Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1930, Page 105

“Calendar of Exhibitions “ CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, "~ Seventeenth street > Exhibition Contemporary Amer- *ican Oil Paintings. November 30 ' to January 11. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, . 1600 Twenty-first street north- west. Modern Art and Iis Sources. Inaugural Exhibition, New Building. Ociober 5 to January 5. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B sireets northwest. Permanent Collection. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B streets southwest. Book Plates from Collection of Mrs. William S. Corby. Decem- ber 1 to January 4. FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth and B streets scuthwest. Perma- nent Collection. Recenl Acqui- sitions. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 I street. Paintings by Mabel Mason de Bra of Columbus, Ohio, and Edgar Nye of Washington. November 30 to December 13. TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2330 S sireet northwest. Rugs, Tapesiries and other textiles 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 Comnecticut avenue north- west. Specwl exhibition Eich- ings by Alfred Huity, Water Col- ors by Rockwell Kent and others.: PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and K streets morthwest. Art Depart- ment. Group of paintings lent by the Phillips Memorial Gallery. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, First and East Capitol sireets south- east. Ezxhibition of Historical Prints the Mabel Brady Garvan Institute of Awmerican Arts, Yale University. HE Library of Congress, December 1, From this early glimpse of Colonial scenes are given of historical events in sequence, such as’ “A View of the Landing of the New England Farces in an Expedition Against Cape Breton in 1745,” a picture of the death of Gen. ‘Wolfe, rare prints of the Battles of Lexington and Concord engraved by Amos Doolittle, “An Exact View of the Late Battle of Charleston, June 17, 1775,” published in Philadelphia about months after the Battle of Bunker Hill. section the exhibition is given over some of which, interestingly in England even before te® of portraits the history of the de- velopment of art in America can be admirably t interest, both from the eollector’s standpcint,” to again Mr. Halsey, “is the first mezzotint scraped America (1728), the work of Peter Pelham, of that famous divine, Cotton Mather, supporter of the Congregational ortho- and target for the lively satire of 17-year-old Benjamin Franklin, then edit- England Courant.” remembered, was Copley’s stepfather, strongly influential in the devclopment of talent. Along with this print of Cotton are prints of other notable divines who to the settlers in the new country d took an sctive part in the establishment and order—stern-visaged, characterful interest are portraits of Thomas of William Penn, and one Pennsylvania, painted mas- d, giving indication tility. There &s a Pitt, a very rare L & i z! i : 3 !al I f g el < THE AR MU G UNDAY STAR, A A b O MHMCTOWILIZAW STATS ¥ WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 7, 1930. Y ALY, v Al ' A AND - AK 5 LELA MECHLIR Old Engravings at the Library of Congress and Collection of Book Plates at Smith- sontan— Other Art Nofes. A water color by Mabel Mason de Bra, who is holding an exhibition at the A rts Club. i characierization, but more given simplicity of treatment. The power of these Healy and others, ranking with the best. vimate, b 5 - - y emphasizing this side its artistically should not be and mezzotinters of the days preceding photography for the splendid service they rendered in the field both of portraiture and pictorial plates, :! viewing this exhibition one wonders if, after s Vi monthly during the a collection of book plates lent by Mrs. 8. Corby of Chevy Chase, Md., is mow of items in this exhibition are TPLEEEE ’.’3& o i E. g i of painters employed body color, working in gouache, broadly, on colored paper, imitating in & measure the appearance of oils. Then came the modernists and a return to white paper, the use of striking color contrasts with the pur- ng message with ehold, medium th of i H M T are merous, but it is an amazing fact that literally hun- dreds of painters today are employing the me- dium of water color with striking impressive- mess and astounding technical facility. . Mrs. De Bra, whe is a pupil of Mr. Snell and an instructor in art at the Ohio State Uni- versity, is one of these, and her works now on view at ihe Arts Club ave of an and interesting sort, the kind which speak for themsclves and which command not in the English manner of Nevinson and a few others who thus have striven for solidily, sim- plicity and strength. That he is sincere amd ocomsistent in his-cenviction the presemt tion undeubtedly demonstrates, and that he cast the adopted manner aside to pure beauty in nature is evidenced by a paimt~ ing, lovely in color, fine in feeling E phajc, of Monhegan, Me., number 13 in where they are showing and offering for excellent leather work, wood carving, block printing, crewel work, illuminated lettes- ing and other kinds of craft work. " bt An exhibition of the works of these young handicrafters was shown informally at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Taliaferro in Georgetown Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. The exhibition included wery beautiful block printing on textiles, excellent wood carve ing in the form of boxes, several intevesting examples of pottery in unusual forms and aiso metal work—copper bowls and jewelry. N exhibition ef paintings by Margaret Scully Zimmele, a member of the Sociely of w.dl- ing'on Artists and the yum Water Color Club, is anmmounced by the League of American Pen Women, to be held in the league’s hesdquarters, Stoneleigh Court, fraom December 7 to 14. Memy will recall with pl:asure Mrs. Zime mele's delightful painting of the cld-fashioned coupé, horse and colored driver in front of the Corcoram Gallery of Art—a relic' of the past still with us, and her other interesting paintings, landscapes and figures, shown from time to time in local exhibitions, and will wele come the opporbunity of sccing a comprehene sive collection of her works. EE SIMONSON, scenic designer, art critic and editor, will give mmustrlbll* on “The Art of the Theater,” under the auspives ductions are “Liliom,” “Peer Gynt,” “Back Methuselah,” “Heartbreak House,” “Marco Mile lions,” etc. His lecture will illustrate the ewoe lution of design in the theater from the elaboe Tate reslism of a decade ago $o the somewhat gaamt but effective abstractism of today, and will show the difference between a scenic back- £f Gallery has held, and two years ago he on the jury of selection and award. He resented in the Corcoran Gallery’s permanent “Fisherman’s i tion of & Mother” and his portrait of his o= league, John Noble. In Mr. Hawthorne’s desth America loses ome of her most distinguished MONG the December exhibitions announgad Aw'mmhmdm by Alfred Hutly, opeming this week, and & group of modern water colors and lithographs by such well known artists as Rockwell Kenf, - Maxwell Simpson, Matulka, Modigliana 1747 R L. Ave. 000000009