Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1937, Page 17

CAPITAL NATIVE T0 PAINT ECLIPSE Fastest, Most Exciting Job of Career Is Die June 8. Charles Bittinger, 3403 O street, a " Datlve Washingtonian and former President of the Arts Club, is going to do the fastest and most exciting Job of painting in his long career on June 8. On that date, on a tiny 4land in the South Seas, the interna- tionally famous artist will paint a Ppicture of the essential features of a total eclipse of the sun in the very short time of four minutes. As a member of the National Geo- graphic Society-United States Navy expedition, which will observe the * eclipse from the Phoenix Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Bit- tinger will attempt a task which has been performed successfully only a few times before. Four minutes is an extremely short time in which to paint even the essentials of a pic- ture, but the eclipse will last only that longapproximately and once it is over there will be no chance to “get the “model” to come back for another sitting. Painting a picture of an eclipse is Important for science as well as for art. Not only is an eclipse of the sun one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring spectacles known, and therefore well worth preserving on canvas, but an exact record of the ©olors of various features of an eclipse is important to scientists who study the sun. Sky to Be Painted in Advance. ‘Though Bittinger probably will paint faster and with greater concentration than ever before during the brief time of the eclipse, he actually will + not have to paint his entire picture in four minutes. He will paint four partially complete pictures in advance, one with a purple sky, another with a blue sky, another blue-green and a fourth gray. He believes the sky is certain to be one of these four colors during the eclipse. Each of the preliminary pictures also will have, in its center, the black disk of the moon already painted in, 4| inches in diameter. Around the moon in each picture Bittinger will paint a tentative representation of the corona, | the pearly halo surrounding the sun which is visible only during a total eclipse. Astronomers know in advance | that the corona this year will be roughly circular. . When the eclipse begins, Bittinger will note the color of the sky, and then choose that one of his four pre- liminary canvases which has a sky of the same color. Then on this canvas he will “finish” the painting. He will quickly correct the shape and color of the preliminary corona to conform with the actual corona, and then paint in the prominences, the great flame-like tongues of hydrogen * gas rising from the sun’s surface which are visible around the edge of the | moon during an eclipse. Recording the exact color of these prominences, usually red or pink, will be one of Bittinger’s most important tasks. Paints to Be Ready Mixed. ‘There will be no time to mix paints, of course, so the artist will have mixed in advance a whole series of paints in all the shades of red and other colors which he might conceivably need. . These will be arranged so that he can find the right ones even in the semi- darkness, a little brighter than moon- light, which will prevail during the eclipse. Bittinger will not use “color short- hand” to make notes of colors during the eclipse and then paint his picture To Paint Eclipse CHARLES BITTINGER. als and prizes for his work, and has exhibited his paintings in Paris, New York, Washington and elsewhere. Best known of other paintings of solar eclipses are those by the noted American artist, Howard Russell But- ler, who has painted the eclipses of 1918, 1923, 1925 and 1932. Color photography also will be used by the expedition to record eclipse colors. Dr. Irvine C. Gardner of the National Bureau of Standards will take natural color photographs of the eclipse with a 14-foot telescopic cam- era of his own design, and Bittinger plans to have a sailor assistant make motion pictures in color with equip- ment which he is taking to the islands. Bittinger recently left Washington for the Pacific Coast and Homolulu to join the 12 other members of the National Geographic-Navy expedition. The expedition, under the scientific leadership of Dr. Samuel A. Mitchell, will sail from Honolulu for the Phoe- nix Islands May 6. Capt. J. F. Hell- weg, superintendent of the Naval Ob- servatory, Washington, is in charge of the Navy’s participation. Rev. Paul A. McNally, 8. J, director of the Georgetown University Astronomical Observatory, is a member of the ex- pedition. SMOKER IS PLANNED | Notre Dame Club to Hear Broad- cast From Campus. Representatives Clark of Idaho and | Harrington of Iowa will be among the | members of the Notre Dame Club of ‘Washington to observe the fourteenth annual universal Notre Dame night at 9 p.m. tomorrow at a smoker in Wesley Hall, 1703 K street. Several short talks will be made before the members hear a Nation-wide broad- cast from the university campus in South Bend, Ind. CLASS ANNOUNCED |Red Cross to Give Instruction in First Aid. The District Chapter of the Ameri- can Red Cross yesterday announced the organization of a class in stand- | ard first aid, to meet at 8 o’clock on | Tuesday and Thursday nights at the | chapter house, 1730 E street. The class, which will last for five and a half weeks, will be conducted by P. C. Smith. mWITH THIS COUPON! WATCH REPAIRING THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. APRIL 18, 1937—PART ONE. 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