Two Groups

There are certain U. S. artists who concentrate on painting the wild places of the earth--deserts, jungles, arctic waste. Last week two groups of such painters appeared in the news.

In Chicago the Art Institute announced that it was sending a party of 38 to cruise through arctic regions, committing glaciers to canvas. The artists, recruited from five states, will take ship in June.

From Chinese Turkestan word came from Nicholas Roerich, painter of eastern panoramas, founder of the International Art Centre of Manhattan, that he and his wife and son had been told by the Dactai of Khotan that they had better keep out of his country. Mr. Roerich has been in Central Asia since 1923.