Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1931, Page 92

Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven- teenth street and New York avenue. Frescoes by Eben F. Comins. Paint- ings and drawings by Natalie Hays Hammond. Opened April 20. Cari- catures and Prints by Daumier, May 4 to 31. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 Twenty-first street. Modern Art and Its Sources. Special Ezhibitions. Paintings by Marjorie Phillips, May 1 to 31. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B (Constitution avenue) streets ~ northwest. Permanent collection. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B streets soutwest. Etchings by C. Jac Young. April 27 to May 26. FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth and B streets southwest. Permanent collection. Recent Asquisitions. Art of the Near East and East India. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Print Divi- sion, First street beiwzen East Capi- tol and B streets southeast. Early American Engravings jrom the Mabel Brady Garden Collection, Yale Uni- versity. To end of May. Drake Col- lection of American Wood-Engrav- ings. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 1 street northwest. Circuit Exhibition, Southern States Art League, May 3 to 23. TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2330 S street northwest. Rugs, tapestries and other textiles of the Near and Far East. Open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- days, 2 to 5 o'clock. Admission by card, obtainable at the office of G. H. Myers, 1508 H street northwest. LITTLE GALLERY, 1725 Nineteenth street. Paintings by a group of young Washington artists. DENISHAWN STUDIOS, 1719 K street, Sculpture by Sheila Burlingame of St. Louis. HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GAL- LERY. Eczhibition of the Work of Negro Architects. May 12 to 28. OKIE GALLERIES, 1640 Connecticut avenue. Paintings by Michael Cali- fano, April 30 to May 30. HE American Federation of Arts, which has its national headquarters in this" city, will hold its twenty-sec~ ond annual convention at the Brook- lyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., tomor- row and the two following days—May 18, 19 and 20. Approximately 300 delegates have been appointed by chapters of the federation to attend this meeting. There will be quite a repre- sentalion from local chapters. The board of di- rectors of the Corcoran Gallery of Art has ap- pointed as its representatives C. Powell Min- nigerode, secretary and director, and R. M. Kauffmann, a member of the board. The Society of Washington Artists, the Washington Water Color Club and other affiliated organizations are likewise sending delegates. At the first session tomorrow morning, Wil- liam Henry Fox, director of the Brooklyn Museum, will give the address of welcome, after which reports will be presented by officers of the federation and those in charge of various branches of its work. F. A. Whiting, president of the federation, will preside, and among other reports presented will be those of the treasurer, F. A. Delano, and the secretary, Leila Mechlin, aiso of this city. The afternoon session will be devoted to the Subject, “The Garden Arts.” “The Artist’s Part in the Garden” will be presented from the standpoint of the landscape architect by Arthur A. Shurcliff of Boston, and from the standpoint of*the sculptor by A. F. Brinckerhoff of New York. “Possible Inspiration Through Garden Clubs Toward Wiser and More Beautiful Plant- ings;” will be given by Martha Brookes Hutche- son of the Garden Clubs of America. Under the heading, “Community Co-operation in Gar- den Planning,” Mrs. Andrew Squire of Cleveland wili tell of the creation of the Fine Arts Garden and Garden Center in her own city. There will be a garden party in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden immediately following this session. That evening there will be a round-table dinner at the Hotel St. George, at which “The Evolu- tion of the American Magazine of Art” will be discussed by the editor, his associates and others. The session on Tuesday morning will be de- voted to “Art In Rural Life” and at the after- noon scssion the speakers will answer the ques- tion, “Can Education in Art Appreciation be Continuous?” At the Brooklyn Museum that evening there will be a talk on “The Art of the Dance,” illus- trated by a program of dances given by Charles Weidman & Co. #T'he Wednesday morning session will be de- voted chiefly to business, “The Federation's Forward-Looking Program” being under dis- cussion, at which time various interesting an- nouncements concerning future plans will be made. That afternoon a joint session will be held with the Adult Education Association in the new School for Social Research, West Twelfth street, New York City, at which there will be three important addresses—‘Modernist Move- ment in Painting,” by Rene d'Harnoncourt; “Modern Architecture,” by Philip Youtz, and “Footlights Across America,” by Kenneth Mac- Gowan. Following this session there will be an exhibition of marionettes by the Puppet Players and two one-act plays by the drama group of the Light House Association for the Blind. Special privileges will be granted delegates to this convention that afternoon in admission to the homes of three private collectors—Jules 5. Bache, Samuel A. Lewisohn and Miss Susan D. Bliss, also to the Morgan library. The Brooklyn museum will have no less than seven special exhibitions on viéw during the pres week, among them a most notable col- ¢ it A D N\H THE SUNDAY STAR, "WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 17, 1931, " AND AR y LELA MECHLIN American Federation of Arts Twenty-Second Annual Convention at Brooklyn, N. Y, Woodcuts and Etchings on View. Portrait of Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor, U. S. N, by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne. lection of Persian art, and in addition three of the federation’s important traveling exhibitions will be shown. The American Federation of Arts, which was formed in 1909 at a convention in this city, holds its annual meetings every other year here and on alternate years elsewhere, THE death of Rcbert W. de Forest, president of the American Federation of Arts for 18 years, from 1912 to 1930; chairman of its board, ’30 to ’31; for som> years president, and at the time of his death a vice president of the Ameri- can Red Cross; president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and of numerous other organizations, both artistic and charita- ble, which occurred at his home, 7 Washington Square, New York, last Wednesday, whilz not unexpected, entailed great loss to all thosc asso- ciations _with which he was connected, and to his many friends. Few have lived so long, serviceable and happy a life as he. On April 25 he had celebrated his eighty-third birthday. Mr. de Forest's interest in art began during his student days. When, immediately after his Braduation from Yale in 1870, he spent a year abroad in study, he found pleasure in sketch- ing; and the day that the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art was founded in 1872 he became engaged to the daughter of one of its founders and its first president—John Taylor Johnston, who was among the first in New York to as- semble a notable private art collection. Thus Mr. de Forest's interest in art and active inter- est in this field of endeavor were continuous during a long period of years. First a direc- tor, then secretary, vice president and finally president, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he did much to upbuild that great institution. Becoming president of the American Federa- tion of Arts in 1912 when the national organi- zation was practically in its infancy, he gave time and thought and consideration to the di- rection of its activities, the development of its resources and the framing of its policies prace tically until his death. His largest gift to the federation was his time and thought, but he also contributed liberally to its finances, and it was one of the four institutions mentioned in his will as recipients of bequests. Mr. de For- est’s interest in the federation was based upon its power to take beauty into the lives of many through a knowledge and love of art. This, he claimed, was the inherent right of all. Mr. de Forest was a great organizer, and it “Woodland Cascade,” one of the etchings by C. Jac Young, now on exhibition in the Division of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Building. was through him that the Charity Organiza- tion Society of New York came into existence, and other beneficent organizations fcr the re- lief of suffering were built up. He was for many years president of the Municipal Art ~Commission of New York, and largely instru- mental in securing, most recently, through the medium of the Sage Foundation, of which he was president, the great regional plan for the development of New York City along not only lines of beauty but in such wise that it would be a better place in which to live and to work. From first to last Mr. de Forest’s interests were essentially humanitarian. He left in his will $100,000 to the Metropolitan Museum as an endowment for the continuation of the free orchestral concerts; he left $100,000 to the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, in order that the preservation of the forests and the beauty of nature for the enjoyment of the people might be assured. Some years ago Mr. and Mrs. de Forest jointly presented to the Metro- politan Museum of Art the American wing, testifying to their interest in early American art, especially in its relation to the hcme. Although he had many choice possessions, Mr. de Forest was not inherently a collector, preferring the extension of privilege to many rather than the personal pursuit of pleasure, THE exhibition of etchings by C. Jac Young in the Smithscnian Building is quite differ= ent in flavor from any of the exhibitions which have preceded it. Mr. Young employs an un- usually strong line, and his plates are deepiy . bitten. For this reason his works are more. positive and less subtle than the majority; also more effective perhaps at a distance. He sets forth a great variety of subjects, mostly, how= ever, outdoor themes. He is evidently a lover of trees, and renders them sympathetically, stressing that which is individual in each, in- dicating character and inherent beauty. He also is most successful in interpreting running water and surf, such subjects, for instance, as “Woodland Cascade” and “Tumbling Surf.™ He has in the collection one or two interesting snow subjects, such as “Winter Silence”; and among his: best plates is that entitled “Slum« bering Hills.” These monthly exhibitions arranged by Mr. Ruel P. Tolman, chief of the Division of Graphic Arts, United States National Museum, are a great boon to local print lovers, giving, during the course of a season, opportunity to become really acquainted with the works of some of our best etchers. Let us hope they will be continued next year as heretofore. THIS afternoon, in the Denishawn Studios, 1719 K street, a number of works in sculp< ture by Sheila Burlingame of St. Louis will be exhibited at a tea at which Mr. and Mrs. Lesten Shafer will be hosts. The works include pore’ trait busts of Senator Borah, of Mr. William Partridge and of “Hannah,” the little daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Van Ingen, besides a number of figurines, dancers, admirably modeled, full” of action yet graceful and at the same time inherently plastic. Mrs. Burlingame has studied in Philadelphis and New York and under European masters, * and has made quite a place for herself in St. % Louis, winning a number of prizes both for j. * paintings and sculpture at the exhibitions at the Artists’ Guild, of which she is a member. She =~ - is, as one of her fellow townsmen has said, = .- something of a modernist, but there is a qual- ” ity in her work which is exceedingly fine, and. it is unquestionably sincere. She has been ine vited to show a collection of her works in one of the leading New York galleries next season; and there is every reason to believe that she will score success. THE Phillips Memorial Gallery has announced this week a new publication in two volw umes, “The Artist Sees Differently,” buedonthephlloaophyo!l\(!oueetlonmth. Making, by Duncan Phillips. Volume I cone sists of text and three-color plates; volume IT of 245 half-tone illustrations. Among’ the sub= Jects treated are “Art and Understanding,” “Research and Stylism in Painting,” “Amerf= can Old Masters,” “Daumier,” “Van Gogh,” Continued on Eighteenth Page ART SCHOOLS. “HILL SCHOOL of ART" 6 DUPONT CIRCLE Sketching out of doors S ernoons 23 Under .o-un“l‘rn‘::. s THE ABBOTT SCHOOL of FINE and COMMERCIAL ART Summer Session 1624 H St. N.W. Nat. 8054 Commercial Art School Summer School—Children’s Class Tune in ¢n “WMAL,” Thursday, 9 A.M. " 4 ', pY Alvingdlone 1333 F ST. N.W. ME. 2883 EXHIBITION STUDENTS’ WORK May 23-29, Inclusive Felix Mahony’s National Art School Interior Decoration, Costume Design, Commercial Art, Color. 1747R. 1. Ave. North 1114