Evening star. [volume], April 18, 1937, Page A-17, Image 17

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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CAPITAL NATIVE
TO PAINT ECLIPSE
Fastest, Most Exciting Job
of Career Is Due
June 8.
Charles Blttinger, 3403 O street, a
native Washingtonian and former
president of the Arts Club, is going
to do the fastest and most exciting
Job of painting in his long career on
June 8. On that date, on a tiny
Island In the South Seas, the interna
tionally famous artist will paint a
picture of the essential features of a
total eclipse of the sun in the very
abort time of four minutes.
As a member of the National Geo
graphic Society-United States Navy
expedition, which will observe the
eclipse from the Phoenix Islands, in
the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Bit
tlnger will attempt a task which has
been performed successfully only a
few times before. Pour minutes is
an extremely short time in which to
paint even the essentials of a pic
ture, but the eclipse will last only
that longapproximately and once it
Is over there will be no chance to
•get the "model” to come back for
another sitting.
Painting a picture of an eclipse is
Important for science as well as for
art. Not only is an eclipse of the
sun one of the most beautiful and
awe-inspiring spectacles known, and
therefore well worth preserving on
canvas, but an exact record of the
colors of various features of an eclipse
Is Important to scientists who study
the sun.
Sky to Be Painted in Advance.
Though Bittinger probably will paint
faster and with greater concentration
than ever before during the brief
time of the eclipse, he actually will
• not have to paint his entire picture
in four minutes. He will paint four
partially complete pictures in advance,
one with a purple sky, another with a
blue sky, another blue-green and a
fourth gray. He believes the sky is
certain to be one of these four colors
during the eclipse.
Each of the preliminary pictures also
will have, in its center, the black disk
of the moon already painted in, 4
Inches in diameter. Around the moon
in each picture Bittinger will paint a
tentative representation of the corona,
the pearly halo surrounding the sun
which is visible only during a total
eclipse. Astronomers know in advance
that the corona this year will be
roughly circular.
When the eclipse begins. Bittinger
will note the color of the sky, and
then choose that one of his four pre
liminary canvases which has a sky
of the same color. Then on this
canvas he will “finish” the painting.
He will quickly correct the shape and
color of the preliminary corona to
conform with the actual corona, and
then paint in the prominences, the
great flame-like tongues of hydrogen
' gas rising from the sun’s surface which
are visible around the edge of the
moon during an eclipse. Recording the
exact color of these prominences,
usually red or pink, will be one of
Blttinger's most important tasks.
Paints to Be Ready Mixed.
There will be no time to mix paints,
of course, so the artist will have mixed
In advance a whole series of paints in
all the shades of red and other colors
which he might conceivably need.
, These will be arranged so that he can
’ find the right ones even in the semi
darkness, a little brighter than moon
light, which will prevail during the
eclipse.
Blttinger will not use “color short
hand” to make notes of colors during
the eclipse and then paint his picture
afterward, as has been done by some
artists who have painted eclipes with
less time than he will have. He be
lieves it highly important to place the
colors in relation to each other while
the eclipse is in progress, in order to
achieve correct effects.
^ This is not the first time that Bit
tinger has done art work in the in
terest of science. He was engaged in
camouflage studies during the World
War and has assisted in camouflage
experiments at the Naval Research
Laboratory and in studies of color
standards at the National Bureau of
Standards. In the Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia, are some unique murals
painted by him with fluorescent paint.
-When seen by daylight one set of
pictures is visible in these murals, but
when they are seen under special
artificial light, containing ultra-violet
tight, the ultra-violet brings out col
ors not visible in daylight, and an
entirely different set of pictures ap
pears.
Bittinger has received many med
To Paint Eclipse
CHARLES BITTINGER.
als and prizes for his work, and has
exhibited his paintings in Paris, New
York, Washington and elsewhere.
Best known of other paintings of
solar eclipses are those by the noted
American artist, Howard Russell But
ler, who has painted the eclipses of
1918, 1923, 1925 and 1932.
Color photography also will be used
by the expedition to record eclipse
colors. Dr. Irvine C. Gardner of the
National Bureau of Standards will
take natural color photographs of the
eclipse with a 14-foot telescopic cam
era of his own design, and Bittinger
plans to have a sailor assistant make
motion pictures in color with equip
ment which he is taking to the islands.
Bittinger recently left Washington
for the Pacific Coast and Honolulu to
join the 12 other members of the
National Geographic-Navy expedition.
The expedition, under the scientific
leadership of Dr. Samuel A. Mitchell,
will sail from Honolulu for the Phoe
nix Islands May 6. Capt. J. F. Hell
weg, superintendent of the Naval Ob
servatory, Washington, is in charge
of the Navy’s participation. Rev. Paul
A. McNally, S. J., director of the
Georgetown University Astronomical
Observatory, is a member of the ex
pedition.
SMOKER IS PLANNED
Notre Dame Club to Hear Broad
cast From Campus.
Representatives Clark of Idaho and
Harrington of Iowa will be among the
members of the Notre Dame Club of
Washington to observe the fourteenth
annual universal Notre Dame night
at 9 p.m. tomorrow at a smoker in
Wesley Hall. 1703 K street. Several
short talks will be made before the
members hear a Nation-wide broad
cast from the university campus in
South Bend, Ind.
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Bed Cross to Give Instruction
in First Aid.
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Tuesday and Thursday nights at the
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