nP/-QP ART AND ART I /T /" — * LEILA MECUI IN later Secretary of the Treasury in Madison's ad- ministration, later still Minister to Russia, Calendar of Exhibitions 1818 to 1821. Tile painting, which is one of Charles PeaJe's GALLERY OF Seven• CORCORAN ART, best, and, incidentally, in an excellent state of New York avenue. Work American Illustrators at the tecnth street and of Library preservation, is owned and lent to the Corcoran Permanent collection. Water colors by Gallery by the estate of Mrs. Harriot Turner. Eliot O'Hara and Julian Peabody. Min- During the settlement of Mrs. Turner's estate 1 to ] iatures by Eulabee Dix, April Other this painting, with other works of art, was April 16. Prints by Argentine artists, of Congress—Many Interesting offered for sale at auction in this city but, collected and lent by Dr. Gill; paint• owing to the present financial conditions, no ings by Wilbur A. Reaser of New York, adequate bid was made for it, therefore it was opening April 17. Exhibitions in the withdrawn. It is earnestly to be hoped that, OF Tenth Capital. having been painted in this city of those so NATIONAL GALLERY ART. associated several and B (Constitution avenue) streets Intimately through genera- tions with life in northwest. Permanent collection. the National Capital, it will eventually find permanent placement here. SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. DIVISION OF GRAPHIC ARTS. UNITED STATES MUSEUM. by NATIONAL Etchings special exhibition-, at the Corcoran Gal- Kerr March 28 to April 26. Eby. rOlery of Art close today and will be replaced and FREER GALLERY OF ART. Twelfth tomorrow by other collections. These are the B streets southicest. Permanent collec- exhibition of miniatures by Eulabee Dix and tion. ;he exhibition of water colors of "Central Amer- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, print divi- ica," by Julian Peabody. The former will be re- sion. First street between East Capitol placed by a collection,of prints by Argentine and B streets southeast. Drawings in artists collected and lent by Dr. Gill; the latter a collection of pen and ink and wash, by William by pastels, portraits, landscapes, Wilbur A. Reaser of New York. T. Smedlcy. recent acquisitions. etc., by Mr. Reaser was born in Oiiio, studied at the Mark CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 2917 ARTS Hopkins Institute in San Francisco and under Olive Rush I street. Paintings by of Constant and Lefebvre in Paris. He received and Gordon Grant Santa Fe. N. Mex.. gold and silver medals in the California Exposi- 16 to 30. of New York. April tion of 1894 and the first Hallgarten prize. PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1600 N. A D., In 1897. He has made a specialty of j Twenty-first street. Open Saturdays portraits. His "Mother and Daughter" is owned from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. by the Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh. His por- trait of Senator W. B. Allison is in the TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DIS- Capitol; his of Senator In the State TRICT OF COLUMBIA. 2330 S street portraits Page Capi- tol at Vt and his of northwest. Rugs, tapestries and other Montpelier, portrait Lewis in the State Historical textiles the Near and Far East. Open Bishop Society, of Des Moines. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. 2 to 5 o'clock. Admission by card obtain- T the Arts 2017 I street, will able at the office of G. H. Myers. 730 Club, open Fifteenth street northwest. today special exhibitions of the works of OUve Rush of Santa Fe.. N. Mex and of PUBLIC LIBRARY, Central Building, Gordon Grant of New York. Ninth and K streets. Facsimile re- Olive Rush is represented in the Phillips of paintings of Western productions Memorial Gallery in this city and has painted Wild Flowers, Mrs. Charles D. Wal- by mural decorations for the La Fonda Hotel in cott Santa Fe. She works in water color as well as ART LEAGUE OF WASHINGTON, 2111 oil and has undoubtedly been influenced by the Works artists the Bancroft place. by of Portrait of children of Benjamin Sto<ldert painted by Char It's William Peale art of the Santa Fe Indians with whom she has Delaware Valley region, Philadelphia been in close touch. One of her paintings, an loaned to tlu* Corcoran The was m 1789 and New York. and Callery of Art. pit-lure painted Indian ceremonial, has been purchased by the SEARS. ROEBUCK & CO. ART GAL- at the Stoddert home in GeorgeU*ten. University of Nebraska, and her works are well the for marked LERIES. 1106 Connecticut avenue. Rugs recognized throughout country and Chinese ancestor individuality merit. from Finland. por- the book, is directly related to the printed page. went to New York, later to Parts, where he traits. Lilian Giffen. Wil- Gordon Grant is a Californian by birth and a paintings by Almost every great library has its print room studied under Jean Paul Laurens. In 1880 he liam C. Palmer and others, 12S twen- Londoner by education. He [taints in water or rooms, its collections of et?hings. lithographs, opened a studio in New York City and from the Rosen- color and in oil. with a special enthusiasm for tieth century etchings from woodcuts, engravings. Perhaps the fact that that time was actively engaged as an illustrator 7 boats. He is a member of the Salmagundi Club tvaid collection. April to May 1. of such were made for and other standard In ;he majority prints originally Harper's periodicals. of New York, the New York Water Color Club HEKIMIAN 12U Connecti- a» book illustrations has atten- 1882 he made a trip through Canada at the in- GALLERIES, escaped general and the Chicago Society of Etchers. avenue. Exhibition Persian art tion and There has been a ten- stigation of the governor-general, the Marquis cut of recognition. Both of these exhibitions promise much in of illustration of Lome, Illustrations for a publica- assembled for Century of Progress Ex- dency on the part some to regard preparing interest. position. Chicago. March 16 to April 29. as a minor art; but Rembrandt was an illustra- tion. "Picturesque Canada." After that he made and illus- several tours in the United States, 1603 K tor—witness his drawings etchings sketching TEN O'CLOCK CLUB, street INCLUDED among the sixteenth and seven- trating Biblical scenes: Daumier was an illustra- and in 1890 around the world. In 1881 Mr. northwest. Paintings by Lona Miller I the of his been Smedley made his first contribution to the teenth century maps now on view at 9 to 22. Block tor. majority drawings having Keplingrr, April prints, Gordon Dunthorne's are several American made for illustrative purposes: our own Wins- National Academy of Design. New York, and in rare water colors, etc., by Dietrich Neufeld such as of North low Homer began his artistic career as an Illus- 1888 was represented for the first time in the ones, Speed's and South and Joe Goethe. April 9 to 16. Exhi- trator. for Weekly. Paris Salon. In 1890 he won the William T. America, dated 1626, Ogilby's of Virgina. 1671, bition of paintings by Adelaide de drawing Harper's Abbey Evans with a entitled "Thanks- and one of the earliest n.aps of Carolina, pub- 16 to 29. and Alexander began their painter careers as priae picture Groot. April April in the illustrators. giving Dinner." One of his pictures, an oil lished by Ogilby same year. The last is HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GAL- a fine decorative with an inset on a As Dr. Holland, chief of the division of fine painting, entitled "One Day in June," an illus- map larger LERY. Paintings by modern Ameri- scale of Charleston and the arts of the Library of Congress, has said in m trative work, is in the permanent collection of Ashley and Cooper cans. lent by College Art Association, Rivers. to information in the files of recent report: Illustration in the last decades the National Gallery of Art here in Washington, According April 9 to 22. inclusive; sculpture by Mr. the of Sir Peter Colleton of the last century was probably not only the having been given by William T. Evans. Library Congress. Ernest Durig. April 7 to May IS. wrote to his honored friend John that most highly developed art in this country but it Smedley was elected a member of the National Locke, March Mr. wished to a of Carolina and GORDON DUNTHORNE GALLERY. reached a higher development here than any- Academy of Design in 1905. and died Ogilby get map ask for 1005 Connecticut avenue. Decorative where else in the world." And to what heights 26. 1920. desired to Lord Ashley the maps of Cape work his ca- Fear and that he would wait maps and views of sixteenth and teven- it attained: what a delightful chapter in the Writing of Mr. Smedley's when Albemarle; upon Arthur Hoeber said: "For his for the nomination of the i teenth centuries. Rare flower prints, history of American art that decade make& reer was at its height, lordship rivers, t 1740 to 1H0. To April 30. IT years Mr. Smedley has been one of the most etc. And Sir Peter adds, with distinctly up-to- The late W. A. Rogers, in his fascinating prominent of American illustrators., which date astuteness, "If Locke would draw up a dis- NORTHEAST BRANCH, PUBLIC LI- book. "A World Worth While." gives an account means one of th^ most prominent in the world." course to be added to this map in the nature of BRARY. Oil paintings by artists of of *the life our American illustrators lived and Among Mr. Smedley's best known illustrative s description, such as might invite people with- i Pennsylvania: mater colors of St.