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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 21, 1938 Calendar of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven- teenth street and New York avenue. Permanent collection. Special ezhibi- tion of etchings by John Sloan, May 9 to 31. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenil and B (Constitution avenue) streets northwest. Permanent collection. SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, DIVISION OF GRAPHIC ARTS, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Drypoints by Cadwallader Washburn. April 24 (0 May 21. FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth ana B streets southwest. Permanent collec- tion. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, print divi- sion, First street between East Capitol and B streets southeast. Drawings tn pen and ink and wash, by William T. Smedley, recent acquisitions. ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON 2017 I street. Plans and measured drawings of the Arts Club Building; plans for Arts club garden; studies for the devel- opment of Washington. May 14 to 28. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 Twenty-first street. Open Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. TEXTPILE MUSEUM OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 2330 S street morth- _west. Rugs, tapestries and other tex- “tiles of the Near and Far East. Opecn Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 2 to 5 o'clock. Admission by card obtain- able at the office of G. H. Myers, 730 ' Fifteenth street morthwest. ART LEAGUE OF WASHINGTON, 2111 Bancroft place northwest. Portraits in pastel by Edith McCartney, sculpture by Kathleen Wheeler. Work by pupils of th> Yurd School of Art Application for Children. To June 1. HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GAL- LERY. Ezhibition of water colors and textile designs by Lois M. Jones. PUBLIC LIBRARY, Central Building, Ninth and K streets. Architectural drawings by students of the depart- ment of .Architecture, Catholic Univer- gity. May 8 fo 31. PUBLIC LIBRARY, Mount Pleasant Branch, Sixteenth and Lamont streeis northwest. Photographs of Shenandoah National Park by members of the Po- tomac Appalachian Trails Club. May 13 to 27. PUBLIC LIBRARY, Northeastern Branch, Seventh street and Maryland avenue northeast. Portraits of American In- dians by Catherine C. Critcher. May 8 to 31. PUBLIC LIBRARY, Southeastern Branch, Seventh and D streets southeast. Oil paintings by Benson B. Moore. May 8 to 31. PUBLIC LIBRARY, Takoma Park Branch, Fifth and Cedar streets mnorthwest. Paintings by Washington artists; works by members of the Art League of Wash- ington. May 8 to 31. NATIONAL SCHOOL OF FINE AND AP- PLIED ART, 1747 Rhode Island ave- nue. Exhibition of students’ work, May 26 to 29. DUMBARTON HOUSE, 2715 Q street, headquarters of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Museum - of the Early Federal Period. Sunday, 2 to 5 pm.; week days, 10 am. to 5 p.m. TEN O'CLOCK CLUB, 1603 K street. Paintings by Murii. May 22 to June 3. Photographs of Greece by Dr. Arnold Genthe. May 22 to June 4. RS. GEORGE OAKLEY TOTTEN (Vicken von Post) is best known for her work in sculpture, in which field she has won enviable rep;;t.auon. but she is also an accomplished painter, and to work in this medium she has of late been giv- ing chief attenticn. Mrs. Totten’s sculpture has for the most part set forth, and charmingly, fig- ures §n Swedish folk-lore and American nursery rhym@ heroes. It has been both imaginative and iBustrative, and these same qualities find expreagion in her paintings. In her large living room is hung at present & paintipg which she has lately produced, “Sun- set Over a City.” The city apparently is seen from a height, with dark roofs strongly massed. ‘The sunse: glows from beneath dark clouds, the effect is cramatic, and against the dark sky * is the figure of an angel, while in {ae clouds are suggestions of other heavenly hosts. This picture is a panel with a rounded top Yke an arched window or doorway. Mrs. Tott¢a has\ painted another panel in this same shape, “The Annunciation,” in which the Virgin, essenfially Scandinavian in type, golden haired, slight of form, is seen kneeling on a rock, with the sea and rocky promontories as a background. The left half of the canvas is occupied by the Aagel - of the Annunciation. The composition is ad- - mirably balanced, very unusual, and at the same time appealing. Quite different and yet in the same imagina- tive strain, are a series of paintings the shemes of which are taken from the Apocalypse wnd the teachings of Swedenborg. One is of the “Last Judgment.” Another, “The Angel of the Last Day”; a third, “The Way of Wisdom." All are thoughtful and thought-provoking, illustrative and at the same time decorative. AD I Al AND LEILA MECHLIN New Paintings by Mrs. Totten—Bahai Temple for Lake Michigan’s Shore Being Constructed at Rosslyn, Va. — Other Notes. = Bahai Temple, which is being constructed at Rosslyn, Va., by the John J. Early Studio and will be placed on Lake Michigan near Chicago. Mrs. Totten has also been making in char- coal or crayon quite 2 number of portraits of children—one of her own little son, large-eyed and sensitive of feature, very characterful. She plans to have an exhibition of her paintings here and in New York next season to lend va- riety and perhaps also demonstrate her versa- tility, a few of her sculptures will be included. It will make a most delightful showing. N the Michigan Lake Shore near Chicago is being erected, not as a part of the great Century of Progress Exposition but for all time, a building dedicated to worship, unique in de- sign and purpose—the Bahai Temple, designed by a French architect now deceased, Louis Bourgecis. It is called a “Temple cof Light” and is so constructed that the light from within will always be seen from without. It is nine-sided, two stories in height, surmounted by a great ing first and gradually brought down to the first story. It is the dome that is being cast at the present time and a large part of it is already finished. In the building itself and in this ornamental concrete for the dome there is a vast amount of symbolism, but to the average onlooker it will be the beauty of the work rather than the symbolism that appeals. The whole surface of this great dome will be covered, when completed, by open-work designs in concrete having the appearance of stone in a lace-like pattern, through the openings of which will shine forth the interior light. This casting is being done with great skill in huge sections which have first been modeled, then cast in plaster, then recast in cement. The latter is a mixture of broken white quartz and white sand, the quartz giving a most interesting rough texture, and one which sparkles just enough to have life. The lace-like pattern has the appearance of repeated folds of rib- bon, on a scale suitable for rendition in stone One of the Charles R. Knight paintings of Florida. dome with clere-story windows. As this build- ing ascends gradually from the base the dome becomes a part of the structure, as though the whole were but an elongation of a single theme. In style it has no relation to the past, no pro- totype. It is not Roman or Moorish; it does not savor of the Far East or of the West; it is modern and yet closely linked to the past. The structural work is of steel, the “cloth- ing” for which an ornamental concrete cast in elaborate and exquisite designs, is being pro- duced here in the studio of John J. Earley at Rosslyn, Va. Contrary to custom, this concrete exterior is being placed at the top of the build- or the substitute for stone. This particular ce- ment offers, without doubt, exceptional pos- sibilities as a building material in conjunction with steel structure. That the work for so notable a building as this should be produced here in our midst is not only interesting, but gratifying. The en- gineer of this building—and such buildings are to a great extent engineering feats—is Mr. McDaniel. URII, textile designer and consultani in color, is to show a collection of 31 of her abstract decorstions at the Ten, Q'Clock \ D) A Club, 1603 K street. These markable paintings will be seem for time by club members and their friends Ernest Dawson’s piano recital at the club afternoon. The exhibition ‘will be opened formally by a private reception tomorrow and will be free to the public for two weeks foi- lowing. 3 The artist herself, we are told, is the de- signer of the vivid and harmonious costumes in “Chu Chin Chow” and “Mecca,” contributing in no small measure to their success. In ad- dition to her work as a textile designer, she is a color consultant for architects, decorators and large advertisers such as the Biltmore Ho- tel. In private life she is the wife of Carl Manahan, the artist. The paintings to be shown in the Ten O’Clock Club exhibition are small panels in tempera, very brilliant in color, set off by broad black mats and narrow black frames. They are abstract interpretations of “sub-conscious emotions.” Quite & number have the appearance of flowers. They do not ex- plain themseives, but may be interpreted as the observer sees fit. They have decorative quality and are so out of the ordinary that they are bound to allure. Others have ventured into the same field, but none, perhaps, with mo daring or less restraint than this artist. URING the past Winter a very interesting collection of photographs made in Greece by Charles Hzrris Whitaker was shown here in the Public Library, attracting much favor- able attention. Now a second group of photo- graphs of Grzece will be placed on view. This second showing will be under the patronage of the Minister of Greece, H. E. Charalambos Simopoulos, and is the work of the internation- ally famous photographer, Dr. Arnold Genthe. ‘The place will be the Ten O'Clock Club, and the opening, at which the Minister and Dr. Genthe will be present, will take place tomor- row afternoon. Dr. Genthe is especially well known as a portrait photcgrapher. Among his distinguished sitters are Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Paderewski and others. His photographs have been used as book illustrations for “The Book of the Dance,” by Is:dora Duncan; “Old Chinatown,” “Old San Francisco,” “Old New Orleans,” “The Yellow Jacket,” by George B. Hazelton and Benrimo, and “The Sanctuary,” by Percy Mackaye. He is a scholar, linguist, writer and collector of Japanese prints. Born in Berlin: and educated in the Wilhelm Gymnasium, the University of Berlin, the Sorbonne and the University of Jena, he is a doctor of philosophy ar®has specialized in the study of classical philology, archeology and philosophy. He took up photography as a hobby and it ran away with him, so that since 1898 he has given it the greater part of his time. . He came to the United States in 1895, lived in San Francisco until 1911 and since then has lived in New v~ He is now a naturalized citizen. OIS M. JONES, wn.irucior in design in the art department at Howard University, is holding an exhibition of her work in the How-, ard University Gallery of Art. ‘This exhibitio consists of water colors, oil paintings, drawings in black' and white, and textile designs, and will continue through May 28. ‘This artist is a graduate of the School of the Museumy of Fine Arts, Boston, where for four years she held a scholarship. She is a gradu- ate also of the Designers’ Art School of Boston and has attended Harvard Summer School and the Massachusetts Normal Art School. While at the Designers’ Art School she won the first prize offered by the Shepherd stores of Boston and the American Institute for Costume De- signing for the best original design for a dress made of rayop. For a time she assisted Grace Ripley at the Repertory Theater of Boston as a costume designer, and she has done free lance textile designing for Titus Blatter, Schumacher and F. A. Foster of New York. She has also, in recent years, done cover designs for “The Crisis,” “Opportunity,” and the Associated Ne- gro Publishers of Washington. She has exhib- ited in the Harmon Foundation exhibitions for the past three years, as well as in Greensboro, N. C, at the Virginia State College, the New Bedford Public Library and locally. ‘This is her third vear of teaching at How- ard Universit-. 'HE American Federation of Arts will hold its twenty-fourth annual convention in Chi- cago this year. and in order to profit by the Century of Progress Exposition the dates have been set three weeks later than usual. The convention will take place Jyne 8, 9 and 10, the sessions being held in the Goodman Theater of the Art Institute of Chicago, .in Continued om Thirteenth Page THE CORCORAN SCHOOL OF ART Tuition FREE Annual Entrance Fee, $25.00 THE ABBOTT SCHOOL OF FINE & COMMERCIAL ART LANDSCAPE Summer Classes 1624 H St. N.W. Nat. 8054 Y FelixMahony National Art School 1747 R. L. Ave. NAT. 2656 ; Exhibition May 26 te 29, incl. .-