New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-28
SUNDAY EDITION. T:
MARCH %, 1907. F.:
ART AND DRAMA IN PARIS.
"sENDING-IN DAY" AT THE SALON AN
ANXIOUS PERIOD.
PICTURES SENT BY AMERICAN ARTIsTs-NEw
PLAYS PRODUCED AND PROMISED.

teresting and amusing period, Is a trl1e early this
year. will be the opening day: and. the Palas
de rIndustrie is already in process Of demolition
and space may be limited. there is more than the
usual amount OF anxiety among the younger artists
as to their fate. This may have had dampenlng
effect on the crowd gathered about the doors on
Wednesday. for there was only little fun and
chatting and no hint of the ebuitons that have
marked the incident previous years But during
the week preceding the final day there is always
an atmosphere charged with excitement In the
large studio buildings that house many artistic
establishments. In the artists have put on
their best clothes and air OF having virtuousiy
taken time by the forelock that means studio teas
with the completed Salon work as chief interest,
while In others the odor Of paint and turpentine Is
still strong and there are that nervous hurry and
scramble to finish that supposed 10 be respon-
sibe for many failures, with a coming and going
of modellers and framemakers up 10 their ears in
work. and making themselves only second IN impor-
lance TO the Salon jury.
The more prominent artists, those who are hors
concours and perhaps serve as professors at inc
art schools and on the jury have much later
sending-in day fortunately for them. for II IL
doubtful II they accomplish much work during this
time. 1t is procession OF younger men walking
up their stairs and asking for time and criticism.
Ger6me says MY latchstring is always out" and
the gentle. kindly Bouguereau is always accessible.
One may meat Jean Paul iaurens. Benjamin Con-
slant and Collin going about from studio to studio
looking at the work Of present or past pupils ana
a report that Of them is in the court means
general turning out Of the inhabitants eager 70 GOT
the master to view each individual picture. Un.
fortunately. at this late day there Is likely to %
less care for criticism than for the possibility that
a favorable impression OF a picture may influence
its fate the day when with hundreds OF othera
It passes perforce hurriedy before tho jury
In other professions. master Is hardly expected
to give his time and instruction gratuitously. but
1s- f- ,La
things.
There seems TO be an abundance OF Biblical eub-
tects chosen this year. Geromes two canvases
represent one the Flight into Egypt. daytime
scene; and the other the Flight from Egypt,
night effect For sculpture he has several portrait
busts including one of Nine. Sarah Bernnarot'
which is to be given to the State.
Bouguereaus new picture. THE Refuge" shows
the Christ on the Cross leaning against him 10 .
second figure bearing cross, the idea being thar
each finds and bears his own cross. on the frame
is TO be written the text commencing Come unto
me- all We that labor" The second canvas, on
which the artist is as yet sturdy laboring amid
many interruptions, shows a young girl with
wounded breast One wicked little cupid is flying
away while second kindlier love is trying 70 neal
the wound. Nine. Gardner-B oueuereau has notn'
ing TO exhibit this year. but she has several prof.
Gets in view her marriage Is not likely perma-
nently to interfere with her work. There is prob
ably no woman more generally loved ana respected
in the American colony here than Helen Gardner
Bouguereau. II not forgotten that she was fore
most in the battle that opened the art schools nero
10 women, and her sweet and gentle femlninity ID
so remote from aggressiveness and new woman
ishness" that 1t is a charming example and ideal
to the yearly crowd of incoming students.
Alexander Harrison, of the Champs de Mars salon
who has been spending the winter on his favorite
Brittany coast. will send series Of pictures that
will make his panel almost prsmatic. one,
Is in n veil
stream and woods has flood OF scarlet light and
as contrast n third is cold blue winter scene with
running water. They are all distinctly .ovely ana
although the Harrison panel at the Champs de Mars
would never need the signature for recognition,
these canvases appear to be upon entirely new
notes.
Among the younger members OF the American
colony the recent success OF II. o. Tapner arouses
interest partly because OF his success after
number OF years OF hard. patient work and study
and partly because he is the first Afro-American
to achieved success in art. Mr.. Tanner is oy
no means a full negro: his complexion and features
show him possessed of at least half white blood.
His father is the minister OF a colored church IN
Philadelphia and he Identifies himself and speaks
OF himself OF the Afro-American race. His
picture in last years Salon. Daniel in the Lions
Dem" received an honorable mention and much
warm praise from the Paris press, and the picture
he is entering now. the Raising OF Lazarus
shows a distinct progress. Mr.. Tanner will prob
ably devote himself to Biblical and Oriental SUBJ
jects. and is now making tour OF the East. While
In Egypt he painted several portraits, among them
one of the Khediye's brother
s l.. Landeau's brush has portrayed another
Biblical scene, Christ Exercising the Devil ex-
ceently composed, with carefully studied morn
ing light the motley crowd following the very
human Christ. who wears what Is not unlike the
Several Of the American artists this year ara
sending portas wf ina of IA ex6ibtion
Dannat, who has just received the oincers button
cross an honor few foreign artists have achieved
has an exhibition of portraits at his studio that
vii moas hs hs SSn MEM Louis Loeb ha. an
evening effect on the Seine In which the mouches-
az dnd "a s w0ss r ana tips
are matched by the peoples at her breast. Mr..
sss tn psat e y the sss
and white artist succeeding in color. and he
Seymour Thomas perhaps tho only representa-
one OF William Preston Johnston, the president OF
the Tuare mniyerssi'y at New0reans BENG
unnsnay w ps's treated al with
Most of the sculptors are busy with commissions,
MacMonnies is occupied just with a yardfui
Of horses with corps OF men rSping ihem into
orations so hts Salon exhibition will consist Of
the plaster models OF the bronze doors in the Con.
tain which shows chubby boy squeezins IN his
FAT bo aTfk the w pedea lot OF little ducknss
AT the theatres Nine: Bernhard Is revivng La
Tosca" that one may forget 'Spirtisme," and Civ.
ing special matinee of Phedre for the benefit Of
the Cretan sufferers. The next new play at the
Renaissance will be while Mime. Bernhard is on a
tour and NJ Guitry and Jeanne Granier have pos
session OF the theatre. Mile. Granier. who up to
last year known only opera boufre star
with NJ Guitry. made success In "Amants" and
they hope 10 repeat that success this spring I'm a
play by Gustave Clutches called "Snobs The
piece. as can Judge from jumbled rehearsal
is satire on the fashionable and Bohemian 'snob''
lation ii may be OF interest to say that the theme
of the story is clear. the lines witty and there
Is a thread of wholesome. pretty sentiment run
ming through the piece. The third act is
amusing showing almost farcical representa-
ton of a fashionable musical soiree.
Miss Ray Rockman the American girl whom
Mime Rernhardt engaged her last \ew-Yore