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THEE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D, ., JANIUJARY: 31, 1932, Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven- teenth street and New York avenue. Permanent collection, Forty-first An- nual Exhibition of the Society of Wash- ington Artists, January 1 to 31. Special exhibitions of Water Colors and Drew- ings by Mahonri M. Young, January 11 to 31, inclusive; Paintings by Rich- ard 5. Meryman, February 2 te 29; Small Sculptures in wax dy Catherina Barjansky, February 1 to §. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 Twenty-first street. Permanent collec- tion with recemt acquis:itions and group of paintings by Washington artists. Special erhibition of paintings by Harold Weston. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B (Constitution avenue) streets northwest. Permanent collection. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B streets southwest. Etchings by J. C. Claghorn, February 1 to 29. FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth and B streets southwest. Permanent collection. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Print Divi- sion, First street between East Capitol and B streets southeast. Lithographs by Joseph Pennell. Logn erhibition of Jep- anese Prints, January 15 to March 15. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 1 street morthwest. Paintings by George Pearse Ennis, January 31 to Febru- ary 14. TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2330 S street north- west. Rugs, tapestries and other textiles of the Near and Far East. Open Mon-~ days, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2 to 5 o'clock. Admission by card ovbtainable at the office of G. H. Myers, 730 Fif- teenth street morthwest. GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY, Comnecticut avenue and De Sales street. An erhibition of decorative paintings and drawings of Mezrico by Olin Dow and Thomas La Farge, beginning Feb- .ruary 1. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. 1166 Com- necticut avenue. Paintings by Jerry Farnsworth, Helen Sawyer Ferwnsworth, . J. M. Lichtenauer and Theodore J. Morgan, Block Prints by Susen Ricker Knoz, Prints by Lepere, Lacguer Paint- ings by Jeam Dumand end Lacguer Soreems by Jean Pellenc, Bromzes by Bourdelle, Paintings and Scuipture by members of the National Association of Women Puinters and Scuiptors, Feb- ruary 2 te 27, inclusive, HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY OF ART, Sirth street and Howard place. Student murals of the Master Institute of the Roerich Museum, New York, February 1 to 29. JANE BARTLETT'S, 1347 Comnecticut avenue. Erhibition of sport subjects in Water Color and Sculpture by John W. Dunn and Kathleen Wheeler, February 1 te 15. HERE is a general shifting of exhibi- tions the first of each month—old friends depart, new acquaintances ar- rive—the transient exhibition being much in vogue and providing a con- tinuous round of pleasurable events. The February exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art will consist of paintings by Richard S. Meryman, for some years instruc- . tor in the Corcoran Schoel of Art and now its principal. This will be the first comprehensive showing of Mr. Meryman's work that has been held here, though be has contributed gen- erously from time to time to the Corcoran Gal- lery’s biennials and the exhibitions of local societies. Primarily he is a portrait painter, but he does not limit himself to this field and he has, as those whe know his work well can testify, produced very charming landscapes and interesting still life studies. Mr. Meryman is a Bostonian by birth, a pupil of Bénson, Tarbell and Abbott Thayer. It was on Mr, Tarbell's recommendation that he came to Washington, but perhaps the strongest in- fluence on his art has been that of Thayer, with whom net only in Boston but at Dublin, N. H, where he has a Summer home, he was closely associated. At the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco he was awarded, in 1915, a silver medal and he won a similar award in the Sesguicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1926. In all probability Mr. Meryman would by his colleagues be declared an academician, for he is one who holds to tradition, who believes in good drawing, rejoices in beauty and strives for perfectien. But this dees not of necessity limit his field of achievement, ner does it give his work the stamp of formula. The fact is that Mr. Meryman has a particularly sensitive appreciation of that which is fine—aytistic val- ues—and for this reason is net oywly a good teacker but a capable artist. While his art is based on sound principle it is sympathetic and significant. i The Meryman exhibition will open Tuesday and will consist of about 25 or 30 paintings, among which will be a number of portraits of well known Washingtonians and landscapes painted in the Canadian Rockies. ROM tomorrow, for a week, there will be on view in the Corcoran Gallery of Art an unique collection of small sculpture in wax by Catherina Barjansky, a Russian who studied in Paris and Munich as well as her own coun- try. Through the exhibition of the newly fermed Boctety of Miniature Painters, Soulpters sand Exhibitions Change in § everal Washington (}(1//crics——S(ulpl‘m'v in Wax at the Cor- coran Etchings and Paintings onl 1. Pertrait of Dr Ceorge F. Bowermen by Richard S. Meryman. included in an exhibition et the Corcoran Callery of Art. | mediate result. sitters celebrated people throughout the werld. bermann, Einstein, d’Annunzio and others. addition to the portraits she will show 15 or 16 statuettes and a couple of bas-reliefs. Mme. Barjansky was born in Odessa, Russia. Her husband, Alexander Barjansky, is a dis- tinguist ed cellist. This wax she uses is made by herself from a special recipe, and her only tool is a little ivory scalpel. N exhibition of paintings by George Pearse Ennis, secretary of the American Water Color Society, will open in the Arts Club today, contihuing for a fortnight. Mr. Ennis is widely known because of the distinction of his wark and for the fact that he has for a number of years conducted a Summer school of art at Eastport, Me. So successful is Mr. Ennis both as a painter and a teacher that this Fall he was made head of the faculty of the latcly formed School of Art in connection with the Ringling Museum at Sarasota, Fla., a schcol which Mr. Ennis himself feels has great poten- tialties. It is impossible to see George Pearce Ennis’ paintings without recalling the works of Winslox Homer., Doutbless, Mr. Ennis has felt the Homer influence, but Homer was not a man to be copied. He left no recipe for his art, but that sturdy quality of sincerity and strength that permeated “Winslow Hom'.’s paintings is what one finds today in tliie paintings of George Pearse Ennis. David Lloyd, writing a couple of years age in the American Magazine of Art, said: “Such painters as Mr. Ennis rarely trip themselves upen one of our favorite fallacies, that a paint- ing as a completed work is presented to the beholder’s eye. It is, of course, presented to the whole man; to our intelligence, our emo- tions, our appetites, even to our prejudices and our esthetic folbles. The very gestures of proffer, ceremonious or bluff and hearty, are not often obscured. In the addess the painter makes to us, in the communication we receive, those multiple passages extended on the canvas, which must have their own immediacy if they are to become factors ef this intercourse, these are the things we have been calling the ‘inci- dents’ ef expression.” In eother words, # 1s net merely what Mr. Ennis puts into his pic- tures but what he omits from them thai gives produced windows for the New York Athletic Club, the Church of All Nations in New York City and the chapel of the Military Academy in New York and for some years director and secretary of the Grand Central School of Art. He has also membership in the Guild of Amer- jcan Painters, the Architectural League of New York, the New York Water Color Club, the Salmagundi Club and other professional or- ganizations, and he has won many prizes both for his paintings in water color and in oil. HE BSears-Roebuck Co. Art Galleries will open their February exhibitions with a pre- view on the evening of February 2, for which invitations have been issued in the name of the director, Theodore J. Morgan. The guests of honor upon this occasion will be the French Ambassador and Mme. Claudel. Among the patrons and patronesses will be Senator Capper, Mrs. Richard §. Aldrich, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Pish, jr.; Mr. and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, and others. In compliment to the Freach Ambassador the Rosenbach Galleries of Phila- delphia are lending 15 lacquer paintings by Jean Dunand, 2 lacquer screens by Jean Pellenc, bronges by Bourdelle and some famous Russian fabrics. Fifty prints by Lepere will come from the well known Lessing Rosenwald collection, from which during February, March and April Mr. Rosenwald will make to these galleries gener- ous loans. In May the loan will consist of 200 of Mr. Rosenwald’s famous Rembrandt etchings, his Rembrandt collection being ome of the greatest in the world. Among the other notable exhibits to be set forth at this time are paintings by Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Farnsworth, by J. M. Lichtenauer and by Theodore J. Mergan; block prints by Susan Ricker Knex, whose paintings of immi- grants made during the war at Ellis Island were epoch making:; paintings and sculpture by members of the National Association of Woman Painters and Sculptors, and a little later in the month a comprehensive showing of pottery from the New York State School of Clay Working and Ceramics at Alfred, N. Y. Jerry Farnsworth, it will be remembered, is an erstwhile Washington painter, and his wife, Helen Sawyer Farnsworth, a Washington girl, the daughter of Wells Sawyer, an exhibitien of whose work has lately been held in the National Gallery of Art. M. Farnsworth net only studied with the late Charles W. Haw- thorne but became one of his chief assistants. His work is semewhat in the Hawthorne style and has been mest favorably received, winning admission to the leading exhibitions and ec- casionally prizes as well. Mrs. Farnsworth has been exceptionally successful in still-life paint- ing and has exhibited at the Grand Central Galleries and elsewhere. Mr. Lichtenauer is a portrait and mural painter, a pupil of Mowbray in New York and Laurens in Paris, a member of the New York Architectural League, the Mural Painters, the Art Students’ League and the Silvermine Guild of Artists. Among his best known works are the proscenium arch, Wallach Theater, New York; 35 panels in the Shubert Theater, New York; 24 bas-reliefs for Rice Memorial Play- field, Pelham, New York, and portraits of Gen. Stahel and Gen. Palmer Pieree in the Smitt - sonian Institution in this city. T the Smithsonian Institution, beginning tomorrow, a collection of etchings by J. C. Claghorn of this city will be placed on view. This is perhaps the first time that the Depar: - ment of Graphic Arls, United States National Museum, has given a local etcher a one-man showing. Mr. Claghorn has taken up etching compara- tively recently, and has already achieved signal success through his skillful handling of the medium. Among his most successful works is 4 view of Mount Verncn, Mention has already been made in these columns of the charming character of his Christmas card, recently etched. i The Claghorn etchings will be on view in the Smithsonian thrcughout the month of Feh- ruary. HE Landscape Club of Washington has late- ly held its annual meeting and elected of- ficers for the coming year as follows: President, A. H. O. Rolle; vice president, Felix Mahony; treasurer, C. F. Wittenauer; secretary, Garnet W. Jex; assistant secretaries, Rowland Lyon and R. E. Motley. i The Landscape Club has again sent out this Winter a traveling exhibition which is being circulated among smaller cities in the East and West, extending interest in and knowledge of art, and dcubtless giving much pleasure. lN’I’KRES’I’ING work is being done in classes in art appreciation, conducted by May Ash- ton, at the Business High School. A painting of a young girl by Miss Ashton received the por- teadt prize in the Society of Washington Artists’ recent exhibition. Each student has dene spe- clal reading on some phase of the history ef art and has then produced creative work ta the spirit of the period studied. George Ander- son and Oliver Jones have made frescoes 9 feet long representing ancient civilimtions—Egypt, Crete and Greece. Minnie Sadle and Yelands Forcella have reproduced statues of Greek gods as studies from ancient easts. Greek vases and Greek dancers as pictured thereon have further cserved as inspiration for the young students. On January 20 and 21 the group produced for their fellow students in the school, through the medium of lectures, frescoes, easts and dances, the life of the people of Egypt, Crete and Greece as shown in their art. Ir this way the art of the past becomes to the students of pres- ent interest and a part of their own lives. SERIES of fllustrated lectures on “Historic ‘Temples” will be given in the Chinese room of the Mayflower Hotel February 26, March 4, 11 and April 1, under the auspices of the Dis- trict subcommittee of the Nationzl Women's Committee for the National Cathedral, of which Mrs. Frank B. Noyes is chairman. The procecds from these lectures will be used to complete the beautiful north portico of the National Cathe- dral in time for the Bicentennial services to be heid there. The first lecture, on ‘‘Anecient Temples— Assyrian, Egyptian, etc.” will be given by George Henry Chase, professor of archeology and dean of the Graduate School of Harvard University. The second lecture will be on “Roman and Greek Temples,” and will be pre- sented by David Moore Robinson, professor of archeology and epigraphy at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Johns Hopkins Museum. The third, on “Oriental Temples,” will be given by Miss Gertrude Emerson, co=- editor of Asia and author of “Voiceless India.” The subject of the fourth lecture will be “Medieval and Renaissance Cathedrals,” but the speaker has not yet been announced. The Continued on Sirteenth Page 727 ~~2 AC 1333 F St. N.W. "HILL SCHOOL of ART CLARA HILL, DIRECTOR Sculpture—Painting—Etching—Desizn »Gfil?uognfitwcircle. s Ne. 1271 EXHIBITION Costume Designs for the BAL BOHEME 10 to 3 7te9 Abbott Art Schosol Winners of Al 3 Prizes 1932 Bal Coatest 1624 H St. N.W. % Ak Kk kX Felix Mahony’s New Classes Now Forming National Art School 1747R.1.Ave. North1114 0r2€ DEMY— ME. 2883