Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1936, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1936. ~WASHINGTON ART SEASON OPENS WITH FINE EXHIBITS “Stormy Weather,” a drypoint by Yngve E. Soderberg. Gift of the Chicago Society of Etchers, on exhibition at the Smithsonian Building. INSPIRED BY SUMMER VISITS Notable Work at Corcoran—Prints at Smithsonian Take High Rank, While Reproductions Will Be Shown * at Studio House. < By Leila Mechlin. HE Pan-American Union has re- cently lent to the Corcoran Gallery of Art for temporary | exhibition a painting “Orgullo de 1a Raza” (“Pride of the Race”) by | Jose Yepez Arteaga, an Ecuadorian artist. This canvas depicts a woman of Ecuador seated with her right arm | around a vase of native ware and her | left hand resting on its rim. The up- per part of her body is nude—the lower part draped, on her head a scarf is bound. She wears earrings and neck- | lace of ancient design and workman- ship. Dark haired and with reddish brown skin, this woman evidences racial characteristics which hark back to prehistoric days. Her features are strong and well chiseled, her bearing that of one possessing pride of person and race. Artistically the work is well | constructed, interesting in color and | strongly modeled. Jose Yepez Arteaga was born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1898, and studied In his native city. In 1916 he began exhibiting in Ecuadorian expositions. In 1924 he held his first one-man ex- hibition, the success of which was re- peated by similar exhibitions in 1926 | and 1933. He has received numerous awards, among which were gold medals for his paintings of the interiors of Ecuadorian Colonial churches and for | = portrait of his daughter. His works | have found permanent placement in | the Municipal Palace at Quito and in the Gran Circulo Militar, and have also found their way into private col- lections in this country and in Eu- rope. Fine Prints to Be Seen In Smithsonian. NOTABLE exhibition of prints— etchings, dry points and acqua- tints—by contemporary American artists opens tomorrow in the Smith- sonian Building, under the auspices of the Division of Graphic Arts of the National Museum. This showing con- sists of a selection from a collection of 187 prints recently given to the Na- tional Museum by the Chicago Society of Etchers, through its able and tireless secretary, Mrs. Bertha Jaques, who has probably done more to promote ap- preciation of the graphic arts through her encouragement of artists, and ef- forts in their behalf, than any other one person. For the most part, these presenta- tions were either prize winners in the Chicago Society of Etchers’ annual exhibitions, held in the Art Institute of Chicago, or diploma prints given by the artists upon election to mem- bership. They are all, therefore, meritorious—above the average. Some are exceptionally fine. Great diversity in style and technical handling is shown. The arrangement is to be alpha- betical, according to the surnames of artists. Thus, in the first case, the visitor will find James E. Allen's “Sky Man,” an etching essentially of our time, showing a laborer swinging on the hook of a derrick in mid-air, above | | Bulletin of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART —Permanent collection of American paintings and bronzes; the Clark collection of European art; Barye bronzes, prints and drawings. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM—Permanent collec- tions, Evans, Gellatly, Ralph Cross Johnson, Harriet Lane Johnson and Herbert Ward Af- rican sculptures. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, DIVISION OF GRAPHIC ARTS—Etchings, dry points, aquatints, etc., by contemporary American print makers, recent- ly given by the Chicago Etch- ers’ Society. FREER GALLERV OF ART— Permanent collections Whistler paintings, etchings. drawings and the Peacock Room; Orien- tal paintings, bronzes, pottery, miniatures, etc. STUDIO HOUSE—Special ex- hibition of reproductions in oolor of paintings by old mas- ters and modern artists. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— Permanent collection rugs, tap- estries and other textiles of the Near and Far East. Open Mon- days and Wednesdays and Fri- days, 2 to 5 p.m. Admission by card obtainable at office of George Hewitt Myers, 730 Fif- teenth street. THE ARTS CLUB OF WASH- INGTON—Exhibition of paint- ings by Prederick J. Mulhaupt and of etchings by Samuel Chamberlain. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, DI- VISION OF FINE ARTS—Ex- hibition of recent accessions; Pennell lithographs; drawings ‘s skyscraper in process of construc- | titled “Crossed Tralls” and shows a | tion; an engraving by Stanley Ander- | man on mule back in a Western valley, son entitled “Shelter,” an aquatint | with background of towering moun- of “Altheas,” by Katherine Fullertotains, and, in the middle distance, Biery, and a dry point of Western |other riders on the crossed trail—a | scenery, “Under the Rim,” by Walter | big subject very brilliantly interpreted | | mirably holds its own in this collec- E. Bohl, as well as others. Passing from A's and B's to C's and D's and so on down the alphabet, one will find much to catch and hold the | attention. Extremely interesting and | out of the ordinary will be found two | monuments of the great past which | he has rendered with especial under- | aquatints by Lyman Byxbe, illustrat- ing the old ing that “Man works from sun to sun,” but “Woman's work | been making etchings of present-day | | New York, and it is by one of these | is never done.” These both are essentially the American scene and savor of the soil—farm life—but in their handling | is a dominant quality of beauty. Charles M. Capps of Kansas, who | first made a name for himself through | his block prints, is represented in this collection by an engaging aquatint | entitled “Harvest Moon,” in which & | very mundane vista, embracing a group of oil tanks, is set forth with real loveliness through the artist's in- | terpretive skill and sensitive vision. | There are i. this group very in- | teresting figure subjects, such as “Advice”—a group of three figures rendered in line, by J. C. Friedenberg: | “Sons of Peter"—fishermen on wharf, very directly and significantly etched by Gordon Grant; “Riviera Rag Picker,” by Joseph Margulies, and “Sweet Adeline.” a group of song- sters, by N. P. Sternberg. and with exceptional delicacy of touch. To Ernest David Roth it has been | to turn for etchings of | customary architectural themes in Europe— standing. Of late, however, Roth has ~—& picture of “Queensboro Bridge '— that he is here represented. None commanded his medium more com- | pletely than he, or has keener percep- tion of beauty. Variety is lent this group by the inclusion ‘of such works as Mastro- Valerio's mezzotint of “Sea Shells,” Margaret Ann Gaug's decorative etch- ing of a ‘Submarine Interlude” and a colored aquatint by Elizabeth Orton- Jones of a group of children entitled “Our Baby.” ‘The work of two foreigners is in- cluded in this otherwise all-American showing. They are Fabio Mauroner of Italy, a great connoisseur as well as & most skillful etcher, and Hans Luthman, of German birth and na- tionality. The latter is represented by a soft ground etching of a Chinese pagoda in Peking, which recalls the | “Orgullo de la Raza” (Prido American Union t . of the Race), by Jose Lepez Arteaga of Ecuador, Lent by the Pan- the Corcoran Gallery of Art. emphasize contrasting treatment of landscapes and portraits. “This exhibition,” the announce- ment reads,” is being held to mark | the expansion of our department of | color reproductions, to which we have added not only a great variety of |small prints but a comprehensive | the old masters.” These were selected | by Mr. Watkins as of special value to | the student. Studio House also announces an ex- | hibition, October 25 to November 7 of new prints by the American Artists’ Group—etchings, woodcuts and lithographs—at extremely modest Y | fact that the artist was interned in|prices. These works, by 49 contem- | Robert Woods Bliss. Three sales were C. Allen Sherwin's sensitively ren- | the Orent during the great war and | porary print-makers, will be issued in | made to out-of-town visitors. group of large prints of paintings by | ) }The jury of selection will econsist of last year—Afirst in the Autumn exhibi- the director of the Phillips Memorial | tion in the Phillips Memorial Gallery, | Gallery and members of his staff. | then in exhibitions set forth in the | A similar exhibition was, it will be | Corcoran Gallery, under the auspices | recalled, held under these auspices of the Society of Washington Artists | | 1ast Autumn, and it is because of the | and the Washington Water Color Club, | | Jater in the National Gallery of Art, sponsored by the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and, finally, in the independent exhibition staged in nine department stores. In all, upward of | 2,000 works were shown, and less than & hundred sales made. | Exhibitions Scheduled by the Corcoran Gallery of Art. T}m Corcoran Gallery of Art will hoid its fourteenth biennial exhi- of success of this that the approaching | show is planned. According to a state- ment by Miss Adele Smith, exhibition | manager, just issued by Studio House, | the results, both in attendance and | sales, of the first exhibition greatly | exceeded expectation. Twenty-five | pictures were sold at a total value of [$1709. The principal purchasers, among Washington collectors, were | Duncan Phillips, Olin Dows and Mrs. | bition contemporary American “Man’s Work Is From Sun to Sun” ... but “Woman’s Work Is Never Done,” a pair of aquatints by Lyman Byzbe. Gift of the Chicago Society of Etchers, on ezhibition at the Smithsonian Building. “Sky Man,” a drypoint by J ames A. Allen of New York. Gift of the Chicago Society of Etchers, jon exhibition at the Smithsonian Building. | also designed one of our half doliars | and our dime for the United States Government. He has produced much ‘ sculpture of manumental character for | publie buildings in other parts of the country. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1870, he was brought to this coun- {try as a lad, 10 years of age. He studied first at Cooper Union, then at the Arts Students’ League in New York, and finally under Saint Gau- dens and Philip Martiny. He served also as assistant to Niehaus, Warner and French. In other words, he has had excellent training and discipline. and there is reason 1o believe that to the development of his art he never ]bqrudged arduous effort. His achievement has not gone un- rewarded. Mr. Weinman holds mem- bership in the leading professional organizations—such as the National | Sculpture Society. the National Acad- emy of Design and the American Acad- emy of Arts and Letters. He has been | honored by very important commis- | sions, and has received at the hands | of his colleagues the highest awards From 1929 to 1933 he served as the | sculptor member of our National Com- mission of Pine Arts, which service |18 & free gift. no member of this body | | recetving pey. dered dry point of the late Dr. Walter Hough has been given place, and ad- tion, in company with such interest- ing examples of portraiture as An- tonin Sterba’s self-portrait, “Man Sketching,” and E. Modrokowska's portrait of “Charles White, Plate Printer,” at his press. Margaret Ryer- son’s “Jackie”—a portrait of a very small boy—comes also in this class, and will be found very significant. ERE is a large group of prints made at the time of and set- ting forth various aspects of the Cen- tury of Progress Exposition, lately held in Chicago. Among these are “The Avenue of Flags,” by Anne An- derson; “Lights of Progress,” by Arthur W. Hall; “Memories of the Fair,” by E. T. Hurley; “Science Building,” by Hubert Morley; “Arc- turus Lights the Fair,” by Charles Morgan; “Chicago Fair from the Sky Ride,” by Rudolph Nedved, and “Fed- eral Buildings and Lagoon Night,” by Louis C. Rosenberg. These are in different media and very well done, but primarily interesting as sou- venirs of the spectacular features of & great exposition. It was a great spectacle, undoubtedly, but none of these printmakers seem to have in- terpreted it in terms of the universal or even as & symbol of our time. On the other hand, Rosenberg’s second contribution—a littie dry point of “Southport, Connecticut,” is & gem, & work which will be found exhaust- less in pleasureable quality—it has so much to say—so much left unsaid— by American illustrators. PUBLIC LIBRARY, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—Main build- ing, exhibition of water colors by Kenneth Stubbs; Mount Pleasant branch, exhibition of paintings by members of the VERSITY—Exhibition of lith- ographs by Rockwell Kent, lent by the College Art Society. is s0 simple and yet artistically so near perfection. John W. Winkler's Keeler, C. Jac Young, ¥ngve 5. Sod- erberg, Rol Partriige and Dwight Stuffes. Kappel's contribution is en- took up etching at that time to relieve the tedium of captivity. ‘This exhibition will be on view to November 1. The Phillips Memorial and Studio House Exhibitions, TH‘! Phillips Memorial Gallery, which has been closed as usual during the Summer months, will not reopen for another week or 10 days, but the first of a series of exhibitions, to continue throughout the season, is scheduled by Studio House from October 5 to 25. This will eonsist of colog. reproductions of paintings by old and modern masters, selected to “ bor 3 Eteners, on esnioition & Manhaitan,” by Ernest David at the Smithsonian Build: unlimited editions and sold, unsigned, at $2.75 each. This is a further effort to popularize art and put it within the reach of the least favored classes. Again the Phillips Memorial Gallery is co-operating with Studio House in holding an exhibition of paintings, prints and sculpture by artists of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The dates set are approxi- mately November 21 to December 21. Invitations are being sent at this time to artists, and entry cards must be re- turned on or before October 16. The Pprospectus is being sent only to an in- vited list of 150, but the display will not be limited to this number and | others requested to make application. ing. To make this exhibition an annual | paintings next Spring, announcements affair of increasing importance and to | of which will soon be issued. This will, develop & substantial clientele for the |in a measure, shorten the season of ‘The two bronze statues now on view !in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, as feather to the Exhibition Committee's already much-decorated eap. Sketch Club Resumes Meetings. HE Arts Club's sketch class, club, will resume meetings on Monday evening, October 5, under the leadership, as before, of Miss Clara R. Saunders. This group meets weekly in a basement room fitted up for the purpose, and these meetings have proved a very popular feature of club life. Years ago a similar club used to meet regularly, one evening a week, in Miss Perrie’'s studio in the old Art Students’ League Building, 808 Seven- teenth street, which, by the way, has been remodeled and rejuvenated under new ownership during the past Sum- mer. It was in this building that Saint Gaudens at one time had a temporary studio. Bust of Lord Kelvin To Be Presented. T A lunch meeung of the Wash- ington branch of the English Speaking Union, to be held at the Willard Hotel on October 8, a bust of Lord Kelvin by Herbert Hampton, British sculptor, is 1o be presented to the Smithsonian Institution. The presentation will be made by Mr. Mal- | let, counselor of the British Embassy. | Herbert Hampton was born in 1862 | and first studied in the Cardiff School |of Art. From there he went to the | Slade School in London and to Ju- |lian’s and Carlorossi’s in Paris. Care | diff has his colossal statue of Lord Aberdare. For Lord Plymouth he exe« cuted a fountain group in marble. He has done statues and memorials of Queen Victoria, King George, Queen Mary, King Edward VII, which have been erected in various parts of the empire. He has made portrait busts of numerous celebrities, including Lord Roberts and Sir Henry Irving. His bust of Lord Kelvin is classed by crite ical writers as among his best works. Catharine C. Critcher Reopens Studio and School. GRADUALLY the Washington artists are returning from Summer travel and reopening their studios. Miss Catharine C. Critcher was for over two months in Mexico, and has come back with great enthusiasm for the country and the picturesqueness of the people. The majority of the painters who go to Taxco paint land- | scape and Miss Critcher found it difficult to obtain models there. But, despite this difficulty, she has brought back with her some large canvases showing several figures each—and, she says, more than enough ideas to last her all Winter. New Class in Graphic Arts. 8 HEAD of the Critcher School of Fine and Applied Arts Miss Critcher announces & new graphic arts class to be inaugurated this Fall under the instructorship of Sheffield Kagy, who, for the past few years, has been teaching in Cleveland in Florida. Mr. Kagy has exhibited widely, and some of his prints have | been chosen for pubiication by the | Print-of-the-Month Club in its limited or distinguished work of the region, the co-operation of the artists in full measure is essential. Artists are re- quested to send in their latest and best, and no work produced over five years ago will be eligible. The creation of a discriminating and appreciative public for contem- ! special exhibitions and preclude em- | phasis on such shows. But assignment | has already been made of the gallery of special exhibitions to the Soclety of Washington Artists and the Wash- | ington Water Color Club for the | months of December and January, re- spectively—and arrangements have | part of the gallery’s continuous but | editions. His class or classes will meet changing exhibition of works by con- | in the late afterncon and evening. temporary sculptors, are essentially | The Critcher Art School is also start- decorative, and at the same time evi- | ing this Fall evening classes in the so- dence the possibility of adapting alle- | called commercial art. |gory to such ends. Well modeled, | 2 | graceful and most pleasing to look | Edward Bruce Serves on upon, they suggest a spiritual rela- | Carnegie International Jury. tionship between nature and man and | fDWARD BRUCE, organizer of the porary works of art is a beneficent | been made for a continuous use of the undertaking, but judging from the ex- | cases in the atrium and the walls of perience of the past season, the out- | the lower southeast gallery for small recall those moments of pure ecstasy Public Works of Art project, and ties of demand that it would seem al- most impossible. Local artisis had extraordinary opportunities of display Roth. Gift of the Chicago Society of put so vastly exceeds the potentiali- | one-man shows. Two such are sched- | of this city. Both will open about the | 10th, and continue for-a fortnight or | more. Mr. Cikovsky was born in Poland in 1894 and studied abroad. He is both a painter and lithographer and is represented in the permanent collec- tions of some of the leading art museums. Miss Hoyt needs no intro- duction to Washington art lovers for l‘h' has made interesting contribution | to local exhibits for some years. Hegp coming exhibition will consist of water colors made in Spain and France dur- ing her recent sojourn in these coun- tries. .| Bronzes by Adolph Weinman. ’I'WO bronze figures by Adolph Weinman have lately been re- ceived as temporary loans from the ertist and placed on exhibition in the upper atrium. These are “Rising Sun” and “Descending Night,” duplicates of which are to be found in the Houston Museum, Houston, Tex. The Metro- politan Museum of Art, New York, sometime ago acquired “The Rising Sun” and the Kansas City Art Museum has purchased “Descending Night.” Mr. Weinman, it should be remem- bered, designed sll the sculpture for the Post Office Building in this city as well the monumental frieze for the Supremz Court room, United States Supreme Court, and one of the pedi- ments for the ‘Archives Building. He uled for this month. They are draw- | ings by Nicolal Cikovsky of New York | | and water colors by Miss Edith Hoyt | | which man experiences in connection | now secretary of the Advisory Com- | with the rising and setting of the sun. | mittee on Fine Arts to the Procure= Mr. Weinman has recently received | ment Division of the Treasury De- a commission for a memorial to be | Partment, who for some years now erected here in Rock Creek Ceme- | has made his home in this city, was tery in which, it will be recalled, Saint | & member of the jury of award for | Gaudens’ masterpiece, the Adams Me- | the Carnegie Institute's thirty-fourth morial, stands. \lmernltloml exhibition, which opens | ‘m Pittsburgh on October 15. This | Mulhaupt and Chamberlain to |Was s small jury, comprising only Be Seen at the Arts Club three others, Guy Pene du Pois, Amer- 1LAST-MI.NUTE changes were made, ican: Pierre Roy of Paris and Alfred of necessity, in the exhihmom:xmd&‘"s::"""g:fi*:. l‘;’;fig’;r“fi | Homer scheduled to open in the Arts Club | 2 | Pine Arts of the Carnegie Institute. ENDOCIONS afterioun. . ONIE, 10 (e | The prizes awarded are of exceptional | value and importance. On account necessity of appraisal of estate, the exhibition of water colors by the late of il health Mr. Bruce spent the past | Winter at Key West and the Summer Omeml;:lirce I!nnuxwu recalled, and | an exhibition of paintings by Fred- erick J. Mulhaupt of Gloucester, Mass., | 3¢ Blue Ridge Summit, but he has substituted. The Ennis exhibition wil, | ®7 1o means glven up e e it is hoped, come later. Mr. Mulhaupt |15 & member of various well-known | 22andoned his painting | professional organizations, has received | numerous awards and is represented | in collections both private and public. This is his first one-man exhibition | in Washington. His paintings will | occupy the main gallery. In the reception room adjoining will be shown, as previously an- nounced, & collection of etchings by Samuel Chamberlain, one of our fore- most American etchers and author of & number of books, among which may be mentioned “Sketches of Northern Spanish Architecture,” “Domestic Ar- chitecture in Rural France,” “Tudor Homes in England” and “Through France with & Sketch Book.” To have secured a representative collection of Mr. Chamberlain’s etchings for show- ing in the Arts Club should add o [ t Felix Mahoney Director