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ON POST:  TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1938

Washington Post. Sunday Dec 11, 1938
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Modern Art Gallery Sculpture
Exhibit Brings Notables to City 

Cornelia Van A. Chapin Guests of 
Francis Biddles During Display;  !
Romuald Kraus Expected This Week

ONE WRONG CHIP means ruin, but Cornelia Van A. Chapin, whose "Pelican in Repose" is one of the 50 pieces of sculpture included in the exhibition of modern American and European sculpture which opens this afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art Gallery, digs animals straight out of stone.
Miss Chapin, the guest of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Biddle, is but one of the famous people which the exhibition is drawing to Washington - an exhibition ushered in without benefit of teas and diners by members of the Gallery Committee.  Lucile Swan, another famous woman sculptor, whose recent one-man show in New York won additional laurels for her, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Carter Vincent.  She is represented in the show with her "Sword Dancer," in pewter, one of the diverse types of Chinese which she so ably embodies in many of her works.
Maurice Sterne, painter and sculptor, whose "Head of a Bomb Thrower" is one of the outstanding pieces in the exhibition, a bronze shown at the Paris International Exhibition last summer, is expected in town sometime during the coming week.  So also is Henry Kreis, who won the international competition for a figure for the Bronx Postoffice, conducted under the Treasury Department's art program.  He has loaned his "Indian Summer," a small brownstone figure, for the exhibition.
Romuald Draus, whose figure "Justice" caused no end of controversy in Jew Jersey - and throughout the country as well - upon publication of photographs of his winning model for the figure designed for the Federal Court House in Newark, is expected in town this week.  It may be that he wishes to see his beautiful golden bronze Justice in the gallery, the figure which was an attempt to express the conviction of his belief in America.

CRITICS AND SCHOLARS, artists and art lovers will have their first view of the exhibition this afternoon between the hours of 4:30 and 6:30 o'clock.  Mrs. Dwight F. Davis has returned from the South in order to be here fro the opening of the show.  Mrs. George Angus Garrett deferred her trip abroad a few days so that she might attend.  Other members of the committee and their friends, and members of the gallery will be there for the opening - and we might add that what with late arrivals of several pieces, lighting problems and other details which are to make the exhibition the outstanding one presented by the museum, those responsible for the whole set-up worked until the wee hours last night to have everything in readiness.
Beginning Tuesday, December 13, and continuing through January 22, the exhibition will be open to the public daily, with the exception of Mondays when the gallery is closed.

Mon. Dec 12 38
WASHINGTON HERALD

'JUSTICE,' STATUE NEWARK REFUSED, EXHIBITED HERE

By JANE EADS
Kraus' towering golden bronze figure of "Justice" yesterday looked down upon a gathering at the Musuem of Modern Art Gallery more smart than she ever would have beheld at the Federal Courthouse in Newark.
Originally designed for the Newark project, the statue was rejected after publication of photographs of the winning model had caused controversy not only in New Jersey, but throughout the country.
Yesterday, however, the figure fairly dominated the gallery's second show - this time an exhibition of modern American and European sculpture - and won admiration, along with the rest of the noteworthy works presented.
Mrs. Garrett
Does Honors
Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, committee chairman, unfortunately was unable to get back from her Southern sojourn to be on hand for the preview for the members and their guests, but slender Mrs. George Angus Garrett, chic and youthful in a black frock, bordered at the hem in red velvet with touches of red at the throat and a red feather in her hat, did the honors as vice chairman, having deferred her European trip to be here.
Cliff-dwellers of Washington mostly comprised those who dropped in to view the exhibit.  Noted were Mrs. Truxtun Beale in a purple frock with mink jacket and matching purple hat; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney, the Misses Harriet and Mary Winslow, Miss Edith Goode, Mrs. John Boit, Miss Sofie Stayton, Mrs. Corcoran Thom, Admiral and Mrs. Emory Land, Mrs. Cary Langhorne, and Robert Woods Bliss.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Biddle accompanied Mrs. Biddle's famous sister, Cornelia Van A. Chapin, great American sculptor who is showing a Greek marble, "Pelican in Repose."  Miss Chapin, who has a studio in Thirty-eighth Street in New York, is a guest of her brother-in-law and sister.  Yesterday she was attired all in black with a white chrysanthemum pinned on her shoulder, and Mrs. Biddle, also in black, was very chic.