Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1931, Page 92

F 4 | e ————— Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven- teenth street and New York avenue. - Permanent collection. Special exhibi- tion. Pa ntings by Walter Elmer Schofield, October 24 to November 26. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1609 Twenty-first street.” Permanent col- lection with recent acquisitions, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B (Constitution avenue) streels morthwest. Permanent collection. Paint- ings by Wells M. Sawyer, October 24 to December 1. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B strecis southwest. Block Prints and Lithographs by C. A. Seward, November 1 to 30. ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING, United States National -Museum. Bro- moil Transfers by A. W. Hill of Scot- land, October-November, FREER GALLERY OF ART, Tweljth and B sireets southwest, Permanent collection. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Print Divi- sion, First street between East Capitol and B streets southeast. Contemporary American Prints assembled by the American Fcderation of Arts for ex- hibition in Iialy. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 I street morthwest. Oil Paintings by Marian T. MacIntosh. Oil Paintings, and Water Colors by Ruth Osgood. November 8 to 22. TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2330 S street morthwest. 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, 730 Fifteenth street morthwest. GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY, Connecticut avenue and De Sales street. Etthographs by Albert W. Barker, No- vember 2-16. Prints by contemporary English, French and American artists. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., 1106 Con- meciicut avenue. Paintings by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Herter and W. Lester Stevens and Harry Roseland. Pen- and-ink Drawings by Thornton Oakley. Etchings by Andre Smith and Eliza- beth Norton, Silver Points by Dewing Woodward. Small Bronzes, Novem- ber 4 to 30. HE galleries of the home construction division of Sears, Roebuck & Co., of which Theodore J. Morgan is director, were formally opened with a private view last Tuesday evening, attended by Mrs. Hoover, Mrs, Charles Francis Adams and other distinguished guests. Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and two of the exhibiting artists were present s—Albert Herter, mural and portrait painter, and Norman J. Mortimer, sculptor. Paintings by Mr. Herter and his wife, Adele Merter, filled the walls of the main exhibition gallery, providing a display of sumptuous color. Mrs. Herter's 16 paintings were of flowers and still life, may of them in pastels, but having the richness of oils. These paintings, as well as six by Mr. Herter of the same types of sub- §ects, were characterized by an exquisite ren- dering of surfaces and textures, delicately ad- justed values and jewel-like colors of the objects depicted Of the 14 portraits by Albert Herter, that of Pilgun Yuun, in a gorgeous Chinese costume, was given central placement in an alcove be- yond a small stage, with dramatic lighting. But there was no doubt that the chief attrac- tion and popular favorite was the “Portrait of the Artist’s Sons,” shown by courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This well known double portrait, showing the handsome blond boys, each with a book, seated back to back on & couch, is thoroughly natural, yet has an architectural balance in its composition. The younger son, on the left, was secretary to Pres- fdent Hoover during his relief work in Bel- glum. The elder, Everit Albert Herter, was - killed in France in June, 1918. In his memory . his father painted a mural depicting the first departure of French troops for the front, which now hangs in the Gare de L'Est, Paris. At the unveiling of this mural Mr. Herter was deco- rated by Marechal Joffre with the cross of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Another double portrait in the current exhi- bition, of Miss Maude Bouvier and her twin sister, Mrs. Henry Clarkson Scott, was an out- standing feature of the exhibition of “Distin- guished Portraits of Women” at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City about three years ago. The titian hair of these beau- fiful young women is emphasized by the lighter shades of their peach-colored gowns, in con- trast with a jade-green background. Mr. Her- fer has an instinctive gift for the most felici- ®ous combinations of color, as is seen in all of his portraits and flower studies. Warm colors predominate, ranging from pale yellow to deep fusset (as in the portrait of Zorah Gharsa and ther mother), but even his blues and greens are ®warm” despite their great variety. ‘The Herters’ paiptings are shown against fextile hangings in varied and colorful floral patterns, designed by the artists and pro- duced by the Herter Looms. Among them are B number made by a new process, which appear # have been handpainted in olls. These tex- Glles are to be shown later at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. R Y coincident, a considerable number of the exhibits in the Sears, Roebuck & Co. show Bre of Brittany. All of Lester Stevens' paint- ings were made in Brittany within the last year, and a third, if not half, of the pen and ink drawings by Thornton Oakley were made as THE SUNDAX STAR, AD N\ - WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 8, 1931. AND TELA MECHLIN New Galleries Are Formally Opened—Many Paintings by Well Known Artists. Series of Lectures—Other Art Notes. “Pilgrim Yuun As Aladdin,” by Albert Herter. A painting included in the exhibition at the g-llcrig: of Sears, Roebuck & Co. illustrations for his wife’s book “Enchanted Brittany.” Lester Stevens is a painter both in oils and water color, a member of the faculty of Prince- ton University, one of the soundest and most sincere of the younger school, one of whose works the late Frank Duveneck thought highly even before they began winning awards. In 1921 Lester Stevens received the fourth Clark prize in the Corcoran Gallery’s biennial exhi- bition. In 1924 the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts awarded him the Gedney Bunce prize; in 1925 he won a landscape prize in a Springfield, Mass., exhibition; then in 1927 came the second Altman prize of the National Academy of Design. The Boston Art Club owns his “Winter, Gray Day,” the Boston City Club his “Winding Road.” He is admirably repre- sented in the current exhibition of the Amer- can Water Color Club, also by Brittany sub- jects. ‘Thornton Oakley is a Pennsylvanian by birth and residence. Born in Pittsburgh in 1881, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his B. 8. in 1901 and M. S. in archi- tecture in 1902. Later he became a pupil of Howard Pyle in Wilmington, one of that inter- esting group which has done s0 much to up- hold the art of illustration in this country and carry on Howard Pyle’s ideals. In 1914-15 Mr. Oakley was instructor in drawing at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania; from 1914 to 1921 in charge of the department of illustration, School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum. He was chairman of the Philadelphia Commit- tee of Artists, Victory Loan campaign. During the war he made a series of drawings of Hog Island, adppted in 1918 by the United States Government for foreign news service. His lithographs, paintings and drawings are in- cluded in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress and the National Gallery here in Washington; in the Boston Public Library, the State Library of California, the Musee de la Guerre, Paris; the British Museum, London; the National Library, Brazil, and the Luxembourg Museum, Paris. He is a member of the fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a director of the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and other organisations. Mr. Oakley’s illustrative works have appeared in Harper's, Scribner’s, The Century and other publications since "1904. He and his wife in collaboration have issued three notable books— “Hill Towns of the Pyrenees,” “Cloud Lands of France” and “Enchanted Brittany,” and have a fourth in preparation. He also is known as the illustrator of “Westward Ho,” a Lippincott book, . Philadelphia, and an autobiography of Benja- min Franklin. His work has great individual- ity, strength, force and at the same time feel- ing. It admirably accords with the printed page, and has decorative quality, virility and charm. Mr. Oakley is to give a talk on “American Tllustration” in connection with his exhibition at the Sears-Rocbuck Galleries next Friday afternoon, November 13, at 4:30, to which the public will be admitted without fee—a rare opportunity. TTENTION was especially directed to the greup of etchings by Andre Smith in the Sears-Roebuck - Galleries last week by a talk given by Mrs. Charles Whitmore of the Pring Corner, Hingham Center, Mass., who is his representative. Y Andre Smith was born in Hongkong of American parents, educated in American schools and trained as an architect. His first etching appeared in 1910. In 1913-14 he estab- lished his claim to high rank with a series presenting Italian and French scenes. War service left him broken in health; there was a long struggle with desperate illness. “When he emerged in 1927 it was with vitality,” Mrs. Whitmore said, “which, pent up physically, poured itself into his work like a torrent that breaks its dam.” Seldom does one find in the work of a single artist such’ radical change. Whereas his earlier work, still in great demand, but seldom procur- able, was serene, quiet, traditional, his present work, likewise esteemed by connoisseurs, is tense and dramatic. Here is a modernist de- veloped on a background of tradition, one who ’;dl&fte measure seems to reflect the spirit of ay. 4 AK first of the series of lectures to be given during the current seasow under the aus- pices of the Washington Society of Fine Arts will take place Wednesday evening in Baker Hall, Young Women's Christian Association Building, Seventeenth and K streets, at 8:30 o'clock. The lecturer will be Charles R. Ash- bee of Seven Oaks, England, and his subject will be “A New Point of View in Town Plan- Mr. Ashibee is craftsman, architect, author and city planner. It was he who established the famous Guild of Handicraft at Chipping Campden, and he originated the Survey of London and founded the Essex House Press. When, during the World War, England took over Palestine and planned its rebuilding, Charles Ashbee was sent out as civic adviser. Among his books are “Where the Great City Stands,” “The Private Press—A Sfudy in Ideal- ism,” “A Palestine Notebook” and “Caricature.” Mr. Ashbee has not been in this country for some years and is spending only a few months here. The lecture will be illustrated by ster- eopticon slides. EVERAL Washington artists are represented in the American Water Color Society’s sixty-fifth annual exhibition which opened in New York October 20 and continues through today. . S. Peter Wagner shows four paintings, two of which are marines, “The Tides at Grand Ma- nan” and “Surf on the Bay of Fundy,” both excellent. Eleanor Parke Custis shows three, paintings—“Cheese = Market at Alkmaar™ “Loading Hay, Isle of Maarken” and “A Brite tany Pardon,” all in her characteristic and in- teresting manner. Mrs. Susan B. Chase aiso shows three, subjects in all probability found on the New England Coast; and Eliot O'Hara, who is now to be counted among Washington painters, is given a place of honor in one of the galleries for his group of three New York scenes lately painted, “Park Avenue at Fifty- first Street,” “Under the Bridge” and “Ninth Avenue and Twenty-third Street,” typiczl of our great twentieth century city. - T the Arts Club two new exhibitions open today, one of oils py Marian T. MacIntosh, a member of the National Association -of Women Painters and Sculptors, North Shore Arts Association and the Society of Washington Artists; the others of oils and water colors by Ruth Osgood, a member of both of the local psofessional organizations and also of the Arts Club. At the opening tea this after- noon Miss Osgood will be hostess. HE Washingion Water Color Club announces its thirty-sixth annual exhibition to be held in the Corcoran Gallery of Art from December 3 to 27, inclusive. Works intended for exhibi- tion must be delivered to the Corcoran Gallery of Art November 27. This exhibition will in- clude not only water colors and pastels but drawings in black and white and etchings. Re- quests for entry blanks and other information should be made of the secretary, Elizabeth Evu.:’u Graves, 4853 Rockwood parkway north- west. AUSTA VITTORIA MENGARINI, a young Italian sculptor, whose forceful portraits in bronse were shown here last Winter, first pri- vately at the Italian embassy and then in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, is having an exhibi- tion at the international Art Center of “the Roerich Museum, opening yesterday. Among the bronzes which are included in this showing are portraits of Mussolini, George Eastman, Nansen and David E. Finley of this city. The exhibition will continue through November 28. HE City Art Museum, St. Louis, has lately installed three early American rooms, one of which is from Alexandria, Va. This interior was taken from a house on South Lee street, built about 1780 by John and Lawrence Hooff, prominent bankers and friends of George Washington. The first floor of the building was used as banking offices. The room now in the St. Louis Museum, which was on the sec- ond floor, is beautifully paneled and distinctly stately. On one side there are three windows beautifully proportioned; om the opposite side a fireplace between two doorways. The room has been completely furnished in the style of the period and in furniture which must be very similar to that originally used. Another famous room from Alexandria, the ball room from Gadsby’s Tavern, was some years ago, it will be remembered, incorporated in the American wing of the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, New York. o> AC EMY— Professional Commercial Art 1333 F St. N.W. ME. 2883 ABBOTT SCHOOL FINE AND COMMERCIAL -~ e s v AR 1L 2.0.0.8. 8. Felix Mahony’s National Art School 1747R.1 Ave. . North 1114