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1 6 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL' 3, 1932 Collections of 19th Century Art Throw Light on Our Cultural Tradition In the Galleries News of Brooklyn Painters, Sculptors Bv HARRY KOSELAXD SIIO'JM TIIE CALLEIUES i rttr 5 'V-i': The Golden Day By HELEN APPLETON READ Miss elsie cane, of 119 independents Open at Grand Central Palace Mural Kingston Ave. has just com- fmnioa Rfllar PnV fnr I plcted several water color Work by Eminent Artists'of Last Century Seen in Notable Collection? at Grand Central Galleries and Century Club u.iuwig Spring Season subjects, and several oils cf land-scaDes and flowers. mHE ssociety 01 independent Artists, wnose win Annual is now uu A portrait of Einfrid Anderson view at the Grand Central Palace, opened too late in the week to make a review for today's page possible, so that any critical dis the sculptor, by Benjamin tggiea-ton, will be exhibited at the coming Scandinavian American exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum this month. vt -jf I'M THE revival and revaluation of forgotten or derided periods In American art history has been one of the significant features of the so-called American renaissance as the awakened interest in America's artistic expression of the past Winter has been popularly, if not accurately, termed.

An interest which belatedly parallels the similar tendency that has already been manifested in literature and the stage For a decade or more, as successive periods recede into perspective and so take on a period flavor, critics and historians of American culture have been revaluing significant periods in our cultural history. Books on the Mauve, the Brown and Yellow decades have appeared by biographies of personages whose lives summed up the flavor and point of view of a period. Revivals of successes of other days have been the stage's contribution to this interest in our past. Each has had as its underlying purpose the effort to isolate the essential characteristics and point of view of the American people as they have been directed and colored by the events and taboos of? cussion must wait until next week. It should be mentioned, however, that this year's ballyhoo is of quite a different type than what has been resorted to in other years as the most effective means of putting th, show across.

It isn't sensational pictures, child wonders or sign painters, turned artists, but barter, which is this year's brand of publicity. In other words pictures will be exchanged for any commodity that an aspirant for a plpture has to offer and which the artist is in need of. It, may be food, clothes, medical attention or a trip abroad. It is a gocd idea and there is always the chance of gjtting an early canvas by a. coming success.

These things have happened before. The restaurant, keeper who allowed his walls to be decorated by a penniless painter in. exchange for food, or the landlord who takes pictures in exchange for rent and afterwards finds himself I 5 I Harold Lund. 365 Westminster Road, who spent the Winter in Provincetown, is in town for a few weeks for exhibitions. He has four of his works in the current Thumb-box show at the Artists Gallery.

John F. Gould. 246 Fulton a teacher of illustration at Pratt Institution, reports that students are Invading the illustrators' field as a medium for future work. Mr. Gould is working on illustrations for publications.

Gladys Beigh Eates. 769 St. Mark's i w. I i fi -Js v- -j in possession of the early works of a i tinguished work. It suffices to say master, are not merely picturesque the time American culture, namely, the conflict between prudence and rrea'ivc spirit.

In "The Ordeal of The picture of our cultural his Mark Twain Mr. Brooks argues S' 5r -jT 1 then that the two portraits com4-bine those two essentials which every portrait must possess If it is to be a portrait and a work of art' the integrity that results from a sincere statement of character andV the artist's personal reaction. At the Fifteen Gallery The subtle and Involved color-harmonies that Lars Hof trup evokea from landscape themes are given a slightly different manner of expres-. sion in his current exhibition at; The Fifteen Gallery. His works araC no less rhapsodic but his compoew, tions have been pruned to a closer statement.

He leaves part of his. canvas bare and concentrates oa Buckingham Hall, is busy at present with some new versions of her manner of depicting flower studies with a modernistic tendency. Grace Marie Fitzpatrick, 700 Ocean is teaching and painting new subjects. Her work is also represented in the current Thumb-box show at the Artists Gallery. legends but actual fact.

The exhibition closes on April 24, so that potential collectors have 20 days in which to arrange the game of barter and exchange. Mural painting is very much in the air these days, the question of who is to decorate the walls of Rockefeller City being the reason for this renaissance of interest in the art which has languished into commercial decoration in its recent manifestations. The announcement of the Modern Museum's forthcoming exhibition of projects for murals using a modern theme, and to which 44 artists are 'submitting designs, was tory remains, however. Incomplete, a composition without coior until there were added a resume and revaluation of the contribution made by painters and sculptors of the last eentury. Painting and sculpture serve quite as effectively as keys with which to understand the past as literature and the drama.

As Emerson expressed it, "the fine arts have nothing casual, but spring from the deepest instincts of the people who produce them." But however helpful criticism and evaluations of bygone periods In tiie fin arts may be, they avail very little unless accompanied by a first-hand acquaintance of the work itself. It should be superficial to say that pictures must be seen to be appreciated. This of necessity makes this branch of cultural resume more inaccessible since works of art are scattered about the country in museums and private collections, and history of American art in which pictures exceed text has not yet been compiled. A Resume Facilitated made recently in these columns. The (special "leit-motifs," as it were, cf.

I color and form, tit is interesting that the author of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" surrendered to the taste of his time. It "The Pilgrimage of Henry James" expatriot-ism withered and wasted a strong native talent. Both talents, in oUier words, were thwarted by American civilization. Let us see how closely painting parallel tills frustration. The Case of the patriots Whistler, Sargent and Abbey are the outstanding examples of the American expatriate, their unquestioned abiiuy losing that richness and vitality invariably to be found when the artist prefers to interpret the life of which he Is a part.

Sargent's great, gifts were deflected into superficial portraits, brilliant and outstanding as they are. Whistler's strong Individuality attenuated itself into exercises of taste. Abbey became nothing more than a skillful illustrator of literary themes. What they might have riouuced had they, remained at n111 nnnn Ho mil, leumTne om ding at W. 53d si, to how involuntarily a critical-1 ,1 i appraisement of Mr.

Hof traps 11 on May Lillian Morris of 246 Fulton St. has just completed some new rcreens. one entitled "Old Chinese" being a close representation of a Chinese screen. Another, "Old-Fashioned Roses," a canvas 40 by 66 inches, shows pink roses with a few of the darker ones in an urn on a table with a bright piece of drapery to offset the flowers. Miss Morris has been elected a member of the Brooklyn Society of Artists.

George H. Davis. 42 Pine Cypress Hills, has been painting new studies of Autumn scenery. One called "Gateway to the Highlands" will be exhibited at the Glen Cove show soon. 1 borrows musical and poetic -The result of this process of illimi-I nation is an added Intensity bota of mood and of design and color.

group of members' work is alsor on view at the gallery. None of and water colors hava. been shown before and the quality; is uniformly high. Joseph Pollet When recipients of Guggenheim' awards return from the period of study and observation that the fund, provides for, their first exhibition-is usually subjected to a rather unfair scrutiny. Definite marks of progress are looked for.

As a matter of fact the real and lasting suits of study and travel cannot be" building at 11 W. 53d on May 11. Murals events of the week are the exhibition of mural designs by members of the Mural Painting Atelier at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design at 304 E. 44th Manhattan, and an exhibition of mural decorations in various mediums by Hildreth Meiere at the Architectural League of New York. The latter exhibition will charge an admission fee of 50 cents on the opening day, which is tomorrow, for the benefit of the Architects' Unemployment Fund.

After tomorrow it will be on free view until April 18. The Mural Atelier is a class In mural painting conducted on a system whereby a New York architect gives each mo.ith a definite problem from his own work and criti home to become Interpreters of Set 1 (Abate) Tvihiy at the Type-m riler. by Vnn DnHtiis, jiotrn al rile Kranzluiar (Right) Anno in Murk, by (ieorge ltrllmr.1. shtnen in the exhibition of Amerirnn Matters at the (irand Central 4 -ll There are at present two exhibitions on view in Manhattan which comprise the work of those painters who came to fame in the last half of the 19th century, their golden day, to use Mr. Cortissoz' graceful phrase, being the '80s and '90s.

One group is on view at the Grand Central Galleries and comprises the collection of a well-known Philadelphia collector which, owing to the stress of the times, is now offered for sale; the other is a selected group shown at the Century Club and can be seen by invitation only. The collections comprise work by Whistler. Sargent. Homer. Vedder, Ryder, Thayer, Innes, Blakelock, Duveneck, Chase, Twactman.

Weir their own life and tradition will always remain one of the fascinating conjectures in the story of art. The great figures, the men in whom the race speaks, Homer, Eakins. Ryder and Innes, were the men who did just this thing they remained at home and developed as part of the American environment. They made no compromise with current taste and with the exception of Innes were not the recognized greac ones of the period. It is curious that such ardent advocates for an American culture as were Emerson and his group 1 If -t si cizes it as thpugh it were an actual commission.

A mural painter criticizes with him and assists the students from this angle. Some of the architects and painters who have criticized the class since its last exhibition are RalDh Walker, Ely Jacques Kahn, William Van Allen. C. H. Murray, Lawrence Bottemly.

Arthur Loomis Harmon. Leon Solon, John Mead Howells. Ernest Peix-otto, Austin Pnrves. Frank Schwartz crowning achievement as critic of American culture, quotes Grecn-ough, the veteran American sculptor whom Emerson visited in Rome, as saying: "I want to stop commerce to insulate Americans and put a stop to foreign influences that denationalize them." And earlier in the book a quotation from Chan-ning, pioneer for the American genius, says much the same and I quote it because of its appropriateness just now when the warnine; is again sounded to remain free from entangling foreign alliancss, esthet-ically speaking: "A people in whose JjJ'i A till I I expected to manifest themselves during the period allotted for study, and travel. The artist should be given time to digest and assimilate what he has learned.

But in thj case of Mr. Joseph Pollet. one of thai winners of a last year's Guggen-, heim award and who is having a one-man show at the Downtown Gallery, the benefits are already clearly manifested. His draftsmanship, always his weakest point, has undergone a salutary discipline after observing the old masters, and his color and use of pigment are not so mannered-and insistent. He is more with a careful statement of what he elects to paint rather than, allowing himself to be satisfied with emotion in paint.

Which is not tq intimate that Mr. Pollet does not. continue to have very strong feelings-about what he paints. It is merely, a case of saying it more accurately and so more sensitively. His figure should have remained unaware of the artists who expressed this very thing.

Of course, Thoreau died before any vital development of an American tradition in the arts manifested itself, but others in the group lived to see its vigorous beginnings. Van Wyke Brooks in and Hassam. The former collection also includes a dozen or more canvases by well-known contemporaries. Examining such a group of paintings which represent the artistic genius of a given period Is to appreciate from another angle the burden found in all of Mr. Van Wyke Brooks' critical analyses l4V' -V -I his "Life of Emerson." just pub- and Putnam Brindley.

Gtnj Penc DuBois At Kramthaar's Guy Pene DuBois" current exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries is the best exhibition that the artist has held; that is, in the recollection of the writer. As has always been the case, it lished by Dutton's. and surely his minds the thoughts of foreigners are within itself to resist to mociiiy this mighty influence; the true sover Is the life and people of today that eigns of a country are those who determine its mind, and we can- not consent to lodtre this supsri- ority in the hands ol strangers i a country, like an individual, has serve as material for his vivid com Milles Sculpture Among B'klyn Museum's April Shows Opening with a private view and i by those of Scandinavian birth or reception for members of the mil- descent in America, natives origin-eum on the afternoon of April 11, ally of Sweden. Norway or Den- positions, men and women going about the business of' living, work dignity and power only in proportion as it is self formed." At.ain, it is curious that the men and women who thrilled to Channing's mes ing or playing, as the case may be. In having less of a formula into which to fit his comments on the follies and foibles of the human spe-ries, Mr.

DuBois loses nothing of his distinctive style and point of view. The result is a more sensitive, and so more convincing, inter sage and who carried on the the Brooklyn Museum will present members of tne society are reprc for a native quality in American expression remained impervious to this quality hen it appeared, al- though, as I have said before, it two important exhibitions of art from the Scandinavian countries. One of these will be a large ex sented in the collection. Many of the names will be familiar while new names from other localities will add interest to the catalogue. did not manifest itself in any ap- hibition of the sculpture of the fa pretation of life.

He emerges more the artist, the painter, than the satirist. In several recent exhibitions Mr. DuBois has given marked evidence The exhibition committee is com- preciable proportions until after the compositions more especially hav a new concentration of design and richness of color that marks a distinct step in advance over the. earlier work. At the MontroHs Ga'lerie An unusual collection of paintings by living American artists is now on view at the Montross Galleriea-comprising well known names but unusual juxtapositions.

The most interesting contributions are the group of studies in fresco con-tributed by Varnum Poor. Poor's unfailing taste displays itself in whatever medium he essays to handle, and fresco is no exception. This question of finding the right' mural painter has one answer Even these small fragments are sufficient indication that a larger sur-" face would be equally effective and' individual. Other artists whose work was spei cially noted are Frank London. Foster Jewell and Davenport Griffin; posed of Olaf Oisson, Harold Lind- Civil War.

quist, Chris Olsen and Ernfrid Anderson i The Collect IOHS mous Swedish sculptor. Carl Milles. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of this artist work in New York City The group will be shown in the sculpture court of the museum. At the same time in the fourth-floor galleries will be showrr the fourth exhibition by tohe Scandi But to return to a consideration of the collections as they afford a The jury of selection was composed of Ernest L. Ipsen.

Jonas Lie, John Costigan. Harvey T. Dunn. Lars Hoftrup, Olaf A'essen, Herbert B. Tsrriudv.

Trygve Hammer. key to the quality and flavor of of his ability at painting portraits. These portraits, however, have been shown more or less as side issues, the major theme of his work having been his caustic vignettes of the passing show, in the present exhibition he includes two portraits which are unquestionably the outstanding portraits by an American artist to have been shown this season. Perhaps this is lukewarm praise, the season's output having been conspicuously lacking in dis- Jonathan M. Swanson and Fritz Hammargren.

Among the exhibitors are Lars Hoftrup, Mons. Breid Breidvik, Anders Johanssen, George Jensen. period. How did the artists here represented adjust themselves to the American environment? The outstanding characteristic of the work is its extreme refinement expressed in idyllic figure compositions and lyric and symbolic landscapes. The taste of the day was obviously in this direction, since no one of these painters were copyists of European methods to the exclu- -v-5; If' Olaf Olesen.

Olle Nordmark. Birger Zandsen, Wilhelmine Schmidt. Olga Carstensen, Lars Fletre, Kai Gotz-whe. Gunvor Bull-Teilman and Ester Blomgren. There will alo be a memorial group of the work of Emil Carlsen.

The newlv arranged and deco is a frequent exhibitor at National Academy exhibitions. In the current Academy he is exhibiting a portrait of Willard D. Pad navian-American artists. The ex- hibitors in this collection are drawn from an colonies throughout the United States. Both 01 these exhibitions will open to the public on the 12th and continue through May 15.

The opportunity to view so large a group of the work by Milles has long been awaited in the United States, which, for over 15 years, has been increasingly conscious of his importance in the field of monumental sculpture. Comparatively few of his works have reached this country up to the present time, which explains the time it has taken for America to become acquainted with them. The circulation of the present exhibition is, in fact, the first real showing of Milles' work on this side of the Atlantic and out land Museum of Art. Art Institute of Chicago, Toledo Museum of Baltimore Museum of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum. Today's Lecture at 1 sion of the expression of his in dock, A.

N. the well-known artist, and also a Brooklynite. dividuality. True, the of them had studied abroad. then.

as Guy Pene Du Eois remarks in 1 his review of the exhibition for Art Weekly, "no suns at scratch." In expressing extreme refinement the painters were not only express- ing the tasteof U. Irvs that is, with people who care a tail e.bout art but they were expressing their innate Puritanism sublimated into idealistic landscapes and figure News of Current and Coming Art Events rated Italian Hall of the museum will be formally opened on the same date as the above two exhibitions, April 11. Though arranged primarily as a gallery, the very nature of the palatial house of the Italian seventeenth century gives to the rooms some of the character of that period. The immense size of the rooms at the rau'eum is quite in character with the interiors of the old palazzos where the nobles ensconced themselves surrounded by a The College Art Association announces that the most important of its exhibitions to be circulated during 1932-1933 will be the College Art Association International, 1933. An exhibition of 250 oil paintings from the United States, Mexico, Canada, England, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Switzerland, Poland.

Spain, Norway, Sweden, Holland and Belgium one painting by each artist represented to be iihown. All Brooklyn Museum. Prof. Arthur Upham Pope, one of the leading authorities on Persian art will talk at the Brooklyn' Museum on ttls subject today, Suni day, at 3 pm. Prof.

Kurt Glaser originally scheduled for this date is unable to appear and the Museum-is particularly fortunate in being able to obtain a man of Professor Pope's standing to renlaee Herr' side of his own gardens at Lidingo hear Stockholm, one of the few coi More M. Lois Murphy, Jerome showing lithographs, drawings and Myers. Joseph Pollet. Maurice Pren- "lustrations by Carlotta Petrina. lections which can be considered Beginning Tuesday, April 5, the Whitney Museum of American Art will place on exhibition the second reasonably comprehensive.

dergast, Theodore Robinson, Paul The Babcock GailCTies are show- compositions. What, aiu protective ring of many retainers 1 Tna navt of its permanent collection, a Rohland, Albert P. Ryder. Kath-; ing recent paintings by I. Abramof- yer's v.

v- Irs and and courtiers. The Italian collections were ing's ethereal ladies in evening rowns no less Ur all grouji of the paintings, water colors, nine Schmidt, H. E. Schr.akenbTg. until April 9.

drawinrs and prints which i Charles Sheeler. John Sloan, Eu-I of laek of space could not be shown i gene Speicher. Niles Spencer, Nan Jonn Wnorf js exhibiting water et tli? time of the opening lost Watson and Marguerite Zorach. colors at tne Galleries. November.

I A private view for invited guests exhibits are invited and there is, Glaser. The subject of the lecture no selection by jury. Sunday will be "A Review of luutiucu wv invc n. n. tiiraij lJfy WC'e CmVOlU expanded bv the Rembrandt Club what the inmx.fn, an2 J1? considerably en- a or riched by Frank L.

Babbott. r.n The committee for tne American Persian Art." ::1 clolhes? freshivss oi landscape nism as net more group for this exhibition follows: A striking example of the artist's ability to work in the monumental medium is the famous Poseidon Fountain commissioned by the city of Gothenburg for the square in front of its museum. Some of the bronze figures which decorate the basin of the fountain are seen in the exhibition and even In these fragments is felt the sensation of their being suspended in fluid. Another famous fountain is the Fol-kunga fountain in the little town of Linkoping The fountain commemo Many objects of Drime importance Robert B. Harshe.

William M. Mil-liken, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Fran- materia growing are seen in the collections shown in n.iArlnrl ill orniliMtino will take nlace on Monday alter-noon, April 4. Thereafter the exhibition 'will be open to the public daily except Monday, through April 27. Ethel Walton Everett is holding her first exhibition at the Ferargil Galleries until April 16. Also on view at these same galleries are recent paintings by Ernest Lawson altar frontal of boucle velvet, the f.

w. bi'Miift, iitiu lilt- qu.i.;t u.iJ. individuality and force prevented it gilt of the Rembrandt Club, who also gave the splendid collection of AMERICONTEMPO EXHIBITION Anil 4th t. 3.1r NEWH0USE GALLERIES I cis Henry Taylor. Jonao Lie, Maurice Sterne, Eugene Speicher.

John Sloan and Audrey McMahon. I The exhibition opens or. Jan. 1. 1 1933.

at the Worcester Art Museum, I on the occasion of the official open-i in? of the new museum building. velvets, brocades and embroideries. Over one of the doors is the Austerity too the place of charm. John Kane is exhibiting recent paintings at the Gallery, 144 W. 13th Manhattan.

rates the legendary nero. roue bvter. the progenitor of the old royal nif jrPnt faience relief "The Resu 578 M.di.o. Cr. S7tk N.

whether Mark Tw.un to the have made his compromr I After the Worcester shawing it will Water colors by Lyue Haroy are brollght t0 New York for a metro- the current offering at the Delphic poU(an viewlng lt wlU then Studios. shown in various museums through- out the country, Including the Cleve- Marie Sterner is showing sculp-j An all-year-round exhibition pol- icy, which will be hailed by artlov-' ing Summer tourists to New York, has been announced by- the gal- lerles of E. and A. Silberman at 1 133 E. 57th Manhattan.

Instead 1 of closing for the Summer months us is the custom of most art dealers, the Silberman Galleries will to hold exhibitions of artists and more particularly American artists from May until October. A complete schedule will be announced latr. house of Sweden. A replica in bronze reenon 0f Christ" bv Giovanni Delia of the center figure and of various R0bbia. the gift of A.

A. Ilealy. details of the whole are shown. The decorative arts displayed In Though essentially modern in the rooms show typical furniture spirit the sculptor has kept in mind with its architectural inspiration in the traditions of the past, and his design, and numerous examples of nubile linking of the two moods has; malolira In the best known forms Abcut 50 paintings and 75 water colors, drawinss and prints will be i all of them the work of con- ie.aporarv with the excep- Hon of Theodore Robinson and Al- brrt P. Ryder.

The artists are: Gilford Real. George Fellows. Thomas Benton. Arnold Blanch. Lueile Bb.nch, Oscar Bluemner, Julius P.loch.

Alexander Brook, Henri Paul Burlin. Canacie. Glen Coleman. John Cunning. John Curry.

Randall n.rvev. Arthur B. Davies, Stu-irt Davis. Adolf Dehn. Guy Pene ri i Bus.

Lot'is ElWwmius, Ernest Emil G.ino. Wiil'am Gl.ir!:-ens, Anne Gold' liwalte, Harry Leon Herll, Isabelle How'and, M'irr is Kantor. Rockwell Kent. Georgina Klitgaara. toon Kroil.

"I Ku 'line. Yasuo Kuniyo'lii, Hl-lvirrt Lahev, Sidney Laufire.n. I.mvson. I.ouis Reginald Marsh. Henry Mattscn, I Kenneth Hayes Miller, Hermon supposed prevailing to f.om it to more inn ithet b.i oi if refined taste tr ti-e ih.i the painted at this fir." to rj-1 tie txisi.d.

given him a distinctive place among and from some of the most famous Thev exhibit the j.ime ta-'e that manufactories. The ceiling decora modern plastic artists. ture by Jasper D. Ward. Water colors and sgraffito prints by Eliot O'Hara are being shown I at the Ardent Galleries.

Drawings of the Southwest by Howard Not- i man will be shown tomorrow and will remain on view until April 16. SOCIETY of INDEPENDENT ARTISTS SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION NOW OPEN at GRAND CENTRAL PALACE Dsn; I A. M. I. I r.

M. S.nJ.T IP.M. I.IDP. M. Arnold Blanch At the Galleries of FRANK K.

M. REHN S93 FIFTH bet. 541k 55tk Sti. tions are modrn but copied from traditional motifs. The general feeling of the rooms of the period is felt in the richness of the darker colors cf the furniture and background relieved by the accents of in the colonial meetm? houses and in the fine proportions of earlvy furniture.

gU5? and silver. Th criti'lstn thnt American civilisation of the la-1 century was invariably rrurie nr.d material is refuted by the incontcst-jable evidence of these pictures. The Scandinavian American group has held three exhibitions beloie. twe of which were also presented in the Brooklvn Museum, the other one having been held in the Art renter In Manhattan. The exhibi- The Macbeth Gallery announces r.n exhibition of ncent paintings by 'Jonas Lie.

the decorative objects, the hangings I Frank van der Lanken, a former are Brooklynite and now living in Tulsa, Galleries Dudensing The Vn is a selection of works of art the pictures..