-- WILLIAMSBURG AND SANTA FE -«- Two Ancient American Backgrounds Appear in Washing- ton Exhibits—Color Block Prints Among Artistic Contributions to Local Galleries* By Leila Mechlin. dcrs, borrowing from the Indian folk- BULLETIN OF EXHIBITIONS. lore and tradition. EXHIBITION of paintings Corcoran of Art—Per- He and his wife (a musician) and by members of the Society of Gallery manent collections. their little daughter live in an adobe Washington Artists opened Washington Water Color Club's annual exhi- house just outside of Santa Fe. Adja- An this week in the Y. W. C. A.'s cent to the house is his studio, where bition, water colors and works in International House at 614 E street black and white. he makes and prints his blocks. He northwest, where it will remain on National gets out very small editions, printing view until April. This is the third Geographic Society- Exhibition of sculpture. "The only a few at a time—and rarely are exhibition that this society has put two Races of Mankind,” Malvina alike. Each is in fact an origi- on in these galleries and it consists by Hoffman. nal. Since the depression came upon for the most part of works shown in National us, making things more difficult than annual set Gallery of Art—Exhi- the exhibition forth in were artists in j bition of P. they before for all the Corcoran Gallery’ of Art in Janu- portraits by Bjorn exhibition of water parts of the country, Gustave Bau- ary. Egeli; pastels, colors, drawings, lithographs and mann has been making not only canvases are included :olor wood blocks Forty-three designs by Mons Breidvik and but puppets and Five are in the hall which them in hung leads! exhibition of vitreous enamels by exhibiting highly original from the to skits. This entrance the cafeteria, j Prances and Richard MacGraw. past Christmas the Bau- two are in mann the office, end the rest Smithsonian Building—Exhibi- marionettes presented two are about evenly divided between the tion of etchings by Levon West. plays, with the help of other mem- two large assembly rooms which are, Arts and Industries Building, bers of the Santa Fe colony, for It the will be remer.*)ered, toplighted. United States National Museum Ann, daughter, and their friends. 1 These rooms were built by the erst- —Exhibition of photographs of They are a happy lot, these Santa while owner of this building, Mr. j old missions of California Fe artists, and greatly gifted. It by Portrait in Mr. Hilda McGuire, for the display of works of Devereux Butcher. will be an interesting coincidence to relief of Emory Buchner, by Scudder. art, privately owned, and there are Freer Gallery of Art—Chinese no better galleries, save those in pub- paintings, Oriental art objects; lic institutions, in the city. paintings, drawings, etchings by The collection now of view is very Whistler and paintings by other pleasantly varied and admirably hung, j American artists. Two bronze For the latter, Miss Lucia Hollerith,! tigers, Chou dynasty, recently secretary of the Society for Washing- acquired. ton Artists, and Miss Clara R. Saun- j Phillips’ Memorial Gallery— • ders, her colleague, are responsible. Permanent collection of paintings Two of the prize-winning pictures are by old and modern masters. here. Robert Gates’ “Mrs. Bowman's Studio House—Exhibition of Chickens,” which received the medal ] paintings by Harold Weston. for landscape, and “Sunlight.” by Textile Museum of the District Gladys Nelson Smith, which received, of Columbia—Rare and beautiful by overwhelming majority, the "popu- textiles, rugs and embroideries, lar” vote from visitors representing the chiefly of the East. lay public. Here, too, is Alice L. L. Arts Club of Washington—Ex- Ferguson’s Winter picture, “Febru- hibition of paintings of Williams- ary,” showing skaters on a frozen burg. Va., by Tom Brown and exhibition of block in color pond in the midst of a snow-covered prints landscape, which attracted much at- by Gustave Baumann of Sante Fe. tention in the Corcoran show. There Library of Congress—Recent accessions: Pencil are figures by Bertha Noyes, Frances lithographs C. Todd, Gladys Nelson Smith, Ma- and original illustrations by Stan- thilde M. Leisenring and others. A ley Reinhart, W. A. Rogers and others. very attractive group consists of a painting, "Church With Elms,” by Public Library, main building— Water colors Collins. Blanche H. Stanley, on either side by Hugh Northeastern Branch Public f of which have been hung a still life 20 woman by Mrs. Lona Miller Keplinger. Library—Exhibition by •‘Guinea-Gold Marigolds,” and a painters. Southeastern Branch Public of seen in out-of-door group objects "Start at Dawn," combination etching and drypoint by Levon West, on special exhibition in light, “The Porch Table,” by Lucia B. Library—Exhibition by Landscape Club. the Division of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Building. Hollerith. Georgetown Branch Public X iic uii exit gamut ** *-»*** Library—Twenty-seven paintings i’ery brilliant etcher—one of the best. thusiasm. because of their intrinsic in- vie«T this week, to continue for a Roy Clark’s Truck Farm,” very in- by Washington artists. He is represented by four prints in terest and artistic merit. The hundred month or more. This exhibition fol- manner of teresting in pattern and — Dumbarton House Historical :he Washington Water Color Club's examples included in the present ex- lows the inaugural showing by mem- treatment, to Minor S. Jameson’s exhibit of art in ladies’ dress be- :urrent annual exhibition in the Cor- hibition were selected from the Metro- bers of the Landscape Club and the subtle and sensitive interpretation of fore 1830. roran Gallery of Art, one of which is politan Museum’s surplus collection. exhibition of paintings by the Twenty mood in Nature—"October.” "The Howard University Art Gallery •Valley of the Savery, Wyoming,” Over 60 of these pieces are signed by Woman Artists, and represents no Shed,” Dorothy M. Davidson, and by —Japanese sword furniture, lent which was awarded the Eyre medal the designer and maker, which gives organization, but instead those who •‘The Flower Garden,” by Omar R. The old Spanish Franciscan Mission San Luis in the year 1798. A by the Metropolitan Museum of of Rey, founded photograph it the thirty-third annual Philadel- indication of the importance placed are to be numbered with the inde- are akin to the latter, by Devereux Butcher. Carrington, Art. and a collection of illumi- shia Water Color Club exhibition in i upon the crafts by the Japanese. Also pendents—and seeking newr roads. whereas “Provincetown Street,” by nated manuscripts in historical :he Pennsylvania Academy last No- one of the guards records that the mo- Among the exhibitors are Beulah Rowland and “Ellicott City,” j Lyon, sequence, circulated by the Amer- have old Williamsburg and old Santa ! ind Mesopotamia to recapture Pales- the jury of the National Academy of iember. A comprehensive collection tive used is taken from a design by Weaver, through whose co-operation Beulah H. Weaver, are in the class by ican Federation of Arts. Fe represented in adjacent galleries tine from the Turks. After the war Design, New York. jf his etchings will be shown in the Sesshiu, a Buddhist monk, and one of the group was gotten together; Mar- with the former, very direct in state- j District of Columbia League of in our Arts Club of Washington next he remained for several years in Miss Scudder last Winter in Corcoran Gallery in March. the greatest of the Japanese painters. jorie Phillips, to each of whose two on fundamentals. spent 1 ment with emphasis American Pen the Burl- week and until March 13. of were Some of the used are a of honor has been Women, Europe, painting, which three Florida, where she executed a con- The next lecture in the Washington designs purely landscapes place members are! record events Alice Several out-of-town ington—Exhibition of paintings spent in isolated parts of the Pyrenees siderable number of commissions for Society of the Fine Arts 1935-36 course symbolical, while others given; Acheson, Angela Hurd, “Old Walls, Sagunto, Edna Webb Miles. Weston at where he and his wife established and of more or less note. Bernice Cross, Norma Bose, Katherine represented. by portraits of prominent persons. Among will be on “Mural Painting,” and is to happenings is one of in instance the treatment Elizabeth Spain," by Wells M. Sawyer, Studio House. their first home. Since his return her sitters have been Dr. Oscar be given by Miss Violet Oakley of Phil- But every Beaman. Barnes, Julia Eckel, it was on view in the to he has advanced is with the of dec- Sewell Johnson, Frances Carroll k these. When j brought back to life America, rapidly Rogers, Thomas J. Watson of New adelphia, one of our most accomplished primarily purpose Todd, place, lately Harold Weston will hold a one-man oration and C. Law Robert Corcoran Gallery of Art in January, n competence and recognition. The York, Dr. Nathaniel Allison of St. mural painters, on the evening of essentially appropriate Watkins, F. Gates, through the generosity of John D. exhibition at Studio House, opening thereto. Richard Charles Olin and, incidentally, illustrated in the “New Stove,” now in the Phillips Louis, Emory Buckner of New York March 11. It will be illustrated by Sargent, Dunn, and the this afternoon with a private view ; Dows, Rowland Alexis catalogue of the exhibition there, the Rockefeller, jr„ scholarship foilection, was one of his first intimate and Dr. Hamilton Holt, president of stereopticon slides. This lecture will i A catalogue with notes on each ex- Lyon, Many and reception and continuing from ; and Eben Comins, a painter wrote a friend in regard to 3nd skill of a group of experts work- ttanvases to win popularity.