Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1933, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, CORCORAN EXHIITS HOLMES PAINTINGS Individual Owners Lend Many Pieces by Washington Artist. BY LEILA MECHLIN. A memorial exhibition of paintings and drawings by the late Willlam H.| Holmes, for many years director of the National Gallery of Art and president | of the Washington Water Color Club, ned todAy in the Corcoran Gallery Je continue through Sunday, July 2. About one hundred works, ofl paint- ings, water colors and drawings mostly lent by individual owners, have been selected as especially mprumuuve‘ from among many more, generously offered, and are set forth, to excellent effect, in the large gallery devoted to special exhibitions, filling it completely. Mr. Holmes began his artistic career as a scientific illustrator and he attained exceptional distinction both as a scien- tist and an artist, but his painting was invariably without scientific limitations. To beauty in all of its manifestations, but especially in nature, he was keenly sensitive, and by it deeply moved. It was this joy and emotion which gave him the urge to paint and that he endeavored, usually with great success, to interpret. Chiefly Self-Taught. He was to a great extent self-taught, studying only a very brief time under masters, and his extremely competent | technique was the result of self-dis- covery adapted to sult his needs. By | many he would be called academic, but | in point of fact he was a forerunner | of the new school, one who preferred to blaze new trails rather than follow old ones. While the majority of Amer- jcan water colorists were painting in the Dutch manner, using heavy, blended colors, he was applying clear color to white paper with extreme crispness and | accuracy. But in point of view | | es, as this exhibition testifies, | of the Colorado River, to study the re- | owned and lent by fie National Gallery mains of the cliff-dweller civilization 'of Art), he introduced figures, picnic and come in close contact with the art parties, young people strolling across the vof l.he Indlm A .superb example of | fields, farmers at work, lending thereby a painting in olor in- [a touch of gayety or human interest, vcluded ln this exhibition 0( the ‘Moun- | which however, he kept subservient to tain of the Holy Cross” towering among | breadth of effect. the clouds, which he, himself, was the Showed Great Proficiency. Viittte spperent curtallment of interest nm K] cllmb threver he’ went he many of the pictures in Bl eufrent coiection ave_ sbuvenirs of scientific expeditions to strange and foreign lands. Painted Nearby Scenes. And yet, as the visitor to this exhibi- tion will quickly note, Mr. Holmes did | not have to go far afleld to find sub- jects. For some years he had & coun- iry home near Rockville and many of his best works are transcriptions of the fields and woodland adjacent thereto. None has ever transcribed a flowery | meadow beneath a Summer sky better | | than he—nor has any one more suc- | | cessfully captured and set down the aspect and spirit of gayety of a wood- land brook. In this exhibition are two entirely different aspects of a shaded woodland pool painted at difierent hours of the day and doubtless under different | | climatic_conditions—one cool and high | keyed, the other dark and rich and low | toned; As Mr. Holmes gained complete mas- tery of medium and ripened in_years, | he allowed himself greater freedom of expression and became more deeply in- | terested in the spirit of things rendered, | | rather than in the things themselves. To this later period belong what may be called his dream pictures, vivid, haunting memories freely interpreted, | s true as the truest but not to be iden- | tified by time or place, The series in oil and water color of sandstorms, | forward plunging oxen drawing heav: carts, belongs to this class and period | and are to be reckened with his best. So also are some of the flowery meadows.. Mr. Holmes lived much within him- self and was greatly preoccupied by his work but he was by no means a re- cluse and in many of his landscapes | (for instance, “The Wanderlusters,” He is thought of chiefly as a painter of landscapes but in this exhibition are a number of figure paintings and por- trait studies which evidence great pro- ficlency in handling, excellent drafts- manship and artistic perception. There also are two or more still life studies | admirably rendered, as well as a charm- | ing flower painting or two. But even those who knew Mr. Holmes and his work most intimately will be surprised to find in this exhibition 10 or a dozen | drawings of early date, faces and fig- ures, strong and boldly rendered, which possess not only much intrinsic merit but also indicate illustrative ability of | a high order on the part of the artist. William H. Holmes was born in ‘Hammn County, Ohio, in 1846 and came to this city as a young man to \fo]low an_artisfic career. An oppor- tunity offered for employment as & \sclenuflc {llustrator in the Smithsonian tion of his life’s work. With the ex- | ception of two short absences, one in | Europe, the other in Chicago, Mr. | Holmes lived for more than 60 years |in Washington, teking as time passed a leading place in scientific and artistic circles. He was.at one time president of the Cosmos Club and served several terms as president of the Society of Washington Artists. He was at one, time president of the Washington So- clety of the Fine Arts and held mem- bership in many leading scientific and literary assoclations. In 1906, in con- nection with his duties as head of the Bureau of American Ethnology and Anthropology, he became curator of the | National Gallery of Art, of which later | he was made director. Three times, by | special request, his retirement was post- | poned, and in spite of physical dis- | abilities, he continued his activities | within & year of his death, with very e | ... ANNOUNCEMENT Previously Referred to I Rambler Roof Garden | Institution, which determined the direc- | WASHIN or power. He was much honored, respected and beloved by all those with whom he came in contact. As a scien- tist he had high standing and world- | wide reputation. Through his paintings he was best known to his intimate asso- ciates and friends. It is they who are for the most part lenders to this memorial exhibition, arranged by the | Corcoran Gallery of ‘Art as a tribute to | bis gifts and aitainments as an artist. PARAGUAY ANNUUNCES ARBITRATION ACCEPTANCE | Agrees to Bubmit Gran Chaco Con- flict With Bolivia to League of Nations, By the Acsoclated Press. ASUNCION, Paraguay, June 16 —The text of the Paraguayan reply to pro- posals of a committee of three of the League of Nations Council for the set- tlement of the Gran Chaco conflict be- tween that country and Bolivia, made public last night, said: “Paraguay accepts the procedure rec- | ommended by the Council relating to the cessation of hostilities and submis- sion to authority of the League for arbitration.” | The text added that cessation of hos- tilities should take effect immediately “‘accompanied by effective security,” de- | PERPETUAL BUILDING Assets Over $30,000,000 iTON, claring that a simple armistice may be | taken advantage of by belligerents. D. 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