The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-27
ARTISTS ARE
ROWING WITH
ONE ANOTHER
.Woman's Ingratitude
to Woman.
IT'S THE SAME OLD KICKGRS
ALL WANT THEIR PICTURES
HUNG ON THE LINE.
Secretary Martin Does Not Consider
Studio Teas Drawback to
: the Institute Ex-
49,: hibition.
IT'S THE SAME OLD KICKERS
ALL WANT THEIR PICTURES
HUNG ON THE LINE.

Artists are rowing with one another.
The. regular fall exhibition of the Art In
stitute opens on October 13, ana every
where that the. knights of the brush meet
protests are heard and yelled filings at the
Jury of acceptance or rejection" are mer-
rily tossed to and fro.
The ladies also have chosen to take part
in the general dissatisfaction, and after
noon studio teas are given for the sole
and only purpose of discussing whether
1T is possible for a woman-on a hang
ing committee-to act fairly and squarely
toward another woman.
The dissension in the ranks of art is not
a matter of a day nor week. Those in
terested in the fight claim 1t is the natural
outcome of many years of autocratic OPP
preston, of worthy pictures of unknown
struggling artists relegated to the SKY"
and above all to the bugaboo of all art
ists-bad light. Favorite pupils. so the
grumblers claim, find their pictures on the
line, while the outsider has his picture
hung in some obscure or out-of-the-way
place.
ors this year is that Mrs. Alice b. Chitten-
den is on the hanging committee and a
woman, they claim, is never, can never
and will never be just to another woman.
There is also some talk that October is
too early for profitable resulting exhibit
ton, and that nearer Christmas time
might find more purchasers. The dissat-
tea and exhibition give the artist in every
way a better chance, both as to showing
and disposing of his work.
Up at the institute they only laugh at
all the reports of dissatisfaction. and Sec
rotary Martin sums up the authors of all
the charges under the head of 'kickers"
1T is the kickers," said Martin.
Every exhibition brings them out with
long string of grievances, a denunciation
OF the institute and determination not
TO exhibit. But thew all calm down. send
in their pictures, are delighted to have
them accepted and hung as best the COM
nittee sees fit.
"All cannot be hung on the line. and all
list demands. Gods own sunlight cannot
be tempered to please some exhibitors,
for they naturally must be dissatisfied.
Born kickers, that's the whole thing"
The charge against Mrs. Chittenden is
scorned by the genial secretary.
Mrs. Chittenden Is justice personified
and SO gentle-why, she would not harm a
Martins only trouble in the midst of
all this turmoil is the probability that
the night class on account of its lack of
pupils Will have to be discontinued
The jury of acceptance or rejection for
this years exhibition consists of Mrs. A.
b. .Chittenden L, ?. Latimeri c. G. Jud-
Aaron. Altman Miss NJ. Froelich, G.. Ca
denasso, Mrs. Sarah Gamble, Mrs Clara
Curtis, Mrs. E. P. Bradley and Joseph
y. Strong.
institute, has selected five of its number
TO act as hanging committee and they
are: Mrs. A. =. Chittenden, G. G. Jud-
son. L. P. Latimer Joseph Greenbaum
and Joseph D. Strong.
The members of the institute anticipate
an excellent and most creditable exhibit,
in spite. of kicks" and the rivalry of
studio teas"