HOME ARTISTS RANK WELL IN WATER COLOR EXHIBITION GAINS IN 40 YEARS Notable Showings in Black and White Are Made—Tradition Richer Through Creative Genius of Artist. "Lone Lake,” by Elisabeth E. Poe, in the Washington Water Color Club's annual exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. a recently exhibited here at the Arts Leila ! Street Wharf.” The former sets forth | "The Veteran," an etching by R. W. Weiceske. in the black and white division of the Wash- By Mechlin. Club, is represented. Color Club’s annual a of four three men ington Water exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington Water Color Club group persons, and a woman, quartet.” ren- 41st "string Excellent Work Holds Annual Exhibition. with of dering great inensity interest From Out-of-Town. etchings—one of an old barn and the Sale of Etchings and highly civilized and most artistic era. annual exhibition a musical composition. The latter forty-first excellent and delightful paint- other of "Laurelton Hall. Tiffany Other Prints Increases. Is it because all art is strung on the the Washington Water Color shows a group of Negroes making 'J'WO Foundation"—which show sensitive- ings—snow scenes, one at Con- Society of American Etchers same string—or because, in the mind Both have and are lub, which opened in the Cor- merry. vitality ness of feeling. Inez Demonet, who 'J'HE of the Indian as well as the cord, Mass., the other at Woodstock, has concluded its Greek, coran Gallery of Art the first of skillfully handled. has done excellent work in this field, just twenty- there is no Vt., the ski run—by Russell T. Smith, shadow of self-conscious- this week crowds the gallery of special is well an first annual exhibition held, as has no now head of the lately termed Depart- represented by etching ness, confusion? The Worcester exhibitions and overflows into the Phenomenal Success ment of Art at the University of North of the “All Hallows Gate of the Cathe- lately become customary, in the Na- Art Museum has lately, it is under- atrium where works in black and white Of Local Painter. Carolina at Chapel Hill, have been dral on Mt. Saint Alban.” while Minnie tional Arts Club, New York. Not only stood, acquired 15 Indian paintings, are shown. It is by no means a purely C. STANLEYS "Social L. is at her best in an and several Life, given impressive placement on the end Briggs etching was this exhibition, with its 194 sep- of the great art museums local display, for works have come from JANE Georgetown," a well-peopled street wall, which their admirable of "Iris in the Rain.” And in this arate items, upheld to a high standard abroad have acquired comprehensive over quality all the country, north, east, south scene in the small are collections. The Negro section, is a well- merits. Mr. Smith is an architect by comparatively group to be and well worth the effort it cost, but newest of our Amer- and west, painters of New England are rendered composition, and Thomas S. i training, but his enthusiasm is water found other works of real distinction, numerous sales were made, evidencing ican art museums, the Mint Museum, represented, but also painters and Baker's “Afternoon, Pigeon Cove,” for color painting and within the past two such as those by Margaret Dougall interest and co-operation on the pare in Charlotte, N. C., has set aside a printmakers of Southern California. as well as Elder. Kumm and of the and room for Indian art and is lighting effect, composition, ; years he has in this field come rap- Marguerite Wuanita public—a healthy invig- soon to Oklahoma, Texas, the "deep South.” j will be found to have much to com- Smith. Indeed, of one of the exhibit a collection of facsimiles : idly to the fore. His work is broad and orating sign. of Alabama. Georgia. South Carolina; mend it. One of the It is a an Samuel Cham- Indian outstanding ; simple, very sincere and sympathetic, strange anomaly that in this prints, etching by painting. It is well to cherish ana j the Atlantic Coast Middle West. works in this exhibition Is a — Marble- this art while it painting realistic enough to assure veracity, but i day, when painters are so regardless of berlain “Summer Street, lasts. Obviously the producing centers in this by Elisabeth E. Poe. entitled “Lone if we are not mistaken sufficiently interpretative to be emo- draftsmanship, printmaking, which head"—shown country have become widely dis- which is an Ruth H. in the Water Lake,” purely imaginative tional. “Self Portrait,” by Lee, Washington has as a first requirement mastery of in the Arts Club of Washington not Prints by a Florida Artist tributed. For this does not mean that but so ren- Ari. composition, powerfully Color Club’s annual exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of this art, so thrives and flourishes. But long ago—20 copies were sold before To Be Shown local artists have been outcrowded, for S. Peter Wagner of this city. Maine Here. dered and with such decorative effect such is the case. This exhibition will the exhibition had been open a week. and to the season, they are still in the majority and that it more than carries realistic Florida, according at by Polly Knipp Hill of St. a Benson be on view to and Jan- In fact, all through the exhibition the best. is extremely well represented in this past. Kappel sends not only typical by Moore—very charming. including pRINTS among conviction. 20. that time were to be seen stars In Petersburg. Fla., will constitute boat, "Aloha,” but a well-etched by George J. Mess of In- uary exhibition by a large, colorful paint- fgrm Aquatints the exhibition in the The Washington Water Color Club Miss Poe has been known for years j and groups, indicating popular purchases. January Smith- ing, boldly rendered, of sunset through house—quite out of the ordinary; dianapolis are competent good American Art to Be has in the more than 40 years since its through her association as a Journal- Exhibited As John Taylor Arms said in the fore- sonian Institution. Miss Hill was the woods, which he has entitled "The while Grant is thrice represented by and etchings by Charles M. Capps of organization made an repu- ist with one of our In Scandinavian Countries. to the of this exhibition, born in Ithaca, N. Y.. and studied at enviable! Washington papers. of sailors on shore and on Kansas, who has been rep- word catalog ! Eagle Nest Pine.” Eleanor Parke Cus- etchings previously the tation for itself, showing in its annual Only lately has she taken up painting. HAVE been fortunate in this this is “a fitting moment for emphasis University of Syracuse. In 1930, who has a and all the sea. resented in these annual exhibitions by exhibitions work which reflected the tis, technique style WE 1932 and 1933 her work was Wisely knowing professional limita- show in- on the ‘eternal verities' of which art included her own, shows only one work this year Novel exhibits in this section are blofk prints and aquatints, country, in recent years, in se- trends of the time, but was upheld to tions, she has boldly essayed to find is one." in Fine Prints of the Year. She is farm "New drawings of hands by Roselle H. Osk crease in versatility and sensitive per- a high standard. Many changes have expression for her dreams through the | —a scene, England-Au- curing for display not in one but sev- both etcher and lithographer. and very well ren- of New York, of "The Conductor" and ception. taken place in these four decades. graphic arts, and her success has been gust"—picturesque eral cities notable collections of Manship's Sculpture Exhibition Susan B. the “The Sailor"—life size with greatly re- R. W. Weiceske is because When the Water Color Not was one of dered. Chase, secretary popular In Corcoran Officials Refuse to Admit Washington phenomenal. only works the artists Outstanding. of the club, is at her best in an in- duced figures in the background giving of the picturesqueness! of his themes, by leading and Club came into existence toward the her water colors accepted by the Phila- ; /"\NE of the most and Illustrations as Works Art. There is more in- but he is esteemed his important of last of the nineties” the Dutch Water Club for last : terior—a corner presumably of her setting. nothing by colleagues craftsmen of Europe, but we have "gay delphia display thought-provoking exhibitions to New York own studio. teresting than the hands drawn or for the artistic quality of hi's work. been customs officials are school of water color painting was at year, but it was purchased by the peculiarly indifferent to the de- be in in recent 'J'HE the old and noth- Reasons for both are Evidenced in his neld Washington years Its and of the for its painted by masters, again having difficulty In defining height many artists Pennsylvania Academy perma- and of ; Painters more difficult The hands of "The and I stability privilege showing the Is that of sculpture by Paul Manship, art. Some nent collection. She has Younger ing to do. etchings a tree, Veteran,” time ago, the Limited Edi- In this country were using the "scrub” made steady which in the Cor- Join the Ranks. works of our own artists and handi- opened yesterday tions Club instituted an method and color. to then progress, until now in “Lone Lake” her International opaque Up coran Gallery of Art.