The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-10
BUCKEYES, POT BOILERS Avn
BUFFERS.
Modern Classification OF Certain Art Prod.
uets-RemArks on the Market.

uets-RemArks on the Market.
10 The EDITOR OF THB suS-Sir. m.
American Free Art League works in a pooa
cause. the success Of which will indirect
benefit our native art. but this art is at pres
ent without an adequate market, who.
greatly impedes it, progress. A stagnar.
art Is not an art: II Ia q trade. Even an arti-'
has a certain right to live. and when he find
no demand for his conceptions he sets abou'
TO give the dealers what they want to iorco
on the public. that Is II he is weak cnoug'
or hungry enough.
However. II the owners Of the departinsn.
stores could be interested in real. live Amer
can art and offer the public instead Of m.
usual trade buckeyes" pot boilers AMI
buffers" (mostly imported the produce,
OF our more or less known artists a gree,
beginning would have been made.
For the uninitlated IL may be well 10 81.
plain that a buckeye" Is generally a crud.
garish imitation Of or travesty on some goo
original. pot boiler" may be an orlgiua
in which strength. character and slgnllcanu'
have been ruthlessly discarded for mer.
prettlness. technical sickness and froth. \
"duher" ranks far higher; Il is a clever COP
Of an old original. often sold as one. eve.
with a guarantee. Our homes and museum,
are full Of these latter. The buckley
seldom reaches the museum, but, sad to ~
the pot boiler" often does.
Many Of the department store owner
buy one OF more well known or world famou.
paintings. advertise this fact widely, aud
exhibit these paintings among the rag, tar
aud bobtail from the Paris Salon. Other,
less squeamish, sell gaudy eyesores signed
with madeup names which often ere thoss
OF well known men puTposelv misspelei
80 a. not 10 be branded as the torgeries the
actually are. If pictures Of this order can
find purchasers, would II not be an easy mat
ter for the department stores to sell rea'
works Of arty
II would not take more trouble or eXpen,"
to do this. and these merchants living al easl
amid the choicest works VI art, ancient am.
modern, cannot well continue offending good
taste by debaslng the public's. after their eve
have been opened to this singular and uu.
called for abuse OF confidence on their par
MANY Of them have a high sense Of CiyicdI'
and are tried and true patriots. Whv not n'
patriots la matters OF arty
II may be said that business is busiuc-.
aud that they get the pictures they hsut
cheaper than those by our artists. but thi. D.,
mainly due to the fact that they do not reH,
the artist direct. Suppose that we had %
exchange Tor pictures, for wholesale on.
10 which our artists could send their work,
duly priced, and where the buyers for H..
or side influence; would not that solve tho
dihlcultyp An art Jury could easily be A..
ranged, even. to pass on the pictures suh
mitted, and thus insure buyers and publ,
against the peTniCiOus or fraudulent. Their.
are any number Of good painters here VIII
would gladly avail Themselves Of such a.
opportunity. II Is but natural that the chic.
works by these painters would not often b,
offered to his exchange. but when VI con
slider that an artist during his whole workiu.
period can turn out but a limited few picture
Of the highest excellence in his own individna
stvle. and that he can paint at least ffty goo
examples OF that style in one year, the buye'
stands in no fear OF getting less than h.
money. worth. WAR Els EvTrS
INV YORK, April o..