near Rome, which has been threatened with destruction, is certain to be preserved for future generations as a result of a decree of the Italian | government declaring Farfa a national | monument. i During the middle ages the abbots | of Farfa exercised an immense influ- | ence over the surrounding country. Indeed, at one time they rivaled the opes in power. Inasmuch as they were ympathetic with the emperors during the critical struggle between the sec- ular and religious powers, the Farfa | THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Public Library and lists of recommended read- | ing will appear in this column each | Sunday. Drama. Belasco, David. Six Plays. YD-B4l. Hartley, R. 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This by virtue of its content, illuminating and convincing. and by virtue of its sympathetic and lovely picturing of the var The book itself, as a book. is of a true New | of his | are not greatly different the book wi serve a fine and highly valuable end * ok ok K THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER. A. A. Milne. Pictures by Ernest Il Shepard. New York: E. P. Dut ton & Co. GEATED in my own good chair un | the lamp light I was reading—ce tainly I thought I was reading—abot that diverting group of neighbors rournc the Pooh-Corner House. About Pooh Bear himself and Rabbit and Piglet anc Christopher Robin and Tigger. Don’ ask me what a “tigger” is. Just tak the name and fix him up yourseif. Yc can't go wrong if you stick zlose to tha word, “tigger.” fuddenly on one of the pages. no' there was Pooh-Ber the road, on his arm : e THE WAY IT WAS WITH THEM. By Peadar O'Donnell. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. \WITH an eye of appraisal upon those who carry on between the lids of a novel. any novel, Robert Lynd lays | down a dividing line among them. On | this side stand the few who have been | created. On that are the thousands | who have been merely invented. Even the beloved-Sherlock Holmes is, accord- ing to this estimate, of the fabricated variety. The passing survey comes by | way of Mr. Lynd's introduction of a | | new novelist, a Gaelic Irishman, Peader O'Donnell, author of “The Way It Was With Them.” Here is a creator, not an inventor. Having read the novel, | you will, I think, agree that such is its promise, at least, for the writng ca- reer of Peadar O'Donneil. The story is of island setting, an up- nosing of rock out of the sea along the Irish coast. Patches of soil caught on the ragged stone surface or worn from | it of land. constitute the “farms"” folks of Arranmore. Thes their “farms” along. have the story, have taken possess working it out in a strict tally with their own daily existence and in the | exact pattern of their outlock and he-i havior and speech. | Peadar O'Donnell used to teach | school on the island, rowing out to it from the mainland every morning and | back at night. Again, he used to follow the men of Arranmore across to Scot- land for the potato diggings. They in- terestedd him deeply. They passed into | him, so to_speak, where throuzh the alchemy of a dramatic imagination they were held alive, coming out to in “exactly that state. They move| through this story on their daily c | of ferding themselves and their fami- lie ed with small concerns, diverted | by small pleasurs s in the shade | of those invisible beings with whom the Irishman is on terms of both fear and | friendship. The talk is straight, often | ng. now and then obscur: with | al peculiarities. 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