The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-27

generalness to the recommendation that
fits IL for others than MIR. Bellows.
During this week comes that fatal night
when all earnest souls luke account Of
stock and ask themselves the fatal ques-
ton that so embarrassed Robert Louis
SteWensons "Mariheim." New Years
resolutions have gone out of fashion, so
we pretend. but you who blow the
loudest horns on Broadway at midnight
or you who clink glass with an old
friend at the club. or you. poor neglected
failure. who have gone early to bed II,
disdain of the holiday and your own lack
OF cheer. to you all comes the moment
when YOU ask yourself what you really
are after and what you really have
been doing to achieve IL. Even fun
fiedged Academicians make New Years
vows.
People in crowds and groups do not
make resolutions seriously. That Is why
we have so little confidence in the jurles
as such. and the Academy as such
profiting by the occasion. Individual
members, such as Mr.. Bellows. Ren All
iaggin and Atillio piccirilli. will no
doubt make beautiful resolutions and
sfterward go far on the way toward
realizing them. but in the Academy and
In the juries we shall not look for per-
manent advance. Otherwise We might
eNhort the juries to restudy the question
OF the prize giving.
The awards this year have been made
according to the form. but there Is u
possibility land the juries should face
1t New Years eve, only they WON'T that
the public would profit more from an
other form. In giving the Carnegie
tvt..I .l
of st. Ives the committee gave II to- a
picture tEat looks like a prize winning
picture. Alas! how far from real
compliment to the picture is involved
in that remark! Who IL there who does
not recall with a pang a long list Of
hopelessly embarrassing canvases that
Eo trapesing about the country labelled
as prize winners. doing more and more
damage tn the unsophistica ted the fur
Their they 60 west? Mr. Levers canvas
Is fairly clever production. painted
with some show of force. but without
particularly interesting color. without
mystery. without style. without charm.
IL would. for instance. drive you mad To
live with it. Yet as the standard goes It
Is an ideal prize winning picture.
Further along the line upon the same
''s''' Va 'ii' Sdiltly IL u poetic
little picture by Max Bohm. "The Gath
ering Storm" II Is one Of the few pic-
lures present that may be called poetic.
What an astonishment 1t would have
been for the public had the prize been
given To this painting. The committee
would have had to explain by the half
hour to their feminine friends and well
wishers why they gave the honor To
such little painting and TO such a quiet
one. TO one in fact that they. the we'll
wishers, would have passed by had not
their attention been called to II. This
would have been irksome to the COM
mittee. but aftcrward when the picture
leaves the Academy and begins touring
the country it would not be so painful
TO reencounter It, 1t is quite unprctend-
ing. Two females lie upon q bank of a
lake in a mellow grcenish light. There
is stir in the clouds but.thc picture Is
chiefly pleasant as bit of decoration.
Years ago little agitation of the
Kind We mean was cl ated by such an
award. 1t was in IN" Water Color Club
and quiet little landscape by w. l..
Lathrop secured chief honor. There
We're some especially able men in the
water color business in those DAYS and
the surprising and monumental award
gave pleasure and the discussion IL
aroused was not without attendant in
etruction for the public