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12 THE SUN, SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 1C17. NEWS AND COMMENT IN THE WORLD OF ART Br HENRY McBRIDE. NINE paintings and a number of drawings by llockwcll K(tit, oil of which arc upon tho Imaginative order, aro being shown In the Daniel dallery. In each picture there la something to astonish or offend the lovers of the academic, and this la balanced by pas sages of undeniably Rood painting. Whether tho ur.sual manner nnd tho clever tcchnlquo nro secondary to a mcssaeo of profound s-vlrltual Impor tance or not Is something tho present writer has not yet discovered. The cleverness and tho HtiniiKcncss, how over, aro acknowledge with gratitude. Tho "House of Dread," which was reproduced upon this page last Sun day, is perched unon a desperately steep cliff by tho sea. A brilliant light as from a calcium In a theatre beats upon the far corner of the domicile, where a man, nude, leans against the wall In a dejected nttltadf. From an upper window a woman bends, her tumbling hair obscuring her head. Only sufficient touches have been be stowed upon these figures to Indicate that they are meant for human figures. The ten Is dark and forbidding. Tho horizon lino wabbles, but tho uncei tainty of Us edge doea give an extra voatness to tho ocean. Instead of fo cusing at a given point the eye wan ders around tho sea an It does when searching the actual soa, and greater space Is felt than had the horizon line been done In the approved fashion with a ruler. The sens-e of space and loneli ness upon the sea In all I got from the jturc. Tho troubles of the man und horaan and tho calcium light upon tho house scarcely awakened my Interest. In tho "Voyager Beyond Life" n man, nude, sprawls along the bowpprlt of a ship and there Is a green sky, studded with stars In odd constella tions, and a forbidding sea below. Odd constellations of tho stars appear In ( Fktto by Vollard. Self portrait moat of the pictures. The stars nro trickily conventionalized. They twin kle cleverly, however, from the funny circles In which they uro Imbedded llko Jowcls. In another canvas a small ship Is about to sink with conventional circles of water about it, and shafts of light stretching down from a leaden aky. In still another, a young sailor appears tobe crucified upon tho top of a bare pole, which may possibly represent the mast of a ship. A land scape, and I think it's tho picture I like best of the series, has corrugated ridges of rusty rock stretching across the picture in parallel lines, and above the sea horizon the leaden clouds that hover over Mr. Keifl's dream country .continually aro also in corrugated ridges. This is a hasty and hurried descrip tion, but It Is perhaps sufficient to ln dlcato that tho pictures aro odd. Tho reader has also read between the lines that I was not frightened to death by the pictures as I sometimes am by u tiny scratch from tho pen of William Hlake. Mr, Kent Is far cleverer than William Dlake when It comes to a representation of things, and each of Ills pictures has something that seems vividly realistic In spite of tho artist's evident desire to slum representation. Hut In qualities of soul, or even In CHINA life -ymm HBi9Ki j------fl------ MbbHI SKxfiMBlti ,4bhbH MlillWIWMII ' I III III ill III ii ' 1 1 illllllHi TONYING & CO. Chinese Antiques 615 Fifth Avenue LONDON RESTRICTED ART ADVERTISING appears on this page at forty-five cents per line per Insertion agate measurement. Minimum space, twenty lines. No heavy CJothlc nor block type; no ecccnlilo typography; no white lettering on black barkgiound; no thick borders. Art advertising ALO.N'i; U appearing In this section of twelve pages, und as each announce ment is theiefore unavoidably con splcuous, tho harmonious and distinc tive betting places ull art dealers on an impartial basis. Copy should be In the Hun liulldlng by NOON every Wednesday, .command of a mood there Is no excuse to bring our artist's namo Into com parison with that of tho great English mystic. Mr. Kent, It seems, lias been sojourn ing for months upon ono of tho bleak northern American Bhorcs, Labrador, Nova Scotia, or somewhere. Ho has communed with himself and appar ently has been Interrogating tho stars. All that I llko and commend him for. I am continually beseeching our artists who find themselves In n rut to get out of the rut. There nro too many agen cies', particularly In Xew York, that are calculated to make artists think alike nnd to think like the mob. Artists have no business to think llko tho mob. They must think for the mob. The regularity of our streets, tho similarity of our buildings, with elevators and studios all of the samo boxliko pat tern, und the samo reading matter for all! and Is It a, wonder that no one dares to bo a Daniel, and that artists yearn to have motors and wenr spats like the dealers? Hut the gift of tho spirit does not descend upon one the Instant one quits Ilroadway. It takes tlmo to shed old habits. However, tho door will not open at nil unless one knocks and Mr. Kent may be- said to have knocked. 1'uzzllng over the question as to why Mr. Kent's pictures only impress me upon the technical side, I have come to this conclusion In regard to them that he Is still too much In lovo with that popular and entirely worldly qual ity known om "tho punch." Most of our hasty artists are enamored with the thing they call "the punch," and 1 think moro of our bad pictures hnvo resulted from this fad than from any other recent one. "The punch" Is some thing that affects tho unthinking, tho torpid, tho heavy souled. Iilako In a whisper can breathe you Into heaven or blast you to hell; but a cheaper artist with a "punch" merely causes you n temporary pain. I And I fear our artist has been levelling a Wow that was meant to bn dvnamlc for the mob. Did Blake or I by Cezanne. any other genuine seer secure the mob? The desire for applause upon tho part of the artist Is Innocent enough. There aro writers who say it Is necessary for their sustenance. I only know that somo of tho greatest get along without It. It can be argued that Christ 'him self spoke to tho mob. But the mob understood only the miracles. "Imme diately His fame spread abroad" when the man In the synagogue with tho uncle-win spirit liecame cleansed. Onco the multitude assembled came tho sermon on tho mount, but in spite of tho extraordinary clearness of tho words there Is no hint that they alone made converts. The people wero as tonished at the tone, not at the words, "for He taught them 41s ono having authority and not as tho scribes." There is no indication even yet that the mob understands the sermon on the mount, but it is sufficient that a few get It. For tho really supremo artist how can there bo a large audi ence? Important Vezannes in Arden Galleries ".T'nl voulu falre dc l'lmpresslonlsmo," said Cezanne toward tho end of his life, "quelque choso do solldo ct do PARIS NEW YORK Exhibition of Paintings and Etchings by Stephen Parrish February 26 to March 7 Braun Galleries 13 West 46th Street durable commo l'art des musees," and If lie could hnvo seen his works In stalled as somo of them now aro In tho Arden Galleries ho would have felt that ho had achieved that end, Furthermore, It would have been gen erally felt. Not beforo In this country, and pos sibly never beforo anywhere, have pic tures by Cezanne been so well shown. I missed seeing the famous Cezanne exhibition that set London by the cars so long ago, but I saw all the best canvases In tho Vollard Gallery In 1'arls, and can't say that I saw them well. Thcro was a pleasurable sense of discovery in locating such great works of nrt In n dingy nnd dusty shop, turning them over to the light as they lny stacked In the corners or upon shelves, but it was rather the pleasure of tho hunter tracking his quarry to Its lair than tho finer ex citement that comes from true pos session. Somo of the Cezannes in tho Ar den Gallery (although I had seen them all before) I felt I was seeing for tho tlrst time. The gray of the walls happens to ngreo to perfection with Cezanne's palette, and two pic tures In particular which I had thought brownish In tone now turn out to bo studded with opals. The ample space nllowed about the pic tures Is another advantage, nnd there I.' nothing to Interfere with the great ness of the style of tho works. Tho general effect Is monumental nnd serious even to churchllness. It really seems that the people who go nbout asking "Is Cezanne great?" will be able to answer the question to their satisfaction In the Arden Galleries this time. They will not dare to ask the question once In the gallery, though. It would be Just like listening to u Beethoven symphony and asking "Is it great?" Tho still life that appeared In the 'Montross show Is there, and two other largo still lifes that nave great quali ties. There is a large portrait of a man, one of Madame Cezanne, a self portrait, somo landscapes, a landscape with figures, and two flower pieces 1 They nil seem astonishingly fine In , color, astonishingly strong and as tonishingly true. To Individuals like the present writer who have gone through tin Cezanne Induction years ago and have Cezanneism In the blood It is almost difficult to recall the charges that the Philistines mako against this work. It seems absurd to have to refer again to tho perspective in tho tables of the still life pictures, and yet there are people, I suppose, who when I tell them that the only sensation I get from such a rendering is one of In tense realism will put me down as a romancer. Yet such, I Insist, Is the case. At a little distance the objects seem solid and the big relation ships masterly. It Is only when my attention Is called to tho Inverted perspective that I notice it, and then only to take pleasure In its naive sin cerity. The fact is the picture Is so consistently and insistently well painted throughout that It might have as many technical errors for a plcturo as Shakespeare's "Hamlet" has for a play I've been told it's faultily constructed and I would still love It for its great ness of spirit. Cezanne was another like Blake who knew what It was to exist without the applause of tho careless. He once declared, "l'artlste ne s'addresse qu'a un nombre ex'cesslvement re strelnt d'Individus." And as n matter of fact he was Just nliout as despised nnd rejected of men as He who was mentioned in tho previous article. The story of his steady rejection at J the doors of the annual salons has al- 1 ready been recounted In these columns, but possibly his unhappiness at being barred from the "Salon of Bougucreau" has not been explained. Certainly It is quoted from time to time by writers of the opposition as an indication that Cezanne would If he could have been a Bouguereau himself. Kmllc Bernard, Vollard, Gulllaumln and all of Ce zanne's friends agree to the contrary. It may have been naive, but there Is scarcely room to doub: that the poor man believed that If ho could onco have his pictures In the Salon he would be acclaimed and tho voguo of n, the same trouble with each other, puerilities of the official set would bo I "r'a!it "'R1'1 Wi,s il wtt,r coll ono iessoni.,1 lie lmoiv hio nven -nnn-nr in.-,. ! even though we dared not undress most geniuses, but he was alone in tho knowledge for the greater part of hl.s career. Time works curious revenges. now have Cezanne in the most exalted ranks. He Is acknowledged as the most potent Influence upon tho art of thla tlmo 1ncAiitn iHpnpl, fa will shortly learn 'who ho Is and what his! art stands for. Ho enters the museums'""' looning iar across mu nur .,.. as Ilouguereau quits them. Poor Hon- among the folded hills ibeyond. It was gucreau! after sunset and the llttlo mud huts at ! my feet were sending up smoko that drifted low across the valley. Sud NoteS and Activities idenly below me, In the bowels of the mountain nt my back, there broke out in World Of Art :a soft resonant booming and an unut- . terably sad chant. It was tho priest Langdon Warner who Is In he celoljratlnK ownlnB )cfore the Shansl Province. China, upon an rl- , k Th) o( vo,ce ental "xpcdltlon, has wr tten o letter 1lmVering among the echoes, yet to tho ' of tho ( Icveland Mu- rful pn to mn to the seum of Art, from which tho following va wUl ,t mv,ct rum))ltn . souml V-MUivin nil; liiimii. "At this moment T am sitting In a nair rumen tempio wu 1 u.e i nermom- , eter well below freezing, clad in a sheepskin. A tin plato serves as re- (lector to the candle by which I write. ' "Luckily wo are In a coal district, and I bought a donkey load of two huge lumps by the roadside as I came along. When I reached the temple I drove the donkey Into my bedroom, heaved off his load nnd gave his mas ter ten cents. Now tho little mud oven is repaired and the lmy has boiled somo cocoa and eggs and fried half a chicken. I am lucky ns usual a few months ago I should not have been nllowed to leavo tho railroads for this place, as tho bandits were about. They got n white man nbout seventy five miles from hero nnd held him for ransom, But now tho cold weather has driven them off. A little to the North, on tho desert edgo, they are still nt work, the Chlneso tell me, nnd the Standard Oil had to quit shipments, It Is the noon rest and I have been I taking measurements slnco six and photographs since nine. In nil that time I have been ablo to make only four Interior exposures. "The caves are ho narrow and so high that some of the best things are quite lmposslblo to photograph with out staging and timber would have to bo fetched at great expenso from several days' march away. Also there are no Inscriptions to rub, and very little detail within reach Is In suffi ciently good shape to get Impressions by rubbing. I have been crawling up literally "on the kneca of the gods" i to find spots to ret my tripod and I lleprodueed by courtesy of Art In America Portrait of have come In plastered with dust and guano and my eyes blinded with the smoko from the flashlight powder; In somo places tho guano Is a foot thick. It would be so In my hair now but for the kind providence which decreed thui I should be bald. "Tho farmers In tho little hamlet are more like the clods they turn over in the fields than like their beasts. One has been carrying my kit for me and this is his style of drawing room talk: I.. W. Ugh! Farmer. Ugh ! L. W. Is there any way to reach the upper cave? Farmer. Ugh! L. W. Is there any way, Ac. Farmer. Ugh. L. W. Is thcro any way, Ac. Farmer. Ugh. L. W. Is there any way, Ac. Farmer. What does ho say? L. W. Is there any way, Ac Farmer. Top cave? L. W. Yes, I say Is there, Ac. Farmer. Yep, there Is a top cave. L. W. Can I get there? Farmer. Yes. L. W. How? Farmer. Go up. L. W. Are there steps? Farmer. No. I.. W. Can I go up? Farmer. No. I... W. How do you go up? Farmer. I don't. L. W. How can I get up? Fnrmer. Get up? Ij. W. Get up. Farmer. I don't know. "And so on ad lib. You may nat urally put this down to my small stock of Chinese, hut I notice that they have and slept in sheepskins nnd five blankets. My boy sleeps on the brick ovrn lint In snlfn of thnt his flncers ty-Jarc blue. Luckily there Is little wind or wo could not mane even outsme pictures and tho caves would bo choked with dust." "Last night I was up on the second balcony of the temple built against the punctuated In curious rhythms by his sharp lell and great soft drum beats. of comjjc J1U(ldhlsm ls nult0 icad ln chnai un(, , I)0or oW imhy bun(llo of rnKS wna ,ian,v worthy t0 caUed ri(i,. i, mir in n,n a priest but ho seemed titter ln those rock cut chapels than tho Archbishop of Canterbury would have been ln his church regalia. "I shall write you a more official re port later this is merely to tell you that I am on the job." Tho .Salmagundi Club ono of the oldest und best known artist clubs In America nnd the oldest In Now York, will shortly glvo up Its old homo at 14 West Twelfth street, where It has Itiecn for so many years, for now quarters at 17 Fifth avenue, Tho now homo, pur chased from the William O, Park es tate, Is on a plot between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, 30x100 feet. Tho cost, Including alterations, will bring the total expense for tho club up to np- nrnvlmilAlv 1 lift (imi Tim ,lfl hninn of tno Salmagundl'Club has been the scene of many famous exhibitions and has witnessed the rlso of a number of Its members from obscurity to fame. Its roster embraces the names of prac tically all of the noted contemporary artists. C. Calusd Is showing In his gallery a collection of nineteen of his paint ings, principally marines. Tho pic tures vary in subject from tho turbu lence of tho tempest, with Its ship wrecked men, .to the beauty nnd ro mance of moonlight nlerhtH. Mnnv nf ti,0 subjects ehow tho Bosporus, with the domes of Constantinople In the a Man, by Hals. Owned by Henry Goldman. (distance, with the colors of sunrise and sunset. Mr. Calusd, who is an Ar menian, lived for many years at Con stantinople. Some of the pictures show Mr. Calusd's Interpretations of what he has seen In America. "Castles of Wealth" Is his Impression of lower .Manhattan seen from the waterfront, "ilur Pride" is an American warship dimly and im pressively seen resting In a fog. Besides there aie a few of Mr. Calusd's chicken subjects, done In humorous moments. "The Duel" Is a light between two cocks, while a bevy of admiring hens look on. On Monday March 5; Louis Wein berg begins his Tories of twelve lec tures on the 'Involution of Style in Nineteenth Century Tainting" in the extension courses given at the College of the City of New York. Invitation I is extended to the general public for single lectures; for the course a noml , nal registration fee Is charged. In this series of lectures Mr. Weinberg, who Is n leading expositor of the moderii spirit In art, traces the changes in Still life, by n?sthet!o viewpoint from the ps-eudo-classkism of the "ICmplio" period through romanticism, tho Uarbizon school group, tho Pre-naphaelltes. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism nnd Futurism. These nro dls cussed In relation to their social and Intellectual backgrounds; the under lying f-sthetlc theory of each Is ana lyzed and the leading historical ex amples of each are slunvn ln slides. In this manner the "onrrectnoss" and formal beauty of D.nid and Ingres, the Impulsive and passionate art of Dela croix, the deliberate poetry of tho Hai blzou men, tin- passion for "truth" of I3,iumler and Courbet, the sun worship of Monet, the form worship of Cezanne, the sophisticated naivete of Matisse, in all of theso and others tho constant search of a restless century of experiment Is traced Although tho course alms at nn ap preciation and understanding of the Intentions and realizations of nine teenth century art the lecturer places emphasis on the quickened sensitive, ncss to life Itself which Is to him the mesMigo of art. Students of literature, music or oven of history wil! find In this courso tho Interest of parallelism, as the lecturer develops the evolution of stylo In painting by parallel ref erences to other arts and to the trend of social thought as well, "American Painting from the Orlgl-! nols in Current Kxhlbltlons, Including tho National Academy of Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Is the subject of a new course of six lecture promenades offeied by George Krlehn, Ph. D on six Thursdays In Lent, beginning March 1 nt 10:30 A. M. in the Metropolitan Museum. Another course announced Is "Old Dutch nnd Flemish Masters, From the Originals in the Metropolitan Museum," which is particularly rich In these sub jects. It is held on six Thursdays at 1!:30 P. M., beginning March 1. At Columbia University In the Avery Architectural Library Is now to be seen a most interesting collection of draw ings, the work of Carrere & Hastings, architects, designers of the New York Public Library, the New Theatre, the hall of the House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., as well as a numler of other structures. In addition to those above mentioned there aro drawings of the Tower of Jewels, Panama-Pacific Exposition; Black, Starr A Frost Building, New York city, Andrew Alexander Build ing. New York city; the Whiting Memorial. Cathedral of St. John the I Divine, ltnn Gallery, New York city; Globe Theatre, New York citv, Pulitzer Cezanne, On exhibition at Arden Fountain. New York city; Memorial Amphitheatre, Arlington, Va as well as a number of others, all demnnstrat- ing the utmost facility of dmwiiik, for- tillty of design nnd accuracy of draughtsmanship. Ono rarely sees even ln New York so varied n colleo- tlon of drawings of executed work. There are Included several renderings by Jules Guerln. It will bo illuminating to the Inter-1 ested layman to observe In this exhi bition the architect's mode of attack, 1 and above nil will bo demonstrated tho conscientiousness and care which are ( among the primary virtues of the modern designer. t The exhibition will continue Indell- nltely and is open to the public. Tho . Avery Library Is open from 9 A.M. to (i P. M. and from 7 to 11 P. M., ex- j cept Sundays. Tho fourth competition oiganlzed by Friends of the Young Artists, which Is for decorators and which Is being exhibited In Mrs. Harry Payne Whit ney's studio, S West Eighth street, will bo oper. Sunday afternoon from 2 to B and Monday from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. Monday is tho last day. Hereafter thero will bo no more prizes and no more Juries foi the com petition! held by tho society. Yet thero will bo competitions nnd even greater Inducement to compete, In stead of prizes purchases will be pledged, thus Insuring a certain sum to bo spent. The. now ruling was the suggestion of Mrs. Harry Payno Whit ney and was at once ween better to accord with tho aim of the society to help tho young artist, whoso Imme diate need Is a placo to exhibit and n chance to sell his work. Tho foclety expects soon to have Its own galleries, where not only competi tions will be held but what Is far more Important continuous exhibitions by young artists, tho walls to bo allotted Impartially and the prices to be set by' tho artist" himself with no middleman's profit extracted. Later tho society hopes to have Its own building, where needy young artists will bo provided with models; materials and a place to work nnd whero several resident scholarships will be offered. Tho office of the American Scandina vian Foundation In New York ni. nounccs that In response to urgent public demand It has been abtc to effect tho organization of a pennanrnt room for the exhibition and sale of Scandina vian nrt objects. The enterprise is supported by private subscriptions nnd will not In any way nlllclnlly be con nected with the foundation. Tho exhi bition Is to lo called "Tho Scandina vian Art Shop" and Is located at 72S Madison avenue, near Sixty-fourth street. Dr. II. G. Leach has consented to act as president for one ;,oar and to assume' all responsibility for the business management. Dr. Christian Brlnton, the art critic, is chairman of the ndvlsory committee. Tho Interior of the shop has been designed by the Arden Studios, Inc., as a "Cnrl Law son" room from water colors of Carl I-arsson, ntdeil by original sketches made for the shop by MasOlle. Mrs. Jessica Griffin of Boton, wife of the artist, has been appointed manager of the shop. "The Scandinavian Art Shop" will open March fi with an exhibition of etchings by MasOlle of Sweden nnd statuettes by Karl ond Ruth MlUes. It is proposed to have small travelling exhibitions from time to time and n permanent stock of porcelains, prints, fine books, weavlngs, lace and Jewelry. Orders will be taken for work In north ern arts and crafts, especially needle work of Swedish, Norwegian nnd Dan ish design. As the result of a contest the prize for the best design for a let terhead and seal has betn awarded to M. Hasselrlls. It Is, a Viking ship mo tif In a circle. Prof. Charles Kueblln helped five art societies of New York to boom art in democracy. "Fifth avenue," he de clared In his lecture, "Is full of ugly things thnt 110 one wants anil that no sane person should want." "That de mocracy were wise," he asserted, "that followed the rule of tho craftsman Morris, who said he would never make things that a fool would want." "Or ganization," said Mr. Zueblln, 'Ms as necessary In art as in military affairs. If wo would get on In art we must or ganize society so that our standards of taste aro not set by tho foolish rich. Art Is a social bond and tho people have a right and the power to use it to reshape their surroundings In terms of beauty." Tho meeting represented the efforts of live different nrt societies to arouse interest in tho need of practical art teaching ami the value of artistic ideals to tho American people. Tho organizations reprcnented were the Municipal Art Society, the Art Alliance of America, the Art In Trades Club and the art department of the high schools. These Joined with the School Art League, under whose auspices the meeting was held. "The democr.io of the Ameilcnn people," said Dr. Merle St. Croix Wrlcht "Is one which presses steadily Galleries , forward toward nn Ideal. It believes In equal opportunities, but knows that equal opportunities do not mean the xame opportunities for every man. In this Ideal of democracy art plays a different part. It Is the stimiil.it'ioi- tiling, tho ameliorating thing, in this way it is a direct aid in making a democracy, and no democracy woilhv of tho name can exist without It. The nrt of a democracy should not be something ah of, hut rnthor something which comes In friendly contact with i vory Individual, in his work and pl.ij. In bin business and ln his leisure." EXHIBITION of MINOR ART Goldsmith Work and "Orfevrerie Religieusc" Creek, Roman, Gothic, Renaissance Until March 31st, 1917 Canessa Galleries 1 West Fiftieth Street PARIS NEW OSHIMA Art Galleries Exhibition Rare Examples of Antique Chinese ART Recently purchased in China 14 West 40th Si. Opposite the Public Librar) Scottish Landscapes Highland and Baronial Interiors C. Lewis Mitchell oF Dundee Match to 17Ji did 3l , Arlington Galleries 274 Madison AvenueVnh"t PAINTINGS BY Ellen Emmet Rand March Jrri to 17th Durand-Ruel 12 East 57th Street GOUPIL&CO ,4 r.xmniTioN ok PORTRAIT DRAWINGS Ily Elizabeth Howell Ingham March 5-17 Inclusive ThcELlSEO MEIFREN Exhibition Extended to March 10th inclusicc. 58 Vresl 45th St. u, flj'r. COADY GALLERY ANCIENT & MODERN ART INTERIOR DECORATIONS THE ART VALUE AND THE MARKET VALUE OF EACH WORK PERMA. NENTLY GUARANTEED. 489 FIFTH AVENUE Montross Gallery Twentieth Annual i:liilllln Ten American Painters March CM to t ',l, 550 Fifth Ave. fVh5, I N N E S S Now on Exhibition 28 Paintings Hy George Inness George H. Ainslii; 15 IMf tit Avenue Modern Gallery 500 Fifth Autrit Mettanim i'kw Exhibition of Paintings hy Daumier, Guys and Toulouse-Lautrec R. Dudensing & Son Paintings in Water Color G. Signorini Also ralnilnK" ttv l r n 45 West 44th St YORK NAPLES 1