Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-02
Picture of Grand Canal.

The Grand Canal at Venice forms the
subject of Walter Grif1in's picture, which
is pronounced TO be sumptuous in color
quite different from the pictures Of Venice
commonly painted.
Among the younger men. Trueman f.
Fassett of New York has been highly
praised by the critics for his portrait.
The subject. in dark blue velvet dress.
is seated in front of an ebony piano and
dazzling golden Japanese screen forms
the background; original in conception
and boldly carried through. He also
shows landscape, sunlight streaming
through trees against a blue hill in the
distance.
r. P. Nelson sends two clever arrange
ments Of figures and still life. Miss Mil
dred Baynon Copeland of Boston, one of
Richard Afiller's most promising pupils.
has three-quarter-length portrait of
| herself in large summer hat, change
able silk coat and lace skirt. II is posed
against the light and the color scheme is
green, blue and yellow.
Lawson Adams of Philadelphia sends
portrait in gray and pink of lady
with fan. Other American exhibitors
In the painting section are Aston and
Ridgway Knight. Robert Hemming OF
In the water color department F. r.
Dettwiller shows two attractive views of
Florence.
The old salon has for many years
been accused of being Theoretically
sealed to modern progress. Its commit
tee is sensible to this reproach, and is
seeking to remove it. Although the
wall space exceeds in area that of any
annual exposition In the world. the rule
by which any exhibitor who had once
obtained a second-class medal had the
right to exhibit two pictures without
submission to the jury made 1t very DIFF
ficult to give room to younger. and, fire.
quently, better men. Dozens of these
artists who obtained their distinction
thirty, forty and even fifty years ago
for works then in keeping with public
taste have failed TO keep pace with
progress. and their exhibits. according
to modern standards. possess no artistic
merit whatever. Against this state of
affairs the committee is powerless. but
two years ago they succeeded In revis-
ing the rule, and in the future only the
works of winners of the first prize are
exempt from the jury. The new regime
is, however not retroactive.
Aim Of the Committee.
The committee seeks to make the
as possible The first result of the new
spirit has been to crafty improve the
general standard of the last two or three
salons. SOME CTltlcS even thdt,
on the whole, the old salon is now
less conventional than the new. that
of the Societe Rationale des Beaux Arts,
founded in 1890 by Meissonier and Puvis
de Chavannes, because they and their
followers. such as Whistler. Rodin.
Carolus Duran. Henry Gervex, Paul
Besnard and Pascal Dagpan-Bouveret,
felt that there was no hope OF proper
recognition from the Societe des Artistes
Francois. hopelessly welded to outworn
academic modes.
This was enthusiastically welcomed by
the struggling young school of French
Painting and was for a time the most
remarkable annual artistic manifesto
ton in Europe. But members have the
right to exhibit six. and associate mem
bers four. works in every salon. and the
result has been very much as in the
other salon. Members have grown old.
and age has not always brought them
greater skill to compensate for its In
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