Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1936, Page 19

C o 5 LIMAX SEEN IN T'HE EVENING STAR, EXTEN “Lotus Pool,” by Margaretés‘ Zimme:e, on exnioiion at the Arts Club. By Leila Mechlin. Two Interesting Exhibitions At the Arts Club. | HE Arts Club of Washington is exceptionally fortunate in its exhibitions, 20 or more of which are set forth during the season. These for the most part are one-man shows, recruited not only from members but from artists in var- ious sections of the country by the capable head of the Exhibition Com- mittee, Eleanor Parke Custis, who is constantly on the alert for that which is both novel and good. Not only do these exhibitions give members of the club excellent opportunity for show- ing, but public introduction to the | work of out-of-town artists with | which otherwise there would be no eontact or acquaintance. The two | current exhibitions, which opened | last Sunday to continue to December | 18th, are good examples in point. | ‘These are of oil paintings, water colors, miniatures and sculpture by Margaret Scully Zimmele, club member, and | paintings in gouache by Gertrude Alice Kay of Alliance, Ohio. The for- | mer are hung in the gallery, the latter | in the reception and dining rooms and ‘ hall. Mrs. Zimmele's Paintings. RS. ZIMMELE and her work need ~"* no introduction to the Washington | public as she has for long been a mem- { ber of the Society of Washington Artists and exhibited here singly and | with the several professional groups. | Her paintings of typical local street | scenes, such as “The Flower Cart” and the “Arts Club Door,” before which one of the last horse-drawn | toupes is standing, are memorable. Bulletin of Exhibitions CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART —Exhibition of murals for Fed- eral buildings procured under the Treasury Department Art Projects; also oil and water color paintings, prints and seulpture. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM—Permanent collec- tions, Evans, Gellatly, Ralph Oross Johnson, Harriet Lane Johnson and Herbert Ward African sculptures. NATURAL HISTORY BUILD- ING, UNITED STATES NA- TIONAL MUSEUM—"Horizons in American Art"—An exhibi- tion of work produced under But comparatively few, it will be safe to venture, realized until the present show was set forth this artist's versa- tility or the extent of her achievement. Among the 58 oil paintings shown are figures, portrait studies, landscapes, still life, flowers, subject pictures. Her themes have been in and around Washington, but also in the vicinity of her Summer home in the Berkshire Hills, near, Great Bar- rington, Mass. Obviously she has broad sympa- thies, nice perception and no little courage. She paints what she sees with as much truth as she can dis- cover and with all the ability at her command. The “Flower Cart,” shown and illustrated previously, hangs op- posite the entrance to the gallery and gives pleasing introduction. Rivaling it in interest is her painting of the “Lotus Pool,” which has not only /| Mr. Hobbs have been shown here | size of large postage stamps, an: “Ebb Tide,” a drypoin One could go on indefinitely noting favorites until all 24 exhibits cata- logued would be named, for merit they are extremely even and in charm all are richly endowed. But ‘memion must be especially made of | the gay beach scenes at San Jean de | Luz, hung in the dining room, and of | the admirable, though varied, inter- | pretations of the towering Pyrenees and their Basque inhabitants. Fine and Varied Prints by Morris Henry Hobbs. IFTY etchings, dry points and en- | gravings by Morris Henry Hobbs | of Chicago, constitute the December | print exhibition, set forth, under the Division of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Institution building, on the south side of the Mall. Works by o t by Morris Henry Hobbs, on exhibi- tion in the division of graphic arts, Smithsonian Building. the W. P. A. Art Project. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, pleasing color but atmosphere and previously in group exhibitions, but WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936. * | “Notre Dame, Paris,” a drypoint by Morris Henry Hobbs, on T the! ezhibition in the division of graphic arts, Smithsonian Building. road Field. ! elty of this show, 18 being but the d four | being but a trifle larger. One set of | nine of these miniature prints—all dry | points—are of nudes; another zet of | | the same size and number, and in the same medium, are of miscellaneous | pictorial subjects. mostly foreign, | quite elaborate compositions, exqui- | sitely etched and very rare—both tech- nically and artically. This exhibition will continue until January 3. and, | appropriate to the season, many of these prints are very low priced. The Landscape Club Exhibits In the Georgetown Library. 'HE Landscape Club is showing a comprehensive exhibition of paint- | ings by its members in the Public Library of Georgetown at this time. | Forty-seven exhibits are listed in the | neatly printed catalogue, and approx- | imately 23 painters are represented. (Continued from Page B-1) | of season touring the West and South in his trailer. The trailer is being used commer- cially as a mobile display room, as a traveling library, as an itnerant | entertainment cruiser. In Nassau County, N. Y., the homicide squad of the county police department is transported directly to the scene of a crime in a large trailer that con- tains a table, a desk, two filiag cab- | inets, a coat locker, a radio receiver, | | a photographic cabinet, a tejephone | with a 200-foot extension, a'finger- ’pflnting outfit and a homicide kit. ‘A | | LOCAL representative of an au- tomobile concern that ha: lately | enterea the trailer fleld states that within the past month he las re- ceived orders for custom built cars to | accommodate a traveling beauy shop {and a photographic establisament, respectively. The State of Indiana uses an especially designed tmiler to | transport a dental office, equipment | and dentist along the highrads for the purpose of taking care of the teeth of children whose parents are on relief. | MECCA FOR TRA f Everybody agre streets for shopping or other purposes. | that along level | roads they could run their cars, pull- | ing trailers, at top speed with little | or no appreciable difference from the | experience when their automobile was | being driven alone. In none of the | standard models was difficulty en-| countered with keeping things in place while the trailer is in motion. | “I even leave water in the sink | sometimes.” one trailer wife told us, “and that bowl of fruit has been setting right on that table since we | left Wilmington.” ‘The greatest economy in vacation- ing by trailer is in the avoldance of hotel bills, one and all agree. All| stressed the great convenience and comfort in knowing that one need not pack and unpack suitcases after every night's stop. One gentleman in a checked shooting jacket opened the long door of his trailer to show me a full-length closet. “It holds my wifes | longest evening frocks,” he said, “and my own tux. We get into them, step into the car and go dancing. and all we have to do is to hang them up | again when we return, just as if we | were at home.” | Huntsmen and fisherman and | napolis,” by A. H. O. Rolle. : “Cattle Fair,” by Gertrude A. Kay, on e B3 T AND APPEAL OF ART EXHIBITS ACTIVE CLUBS HERE Individual Work Shown by Members of Society of Washington Artists and Others in B Thibition at the Arts Club. Almost without exception the work shown is colorful, while in style it runs from ultra-conservative to ultra- modern. Two portraits are shown by Henry Wadsworth Moore, one of Lieut. Comdr. Guy Chadwick. the other of Mrs. J. Ogle Warfield and one, a broadly painted study, by Rus- sell C. Parr; the rest are landscapes. “Snow in Early Spring,” by Minor S. Jameson, has been shown before, but is good to see again because of its inherent beauty and sincerity in rendering. There are other “old friends” which one is glad to meet, such as Tom Brown's “Winter in Wil- | Hamsburg,” “The Blue Ridge,” by J. C. Claghorn, and “Moonlight, An- in the establishment of a new Little | Gallery, where works of art of fine | quality, but moderately priced, may | be seen at all times. This gallery has been opened this week at 2040 | | 8 street by a group of the younger | workers in the arts, headed by Miss | Elizabeth R. Lewis and sponsored by | the Margaret Yard School of Art, } which is located in the same building. | No painting shown in this gallery, which, needless to say, is not a money- making scheme, will be be priced over $25. and many of the prints will be much less. In making the announce- | ment of opening and intent, the di- | rectors of this newest local art venture | state that they “do not think very “Village Church, Picardy,” a drypoint by Morris Henry Hobbs, on_ezxhibition in the division of graphic arts, Smith- sonian Building. zentially new canvas is a painting by A. J. Ted Meurer of the “George Washington Masonic Memorial, Alex- andria, Virginia.” which is exceedingly except for study, because no repro- duction can have the life. the vitality, of an original,” and that their hope | is “there may be many persons in | An es- | highly of reproductions (of paintings), | National Academy of Design. For his paintings he has received. many high awards, and by them he is represent- ed in some of the leading art mue seums. Demonstrations of this sort give laymen insight into the artist's way of working and are not only en- lightening but pleasurable. Praise from New Mezico For the Index of Design. UNIVEESAL praise—and praise only it seems—has been given the W. P. A Art Project’s “Index of American Design,” sections of which have been shown here in Washington as they were completed. Representa« tives of the Museum at Santa Fe through the bulletin, “El Palacio,” express great appreciation of the way this work has been done in the Southe west and of its great and enduring value. Quoting from this publication: “New Mexico’s Spanish-Colonial art is revealed as an authentic American | design tradition in this index. The Spanish - Colonial portfolio of 50 water-color plates preserves this are | tistic legacy for the nation in perma< nent form.” Because of the size of the State of New Mexico and its mountainous character, as well as climatic conditions, there are still vil« | lages within its boundaries difficult | to reach, wherein fine examples of 1early culture still remain unknown | and unrecorded. Miss E. Boyd, who | has had charge of this work in this | region, has “scoured New Mexico to | discover more and better examples of | this early art’—a combination of | that of the ancient civilization in Mexico on which was grafted that of Spain—much of which has been hid« den away in churches and chapels. Accurate paintings are made of these | in opaque water color, a key block is | cut in linoleum. or wood. and the prints turned over to assistant artists | for coloring. Each portfolio, of the | edition of 200. will have an introduce | tion describing the individual plates. | This section of the index includes re~ | productions of santos and bultos, | saints painted and carved by provine | cial artists for the churches, the one | painted on tablets, the other carved | in wood in the round—or “bulk”—and also painted and carved chests, eme broideries, designs for painted furnie | ture, etc,, all very worthy ot prese ervation. | Eliot O'Hara Ezxhibiting in Boston. LIOT O'HARA, of this city, is have ing an exhibition of his water this is his first one-man show in| b Washington, and it admirably wit-| It is by standardization of the pas- nesses to the variety and extent of his | senger trailer that manufacturers | accomplishment. He is by no menm“ hope to build up an industy that may rival, in time, the aulomobile | correct, but not so picturesque as | other themes by the same artist. John | U. Perkin’s “Gloucester Boat” is | pleasing and Benson Moore’s “Mary- Washington who will like to buy orig- | | inal works at prices comparable to | | those for which reproductions are | commonly sold.” ! | good composition. Her studies of | children are particularly sympathetic | —and among them, most notable, one of a little Negro child, “Velvet Eyes.” | | sportsmen generally wax enthusiastic about trailer life. By means of it they can bring their camp along with them over the trails, setting it up where colors at Doll and Richards, in Boston, at the present time, opening Noveme ber 30, and continuing to December 12. The card of invitation and an- DIVISION OF GRAPHIC ARTS—Exhibition of etchings by Morris Henry Hobbs of Chi- cago, opened November 30. “without honor in his own country.” | FREER GALLERY OF ART—| | Permanent collections Whistler | | paintings, etchings, drawings and the Peacock Room, Orien- | | tal paintings, bronzes, pottery, miniatures, ete. ART GALLERY, HOWARD UNI- VERSITY—Exhibition of water colors. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GAL- LERY—Second Annual Region- sl Sales Exhibition of works by artists of Washington, Mary- land and Virginia. STUDIO HOUSE—Exhibition of easel paintings by artists who have been commissioned to paint murals for Federal build- ings in Washington. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— Permanent collection rugs, tap- estries and other textiles of the Near and Far East. Open Mon- days, Wednesdays and Fri- days, 2 to 5 pm. Admission by card obtainable at office of George Hewitt Myers, 730 Fifteenth street. THE ARTS CLUB OF WASH- INGTON—Exhibition of ofl paintings by Margaret 8. Zim- mele and water colors by Ger- trude A. Kay. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, DI- VISION OF FINE ARTS—Ex- hibition of recent accessions; Pennell lithographs; drawings by American illustrators. ~Ex- hibition of original illustrations by Walter Appleton Clark—re- eent accessions. Pictorial pho- tographs of the Statue of Lib- erty by Jeanette Griffith. PUBLIC LIBRARY, MAIN BUILDING—Exhibition of prints by Sheffleld Kagy, Row- land Lyom, Hugh Collins and others.- MOUNT PLEASANT BRANCH— Exhibition water eolors by Susan B. Chase. GEORGETOWN BRANCH— Paintings by members of the Landscape Club. INTIMATE BOOKSHOP LITTLE GALLERY—Paintings by Ber- nice Cross. LITTLE GALLERY, 2040 8 street—Water colors and prints by local artists at moderate prices. MARGARET WITHERS SHOP— ‘The Twerity Women Painters exhibition of small framed peintings. GALLERY OF MODERN MAS- TERS—Paintings and designs by Olinska Hrdy. Of unique interest are two studies | of animals made at the Zoo—"“Llamas” and “Yaks.” Subject pictures which take the eye of the visitor and hold attention are quite numerous, but | pecial mention may be made of “Bal- loon Man,” “Old K Street Market” and “Skating on the Tidal Basin.” Mrs. Zimmele shows two water col- ors and three miniatures—one of the former a head of a horse and one of the latter a double portrait of mother and child well posed and nicely ren- | dered. The sculpture consists of five placques, small in dimensions, of por- traits in low relief. An artist does well to essay work in several media although specializsing, as in this in- stance, in one. Paintings of Paris and the Pyrenees by Gertrude Kay. WHILI Mrs. Zimmele's paintings are of our own city and country, those by Miss Kay comie from afar and take us into foreign lands. Many of them were painted in the Pyrenees, the Basque country, and not a few in Paris and its environs. They are literally portraits of place, as well as of people, souvenirs of travel, engaging and delightful. Miss Kay is an ac- complished illustrator, and her paint- ings are undoubtedly illustrative, but this is by no means a reproach. The greatest artists of all time have turned to Nature for inspiration and have produced work illustrative in charac- ter. [Everything depends upon the skill and the gift of the painter. Ger- trude Kay is obviously a talented art- ist and & brilllant technician. She draws remarkably well, and with ap- parent ease; her paintings are ex- tremely well composed; her color is fresh and delightful. What is more, her textures—a quality which many contemporary painters overlook en- tirely or disregard—are admirable. As s rule, when painting in gouche an artist depends to extent upon the tint of the paper for ef- fect, but Miss Kay, to the contrary, paints solidly, as with oils, but with, paradoxically, more intimacy and more freedom. Her landscapes, such as “Farm in the Pyrenees,” which hangs over the mantel in the reception room, are very beautiful in color and com- position, and effective, but particu- larly alluring are her paintings in which the people of the country ap- pear, such as “Cattle Fair” and “Basque Fishermen.” Her pictures of bits of the-Luxembourg Gardens and the gardens of the Tuilleries are par- ticularly delightful, but nothing could eloquently manifest the artist's ex- and sensitive re- painting, Corner—St. Jean de Lus,” inconspic- uously hung between the windows. A director, and member, of the Chi- cago Society of Etchers, he also holds membership in the Cleveland Print- makers, the North-west Printmakers, and the Toledo Tile Club. His work has won frequent awards, and this year, in the annual exhibition at Toledo, his print was singled out for honor as the outstanding contribution ~—winner of the $100 prize. Several times he has been represented in “Fine Prints of the Year” and in similar selective publications. Mr. Hobbs’ artistic training began when he was a boy, in the Art In- stitute of Chicago, but for a good many years—in point of fact up to 1926—he devoted himself to the prac- tice of architecture as a profession. Then he turned to etching as a medium of expression and found it all-absorb- ing. It-was from J. Ernest Dean of Toledo that he first learned to etch, but later he studied with Frank Fletch- er Seymour and other competent mas- ters in Etaples, France. The first plate he etched found acceptance in the Brooklyn iety of Etchers, 1927 Annual Exhibition. Of the work shown in the present exhibition, the majority is dry point, but there art two aquatints, two mez- zotints, two soft ground, eight or ten pure etchings, and two engravings, with one or two showing combination of methods. Evidently Mr. Hobbs enjoys artistic adventure and knows the tools. In the choice of subjects as well as manner, his work is varied. Because of his architectural training, one might expect from him architect- ural themes, but such are in the mi- nority; figures, boats and landscapes being given larger place. Especially interesting are his nudes, exquisitely drawn, sensitively interpreted, charm- ing in line. There is something flower- like in the subtlety of some of these. Interesting and quite different are his etching of “Granmere Belloc of Brest” and his dry point “Protrait of a Clown,” equally well rendered. Very pleasing among his boat themes are “Ebb Tide” (dry point), “Polaris and Naniwa” (etching) and “Schooner, South Manitou Island” (aquatint). Two of Mr. Hobbs’ prints in this ex- hibition are souvenirs of the Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, both giving views of the Belgian Village, one including as chief factor in the composition the Carillon Tower. 'But neither of these seems to have the “atmosphere” found, for example, in “Village Church, Picardy” or “Notre Dame, Paris,” which may merely give indication of the impossibility of transplantation, save of growing things. Some of Mr. Hobbs’ piates are unusually large, and some are very, exceptionally small, thus rune ning the full gamut of possibility. The small plates are unique and the nov- industry itself—dne that wil move hand in hand with auto production. A composite picture of the stand- | ardized trailer they would like to produce on s mass scale woild read something like this: Price, $500 to | $700. Accommodations, 2 to 4 per- | sons. Weight, 1,800 pounds. Length, {13 to 18 feet. Weight on drawbar, 200 pounds. Width, 612 feet, Height, 6 feet 2 inches. Chassis, wool braced with steel (the more expensive models are built entirely of steel). Springs, 9 leaves, semi-elliptit. Wheels, 17 inches, wire, roller bearingse Tires, 5.50 by 17 inches. Coupling, ball and socket. Parking, jack and caster. Exterior walls, masonite. Interior walls, plywood. Windows, 7 or 8. Ventilators, 1 or 2 in roof. Top, ply- wood, canvas covered, sluminim paint. Floor frame, wood, metal braced. Floor, fir wood. Floor coveting, lin- oleum. Standard equipment for this com- posite trailer probably would include double wiring for 6-volt baitery and for 110-volt outside source, beds, ice box, sink, water tank, cook sove and wiring fixtures while extra ejuipment probably would be bathing snd toilet facilities, & heating stove, baitery and container, rear bumper ind also brakes. The trend today is toward & steel chassis, electrically welded, And some such trailers do not enter the higher price range. It is difficult to think of anything one could add to contribute to one’s comfort in the space allotied, when one steps into one of thest modern personal Pullman coaches. Practically all of them have been designed, in their interior decorations, with an eye to pleasing the women, who are, deal- ers tell us as particular sbout trim and decoration in their trallers as they are in their permanent homes. Softly polished woods, sturdy tex- tures on the day beds or sofas and at the windows, linoleums on the floors, all make their appeal to the feminine eye, while the conpact stove, sink, refrigerator, full-length ¢lothes closets shelves and cupbodrds arouse the admiration of housewifely in- stincts. CfiA’fl'lNo with the wift of a pro- fessional msn stopphg for = few days st the Washingion Tourist Camp, we learn that it costs them from one-half to 1 cent & mile extra for gasoline to pull their trailer, de- upon the terrain snd if there | they will, and, even in remote regions, enjoy hotel comforts. In all sections of the country, camps have sprung up to accommodate these modern nomads. They range in type from simple parking lots where electric connections may be plugged into sockets or ‘where tanks may be replenished with water, to vacation grounds, equipped with swimming pools, restaurants, shower houses, golf links, tennis courts and other refine- ments of modern life. NATUR.ALLY, Florida boasts some of the most elaborate and com- fortable tourist camps for trailers in the world. Official meetings of the “Tin Can Tourists” and the “Auto- mobile Tourists’ Association” are held annually in designated places. This year, from February 8 to 14, the “T. C. T.” will hold annual convention in Sarasota Municipal Tourists Park, in Sarasota, Fla. Unofficial “home- comings” will be celebrated in Win- ter Garden, in Lakeview Park in Lake City, and in the Clearwater Beach Traller Park in Clearwater, Fla. But such associations today repre- sent but a small portion of the trailer population. The army has grown to include the world of politics, society, letters and exploration, and is made up of nature lovers, sportsmen or adventurers everywhere, who have found these compact homes on wheels an inexpensive, picturesque and com- fortable way to see their own country. ‘While it is possible to rent trailers today, the A. A. A. informg us that such service has not as yet been satis- factorily worked out, as the cost of rental from individual owners is al- together too high, compared with the relatively low cost of outright pur- chase. However, this shrewd agency states, the field is open to some en- terprising individual or company wishing to enter the trailer-renting business, for, if the thousands of in- quiries they are receiving with regard to the possibilities for hire are an indication, such pioneers in the in- dustry would build up & brisk trade. The three A’s are, as a matter of fact, travel, and are working up a system whereby they hope to make it possible for the occasional trailer tourist to rent his vehicle at & fair rate, just as he can ren an automobile today. “It looks from where we sit,” de- . 1land Landscape” has much to com- {mend it, as have the landscapes by | R. Bruce Horsfall, the president of {the club. Roy Clark and Rowland Lyon both tend in their work to ex- treme simplification, but their paint- | ings are well organized and invariably | impressive. More than in any previous | exhibition the influence of contem- porary tendencies is to be seen in the work set forth, not merely in the manner of rendering, but in choice of subjects and the artists’ point of view. This is perhaps almost in- evitable, inescapable, but it is to be regretted. The same thing is hap- pening elsewhere; when so many are shouting it must seem futile 10 at- tempt to get attention through gentler expression, and when the ugly is so universally exalted it must filll our minds and our thoughis. This con- fusion is bad, not only for those who create it, but for those who would stand apart, for it weakens convic- tion, and, after all, frail, faded flowers are no better than, shall we say, strong cabbages. It takes infinitely more grace and ability to interpret beauty and give it strength than to im- pressively set forth that which is ugly but forceful, and there is the crux of the present dilemma, not only of the Landscape Club, with seekers for beauty pre-eminent in its member- ship, but of all contemporary painters. The Twenty Women Painters Plan Novel Show. TH.I Twenty Women Pginters of Washington, ‘who, it will be re- membered, exhibited in the George- town Branch of the Public Library last season, announce a special exhibition of small, framed, pictures, moderately priced. and suitable as Christmas gifts, at the Margaret Withers Shop, 806 Seventeenth street, from December 7 to 20. The membership of this so- clety, which will be quite generally represented, includes the following: Gertrude G. Brown, Susan B. Chase, Helen P. Collison, Catharine C. Critcher, Eleanore Parke Custis, Ethel Foster, Elizabeth E. Graves, Lucia B, Hollerith. Lona Miller Keplinger, Ma- thilde M. Leidenring, Margaret Lent Mulford, Marguerite C. Munn, Ruth Osgood, Mary G. Riley, Grace Merrill Ruckman, Mary Porter, Clara R. Saunders, Gladys Nelson Smith, Emily Steuart and Beulah Weaver. Prac- tically all of these artists are doing and have done distinguished work, to own an example of which should be found well worth while. Here is an effort, self-organized among the ar- tists, to meet the buying public more than half way. A New and Unigque Show Place for Local Artists. SOMEWHAT similar effort on a permanent basis is to be recorded 4 | This Little Gallery will be open | daily (Sundays excepted) from 10 to | 5 o'clock. Among the works now on view, and for sale therein, are ex- gent, Janice Holland, Kenneth Stubbs, Philip Bell and Rowland Lyon, and Moore and others. Mr. Moore’s color etchings of gay foliaged birds and fowls are most delightful. | | Extremely Modern Works by | Olinska Hrdy to Be Shown. N THE Galiery of Modern Art, con- | 7 ducted by Auriel Bessemer in con- | nection with his school, at Connecti- cut avenue and Dupont Circle, an ex- hibition of paintings and designs by | Olinska Hrdy of Denver, Colo.. a for- mer pupil of Howard Giles will open | the first of next week to continue | throughout ~ December. Miss Hrdy has met with particular success in her very dynamic, but strictly con- ventionalized flower paintings, which are absolutely individual and orig- inel, but very decorative and signifi- cant. No one has gone farther in the reduction of reality to abstraction than she, or with saner and better result. Obviously one may not ad- mire all she does and yet find in it much that is admirable and. {~ 1zht- | provoking. Certainly there is - lick of discipline shown in her wor : it is intellectual as well as artistic; vio- lently new, yet of a piece with that | which is old. To say the least, as an | experimentalist she has broken new trails. She will doubtless go far. Mora, National Academician, To Give Demonstration. . F LUIS MORA, painter, etcher, il- * lustrator, will give a talk on il- lustration before the Washington So- ciety of the Fine Arts at its thirty-first annual meeting next Wednesday eve- ning in the auditorfum of the United for he draws pictures in charcoal and colored chalks before the audience as he describes methods and purposes. These he does with great skill and rapidity, on sheets of manila paper, showing how a few lines will give indication of subject and possess character and meaning. Mr. Mora gave a similar talk last year at the annual meeting of the Society of Arts Club, New York, and he is to speak on Tuesday evening at the an- nua! meeting of the State Art Society of North Carolina, in Raleigh, coming from there, here. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, the son of a Spanish sculptor who had settled there; came to this country in early youth, studied in Boston and New York and is now a member of the a ) 4 cellent water colors by Richard Sar- | prints of fine quality by Benson B.| nouncement shows a reproduction of one of his paintings made in Mexico last Winter—“The Tower of Los Rem= edios.” Three well known Boston arte ists have recently held exhibitions in that city—Frank W. Benson, draw- ings: John Whorf. water colors and Laura Combs Hills, pastels, and all have recorded good sales. When Miss Hills is not painting miniatures, she is doing flower studies in pastel which are greatly—and very properly—ade mired and coveted. The tradition was that on the morning of the open« ing of her annual exhibitions, there | was a group of eager buyers on the | sidewalk. waiting for the doors to | be unlocked, and that by noon every | exhibit bore a sold tag. This is not quite true today, but at the close of her recent show there were, it is said, only § or 6 paintings which had not been purchased. Mr. Whorf's water colors met with & like favorable and flattering recep- | tion; and Mr. Benson has never wanted | for patrons. This would seem to { indicate that the public does know what it likes and is willing to buy | when it can get it. All of these artists | are represenied in the leading art | museums; whatever they produce has beauty and significance. Mr. O’Hara’s water colors, for their merit and charm, should meet with no less | cordial reception. Waugh Gets Popular Prize In Pittsburgh Again. fIN THIE connection it is interesting to no.e that Frederick J. Waugh receive this year, for the third suc- cessive time, the “Popular Prize” in the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition. This award is voted by those who visit the exhibition, and as an expression of preference. The subject in each instance was a marine, in the painting of which Mr. Waugh has specialized in recent years. Each of these three paintings has set forth s States Chamber of Commerce. He | view of the ocean, which, by majesty calls it a “Charcoal Conversation,”| and beauty inherent in itself and made manifest by the painter, has stirred the emotions, pleasurably, of those who saw them. Waugh, who is now in his 75th year, is the son of a portrait painter, Samuel Waugh, for- merly of Philadelphia, and father of Coulton Waugh, who has made a repu- tation for himself in the field of art. Mr. Waugh is represented in the National Gallery of Art in this city | American Etchers in the National phy & subject picture illustrating the Legend of the Holy Grail and by two powerful marines. He is represented in almost all the American museums. For once public and art experts would seem to be in agreement. P e A, Scotch whisky distillers report that the season just closed was one of the best in years. -~ ~.