Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1931, Page 91

Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven- teenth stveet and New York avenue. Thirty-fifth Annual Ezhibition, Wash- Water Color Ciub. March 1 to 25. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 fArst street. Modern Art and Its Sources. Special Ezhibition Works of Harold W . NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B streets morthwest. Permanent . Memorial Ezhibition of Water Colors by Henry Bacon. March 1 to April 30. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B streets hwest. Etchings and Wl&l by Robert Nisbet. March 1 FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth and B streets t eollec f ia. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 I street, Paintings by Ramon de Zu- biaurre; etchings by Capt. Francis W. > mintiug; by James Carbery. o A TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2330 S street ondays, W , 2 to 5 o’clock. Admission e obtainable at the office of G. H. Myers, 1508 H street morthwest. STUDIO EBEN COMINS, 1611 Connect- icut avenue. Recent Works in Fresco. March 21 to 25, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. LITTLE GALLERY, 1731 Comnecticut avenue, Paintings by a group of young Washington artists. HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GAL- LERY. Prints jrom the Downtown g;g:rg. New York. March 18 to BEN F. COMINS of this city has been working experimentally for some years in fresco and has lately produced in | this medium several remarkable panels, two of which were placed on exhibition yesterday afternoon in his studio, 1611 Connecticut avenue, where they may be seen today and through March 25, from 2:30 to 5:30" pm. All who are interested will be wel- come. This is the only time this season that Mr. Comins’ studio will be open to the public. new panels, which, by the way, are to be in the annual exhibition of the Archi- League of New York shortly, represent dustrial achievement. The largest I} Al FHIE . Comins, therefore, seems to be in a new movement, discover- for an old practice, and inci- £ i BE 1M Eg,egs Club, 2017 I street, there will and confinue for a fortnight an exhibition of peintings by Ramon de Zubi- surre, one of the foremost painters of Spain, whose works have been seen here at the inter- national exhibitions held by the Carnegie In- stitute in some of our leading American mu- in the international expositions at enice and in an exhibition of Spanish art some years ago in the Jeu de Paume under THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 22, 1931. A AK A AH AND 4 LELA MECHLIN Frescoes by Eben . Comins on View—DPaint- ings by Spanish Artist at Arts Club. Etchings Shown at Smithsonian. “The Saint Bearer of Avila,” by Ramon de Zubiaurre. One of the paintings ; exhibited at the Arts Club. their father’s spirit of art and it found expres- sion in their paintings, Descendants of old Basque families, their pleasure and delight has been to represent Basque lfe, and the characteristic feature of their art has been truly said to be the es- sentially Spanish touch and atmosphere they give to their paintings As soon as Ramon could hold a pencil he began to draw. Natural- 1y, he was encouraged by his parents and given every opportunity for the development of his talent. Both he and his brother studied in Spain and in Paris, but while they learned much outside of Spain, they never departed from Spanish ideals and always preferred to writer, the last a member of the club. Auoummwecfimdm drypoints and aquatints than those by In some of Mr. Nisbet’s etchings, especially those combining aguatini and etching, he has rendered a most lovely effect of light on the clouds—nocturnes, early mornings, afterglow. For instance, “Moonlight With Trees,” No. 10 in the catalogue; or “Night,” aquatint and dry- point, No. 17; or “Misty Mconlight,” soft ground and aquatint, No. 18. Some of his subjects are of hurrying rivers, for instance, the drypoint awarded the Bryan prize for the best American print in the Sixth International Print Makers Exhibition; or “The Rapids,” likewise a drypoint. “Patterns,” awarded honorable mention in the Exhibition American Etchers, 1927, is an ex- quisite plate, drypoint superbly handled. “The Seventh Wave,” of which an edition of only four prints from eopper was issued, is a charm- 4T BLERYE éiéia note are his paintings of sculpture in reliefy such as fragments of the Frieze of Phidias om the Parthenon. It is said that Bacon was less influenced by the great masters of the past, such as Reme brandt, Velasquez and Raphael, than by thd masters of the present, and that he neves tired of looking with admiration and deligh§ at the water colors of Jacquemart or at thd oil paintlings of Sargent and Constable, He wad one of those keenly sensitive to beauty in nature and art, a man of cultivated mind and gentle instinct, one of rare culture and chamy of personality, all of which shows in his arfy IN Paris at the present time a noiable exhibie tion of the works of Bourdelle is being heldy These are shown in the Museum of the Orarie gerie in the Tuileries, and on the terrace iff front of the museum. In the former are 17§ sculptures, including details of large monume! and 117 paintings, pastels, sketches. Outside are to be seen a replicg of his immense equestrian statue of Gen. vear in Buenos Aires, and the colossal gil brenze, “Virgin of Alsace,” made in 1922 and erected in Niederbruck. Included in this grea§ exposition is his “Dying Centaur,” which longs to the Beaux Arts; the “Hercules Archer, ownzd by Luxembcurg, and many other wel} known pieces, including a bust of Rodin. Thé Phillips Memorial Gallery in this city owng a small edition of Bourdelle’s “Virgin,” small i§ actual measure but large in significance, i85 gif sl gHm sk Es. ART SCHOOLS. HILL SCHOOL of ART -doer sketching Out-of- under Elizabeth and Bemson & Dupont Circie, " " No. 1333 F St. N.W. ME. 2883. .W. Listen in en WMAL Monday, 9 a.m.. Abbott Art School Winter and Summer Sessions. Day and Evening Classes. ch‘dnn'l Saturday Class. 1624 H St. NW. Corner 17th National Art School Interior Decoration, Costume Design, Commercial Art, Color. 1747R. 1. Ave. North 1114