The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-12
ART IN LONDON'S EAST END.
II Il DeveIoping . Sense Of the Beautiful
Thcre-Ducal Remarks Thereon.


Thcre-DucaI Remarks Thereon
LONDON. April I.-Just about the time
when the chance-sown dafodil, as Whittier
calls It, charity begins 10 reveal its golden
secrets to the r,istics laboring mournfully
In the moisture laden soil Of England.
spring picture shows burst open In the
gray old city Of London.
In the English country natures chancs
In apt to be more happy, though perhaps
less lucky. than mans set purpose in tho
town. The darodil, being ,ploughed up
by the simple, mournful rustic, dies. Tho
picture show, however cut up by tho
sophisticated critic, stubbornly survives.
LIE y short but art y SrnMb ~ ao SsndI,
should exceed the annual outpush OF
hand painted pictures -
Yet perhaps the excess Is no longer very
great. 1t Is feared that 10000 pictures
will be submitted TO the selection com
mittee of the Royal Academy OF Arts this
year.
Conscientiously to select from this vast
mum Der the small percentage which the
walls Of Burlington House will accommo-
date-a large amount OF space being mrs.
practically impossible in the allotted time
without a different method OF procedure.
So the Royal Academy has for some time
been endea voring to wake up and do some
thing or other-deal In s~tne way with tins
viruIent and progressive picture plague.
Al present each Aoademician Is entitled
to hang eight Of his works, Each outsider
IL allowed to submit a similar NUMBER.
The average number actually hung by tho
former works out at three or Tour. but
outsider is q fraction so ,absurdly small
as to arouse In the rejected a wild, savage
yearning TO see hanging on the walls on
Burlington House the august bodies OF the
Aoademicians themselves. ALL.
Many people, however, seem TO think
that this would be pity; and 1t ~ prac-
tically certain that after this year the num-
Der OF works allowed to he sent IN oy any
individual, whether Academician or outMder'
will be much reduced. Then the unior in
whether their cherished productions were
ever seen by anybody but Royal Academy
porter or policeman; and such OF the Selec-
ton Com mittee as have conscientiousy
endeavored TO perform Their dreaoiui GUY
will no longer need thereafter 70 reire 10
bed for a few weeks to recuperate
II Is not well that anything connected.
however remotely, with art should arouse
savage feelings in the human preas.;,
Shakespeare adumbrated something
that kind and just the other. day Duke
declared that he remembered as boy
Latin quotation the effect OF which was
that art softened our manners ana pre-
vented us from becoming savages. ~
was the Duke Of Fife and he 9ugh. 70 si .i,Ic
is derived are the dourest OF dour ScotsLat
least. 80 gay all other Scots-and call mat
district neither county, shire nor dukenoIii
but Just the kingdom OF Fife. and Tor snort
Fife Now picture shows S,c are eoTt az mem
DRY was the opening OF the spring eXhioi-
ton at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Mhte-
chapel Ia that eastern part OF London where
the downtrodden millions do most thlckiy
congregate and are most dow, dowh h.xs er.
pected picture shows In Whitechapel than
daffodils or Dukes In dustbins. Now, how
ever, the millions are to be appraised; art ~
one Of the levers; and the present show rs
one OF a series held at the rate OF three per
Il u costs about Ct 900 a year to nun these
three shows and there is no charge Tor
admission. II il really generous ideA
carried out in an efficient way, and " u
noticeable that many s;yye OF ou ahe Of crositv
now take a genuine interest In what they
ace. though not perhaps an interest That
Is intelligent In the artistic sense.
On first visiting the gallery couple OF
aered in Il toward the pictures on the walls
seemed like the attitude OF goldfish SWIM
ming around in q glass globe toward the
outside world-a listless, vacuous stare
betokening noncomprehension. They pc
longed to the people In the world ior VINO" nn :
fat surface has no meaning Now, such
OF the pictures as contain story are
discussed they bear q real relation to NE
Possibly the perception OF the beautnui
will follow and then the ,THe o, ,"0
The idea Of the present exhibition " 20
show the work being done by artists IN the
British isles at the beginning OF the present
century There Is little group OF plcipn nT
by the Bushey school which means riU ,,s
the catalogue. has been to depict ac,ua.
life with vigorous sincerity. Among
many other works by men whose ann v
not dissimilar IL q very large canvas 10y a..
American artist. Pr %,is n W.. uel hum hung
In the academy last year, and was
described In one OF THE Sun notices o' '''N'
exhiuitiun. ,,-
In a small room hang a number, OF pct.
ures chiefly by artists whose WORK oi,I
Accustomed to see at the New Ehsi-'
Art Club-artists at one time consts -
to he innovators. revolutionary, ann az
choosing uninteresting subjects. nrIs
are such men as Alphonse LSgros, Nnliain
Strang, Mark Fisher Charles , 1na', very
interesting little exhibition in itself and c9i-
tanning a very delicate little wa,rr-c9l.r
drawing by Whistler called Inc 'o"'
valescent. ....,i
works by G. F. Waite, X. A. many eSa,nplrs
OF the Scottish schools. a GOOD alma
Tadema, Whispering Noon hoiilah
maidens, white marble and blue larkspurs
GOOD work by such fine artists a. LAVA
Stott and Maurice Grefenhagen; ana
little group of pictures painted by artists
who still follow in the steps OF the pre-
Raphaelites, AN
Altogether the exhibition contains so
pictures, all lent either by their owner.
AMONG whom is King Edward. or by The
painters, among whom are many Hoyal
Academicians The artist most conspicu'