Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1930, Page 104

N CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS. CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sev- enteenth Street and New York Ave- nee. Society of Washington Artists Special Exhibition, October 5 to 30. Charcoal Portraits by Leopold Seyf- fert, October 11, November 2, PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 Twenty-first Street. Modern Art and Its Sources. Inaugural Exhibition, new building, October 5 to January 5. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B Streets NW. Permanent Col- lection. U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING, Ninth and B Streets S.W. Pictorial Photographs by Dr. D. J. Ruzicka, October 1 to 31. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B Streets S.W. Color Etchings of Flowers by Bertha E. Jaques, October 6 to November 2. FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth and B Streets S.W. Permanent Col- lection; Recent Acquisitions. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 I Street N.W. Circulating Picture Club Exhibit, October 1 to 15; Foire aux Croutes, October 16, 17, 18. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, First and East Capitol Streets S.E. Pennell Me- morial Exhibition, etc. NE of the most encouraging signs of increase in appreciation of art is the emphasis that is being placed, through- out the United States, on local art. No longer, would it seem, is the prophet without honor in his own country. A few years ago an exhibition of local art was rarely seen in an art museum, museum author- ities deeming it their duty to collect and dis- play only such art as had passed the test of time, and concerning the merit of which there could be but one opinion. Now almost all of . the museums have set aside one or more gal- Jwries for the exhibition of works of local * painters, and are featuring these exhibits. The Art Institute of Chicago, for example, gives ~ prominent place on its calendar to an annual . exhibition of the works of . The Cleveland Museum of Art and - works of Cleveland artists, but makes such ex- % financially profitable to the painters, numerous sales to local collectors. Quite a number of the smaller cities are follow- along the same line. The Southern States League, which has circulated the works of artists in the Southern States, has & y assisted in creating interest in the work of painters of a specified locality. * Here iIn Washington the situation is not new. Por many years the Corcoran Gallery, which - was established primarily for the advancement erican art and the cultivation of interest this city, has co-operated with the associations in the matter of exhibi- recent years, however, this co-oper- been increasingly liberal. This sea- instance, the opening exhibition of the of paintings and sculpture by Washing- , arranged and sponsored by the Washington Artists. This exhibi- t to be confused with the annual ex- this organization. It will by now shown are excellent ex- the collection was, of necessity, - mssembled while many of the members of the society were still out of town. But it is an excellent and interesting showing, meriting not only one but numerous visits. And it is admirably arranged, pleasingly colorful, *in- terestingly varied in subject matter and style of presentation. The portrait of Edith Barnard Delano, well _ known writer, which has the place of honor on one of the long walls, was painted by Charles Bittinger last Summer in the author's home in Deerfield, and is being shown here for the first It is attracting much favorable atten- vicinity. not _only features an annual exhibition of the of hibitions ::E I AL rggzg‘aggiss % ply re-emphasizes the painter’s versatility, There is an interesting contrast between this portrait and the portrait by Miss Critcher which hangs directly opposite—contrast in man- ner of rendering and in the matter of composi- tion—the latter being treated more as a deco- . Fative design, the background being made to Sy a prominent part in the scheme. ‘There is not one right way of painting, but many, and the chief interest in an exhibition of _ ings in charcoal by Leopold Seyffert is _mow to be seen in the upper atrium of the ©Corcoran Gallery of Art, artists of Chicago THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER ‘12, 1930. AD Al AND y LEILA MECHLIN Paintings and Sculptures by Washington . Artists Open Fall Exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Portrait of Edith Barnard Delano, by Charles Bittinger, in the Society of W ashington Artists’ Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Exhibition at Pittsburgh, which opens this week. He is pre-eminently a painter of men, though among his most accomplished produc- tions is, undoubtedly, a portrait of his wife and their two boys. 5 The 24 drawings now on view were presum- ably done as studies, either for painted por- traits or as interpretations of personality. ‘They include some of the great musicians of our day—Fritz Kreisler, Harold Bauer, Ernest “Shadows on the Wall,” photograph by D. J. Ruzicka, rts ational Museum. is now on exhibition in the A 'I‘nmummumrammm or Potboilers’ Fair, at the Arts Club. It will occur on October 16, 17 and 18 and will sketches and studies dubbed “potboilers,” but from members and other persons will come “white elephants” of many descriptions, to be sold at nominal price for the benefit of the Arts. Arrangements for it were made by Homer Saint-Gaudens, director of the depart- ment of fine arts of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, who, at the request of the Amer- ican Federation of Arts and with the permis- sion of his board of directors, went to Mexico last Winter, surveyed the field and outlined the scope of the exhibit. Through the offices of Ambassador Morrow Count d’Harnoncourt was placed in charge of the work of assembling the exhibition in Mexico and has come to this country with it as lecturer and interpreter. The Mexican government, realizing the im- portance of the exhibition, has lent unique and valuable examples of early Mexican art from the National Museum in Mexico City and the State Museum of Guadalajara. The exhibition as a whole was set forth in Mexico City before being sent to this country. It will be on view in New York until No- vember 10. From there it will go to Boston, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, arriving here in Washington April 1, when it will be shown the Corcoran Gallery of Art. - Mmmvm«maq,nm of the Society of Washington Artists and the Washington Water Color Club, spent the past Summer in Mexico City and is now re- turning via El Paso and Santa Pe. She writes . enthusiastically of her experiences in Mexico and of the paintable material which Mexico City provides. THE opening exhibition of Pictorial Photog- raphy at the United States National Museum, Arts and Industries Building, consists of a collection of prints by Dr. D. J. Ruzicka of New York City. Dr. Ruzicka has traveled extensively, as his prints show, and has a fine sense of light and shade, pictorial composition. His interpretations of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Station in New York are very fine, as are also some of his less imposing subjects. THE Washl;gwn Scciety of the Fine Arts has announced an interesting program of lec- tures for the coming season as follows: November 12—“Modern French Art,” by Paul J. Sachs, associate director of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, and professor of fine arts, Harvard University. December 10— “The Art of the Theater,” by Lee Simonson, scenic designer, Theater Guild, Inc.; Garrick Theater, Guild Theater, New York, since 1919. Among his notable productions are “Liliom,” “Peer Gynt,” “Back to Methuselah,” “Heart- break House,” “Marco Millions,” etc. Mr, Simonson is also an art critic and editor. January 14—“The Sculpture of ‘the Irish Crosses,” by A. Kingsley Porter, lecturer an the history of art and assistant professor, Yale - University, 1915-19; professor history of art, Harvard University, 1920-24; exchange profes- sor in France, 1923; exchange professor in Spain and to the French provincial universities, 1924; author of “Beyond Architecture,” “Romanesque . Sculpture of the Pligrimage Roads,” etc. Feb- ruary 11—"“Vagaries of Present-day Art,” by Homer Saint-Gaudens, director department of fine arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; author of “Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens,”