Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1930, Page 104

CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS. CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seventeenth street and New York avenwe. Socsety of Wash- ington Artists’ Special Exhibition. October 5 to 30. Charcoal Por- traits by Leopold Seyffert, Octo- ber 11 to November 2. PHILLIPSS MEMORIAL GAL- LERY, 1600 Twenty-first street. Modern Art and Its Sources. In- augural Exhibition, ner» building. October 5 to January 5. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B streets north- west. Permanent Collection. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, ARTS AND IN- DUSTRIES BUILDING, Ninth aad B strects southwest. Pictorial Photographs by Dr. D. J. Rucicka, October 1 to 31. SMITHSONIAN INSTITU- TION, Tenth and B strects south- west. Color Etchings of Flowers by Bertha E. Jaques. October 6 to November 2. FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth and B streets southwest. Permanent Collection; Recent Acquisitions. ARTS CLUB OF WASHING- TON. 2017 1 street morthevest. Exhibition of Works by Washing- ton Artists, October 16, Novem- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, First and East Capitol sireets southeast. Pennell Memorial Exhibitiop, etc. & EF taH L L :Eglgggiggg i ikl il i s $ ig b : i i Miffany memorial windowrecently placed in Trinity Church, Wicomico, Ed. THE SWNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 19, 1930 A D Al ANL 7 LELA MECHLIN Colored Etchings on View at the Smithsonian. Beautiful Maryland Church Window. ; W ashington Artists Return. “Wild Grapes.” An etching in color by Bertha E. Jaques of Chicago, w0ho has an exhibition of her work at the Smithsonian. She is an accurale draftswoman, her hand 1s well trained, but in these eichings she has registered much more than fact. They are interpretations, for she has transcribed spirit as well as aspect. Like the Japanese, she has foliowed nature, but she has seen behind nature elemental beauty. She has etched both wild tivated flowers, and one, presumably, is hem of a rich garment. Her “Spider- wort,” “Sumac,” “Genttans,” “Jack in the Pul- pit,” “Wild Grapes,” “Bittersweet,” “Wild Iris,” “Trilliums” “Thistle” are beautiful, not Mr. Tolman has added to the charm of these etchings by his excellent arrangement of them, less produce successfully. It is a difficult and in color etching is derived from its accidental character, the possibility of achiev- ing unexpected results, but Mrs. Jaques has re- duced it, through skiliful handling, almost to a certainty, and has employed it in these par- ticular instances with great exactitude. To those interested in the technique of eiching and other graphic processes, her handling of the medium will be found interesting, notably ; to those who care most for result, for the finished product, the fact that the medium and method do not assert themselves in these works will add to their value. In most instances Mrs. Jaques has made only from 10 to 20 prints from each plate, not be- cause the plate is then exhausted, but because that number of prints .of one subject seem to her sufficient. She is ome of those in remembrance the Greek rule, "Nothing in ] E?r.!! i The stained glass windows in the old cathe- drals produced in the Middle Ages, or the Gothic period, were, for the most part, of clear art, and some of the great artists of our time have essayed it. John La Farge, for instanoe, who painted that superb mural decoration, » for the Church of the Ascen- sion, New York, designed the stained-glass windows in Trinity Church, Boston. There has in recent years been a great revival in stained glassmaking in this country. Connick and Rey- nolds of Boston, Willet and D’Ascenzd of Phil- adelphia and others have produced windows I\ Ak the Gothic spirit inci-nce, as the windows Princeton and West Foint. In New York, Tiffany and Lamb have continued to produce painted windows, as have some of the it should be done with a full measure of abil- ity, that it should be an individualistic expres- n. . In this new Tiffany window in Trinity Church, V:i2cmico, there is*much that is beau- tiful in the manner of expression and sub- Jective suggestion. ca, Delight Makers. Edgar L. Hewett passed also from an Illinois Desert; from honorary of Washington Artists. rrmshunmnhunumtmthAuut of the present year William H. Holmes would the directorship Continued on Nineteenth Page Portrait in relief of Frances Thankful, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald War- ner of Salisbury, Conn. It is the work of Margaret French Cresson and was re- cently exhibited in the Stockbridge Exhibition.