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THIS CLIPPING FROM
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Sunday Herald-Times

DEC 18 1938
DOMINATED by a 7 1/2-foot figure, "Justice," by Romuald Kraus, the second exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art Gallery, which opened on Tuesday, presents a vivid portrayal of modern schools of sculpture.
  The gallery has quite a different aspect than the one it had in the previous exhibitions when paintings were hung on the walls. Those who arranged the sculpture exhibition used unusual good taste and imagination in the arrangement of the pieces in the tempo of an ancient temple.
  The Phillips Memorial Gallery has lent Antoine Bourdelle's marble "Virgin of Alsace," the original of which is in France.
  Cornelia Van E. Chapin, one of the seven women sculptors represented in the exhibition, is showing one of her Greek marbles, "The Pelican." She is a direct carver from life and at the Paris International Exhibition of Arts and Technique, held last year, she won the second grand prize.
  Surprising success has been awarded the work of L. Carroll Barnes, a hitherto unknown American sculptor, who brought, unsolicited, 30 pieces of his sculpture to the show at great personal effort. His "Paul Bunyan," done in cherry wood, is attracting real attention.

WASHINGTON, D. C.
Sunday Herald-Times

DEC 11 1938

Modern Art Exhibition Here Today

NO parties herald the preview of this exhibition of modern American and European sculpture, which will open at the Museum of Modern Art Gallery this afternoon—the hours, 4:30 to 6:30. But the exhibition is the thing, some 50 pieces selected by the committee from museums, galleries. and private collections.
  Mr. and Mrs. Francis Biddle—he is George Biddle's brother—have as their guest over the week-end, Mrs. Biddle's famous sister, Cornelia Van A. Chapin, one of the greatest of American sculptors, who is showing a charming Greek marble "Pelican in Repose." Mrs. Biddle is as gifted as her sister and, having chosen poetry as her medium of expression, is widely known, under the name Katherine Harrison Chapin, for such fascinating books of verse as "Outside the World," "Time Has No Shadow" and "Bright Marriner."
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MISS CHAPIN, the sculptor, works in a perfect studio, which hangs back some 50 feet from the traffic in Thirty-eighth Street in New York which once was used by Gutzon Borglum. Surrounding her are portraits in stone of frogs, penguins, turtles, guinea pigs and camels. She held a one-man show at the Fifteen Gallery last April.
  Animals are her favorite subjects. In Paris, where they do these things better, she had a perfect outdoor studio at the zoo. For in Paris they do not keep animals behind bars—they keep them on little islands. Miss Chapin tells the story of wheeling her pushcart to the zoo with its load of a block of stone, there carving direct from life. The animals, she says, knew what she wanted. They knew they were being posed and they behaved accordingly. "I got to know the hours they would pose precisely the way I wanted them to," she says. "When I was making the penguin I used to visit him at daybreak. that was when he felt most like assuming the right pose."
  "Pelican in Repose" is tremendously pompous and impertinent. Her little guinea pig, carved from lithographic stone, is as simple as a large drop of water—he's just as quick.
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THIS CLIPPING FROM
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Sunday Herald-Times

JAN 15 1939

"Justice," the 7 1/2-foot bronze, work of Romuald Kraus, which dominates the current exhibition of modern American and European sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art Gallery, is to be shown at the Golden Gate international exposition in San Francisco, opening February 18. Two other pieces in the show have been selected for the long western trek by Roland J. McKinney, director of the division of American paintings and sculpture of the exposition, Henry Kreis' "Indian Summer," and Helene Sardeau's "Kneeling Figure."
  They will be among the important works by representative American sculptors in the gallery especially constructed to afford a proper setting for sculpture and paintings.
  The committee of the museum has just cause for satisfaction at the success of its current exhibition of modern sculpture which closes next Sunday, January 22. IN spite of the fact that major exhibitions have been feature by other Washignton galleries—and with a holiday season intervening—all records for attendance have been broken.
  Several sculptors whose work is included in the exhibition have been visitors at the gallery, among them Henry Kreis, Lucile Swan, Cornelia Van A. Chapin, and Romuald Kraus.
  During this final week of the show, Charles Stotler will give two lectures, presenting interesting highlights of the sculptors and their works. The first of these is scheduled for Tuesday morning, 11 to 11:30 o'clock, the final one for Friday, 5:30 to 6 p. m.
  Following the closing of the exhibition next Sunday, the gallery will be dark for a week while the committee arranges the third show of the season.