Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1933, Page 79

Sunday Morning Among the Cross-Wor I §f | B5R EBSaw B g g | i 37. Bunting-like fab- ric. 39. Scotch cake. 40. The herb dill. 41. Bar legally. 43. Ardor. mcenkey. 49. Philippine sweat- shop. 51. Serpent lizard. 52. Flavored. 53. European straw- berry tree. 55. The white poplar. 57. A tribe of Mada- gascar. 58. 61. 62. €3. 67. €9. 70. . Pulled spart. . African fly. . Pause. . Soap plant. . Separates. . Vehemently. . Upward: prefix. 90. Tally. 91. Annoyed. 92. A lcose overcoat. stand still. 94. That which soothes. 96. Card game. 97. Equal: combining form. 98. Entity. 99. Rank, 100. Omission sign. 101. Consuming. 103. Fog horn. 106. Heart. 107. Elongated fish. 109. Produced leaves. 113. Correct. 114. Gait of a horse. 116. Disarrange. 118. Sift. 119. Split. 120. Perchlike fish. 121. A prickle. 124 Jcurney, 125. Goddess of mis- chief. 126. Glide. 127. Wicked. 128. Cut in cubes. 130. Japanese bushy . plant. 131. A Philippine island. 133. Flutings of col- umns. 136. Mexican corn cakes. 138. Repeat. 139. Salt of tannic acid. 140. Of common gender. 141. Covered with wax. 142. Scoffer. 143. Hates. Down. 1. Young hare. 2. Laborius. 3. Having eyelashes. 4. A wing. 5. Woolen caps. 6. Headless: PFrench. 7. Signify. 8. Feline. 9. A red dye from coal tar. 10. Drawing room. 11. Dealer. 12. Erudition. 13. Yale. 14. Marine painting. 15. Decorous. 16. Turkish decree. 17. Parts of the mouth. He may develop his gift for writ- ing, he may find new color-gems in a butter- fly’'s wing, he may set forth on further travel, seeking new adventure, but wherever it leads, the goal must be beauty.” It is beauty of a very real sort that is to be found in the works in his current exhibition. Tmtumltchlrmwbefmmdlnthe collection of paintings by George Elmer Browne, now on view in the gallery at the Arts Club, 2017 I street. Seventeen paintings in all 2re shown, of which four are water colors, the «'hcrs oils. Strangely enough, in this instance, the water colors are much larger in dimensions than are the oils, also perhaps more broadly rainted. The oils are little pictures, which would appear well on the walis of a home. Pre- sumably they are studies made to be enlarged later. and they are framed with mats, as is cusiomary with water colors. The first of these (No. 1 in the catalogue) which attracts the visitor's attention upon en- trance, is entitled “In the Valley of the Somme” and is a picture of green trees against a Sum- mer sky, typically French. Beyond, to the left a short distance, is a painting of “Sardine PFleet in Port, Douarnenez”; then comes a lovely little cottage in Spain, Segovia, very Spanish in feeling. This in turn is followed by a painting of a town in Morocco, steeped in sunlight, low white houses huddled together in friendly fashion. There is a view of the “Custom House in Chioggia,” of the “Bell Tower of San Marco in Venice.” As one passes from picture to pic- ture all sorts of memories recur of European trips; the imagination is released, a sense of romance creeps in. And how interpretative and really lovely these paintings are—views seen through the temperament and understanding of a genuine artist—toneful, colorful, never over- emphasized; pictures which send one off with a sense of refreshment and contentment, a re- newed faith and vision. The water colors are particularly attractive, broadly rendered, colorful, subjectively pleasing. They include the “Fete of St. Anne of Brit- tany,” “The Bridge, Ondarroa, Spain,” and “Gate of the Sun, Toledo.” There is noth- ing bizarre in these works, nothing that clamors for attention, just quiet beauty, artistically ex- pressed. Mr. Browne is painter, etcher and lithog- rapher. He was born in Gloucester, Mass., the Summer home of many artists, in May 1871. He studied first at the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, then under Lefebvre and Robert Fleury in Paris. He is a member of the National A~ademy of Design, the Salmagundi Club, the American Water Color Society, the Societe des Artes Moderne, Paris, and the Provincetown Beachcombers. He has received numerous medals and awards and his works are included in the permanent collections of such well known institutions as the Toledo Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Institute, the Los Angeles. Museum, the New pa " THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 7, 1933 18. Black bird. 19. Gigantic. 20. A what-not. 21. Canceled. 30. The roof of the mouth. 33. Deprivation. 36. A roster. 38. Palr. 39. A cereal grain. 40. Pertaining to bees. 42, To permeate, 45. Hindu festival pe- ried, 46. Atomize. 48. Biblical moun- “tain. 50. EIm seed. 52. A young salmon, 54. Employs. 56. Unadorned. 57. Tree trunk. 58. Without" wings. 63. Copious flow. 64. The 98th Psalm. 65. Subterfuge. 74. Worship. 75. Sweetheart. 76. Scattered: Her. 78. Igneous volcanic rock. 85. Impel. 86. Jurisdiction in old English law. 87. A young bivalve mollusk. 90. Tolerate. 91. Wattle tree. 93. Seed covering. 95. Goddess of peace. 96. Sect. 97. Approved. 100. Overcrowds, 101. Jewish month. 102. Walk. 103. Pertaining to an Egyptian diety. 110. Sticks used as whips. 111. Obvious. 112. Degrades. York Public Library, etc. He was decorated by the French government in 1925 and made offi- cer of public instruction in fine arts. He is well known also as a teacher. COLLECTION of woodblock prints by Donald Witherstine occupies the walls of the drawing room and dining room at the Arts Club at this time. Of their kind they are ex- tremely clever, but to the writer woodblock prints have interest merely for the moment, de- livering their message, as it were, at & glance. There is, of course, a fad for this type of work today, and the simplicity of it is undoubtedly commendable. But it is an obvious medium, not suitable for all uses, perhaps not half the uses to which it is put at this time. For the in- terpretation of derricks, of high buildings, of modern machinery, the woodblock print is ad- mirable. When used, as it so frequently is, for illustrative purposes, it outweighs the type page. All media have their own prerogatives, their limitations as well as their potentialities. overworked, even by those who, as in this in- stance, Mr. Witherstine, use it well. HARLES BITTINGER has lately been elected president of the Arts Club of Washington, with Willlam I. Deming as vice president, Louis Lofton Moneyway, secretary; Harold Allen, recording secretary, and Albert Mr. Bittinger is well known by his paintings and his scientific work in color. He comes of city in 1879, he studied dents’ League of New York, des Beaux Arts in vears he made his home in Duxbury, to this delightful New PE is certainly to be congratulated upon its new president, ULABEE DIX is painting a miniature of Miss Vera Bloom, daughter of Representa- tive Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the committee in charge of the Bicentennial celebra- at the Corcoran School of Art. own inclinations, he produces work in character. One of the works hibition is entitled “Christ” P. Luis Mora were elected to fill vacancies on the Academy Council. Five painters, two sculptors and an etcher were elected acad- Q. W 127. Sea eagle. 129. Discharge. 132. Southern con- emicians at the same time. Among these were Spencer Nicols, Hobart Nichols’ brother, and another erstwhile Washingtonian, John Taylor Arms, etcher. Hobart Nichols has made an enviable reputa- tion for himself as a landscape painter, espee cially perhaps as a painter of Winter scenes. He is not one, however, who has produced and held to a formula. His work is varied and typi- cally strong. Spencer Nichols, (who, by the way, not very long ago suffered the loss of many of his works through a disastrous fire’ in his studio) has shown more interest in deco- even landscape more League in this city, and took an active part in the exhibitions held by both the Society of Washington Artists and the Washington Water Color Club. They were from youth exceptiome ally talented, and their careers have besm & steady progression toward a fixed goal z 3 ?L g : B E i exhibitions of works of art in building, but also in its major branc! widening the 5 $ gfssd T3] it ¥ ES = Of special interest at the present the architectural drawings by students department of architecture of the Cathol versity, a collection of which was placed on view in the Central Building, Ninth and K streets, May 8 to continue to the 31st. These include preliminary projects for a * Beach Club,” by E. I. Pairo, and “A National School of Fine Arts,” by R. A. Weppner, of whom won recognition as finalists in the & a? ¥