Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1930, Page 107

N CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS. CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seventeenth sireet and New York avenue. Tuwelfth Biennial Exhibition, Contemporary Amer- ican Oil Painting. November 30 to January 11. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 Twenty-first sireet north- west. Modern Art and Iis Scurces. Inaugural Exhibition, New Building. October 5§ to January 5. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B streets morthwest. Permanent Collection. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B streets southwest. Book Plates from Collection of Mrs. Williem S. Ccoby. Decem- ber 1 to January 4. FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth and B streets southwest. Perma- nent Collection. Recenl Acqui- sitions. : ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 I street. Paintings by Mabel Mason DeBra of Columbus, Ohio, and Edgar Nye of Washington, November 30 to December 13. TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2330 S sireet northwest. Rugs, Tapestries and other terxtiles of the Near and Far East. Admission by card obtainable at the office of G. H. Myers, 1508 H street northwest. GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY, 1726 Connecticut avenue north- west. Lithographs by W. A. Rog- ers. English Sporting Paintings of the Last Century; Prinits by ontemporary Etchers, Engrav- ers, Lithographers. PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and K streets northwest. Art Depart- ment. Group of paintings leni by the Phillips Memorial Gallery. JANE BARTLETT’S, 1603 Connecti- cut avenue. Handmade Jewelry and Enamels by Frank Gardner Hale of Boston. November 24 to December 6. A. ROGERS is showing at Gor- don Dunthorne’s a group of his recent lithographs, the majority ° of which are of local subjects— old and picturesque Washington houses, typical street and alley scenes—subjects which indicate on the part of the artist sensi- tiveness to beauty and interest in architectural design as well as a nice sense of human rela- tionships and humor. Mr. Rogers is well known as an illustrator and cartoonist. Born in Sp:ingfield, Ohio, more than 50 years ago, he has spent the greater part of his life in New York., It is only within recent years that he has taken up his residence in Washington. He is an honorary member of the Society of Illustrators and also. of the Artists’ Guild of the Authois’ League of America. During the war he did splendid service, his cartoons of war in the New York Herald attracting world-wide attention, and his posters, such as “Paid in Full,” now in the Smithsonian Instituticn in this city, being extraordinarily effective and significant. At the close of the war, under the auspices of the Society of Illustrators, he undertook recon- struction work for veterans, conducting a class in ilustrating and cartooning for those who had been disabled and who hoped through this France made him a chevalier of the Honor, Mr. Rogers is an author as art and artists in New York during the last minc plates, instead of as heretofore stone, technical difficulties are g:eatly minimized. In every instance his drawings are made directly on the zinc plate frem which they are printed, therefore they preserve the spontaneity of an original. ‘The potentialities in this medium include reproduction of both fine, delicate lines and tints and deep, strong, black lines and shadows side by side. Thus the artist can run & complete scale and indulge at the same time in both tonal subtleties and strong contrasts. Among the most interesting of the prints he is now showing is one of a row of old houses in Georgetown and another of a group of Negroes indulging in various amusements in front of their own homes—character studies of an exceeding skillful sort. In all of Mr. Roge:s’ drawings he follows the fccepted rule, concentrating interest in the center of his composition, diminishing that interest through simplification as it radiates to the margin. To manifest beauty in the common- place and in those things which the average person passes unseen is perhaps the artist's chief function and privilege. FOR some years it has been the custom of PFrank Gardner Hale, master craftsman of Boston, to hold an exhibition for a week in November here in Washington at Jane Bart- in a membe:s’ exhibition at the Society of THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 30, A AK AD Al 1930. AND 7 LELA MECHLIN An Exhibition of Lithographs of Local Subjects—Craftsman Shows His Work. Modern Treasure-Hunting for 0ld Paintings. Original portrait study of Lord Mansfield, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, recently sold in a Washington auction room and now acquired by the Law School of Harvard University. and Crafts, Boston, 11 of these pieces were starred—the highest honor in the gift of the society. With only two, or at the most three, helpers, Mr. Hale turns out each year a remark- able amount of work, and he never repeats himself. Each design is new and different. There seems no end to his creative ability. Each new stone that he sets, or combination of stones, call forth from his inventive mind new designs and patlerns appropriate to themselves. And what is more, Mr. Hale’s workmanship is as near perfection as possible, It is his firm conviction that the handmade article must be in‘ every way superior to the machine- made article to hold its place, to demonstrate the fact that it is supremely a work of art. It is work of this sort which goes far to es- tablish in the minds of the public the differ- ence between hand-work and machine- category as the artist—painter, sculptor, archi- tect. The fact that Mr. Hale has, in spite of 7 financial depression, had a more successful sea- son this year than ever before gives indication that the quality and merit of his work are ap- preciated and that where things are both beau- tiful and fine they find a market. Among the works that Mr. Hale is showing here are a beautiful pendant and earrings made of gold, green Mexican tourmalines and green enamel, designed on order for a patron in Cali- fornia and exhibited as a loan. Mr. Hale also shows a number of beautiful enamels, one an undersea group of fish, which permits the use of extraordinary coloring. From here Mr. Hale goes directly to the Paci- fic Coast, where he will lecture and exhibit in , California and other States, by special invitation. - exhibits change this to December 13 there s “Old /Houm—coorgemwn." & lithograph by W. A. Rogers. the National Association of Woman Painters and Sculptors, the New York, Washington and Ohio Water Colors Socicties and the Columbus Art League; graduate of Pratt Institute, Colum- bia University, Teachers’ College and a pupil of Henry B. Snell. In the auditorium of the Arts Club there will be shown at th> some time paintings by Edgar Nye of Washinglon, who studied orige inally at the Corcoran School of Art, later under individual masters, and is one of the leading exponents in this city of modernism, employing to a great extent the cubistic method of trane scription. T the Smithsonian Institution during the coming month—December 1 to January 4— book plates from the ccliestion of Mrs, William_ S. Corby will be exhibited, replacing the etche ings by Prederick T. Weber, shown during November, TREASURE hunting is associated with othey days, but is purcued as arduously today ag ever. To dig 'something valuable out of the ground or to discover an unknown masterpiece of art will never losc fascination for both the initiated and the unini iated. But today, as of old, such quest is only rarely crowned with suceess, and for the cne who is successful thera are hundreds who fail. Recently the unexpected and unusual did oc« cur here in Washington. In an auction room a local connoiseur, who prefers to remain anony- mous, found and purchased for a small sum a portrait which proved to be a work of rarg quality and great value which he has now re< sold fer a considerable sum. This remarkable find, the merit of which the original purchaser himself discerned, has proved to be a portrait from life of Lord Mansfield, England's great lord chancellor, pain‘ed by none other than Siy Joshua Reynolds, and, after being put to the most severe tests of authenticity—that of the X-ray, as well as other means of expertizing— it has been purchased by the Law School of Harvard University to be placed in the library, It was found that there was no repainting on the picture and that it was a genuine Rey- nolds throughout. The impression prevails & it was a study made by Reyno!ds for the f: portrait of Lord Mansfield which was afterward engraved by Bartolozzi. When sold at auction it was simply listed as “Portrait of a Barrister: unfinished; English school, early eighteenth century.” AN exhibition of contemporary American art, sponsered by the College Art Association, opened with a private view Tuesday, Novembes 25, at the Howard University Gallery of Art, It will continue through Deccember 6. In the main room of this well arranged little gallery the 36 paintings included in the exhibition (oils and water colors) have been hung. ~Artisty working along conservative lines as well as those of more advanced tendencies are adequately represented. Of the former, paintings by Chauncey Ryder, Ernest Lawson, Jane Peterson, John Whorf and Havley Lever are interesting examples. Charles Rosen’s “Village Corner,® Georgina Klitgaard’s “Mount Tobias” and “Waterfront,” by Florence Ballin Cramer, may be classed with the latter group. Special ine attaches to the characteristic water colos, Bridge,” of Guy Pene de Bois; a beaue study of “Peasant Women” by Eue ins, minhcent of Daumier’s jewele Continued on Twenty-second Page, s. F “HILL SCHOOL of ART Classes im Etching Under Benson Moore 6 Dupont Circle. No. 1271. SCHOOL. OF ART 1 Dupont Circle—N_grth 1 THE ABBOTT SCHOOL OF FINE AND COMMERCIAL ART Day and Evening Classes Children’s Saturday Class 1624 H St. N.W,, Corner 17th elix Mahony’s National Art School Interior Decoration, Costume Design, Commercial Art, Color. . 1747 R L. Ave. North 1114 000000009