Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1930, Page 97

N UNIQUE work of art has lately been painter would work with . It is a remarkable thing how much atmosphere and effect of light he gets®into his gravures, as well as accuracy of detail. ‘Besides this interesting panel of the Relay "'Bridge, Mr. Tuttle is engaged at the present time in producing a series of 24 wood gravures of Yale University, a memorial group, some of which he has with Wood engraving is not only a difficult me- but, supposedly, one of restricted poten- tialities. Mr. Tuttle has froved it, to the con- trary, extremely pliant and capable of both- breadth and subtlety. He hags, in fact, devel- oped, or invented, a mew medium of artistic expr:ssion. 4nd how, some will ask, did it come about? Mr. Tuttle was trained as a wood engraver and began the practice of the art in New York shortly thus developed this art of wood gravure, an art which he is now giving himself to with the utmost enthusiasm and szeal. to the art of wood engraving, Mr, Tuttle has said that “in this second quarter of the twentieth century comparatively little is known of this art and of its service to mankind. From Bewick, 1775, to Linton, 1875—100 years increased the beautiful technique of that ascendancy are now living; only two ve.” Butf, Mr. Tuttle maintains, wood engraving is not and cannot The craft of wood engraving as process is obsolete, but the art of that technique must forever be preserved.” The landscape painter creates and produces a work from start to finish himself. It is a direct mes- sage. The artist engraver, Mr. Tuttle insists, may be quite as independent, and if he has a message and commands his technique, is equally Iree .to give it significant expression. Mr. Tuttle has made a wood gravure portrait of his wife, which, as an example of this new & permanent record to that great university. Here 4s an interesting and notable departure from the usual in the field of art, PORTRAI'!‘B by Edwin B. Child, 36 in number, are now on view at the National Gallery of Art. A portrait invariably has, and should have, a dual interest, as a characterization and as a work of art. These portraits by Mr. Child are mwofmmmchu.mdge John Bassett Moore, the late Lyman Abbott, Benjamin T. Marshall, former president of the Connecticut College for Women; Prof. Geoffroy Atkinson, dean of Amherst College; Dr. Bur- leigh Parkhurst and others. Many are lent by institutions, others by individuals. There are THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 'C.. FEBRUARY ART AND 23, -1930. 2 LELA ~ MECHLIN A Remarkable Work in Wood Gravure—Por- traits on V'iew at National Gallery—Sim- one Sculpture Exhibition Continues. “Sun Bright and Beaver.” A painting by Frank Townsend Hutchens. more men represented than women. A few canvases are of children. Concerning portraiture, Mr. Child has said: “The painting of a portrait is & very intimate and personal thing. Each individual is a com- plete entity which can never be successfully by an established or fixed formula of consciously, the better the chance of a reveal- ing and satisfying portrait.” After graduating from Amherst Mr. Child mtmfln‘lwkmwrmthenudydm. He attended the Art Students’ League, and then became a pupil of John La Farge, and for a number of years was his chief assistant. From him he learned pigments, color, tion, executing mural paintings and work in stained glass under the direction of this great master. For a number of years he turned his attention g ‘The portrait by which he is represented in this book is that of Judge John Bassett Moore, now included and given a position of special honor in this current exhibition. I'r should not be forgotten that Edgardo Simone’s exhibition of sculpture, which is sharing honors with Mr. Child’s portraits in the National Gallery of Art, will continue for another week. It is extraordinary that a sculptor from an- other land should be able to make so compre- hensive an exhibition as does Signor Simone at the present time. His works occupy the entire gallery and overflow into the gallery beyond. So versatile is this sculptor that his works em- brace not only portraits and imaginative com- positions but also notable memorials, monu- ments, etc. > Twelve times Signor Simone won the con- le. His monument to the Alpine wsrnon.unvelkdbythemn;o(lmxy.kn most elaborate composition involving many “Thomas Viaduct, Relay, Maryland.” A wood gravure by Macowin Tuttle. to magazine illustration, working for Scribner's, Appleton’s, McClure’s and the Century maga- zines. Occasionally hé-illustrated his own arti- cles. By way of recreation he took to landscape painting, and at the St. Louis Exposition was awarded a medal for a landscape. In recent years most of his time has been given to figure work and portraits. And from the evidence of this exhibition it would seem that he has been a rather prolific producer, satisfying the re- auirements of those by whom his works have been commissioned. Mr. Child is one of the fifty living painters whose attainments are recorded and appraised by Cuthbert Lee in a recently published book, “Contemporary American Portrait Painters.” figures. For this and other work he has been decorated three times by the King and Queen of Italy. He served in the Italian army as a volunteer private during the entire war, and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre. Paradoxically, he represents both the Italy of the past and the Italy of tomorrow—young Italy, fearless, adventurous, held in check by the traditions of the past. He is not a modern- ist; classical ideals dominate his work. But his sense of movement, his eagerness for action, the rapidity with which he produces, are all typical of the spirit of modern times. It is probably this spirit which induced Signor Simone to come to America and to exhibit here. And in opening the doors of our National Gallery of . dians, one on AK Art to his work indication has been given of sympathetic understanding of his purposes and ideals, as well as recognition of his accomplish- ment. M!NTION was made in these columns last week of the fact that Frank Townsend Hutchens of New York had opened a temporary studio here at the Hotel Powhatan. Announcement is now made of an exhibition of Mr. Hutchens’' paintings to be held at the Yorke Gallery, 2000 S street, from February 24 to March 3. This exhibition will comprise about 40 paintirigs, fairly large canvases and sketches. Among them will be one of two In- painted recently -at Taos, N. Mex., where Mr. Hutchens has now g _ charming home. 3 Mabel R. Sherwood, writing of Mr. Hutchens® or more ago, said: “He has a fine appreciation of light and a sensitiveness to beauty in line and color that enables him .to transfer to 'his canvases unusual charm of effect.” Referring especially to paintings brought back from Tunis she continued: “The rich, mellowed colors of the age-old walls of Tunis give splendid oppor- tunity to one with the seeing eye, and Mr, Hutchens has made the most of this advantage, In Tunis, t0o, he had the benefit of the marvel« lous radiant tone of the sunlight, almost ine describable, but which he has interpreted with purest color.” No doubt it is the “radiant tone of sunlight’ in Taos, N. Mex., which has allured this painter and induced him to establish a permanent rese idence there. But Mr. Hutchens will never stay perpetually in any one place or give himself exclusively to the painting of any one kind of subject. He is extremely versatile. He is ale ways seeking new fields and new modes of @x« pression. 5 Born in Canandaigua, N, Y., in 1869, he re~ ceived his in New York City under leading American painters and later in Paris at the Julien Academy and at Colarossi's. His pictures have been hung in many of the great European art centers and are in the permanent collections of several American art museums, A couple of years ago five of his paintings were purchased~and presented to art museums in Syracuse, Rochester, Milwaukee an of five-mon iEE I ?a?k ! A’l‘themclllb,”l'llmthenwfll open today two exhibitions of exceptional interest—paintings by Mary Nicholena MacCord of New York, a non-resident member of the club, and etchings by Frank Benson of Salem, Mass.,, one of our foremost American painters, who has gained highest distinction equally as Sculptors, the American Water Color Society; the New York Water Color Club, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, the Washington Water Color professional ore At the same time that this exhibition is df% view in the Baltimore Museum of Art a collece tion of brongzes by Emmanuel Cavacos of Bale timore will be shown. The foreign section of the Carnegie inter national exhibition shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art from January 8 to February 17 attracted wide attention, many Washingtonians visiting the exhibition. The total number of visitors was 26,000, Three paintings were purchased from the collection—*“The Three Kings,” by Glyn Philpot, an English artist, which was made an anony- mous gift to the museum; “Carbonero River,” by Timoteo Rublo Perez of Spain, and “New York City from the Terminal Buildings,” by C. R. W. Nevinson, who was at one time the foree most exponent of cubism in Great Britain. The two last were acquired for private collections. THI: exhibition of portrait sculpture by Mare garet Prench Cresson of this city held from February 11 to 22, inclus've, in the Grand Continued on Twenty-first Page -