Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1932, Page 84

14 ot THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 28 1932, — \C Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven- . teenth street and New York avenue. Permanent collection. Paintings by Richard S. Meryman, February 2 to 29. Paintings by S. Burtis Baker, March 1 to 31. Water Colors—illus- trative of Fairy Tale>—by Harold Gaze of Pasadena, February 28 to March 15. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1609 Twenty-first street. Permanent collec- tion with recent acquisition and group of paintings by Washington artists. Special exhibition of paintings by Walt Kuhn and Gifiord Beal, opening Feb- ruary 7. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B (Constitution avenue) Streets northwest. Permanent collect on. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B streels southwes!. Elchings 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 belwecen East Capitol and B streets southeast. Lithographs by Joseph Penncll. Loan exhibition of Jap- anese Prints, January 15 to March 15. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 I street northwest. Works by artist mem- bers of the club, February 28 to March 13. TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2339 S street north- west. Rugs, tapestrics and other textiles of the Near and Far East. Open Mon- days, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2 to 5 o’clock. Admiss.on by card, obtainable at the office of G. H. Myers, 730 Fif- teenth street morthwest. GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY, Connecticut avenue and De Sales street. An exhibition of Biccnlennial exhibition of Portraits of Washingion and other historic personages. SEARS, ROEBUCK & Co., 1106 Con- necticut avenue. Eichings by Cameron, McBey and Muirhead Bone; Sculpture, Portraits and Illustrat.ons by Vicken von Post Totten; Oil Paintings by Frank C. Kirk and George T. Plowman; Water Colors by Elias Newman, Sculp- ture by Frank L. Jirouch; Etchings by C. Allen Sherwin, and Craft Work by a group of craftsmen from the Delaware Valley, March 4 to 31, inclusive. HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY OF ART, Sixth street and Howard place. Student murals of the Master listitute of the Roerich Museum, New York, February 1 to 29. Exhibition of Sculp- ture shown under the auspices of the College Art Association, February 15 to 28. HERE has undoubtedly been a re- newal of interest in portrait paint- ing of late, for, despite the much talked of and experienced financial depression, portrait painters have been kept busy as have few of their _cofleagues in other branches of art during the past Winter. Not only have local portrait painters received flattering commissions this 4 Year, but portrait painters of distinction from .other parts of our country and Europe as well have visited Washington and executed numer- 'ous commissions here. Philip de Laszlo came to Washington in No- vember with the expectation of spending a week or 10 days, and he was here for over two months. Even then he could not ac- commodate all of his would-be sitters and re- turned to his home in London last Tuesday with numerous orders unfilled, declaring that he was exhausted by his efforts. Another distinguished foreign painter, Joseph Sigall, has been occupying for the greater part of the Winter a studio in tht Mayflower Hotel, where last week, under the distinguisheq pat- Yonage of representatives of the diplomatic corps, he held a private exhibition of his Jately completed portraits. Wayman Adams, our own American portrait painter, whose works have exceptional char- acter and distinction, came here to paint the President for the National Academy of Design sand at the same time painted one or two oth- ers. Albert Herter has been painting por- $raits here, one of Mrs. Hennen Jennings, and one of the Countess de Buisseret, Most recently C. Arnold Slade of Truro, Mass., has visited the city and painted, among other commissions, an excellent portrait of Rear Admiral W. A. MofTett, chief of the>Bu- reau of Aeronautics. Mr. Slade is a native of Massachusetts, a pupil of F. V. Dumond Boston and of Laurens and others in Paris. ree of his paintings are owned by the Gard- fer Museum, Fenway Court; others are to be d in the New Bedford Public Libracy, the ilwaukee Art Institute and other public Balleries. He has produced a number of works for the Paramount Theater in New York, and his portraits are included in both the Wana- maker and Elkins collections in Philadelphia. He has also to his credit portraits of Gen. Dawes, former Attorney General Sargent, Sen- ftor Borah and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde. The portrait of Admiral Moffett is a three- Quarter length and shows the sitter in an @rm chair, hands resting in a natural attitude, oyes looking toward the observer—a straight- forward piece of work broadly rendered and characterful. AD Al AN LELA MECHLIN Portraits of George Washington on View at the Corcoran Gallery—Portrait Painters Busy in Washington This Winter. Other Art Notes. Recently completed portrait of Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett, U. S. N., by C. Arnold Slade of Boston. HE trustees of the Carcoran Gallery of Art have issued invitations to the opening pm- vate view Saturday, March 5, at 9 o’clock, of an exhibition of portraits of George Washing- ton and his official family to be held at the gallery in commemoration of the 200th anni- versary of the birth of George Washington. The exhibition is under the auspices of the United States George Washington Bicenten- nial Committee. This exhibition, consisting of valuable loans, paintings which have great historic as well as artistic significance, will be shown in gal- leries in the new Corcoran Wing, built at the same time that the Clark Wing was erected, but not completely finished. A second important loan exhibition of paint- ings and other works of art associated with George Washington and his times will be held almost simultaneously, opening two weeks later in the National Gallery of Art, under the auspices of the Washington Bicentennial Committee. The two, while supplementing one another, should not be confused. T is interesting to know that the Bicentennial Celebration is by no means confined to our National City. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, is showing an exceptionally inter- esting collection of portraits of Washington and his times in its American Wing. With especial appropriateness these are set forth in the beautiful room taken from Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, the very room in which Wash- ington attended a birthnight ball and where a ball was given in celebration of the Bicenten- nial last Monday night. The room in the American Wing of the M- . opolitan has the woodwork of the origin~l. The room now in Gadsby's Tavern has, since this woodwork was removed, been refitted. In Minneapolis the celebration has been marked by the exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts of a full-length portrait of Washington by Thomas Sully, purchased through the medium of the Dunwoody Fund, and lately acquired, with which is shown the original Williamsburg edition of Washington’s journal, written when he was sent by Din- widdie to the commandant of French forces in Ohio, & loan from the Herschel V. Jones collection of Americana. On Sunday, Febru- ary 21, a talk was given in the Art Institute on “Mount Vernon in Washington’s Day,” illustrated with interesting pictures. N honor of the George Washington Bicenten- nial celebration, Yale University opened on the 22nd of February an extensive exhibition of its tregsures in the fine arts and literature relating to the life of Washington and the history of the United States during his life- time. In 1781 the Yale Corporation conferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon the then Gen. Washington. In the Gallery of Fine Arts is being shown for the first time since its receipt at Yale the portrait of Washington by Gilbert Stuart, bequeathed by Chauncey M. Depew, jr. Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York have lent for the occasion two portraits of Washington and manuscripts and china re- lating to the Society of the Cincinnati. The earlier portrait, painted by Joseph Wright in 1783, shows Washington in the blue and buff of the Continental regimentals; the other portrait is by Edward Savage, painted about 1790, presumably in Philadelphia. Among the sculpture shown is a bust in alabaster of about 1800 of the Joseph Wright type; a bronze replica of the Houdon bust, and an equestrian statue, the last a working model by the sculp- tor, Henry Kirke Brown, for his statue in Union Square, New York. T Gordon Dunthorne’s gallery may be seen at the present time an interesting map of Washington and outlying country executed by Maj. Emest Clegg for the Washington Cathe- dral in commemoration of the Bicentennial. Maj. Clegg’s decorative maps of “The Western Front,” “Lindbergh’'s Flight,” “Long Island” and “Fifth Avenue, New York,” are well known and highly esteemed. It was because of these that the bishop, dean and chapter of the Washington Cathedral scught his services and feit such a map to be an appropriate contribu- tion to the Nation-wide celebration. This map has been prepared with care from competent historical sources, with the Library of Congress and the manuscript division of the New York Public Library co-operating. It includes all of Delaware, Maryland and Eastern Virginia, with adjoining parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Among the features reproduced or presented on the map are the south transept of the Washington Cathedral with the Pil- grims’ Steps, important battlefields of the Revolution, small views with dates of founding of about 40 interesting Colonial churches and historical places, such as Westover on the James, also Monticello, Carter’s Hall and Montpelier; quaint and interesting scenes such as an old Indian village, the fox hunting country, the President’s camp in the Shenan- doah National Park, and places associated with historical happenings. These maps have been issued in a limited edition and sold chiefly through subscription. A'I' Gordon Dunthorne’s at the present time are also to be seen Eben Comins’ excellent portrait of Washington in his Continental Ak uniform, and portraits b, trait painters of histori It is an interesting .- that the majority of sculptured portraitc Jf great personages erected as public mer.. «is are executed years after the death of the inaividual commemo- rated and have quite generally been accepted as authentic, whereas heretofore painted por- traits of deceased persons have been looked upon with disfavor. Surely there is no more reason for the one than the other, and with the influx of new portraits of Washingion, many of them very satisfying, this stigma of the portrait painted as a free interpretation of character should be removed. arly American por- Interest TH’E rearrangement of the Phillips Memorial Galleries has brought again Augustus Vin- cent Tack’'s beautiful abstract decorations into the lower gallery, where they were previously shown. Nowhere do they appear so well, and rightly so, for they were designed for this room and here belong. But teking them away and bringing them back re-emphasizes their value. Indeed the rehanging of exhibits, which has become a custom in the Philiips Memorial Gallery, teaches a valuable lesson, demonstrat- ing the fact that a fine work of art is a per- ennial source of joy and that even fine works of art may gain in significance by appropriate association with other works. The arrange- ment of a gallery, the grcuping of works of art, is like, to an extent, a musical composition; each sounds its own note and all tcgether create a symphony. The present midyear rearrangement at the Phillips Gallery is particularly felicitous. In the library on the first floor there is a pe- culiarly beautiful grouping of works by Monet, Chardin, Constable, Corot, Manet and Vuillard, offset by the two Puvis de Chavannes sketches or studies. In the drawing room one finds no less than six works by Bonnard and with them, harmonizing admirably, one by Marjorie Phil- lips, “The End of the Garden.” There are four Bonnards in the dining room, silently ap- plauding, as it were, Charles Prendergast’s beautifully decorated screen. Gallery C on the second floor is given over exclusively to American and European abstrac- tions; gallery D to an American show of works in oil and water color in which John Marin takes principal place with, however, Stefan Hirsch and Georgia O’Keeffe lending balance tbrough architectural compositions. Gallery E is gay with paintings by Gifford Beal, among them two circus subjects and a picture of a Hudson River steamboat and a gay crowd, sup- posedly in 1860; also a merry garden party of any day, recalling works by Monticelli, but utterly different. Gallery A is occupied exclu- sively by recent paintings of Walt Kuhn— startling, vigorous, out of the ordinary. In gallery B, however, one gets back to Ryder and Daumier, with their rich tonal resonance, their splendid characterizations, and realizes that only great art lasts, but also that there are many kinds of greatness. Finally, in the main gallery the visitor is re-welcomed by old friends in new grouping—Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Spencer and, last but not least, the superb Egyptian lime stone head of the 18th dynasty with its inexhaustible mystery and charm. HE galleries of Sears, Roebuck & Co. have issued invitations to the openitwg of thefr March exhibits, at which opening, on the eve- ning of March 4, the British Ambassador and Lady Lindsay will be guests of honor. This showing will include etchings by Cam- ercn, McBey and Muirhead Bone from the Lessing Rosenwald collection; sculpture, por- traits and illustrations for Swedish folk and fairy tales by Vicken Von Post Totten of this city; oil paintings by Frank C. Kirk and George T. Plowman; water colors by Elias Newman; sculpture by Prank L. Jirouch; etchings by C. Allen Sherwin, and craft work by a group of craftsmen from the Delaware Valley. Mrs. Totten has issued invitations to her friends for a special view of her work on Sunday after- noon, March 6. MUCH interest was aroused by a group of paintings and etchings, which were in- cluded in the February exhibition of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. galleries, the work of Issacher Ryback, formerly of Ukrainia, now of Paris. Mr. Ryback is a Russian by birth. During the revolution, however, he left Russia for Ukrai- nia, later to establish himself in France. He has been introduced to this country by a musical friend, a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who made his acquaintance in Eu- rope, and quickly recognized his exceptional gift. The group shown here consisted of etch- Continued on Sirteenth Page Landscape Painting GARNET JEX, Instructor Commercial Art Spring Term, March 15th Summer Session, June 15th THE ABBOTT SCHOOL OF FINE & COMMERCIAL ART 1624 H Street N.W. Na. 8054 e J sk Fe ek Felix Mahony’s New Classes Now Forming . National Art School 1747R.1.Ave. North1114