The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-07
CUBIST ART BREAKS
OUT IN THREE PLACES
It's Epidemic at the MontrOss
Gallery, the Mcdowell and
the National Arts Club.
LOCAL FUTURIsTS BUSY
Ever Since the Goth Regiment
Armory Show They've Been
Splitting Gobs Of Paint.

| Splitting GObs or Paint.
! When one seeks to recall IA single New
York happening In the memory OF tho
! present generation that for calm repres-
sion and aesthetic coheslveness compares
with any one OF three cubist-futurist-
post-impressionist picture exhibitions now
on View abou, the only happenings that
may be mentioned IN the same breath are
! the blowing up OF Hell Gate by the late
Major John Newton or the unity OF that
J primary day about a dozen years ago in
/ the Second Assembly district when Big
Tom Foley licked the tar GU. OF the Paddy
Diver contingent.
/ II John Ruskin himself hadn't said
long ago in Modern Painters" tina. all
this here now, high brow criticism OF
swell art should be done with tho thought
always In tho critics mind that he is
wearing white kid gloves and pink silk
stockings and should write his criticism
accordingly. THE SUN reporter would
! have cried. Officer. he's In again :" the
/ minute the reporter looked into the coun-
| tenance OF Old Joe Stella's futurist pic
ture called "Concy Island. Battle of
| ilgnls, hirul trfts. Tor 1t tue
| modernists' exhibition ut the Montross
galleries. $50 Fifth avenue.
or take those three nude lady brick
! layers bathing on their way home from
| work over at the Mcdowell Clubs show
! at los West Ffty-ifth street for another
4 instance. where Jack Alger and confreres
are giving vent 20 their feelings all over
/ the walls every weekday and sundays.
/ Or hurry down to the galleries of the
! National Arts Club in Gramercy Park
/ show your fire badge and walk right UP
face to face with either Of Andy Das-
burg's exquisite little futurist impress
| slons. Mabel Dodge Present and its
! companion. Absence OF Mabel Dodge"
The reporter who swan from exhibition to
exhibition to exhibition all afternoon yes
Z tcrday was not. 1t should be said here.
a regular art critic, hut only volunteer.
! and therefore could only gasp emo
tionallv and impressively before each cube
, and future II don't know anything about
art, but l know what l like
Local Modcrnists Busy.
|; seems that since Matisse. Van Gogh.
Gaugu!n and the rest OF those lads who
about eleven months ago At the Internal
,ional Exhibition ~ Modern Art at the
/ S!xty-ninth Regiment Armory broke on,
with that cubist nude lady sliding down
the cellar steps, plus AN armory hlled
ernists have been working themselves al
up IN II ferinent. Deputy Battalion Chief
Smoky Joe Martin IL said often TO have
been called TO the iesihe,ic neighhorhood
Of Macdougal alley of late only to learn
that some nears!ghted passerby had mis-
taken art for another bomb outrage and
had turned in four alarms rapidly.
A. the reporter was entering one gal
lrrl yesterday he was almost knocked
down u nght OF stairs by man who
later said his name was Durkin and that
he was in Wholesale hides in the leather
district of Spruce street. The gentleman
said he had got into the gallery by mis-
take. As he tore down the steps nc held
his umbrella commandingly and was yell
ing. Women and children first" SO they
threw him out.
Lots take a loving look 1T a few OF tn.
very dain,iest things down at the National
Arts club show and then hurry uptown
to the others
\ wonderful, Gold;hwaite which the
programme lists as Afternoon n Bia-rits'
viii get your eye. anybody's eye, ~ sdoH
! as anything else. There Is no proof that
this is Riarriz NJ all. hecaus. the picture
merely shows what later proves 10 De- Il
lady In some kind OF gown reclining In
, bed uut why bubble where the room Il.
Why doubled up In bed in the after
, noon" All. there's but biz OF the
mysticism of this truly great work. Tn.
2
the rest - the we'll dressed lady. II ;hi.
young woman here ~ admirably de-
iu-at,-l mad mad n proper nights sleeI
preceding that afternnon--!t she woult
hut listen % Old sam Blythe and cur gu
the stun a, midnight part!es--she woul,
not now have II head Of the color, snap
and size of a pumpkin.
Thus from this picture We learn greA
moral lesson, which undoubtedly was tbs
object OF the artist in releasing the paint
!. ing for public exposure All youn. grill
should see IT,
In the Natural UltPamsrfne.
on the opposite wall but nearer that par
OF the building where one can hear tn
e shaking cocktails In the billiard room o
the Players Club next door In Vernon
. Euiss "A Dissertation" $50 In the cata
loguo Nernon's strong decorative sens
a depicts two nude misses in III" natura
% ultramarine color Of the human body.
e They are climbing through what II
probably a cathedral window that Ia Il
the act of failing apart Both girls arr
= skidding. The green ear on one girl ant
the bright rod ear on tn" other ~ futuris
= symbolism that is simplicity itself afte
g one ponders Il moment Vernon, By thes'
= strokes of genius, conveys the though
= that some one came 10 the cathedral win
dow on "A Bronx subway express and tn
other on Van Cortlandt Park train.
g In crawling toward the cathedral win
4 dow aud sna shlng II to get in--ev!dcnti!
. they'd been out late and think they ar
! breaking into their own house quietly
. both girls have partly fallen into a pa
= ! OF Yellow ppint, probably left in front a
c some Rro,X building operation. Bot
ladies' are stewed.
That armory exhibition, It Is evlden
= from No. 1iO. THE Grove--situdy OF Ges
. lures has got Arthur Davies wing!ng
too. one th!nhs OF Jacks at about 20
. \. VI. on any New Years morning. Some
y body evidently first threw fresh bott
OF chile sauce ~ Jimmie kellar or tn
i head waiter The hyins wedge ha
o formed. And by way OF intense action
Ia youth who has lost all his clothes bu
r sim retains college education and
a veal, chin IL being fiung through the re
v0lvng doors and r'cochets PERSISTENT
ia through tho Hippodromes glass entranc
v and Is splaSh'ny down an aisle into IN
a tank.
M,sernal lnattn1p nf , Er~h