Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1933, Page 78

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 2 133 Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven- teenth street and New York avente. Permanent colleetion. Water colors by Eliot O’Hara and Julian Peabody. Min- iatures by Eulabee Dixr Becker, April 1 to April 23. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth and B (Conmstitution avenue) sireets northwest. Permanent collection. SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, DIVISION OF GRAPHIC ARTS, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Eich- . ings by Kerr Eby. March 28 to April 26. ’FRBER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth and B streets southwest. Permanent collec- tion. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, print divi- sion, First street between East Capitol and B streets southeast. Permanent collection. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2017 I street. Oil paintings end water colors by Constance Cochrane of Philadelphia. Drawings and etchings by Robert Lam- son. April 2 to 15. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 Twenty-first street. Open Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DIS- TRICT OF COLUMBIA, 2330 S street northwest. Rugs, tapesiries and other " textiles of the Near and Far East. Open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2 to 5 o’'clock. Admission by card obiain- abie at the office of G. H. Myers, 730 Fifteenth street morthwest. PUBLIC LIBRARY, Central Builaing, Ninth and K streets. Erhibition of good printing, assembled by tne American Federation of Arts. March 15 to April 3. .GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY, 1005 Connecticut avenue. Portraits by Bjorn Egeli. March 14 to April 3. ART LEAGUE OF WASHINGTON, 2111 * Bancroft place. Wosws by artists of the Delaware Valley regiom, Philadelphia and New York. March 16 to April 7. JUNIOR LEAGUE CLUB ROOM, 1518 Connecticut avenue. Ezhibition of mem- bers’ work. April 3-8. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. ART GAL- LERIES, 1106 Connecticut avenue. Rugs from Finland, Chinese ancester por- traits, paintings by Lilian Gifflen and others, 125 twentieth century etchings from the Rosenwald collection. April 7 to May 1. HEKIMIAN GALLERIES, 1214 Connect- icut avenue, Exhibition of Persian art .assembled for Century of Progress Ez- position, Chicago. March 16 to April 29. these days with distance eliminated, what dif- ference does location make? Perhaps one of the most interesting and sig- hificant facts concerning this exhibition of water colers of South America is that the paint- Ings do not seem strange. Possibly the reason for this is the dominance of artistic quality, the fact that the painter was first artist, then traveler. But what a gigantic achtevement this group of paintings done in new places within three or four months i§! Painting a picture is not like focusing a camera and pressing a button. The painter’s eyes must be accommodated io mnew sights, the artist’s temperament must be adfusted to his surroundings. He must be able to .throw off the sensation of strangeness, to accommodate himself to his environment be- fore he can find himself free to select, to com- pose. For, of course, no painter who works as - does Mr. O'Hara, with breadth and freedom, is restrained by facts; it is impressions, the per- sonal reaction, emotions, which he registers. But so swift and so sure is this process with Mr. O'Hara that it is almost unbelievable. For this very reason, coupled with its simplicity, his work gives the impression of ease. Seeing these -fikt_urs the veriest amateur is inclined to be- €V that he could do likewise had he the op- portunity. “It looks so easy.” Doubtless, for Mr. O’Hara, it is. AD Al AND £ LEILA MECHLIN Central and South American Pictures in the Local Exhibitions—Miniatures on View at the Corcoran Gallery. “Rio Frias in the Andes” by Eliot O’'Hara. One of the artist’s paintings in the exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. “Mary Alice,” a bas-relief portrait by Clara Hill, 8 § HT AL g HAT Mr. O'Hara and Mr. Peabody should be exhibiting at the same time in the Corcoran Gallery of Art subjects from South and Central America is an interesting coincidence, the dates of Mr. Peabody’s exhibition having been set some time ago, those of Mr. O'Hara’s but recently. Mr. Peabody is an architect and his paintings of places in Yucutan and Guatemals are for which is most modern with that which is of all The artist’s wife is & granddaughter of the late W. W. Corcoran, who established and gave to Washington the Corcoran Gallery of Art. ' TEEN paintings and prints were sold from the Washington Water Color Club’s annual exhibition recently closed—a record number for even good times, much less these There is nothing, perhaps, more than a miniature portrait, a portrait which can be taken in the hand and examined minutely and intimately. Eulabee Dix has developed & Continued on Thirteenth Page National Art School 1747 R. 1 Ave. NAT. 2656 Abbott Art School Exhibition of Students Work 1624 H St. N.W., Corner 17th