TANDEM TREAT FOR ART LOVERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200270022-3
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: March 20, 1960
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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Tandem Treat
For Art Lovers
By HARRIET GRIFFITHS
PYRGHT Star Staff Writer
ings and sculpture will open for a few hours' public viewing
MAR 2 0 1960
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this week.
Saturday's benefit for the Corcoran Gallery of Art is a novel
tour taking in four of Washington's distinguished collections in the
homes of their owners and the studios of two prominent artists.
Many of the most celebrated names of the late 19th and early
20th Century art achievement in Europe and America sign canvases
displayed in the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Eisenstein, Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Kander, and Mr. and
Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd.
Visitors may watch artist Samuel Bookatz working from a model
in his studio at 2700 Q street N.W., or perhaps mixing his paint,
which he does himself.
Surrounding sculptor Heinz Warneke in his studio at 1063
Thirty-first street N.W. will be examples of his work in wood, brass
and bronze, and also some of the models for his sculpture at the
Washington Cathedral. including the "Last Supper" interpretation.
Tour participants may decide whether they wish to visit studios
or collections first, and make their stops in any order between
2 and 6 p.m. The $4 ticket may be purchased along the way.
One example of the artistic treats in store is the handsome
seascape by Courbet, a leader of the mid-19th Century "back-to-
nature" revolt in French painting, which hangs over the mantel
of the Harrison home at 3556 Macomb street N.W.
The painting had belonged to Mrs. Harrison's great grand-
mother, Mrs. Cyrus H. McCormick, and had wasted its charms in a
storage crate for nearly 40 years, until a distribution of personal
property brought it to light about three years ago.
The American artist Childe Hassam's "The End of the Trolley
Line, Oak Park, Ill.," a race-course painting by the French Dufy and
a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds are other gems in the Harrisons'
varied collection.
At the Kanders' specially-designed modern house at 3550
Williamsburg lane N.W., overlooking Rock Creek Park. George
Bellows' 1910 painting of "Upper Broadway" represents this
American artist's interpretation of the bustle of city life early
in the century.
Besides Bellows, this collection includes such American
luminaries as Glackens, Cassatt, Hassam, Sloan and Kroll, to name
a few, But, as Mrs. Kander says, "We're not hidebound with Amer-
icans." For instance, there is a fascinating canvas by the French
painter Marie Laurencin entitled ' Les Deux Soeurs," with over-
tones of Picasso.
Pictures are displayed from breakfast room to bedrooms
throughout the house, planned and lighted partu ulariv for paint
ings. A Paul Manship sculpture sets off the nrtien.
In the remodeled town house of the EisensR'In,. 82 h,rlorama
circle N.W., tour guests may gaze at a Picasso blue period work,
a gouache entitled "Harlequin's Family," and a small oil .till-life
of peaches by Renoir, among other treasures. Manes. + r /anne.
Matisse, Braque, Roualt and Degas are represented in the, collee
Lion, along with contemporary American painters.
One of the famous Piet Mondrian's precise geometric abstrac-
tions hangs above the fireplace of the Lloyds' Georgetown home at
1691 Thirty-fourth street N.W., where the art tourists will find
titles of some of the contemporary works nearly as intriguing as
the pictures themselves.
Morris Graves' "Zoo Bird Gone Mad With Loneliness" and a
Miro called "The Hot Desert Sun Drives the Little Flowers Insane"
are among the revelations waiting here- In the garden, a smooth,
flowing Arp sculpture has the poetic name, "Dream Flower With
Lips." An ancient Chinese bronze, African sculpture and a small
piece by Washington sculptor William Calfee are among other
,Lloyd showpieces.
Mn Bookatz, whose work is now on view at the Artist's Mart,
has been painting here since 1942. when he was stationed in Wash-
ington as a Navy artist. His work is widely known and is repre-
over ~`pt'ere`r~l the country, among other ic
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t o paint here: "It is quiet, not ot hectic.-
Artist Samuel Bookatz looks at one of his paintings in his studio, which will be open for
viewing this week. The artist mixes his own paint "so that I can get the body I want."
Sculptor Heinz Worneke prepares models for keystones of the Washington
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Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd with an abstraction by Piet Mondrian, one of
the paintings to be seen in her Georgetown home during the tour.
"Dream Flower With Lips," a sculpture by Arp, is in the garden of
Mrs. Gates. Tickets for the tour, from 2 to 6 p.m., will cost $4.
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lovers, as well as many in o t e . by eorge a lows in er modern ouse overlooking Rock Creek Park.
Daniel Former (left) and James Harrison play beneath a Courbet sea-
scape, one of several paintings to be shown by the Gilbert Harrisons.
as well as modeling. Reared at Hanover in Germany, he came to STAR PHOTOS BY ELWOOD BAKER
The artist has been working lately in a semi-abstract vein, with
an interest in figures and in unusual textures. The paintings
around his studio run the gamut, however, from representational
to complete abstraction. He likes to have music playing through
his flowing suite of rooms, which graduate from the studio at one
end to living quarters at the other.
Mr. Warneke, head of the sculpture department at the Corcoran
School of Art, is a veteran major prize winner whose long and
distinguished career has a background of rigorous training in
Europe, where he learned the technique of wood and stone carving,