Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1932, Page 84

Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven- teenth sireet and New York avenue. Permanent collection. “Washington and His Official Family,” special Bicen- tennial exhibition, March 6 to Novem- ber. Paintings by S. Burtis Baker, March 1 to 31. Water Colors illustra- tive of Fairy Tales—by Harold Gaze of Pasadena, Febiuary 28 to March 15. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALERY, 1600 Twenty-first street. Permanent collec- tion with recent acquisition and group of paintings by Washingion artists. Special exhibition of paint.ngs by Walt Kuhn and Giflord Beal, opening Feb- ruary 7. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B (Conmstitution avenue) streets northwest. Bicentennial Erxhibition to open March 19. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B streets southwest. Etlchings by H. Luthmann, March 1 to 31. ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING, United States Naticnal Museum. Pirst ennual exhibition of Pictorial Photo- graphs by Assoc ated Telephone Camera Clubs, March 1 to 31. FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth and B streets southwest. Permanent collection. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Print Divi- sion, First sireet between East Capitol and B sireets southeast. Lithographs by Joseph Pennell. Loan ezhibition of Jap= anese Prints, January 15 to March 18, ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 I street northwest. Works by artist mem- bers of the club, February 28 to Maearch 31. TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2330 S street north- west. Rugs, tapesiries and other tez- tiles of the Near and Far East. Open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2 to 5 o’clock. Admission by card, obtain- able at the office of G. H. Myers, 730 Fifteenth street northwest. GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY, Connecticut avenue and De Sales street. An ezhibition of Bicentennial Portraits of Washington and other historic per- soRages,. Exhibit of Pa ntings by Eben Comins, March 9 to 23. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., 1106 Com- necticut avenue. Etchings by Camerom, McBey and Muirhead Bone; Sculpture, Portraits and Illustrations 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, Sizth street and Howard place. Ezhibition of Paintings by members of the Landscape Club. To March 20. VENABLE'S, 1309 H street. Pastels by Grace McKinstry; Miniatures by Mar- garet Stottlemeyer. NEBJIB HEKIMIAN GALLERIES, 1214 Connecticut avenue. Ezhibition Persian and Aubusson Rugs, Tapestries, March 2 to 21. N opposite walls of the Potomae Electric Power Co.'s board room, James M. Newell has painted two exceptionally interesting and ap- propriate murals, both in true fres- co. One is an upright, the other a horizontal panel. The upright shows a group of workmen erecting high-tension steel car- riers. The scene is staged, as it were, in front of a triple waterfall. To the rizht are, in the tower, toward the top of which two men are seem at work. In the foreground there are ve workmen busily engaged, one to the right, , one to the left, lifting a heavy pair le carriers, to be hoisted shortly to the tower in process of erection. A cable seen spanning the waterfall, indicative of the harnessing of natural power and its wide distribution. The treatment is bold and simple, in & measure realistic, but primarily decorative. The horizontal panel depicts two methods of distributing power, the overbhead wire and the cable, with its source, the power plant, in the distance. This is an excellent represen Power Co.’s plant and emphasis is placed on the fact that this company uses the medium of steam power rather than that of running water, all the electricity which they distribute being generated from steam in a central power house. Mr. Newell, who has been occupying a studio ! gj’ on penves, whids was subse- THE AL Alr SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AND Ak MARCH 13, 1932 y LELA MECHLITN ' Mural Paintings in New Electric Power Com- pany Building—Portraits and Frescoes by Eben F. Comins— Other Local Art ' Exhibitions. Portrait of Peggy Morgan by Eben F. Comins. In current exhibition at the Dunthorne Gallery. quently attached to the wall. So were most of the mural paintings in the Library of Con- gress executed, and indeed, also, the panels by Jules Guerin in the Lincoln Memorial. Only very recently has there been a return to true fresco painting. Eben Comins of this city has made interesting experiments along these lines. Under an eminent French painter, further experiments have been made at Fon- tainebleau, and among the experimenters one of the most successful has been Mr. Newell. There is an interesting color quality in such work, an inherent cimplicity and directness which seems to partake of the nature of deco- ration and to have architectural significance, not as something 2pplicd but something a part of the structure. Mr. Newell, in so far as he has revived an ancient art, is a traditionalist, but in his treatment from the standpoint of both simplicity and strength, is essentially modern. N exhibition of portraits and frescoes by Eben F. Comins opened with a tea and " private view last Wednesday afternoon in the galleries of Gordon Dunthorne, Mayflower Hotel, to continue a fortnight. Among the works shown are portraits of Justice Oliver Wen- dell Holmes and Justice Edward Terry San- ford; Gen. William D. Connor, the last but lately completed; the Right Rev. T. I. Reese, facility portraits, subject pictures still life—one who makes invariably an .esting and engaging showing. TB! special Bicentennial exhibition, which opened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art yes- terday week with a private view and reception, was reviewed at some length in our news columns last Sunday, but it offers an almost inexhaustible supply of material, both for com- ment and study. Included in this exhibition, gathered from consciousness contributed in equal measure to their success. In this exhibition the student unexcelled opportunity to study the great w of Gllbert Stuart and of comparing them the skillful achievements of the Peales, Trumbull, Wright and others. ity of the works in the exhibition private ownership and there is little that the curators of painting in our g American museums will make pilgrim- to Washington during the next nine for the sole purpose of seeing these paintings. i s34 EXT Saturday in the National Museum a second exhibition will be opened I cele- bration of the Washington Bicentennial. This exhibition has been arranged by a committee, of which Charles Moore, chairman of the ion of Pine Arts is chairman. It will of mural panels, 15 feet width from 8 to 20 feet, de- e life of Washington, and of sculpture has been assembled by the Na- tional Sculpture Society with the same pur- pose. The paintings are said to have been ANY expressions of interest and pleasure in hibit at the galleries of Sears, Roebuck & Co. have been heard, and with reason, for here may riow be seen her entire series of Mother Goose characterizations in sculpture, her de- lightful porcelain statueties, illustrative of S'edhhtolklore;berduntynndexquhmu- lustrations for fairy tales which take the ob- server into the realm of imagination, even without accompanying text. Washingtonians have been specially favored by representations -of fairy land this season, Mrs. Totten at the galleries of Sears, Roebuck & Co. There is a merriment, a sparkling and childlike naivete in Mrs. Totten’s work, in whatever medium, which places it in a class quite its own. UNIQUE feature of the March exhibition in these same galleries is to be found in most interesting, but to the collector these water colors are a rare treat. When so much is given it seems discourteous to find fault or make complaint, but for etch- ings as fine as these, better background should be provided and a more dignified showing thus assured. Also, etchings of such rare quality should be under glass. Oil paintings by Frank C. Kirk occupy, to & great extent, the walls in the main gallery, and are strong, colorful and well rendered. Dorothy Grafly of Philadelphia has said that, “in Mr. Kirk's work one feels the vital urge of the creative force, a power which commands, a soul which obeys, the result forged with great sincerity.” Adding that “in his still life groups he achieves an arrangement of objects which is spiritually uplifting.” Mr. Kirk was trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, but continued his studies in Paris, and has worked in Spain, Italy, France and Russia. This is his first showing in Washington, but he has contrib- uted repeatedly to the larger exhibitions in other cities, and one of his paintings last year was invited by the American Federation of Arts for their traveling exhibitions. He is Russian born, but a resident of New York, and among his most distinguished works are paint- ings done for theaters in Pennsylvania and Virginia. |'r is interesting to learn that a group of Phile adelphia craftsmen and women have lately co-operated in producing a beautiful work of art for presentation and permanent piacement here in our Cathedral rising on Mount St. Al- ban. It is an illuminateq book, “The Sermon on the Mount,” presented in memory of Dr. L. Webster Fox of Philadelphia. Beatrice Fox Griffith, his daughter, has done the major part of the labor of love—the illustrations and min- jatures in color and gold lettering. Examples of her work can be seen in the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge and else- where. During the World War Mrs. Griffith, who is primarily a sculptor, modeled relief maps for the intelligence department of the Army at the War College here in Washington. bosses which embellish the cover are by Ed- ward Oakes and Lucy Rockwell, respectively, with black letter by Eleanor Lane—a sump- tuous work. N Wednesday evening, March 16, under the auspices of the Washington Society of the Fine Arts, Mme. Caria Orlando Aver- ardi, the daughter of Signor Oriando, former premier of Italy, will give a lecture illustrated by rare colored slides, on “Ancient and Mod- ern Gardens of Northern Italy,” including the Italian lake region, Lombardi, Venice and the Italian Riviera. This lecture is the last of the Washington Society of the Fine Arts’ course for the current season and will be given in the auditorium known as Barker Hall, at Continued on Sizteenth Page 1 0. 0. 0. 0.0 Felix Mahony’s New Classes Now Forming National Art School 1747R.L Ave. North1114 Landscape Painting GARNET JEX, Instructer Commercial Art