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ART NEWS. April 8.th 39

COMPETENT WORK SEEN AT THE NEW YORK WOMEN ARTISTS' ANNUAL

The sculpture, shown in a room by itself, with plenty of space, is particularly effective. Minna Harkavy wins honors here. Her Negro Head, so bold in design, so soberly conceived and carried through is superb, and the brass Torso with its simplification of form has a balance and richness of texture. One can hardly help but be impressed by the huge Elephant in taille directe by Cornelia Chapin. She retains even in so massive a structure her mastery of form and miraculously smooth surface.

NEW YORK, N.Y.
EVENING POST
APR 8-1939 

N.Y. Women Artists' Exhibit 

Fourteenth Annual Show Current at Riverside Museum

The fourteenth annual exhibition of the New York Society of Women Artists, running at the Riverside Museum until April 16, presents nearly 150 works by a membership enlarged to more than sixty painters, sculptors and graphic artists. 
Here, as in so many other societies, the sculptors have come up with new initiative to take a major place in the show. 
Besides such outstanding works as Sonia Gordon Brown's splendidly executed bronze torso of a Negress and Minna Harkavy's powerful "Mask" and "Negro Head," there are to be noted Cornelia Van A. Chapin's "Young Elephant" (a grown-up elephant would have been a real gallery problem), Rhys Caparn's fanciful stalking cats and *** lions. Hope Spater's engaging little stone pup, Arline Wingate's saucy notes on "Strip-tease" and the "Dowager," and attractive work by Doris Caesar, Evelyn Kobak, Beatrice Stone, Leona Cutis and others.
Lili Blumenan, an exhibitor new to this reviewer, makes an excellent impression in both water color and oil painting with a natural grace and sure sense of tone. Margaret Huntington has lost none of the sparkle, whether doing still life or zoo life. 
In large format and small Lucie Hourdebaight does the sophisticated sketch, just shy of finality, in "Resting." Anne Goldthwaite shows a well-considered portrait and some brilliant notes on the South. There are some solidly developed canvases by Dorothy Eisner, and both oils and water colors by Theresa Bernstein, with most vivacity in the sketches.

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.
VILLAGER 
APR 6-1939 

The 14th annual exhibition of the New York Society of Women Artists opened this week at the Riverside Museum, 310Riverside Drive, to continue to April 1. Among the many Villagers represented are the Misses Sheva Ausbel, Cornelia Van A. Chapin, Dorothy Eaton, Anne Eisner, Dorothy Lubell Feigin, Sarah Freedmam, Anne Goldthwaite, Minna Harkavy, Margaret Huntington, Gladys Mock, Edna Perkins, Ellen Ravenscroft, Martha Ryther and Hope Spater.

National Arts Broadcast 
Cornelia Van A. Chapin's "Young Elephant"-carved Life size from a huge block of wood, was included in the recent 14th Annual Exhibition of the New York Society of Women Artists at the Riverside Museum, Manhattan.
May 1939