Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1930, Page 99

Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seventeenth sireet and New York avenue. Twelfth Biennial Ezhibition Contemporary Amer- ican Oil Paintings. November 30 ‘ to January 11. * PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 Twenty-first sireet north- west. Modern Art and Its Sources. Inaugural Exhibition, New Build- ing. October 5 to January 5. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B strgets morthwest. Permanent Collec§ion. 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 sireets southwest. Perma- ient Collection. Recent Acqui- sitions. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 1 sireet. Pictorial photo- graphs by Clara E. Sipprell of New York; paintings by Alice Judson of New York. December 14 to 27. TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2330 S sireet northwest. Rugs, Tapestries and other textiles of the Near and Far East. Admission by card obiainable at the office of G. H. Myers, 1508 H street norihwest. GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY, 1726 Comnecticut avenue north- . west. Special exhibition Etch- ings by Alfred Hutty; Water Col- ors by Rockwell Kent and others. PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and K streets mnorthwest. Art Depart- ment. Grouup of paintings lent by the Phillips Memorial Gallery. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, First and East Capitol streets south- east. Ezhibition of Historical Prints from the Mabel Brady Garvan _Institute of American Arts, Yale University. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MU- SEUM, ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING, Ninth and B streets southwest. Pictorial photogranhs by Julius Aschauer of Vienna, Austria. December 1 to 31. MOUNT PLEASANT BRANCH, PUBLIC LIBRARY, Sizteenth aend Lamont streets northwest. Ezhibition of Paintings by Mem- bers of the Landscape Club. De- cember 1 to 31. LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN, stonelettgh C . Paintings by Margaret Zimmele. To December 28. HE Corcoran Gallery of Art has pur- chased from the cwrent Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art four painting for its permanent “Early Morning,” by John Ncble, which hangs in gallery D, and a painting by Bryscn Bur- 3 Persephone,” which lery’s collection ! produced work of an essentially individualistic sort. ~he purchase of the first prize painting is almost a matter of course as confirmation of It may interest some té ranked among the modernists, his training was altogether academic. Born at Libau, Russia, in the metropolis. He is fully ith tradition in art, has s.ud’ed the tensively in Europe and has made a special study of the pecple of Bali, one of the East Indian islands. With avowed admiration for the great works of the past, he is endeavoring to find a new way of his own. He has, he says, no sympathy for those, however, who are merely seeking self-expression. Art, he feels, is some- thing bigger than the individual artist. And undoubtedly he is right. The mere technique of art furthermore, he says, does not interest him. And in answer to the question why he chose this particular subject for interpretation he said it was becausé the color arrangement and the composition attracted him. Especially was he interested in the emphasis it placed on the third dimension: 5 Obviously, no one can judge of what is beauti- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBEX 21, 1930, AND ART AD N\ 5 LEILA _ MECHLIN Corcoran Gallery Makes Purchases F'rom the Biennial Exhibition—V artous Exhibitions Now Open to Washingtonians. “Demeter and Persephone,” by Bryson Burroughs. This painting was pur- chased by the.Corcoran Gallery of Art from the current Biennial Exhibition. Bellows' “Forty-two Kids,” a group of boys in Museum of Art. He has also, however, won of form, subjective signifi- cance. They are story-telling. andfimofllmm— ning openings is evidenced by the fact that the attendance each successive Thursday has increased. Next Thursday being Christmas day, Bryson Burroughs is best known, perhaps, as the curator of paintings at the Metropolitan “A Street in Annapolis” by Glenn Madison Brown. The print is included in the American Print Exhibition of the Philadelmiia Art Alliance. the gallery will not be open, nor will it be open on New Year night. The next, and the last, evening opening will be on January 8. ANOfrAmhenflnchefmmePueme- mittee of the Senate was held last Tuesday morning in the Senate Office Building. This hearing had to do with the vestal design copy- and manufacturing circles are aware. -The designer can now only secure protection by ,patenting his design, a process which is so deliberate and lengthy that by the time pro- tection is the silk country and the exhibit of original designs displayed was truly shocking. A second hearing on this the opponents (of whom there We cannot expect this country wherein design is a chief unless we protect the designers. The fact there are over 5,000 accredited designers that our American designs are taking on essentially nationalistic as well as fine acter gives further indication of the tance of this measure. The hearing Tuesday was attended not only by leading manufacturers but by representatives of professional o zations and such associations as the A‘ol:)w:lxc:.n Federation of Arts, representing over museums and associations throughout the eountry. ggaifig i A'l‘theArbClnb,’ofll’mt,hmwh seen an interesting exhibit of pictorial photographs by Clara Sipprell of New Y :v::m'“. pp! ork and use the camera as a purely artistic.. mthzmlhsbeobtflmnzmtonbu- ’ngmbvtflmmchbmmm e present exhibit consists chiefly i#f not entirely of photographs made in the Southwes$ —views of adobe houses, pueblos, etc., in Santa Fe, Taos and their vicinities—also of some well known personalities, Indians and others, Includedlnthecollecflonhuverych&rmln. interpretation of a piece of Indian which seéms and IR ggiaifggf y i i ;5 ] - ? : ] | g8 . g i i gfia!&% | 5 g E the author of & monumental work on the United States Capital, and an ardent advocate i m..mn.’ ART SCHOOLS. : HILL CSEHOOL of ART™“ Under Benson Moore 6 Dupont Circle. 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