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» Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven- teenth streect and New York avemue. Permanent collection. “Washingion and His Official Family,” special Bicen- temmial exh bit'on, March é to Novem- ber. Special exhibition of Water Colors By Charles Hopkinson, April 4 to 24. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 Twenty-first strect. Pcrmanent collec- tion with recent ecqu:sition and group of paintings by Wash nglon ertists, Special exhb'ton of pnintings by Robert Spencer, Anrl and May. Paini- ings by Helem Scwcll Johnsom, April 1 to 3e. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B (Constitut'on avenmue) streels worthwest. Biccniennial Ezhibition, Merch 26 to Nov>mher. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth and B strects soutiriwcst. Etchings by Eugene Higgins of N>w Vork, March 28 o April 24. FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth end B strects sox’hwest. Permanent ocollection. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Print Divi- sion, First strect bot'cecn East Capitol end B streels south-ast. Permanent collecticn. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 I street morthwest. Water Colors by Eliot O’Hara, Oil Pa.ntings and Water Colors by Elise T. Clark, Ap-il 10 to 22. TEXTILE MUSEUM, 2330 S street north- west. Rugs, tapesirics and other tex- tiles of the Near and Far East. Open Mondays, Wednesdays and Frideys, 2 #0 5 o'clock. Admiss on by card obtein- able at the office of G. H. Myers, 739 Pifteenth street northwest. GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY, Comnecticut avenue and De Sales street. Amn exhibition of Bicentennial Portraits of Washington and o’her historic per- . somages. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. 1106 Oom- mecticut avenue. Special exhibition of Contemporary Amer.can Oil Paintings, Etchings by Philip G ddens of New York. Lithographs by Joscph Pemmeli. Crayon paintings by Joseph Birrem. Pgintings by Sandor Vago, William J. Potter, L. C. Mitchell and FHarold Gaze, - April 5 to 30. MOUNT PLEASANT BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY, Sirteenth and Lamont streets. Spring exhib tion, Landscape Club of Washingion. HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY OF ART, Sirth street and Howard place. Permanent collection. VENABLE'S, 1309 H street. Pastels by Grace McKinstry: Miniatures by Mar- garet Stottlemeyer. BY FLORENCE S. BERRYM AN, ISS LEILA MECHLIN, who in ad- dition to being art writer of The Star, is secretary of the Ameri- can Federation of Arts and di- rector of its department of : advisory service, went to Omaha, Mebr., March 28 to attend the federation’s fifth Western conference at the Joslyn Memorial March 31 through April 2. She presented a ,Peport at the opening seision and presided at & number of the other gessions. From Omaha Miss Mechlin went to Los Angeles to make - favangements for the competition of works by - Bving artists and the exhibition of art in reia- tlon to sport, to be held in connection with $he tenth Olympiad next July 30 to August 14. 8She is director of the American art section, which will include architecture, painting, graphic arts sculpture and medals. The exhi- bition will occupy 19 galleries in the Los An- geles Museum of History, Science and Art. GROUP of water colors by Charles Hop- kinson was placed on exhibition in the - giass cases on the second floor at the Corcoran Qallery last Monday. Although he has painted water colors for Mmany years, as a complement ta his portrait work, Mr. Hopkinson is still perhaps best known for the latter. Three outstanding examples are in the National Gallery of Art collection of war portraits—Premier Bratiano, Premier Pashich and Prince Saionji. All are painted - with great vitality, in the traditional manner. ‘The water colors reveal a very different facet of Mr. Hopkinson's vercatile talent. With free- dom in choice of subiect matter comes also a greater freedom in handling. Done in a very fluid wash, the water colors have a spontaneity and verve that suggest the fresh salty air of ‘the sea coast, whih most of them represent. These are Suminer sezs, sapphire biue under & brilliant sun, which warms the bsre, rocky coves where bathers streich themselves in leisure hours. Again, it 15 evening, and the setting sun makes a golden blaze in the sky, or, in quieter mood, leaves a silver path aeross the water. The broad handling of these water colors gives them tremendous carrying quality. They should be viewed 20 or 30 feet away; in fact, - they are best seen from either end of the oar- ridor around the atrium. Here the unpainted portions of paper become reflections on the water, clouds or whatever the artist intended them to be. At this distance these water colors Seem not representations, but the very essemce of the places depicted “This exhibition will remain through April 34. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 10, 1932 Water Colors on Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art—Special Showings at the Phillips Gallery— Other Local Notes. “The Days of '40,” an etching by FEugene Higgims. In exhibition wt the Smithsonian. T the Phillips Memorial Gallery two special mood. She uses the low-keyed characteristic of many modernists and is strong emotional fecling in some paintings. Adding personal interest to the exhibition is a self-portrait as well as two other poriraits of women, individual characterizations, with solidly painted form and telling use of and without distortion. Miss Johason frequently relieves her dark-toned palette with lighter colors, as in the beautiful Persian blue dress of “Marina.” and the lemon yellow tea- pot and pale blue textile in her “Still Life.” She habitually spends her Summers in Prov- incetown or other seaporis, as may be seen in some of her paintings in the current exhibitien. “The Wolves,” for instance, are rocks jutting above the surface of an angry sea, over which “Sardine Factory,” a painting by Sewell Johnson. the Phillips Gallery. a lighthouse stands guard, its harsh colors in- the there is “ di TR Hite Efiggg ! Potter and Sandor Vago, painters, as well as the Most Rev. Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of is on In this gallery are 21 o.thor oil paintings by . Vago, a number of paintings by Mr. Potter examples of Oriental art from the ocollec- paintings, bronze and pewterware, palace em- broideries from China and Burma, fabrics and brocades presented by the late Empress Dowager to the wife of a former consul at Nanking, and porcelains of the Yung Ching and Tao Kuang periods. Sandor Vago's work eemprises portraits, fig- ur. paintings, flowers and still life, done with a very fluild brush and eonsiderable facility, Included in ethibition at from the vivacious appearance of his . Although a native of Hungary, where born in 1887, Mr. Vago has made his in Cleveland for about 10 years. He been the recipient of two awards from the Cleveland Museum of Art, which has one his flower paintings in its permanent col- lection. Other examples of his work are in the public Mbrary, several clubs and a number of private collections in Cleveland. Mr. Vago is also represented in the National Salon, Budapest, of which he was a founder member. He studied at the Royal Academies of Budapest and Munich. Although his portraits are very colorful and effective, particularly those of the Bishop of Cleveland, and of two Hungarian aristocrats, all sumptuously clad, Mr. Vago's figure paint- ings, such as “Jim,” an excellent characteriza- tion; “Silver Hat,” “Old Lady” and others, have greater interest and variety in types and poses. Occupying an entire room are the etchings, subjects then shown are included in the present display. Among them is the last print in his edition of “The Mosque of Santa Sophia, Con- stantinople,” a view of the interior, of which the varied details are exquisitely rendered. This print was the turning point in the artist's career. He was born in Cuthbert, Georgia, in 1897, attended the Georgia School of Tech- nology and there won the architectural scholar- ship given by the American Field Service to French universities. For three years he studied in Paris at I'Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, and traveled extensively, managing to visit 15 he was studying architecture, etching long been a hobby with Mr. Giddens, and the work in which he had the greatest interest. His etchings bave been acquired for the most important permanent collections of prints in wmmm* States. Other proofs from these same piates are in the exhibition at the Sears, Roebuck galleries. The British Museum has the “Santa " “Entrance to la number of them depict American buildings. Of particular interest to us is the “White House, south facade,” which Mr. Giddens has both etched and painted in water colors, a sereme’ and beautiful view in green, biue and white, with well placed shadows indicating bright sunshine, “The Capitol” and “Christ Church, Alexandria, Va.,” are also among the subjects of water color drawings, as meticulously rem- dered as the etchings, and painted with a smoothly applied wash. A number of these etchings are being simultaneously exhibited in the Paris Salon this month. In addition to the foregoing, there are alse at the Sears, Roebuck galleries a superb group of lithographs by Joseph Pennell from the pri- liam J. Potter, ofis and water colors by L. C. Mitchell, water color drawings by Harold Gasze Comtinued on Sirteenth Page 1333 F St. NW. ME. 2883 ok ke k ok Felix Mahony’s New Classes Now Forming National Art School 1747R.1. Ave. North1114 Landscape Painting Commercial Art Soring and Summer Sessions THE ABBOTT SCHOOL OF FINE & COMMERCIAL ART 1624 H St. N.w. NA. 8054.