The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-25

Il l|lsIsS INS'lN or lIilS mas ar
rived In New York. He says he
IN not an crnisre. He caIne to
~ this country simply because he
Wished to see America. lie will stay a
fortnight with US and then fit south
waro. TO Florida, Cuba, he doesn't
know where.
A number OF us were trying to per-
suadc him. since he must quit New
York, TO 70 to New Orleans assuring
him that It was beautiful down there
lovely architecture, rare colors, las
swell as Venice" some one in the
crowd ventured. soft climate. 'beaux
ncgrcs" eminently paintablc, good opera
and eating. all IN fact that the soul OF
an artist could desire, but Pascin did
not succunb TO our enthusiasts. Some
thing that somebody tod him years ago
fixed Florida In his mind as desirable.
and besides he firmly insists that Flor
ida IL not so far away a. New Orleans
Not that II Is our AFFAIR The choice
~ habitat by an artist Of Imagination
is often swayed ny trlfes light as air.
Tho planting Of Gauguin upon Tahiti
and Stevenson upon Samoa could not
havs been arranged hy others, and the
only point that concerns us II that in
'''s~' l'lfA' ~ llfN t'lllN elll up'll WlliNl
they could flourish Unlike Gaugun
and Stevenson. Pasc'n Is not looking for
an asylum lie is n passenger bird 10
sure he viii abstract honey from Flor
idaA although personally am not at all
sure that Florida herself will recognize
pa@cin'- product IA honey
To us d-intcrcstcd Northernrrs It
will he great fun 10 see what Pascin
Lea, = 4
thnrc. For that matter. since he is To
he with ne n fortnight. Ne had better
watch out ourselves Mr.. Benson.
"Dodo' said Of the Marriage state, at
IS both II responsibility and an oppor-
unity" and the same may hc said OF
Mr.. Pascin's visit to us II is all
very well for US TO brush our hair
pompadour fashion. and sit straight up
and down IN our chairs in respectable
poses. We can't. of course. keep that
sort Of thing up forever. We cannot
even keep IL up two weeks and the ex-
actly wrong moment OF the tango is
the moment that Mr.. Pascin Will catch
us, you may be sure.
As an artist he il not enamoured Of
masks and poses He has not said SO.
but Judging by his drawings. ! should
say ~" is not deeply concerned wiki
recording the outward aspects OF r.
Spectability. Responsibility is a thing
that Is sure to get itself recorded, auto
maticalv IL no other way. and for that
reason probably Mr.. Pascin let's it alone.
There ia no crying need t. publish II.
since II publishes itself. He has none oC
he animos.ty against virtue that seems
10 put bitterness into the pens OF our
modern English satirists lie is. tu
put the matter as simply as possible
more concerned with beauty than with
satire, although satire is there. II IL
as though the beauty in his drawings
IS conscious. the satire unconscious.
Digging in subterranean passages has
its dangers and 80 have the searChings
of an artist among the wrcckages OF the
human stream. The topic ia an iuvlt-
ing one and one that must be discussed
and understood In America before w
Can hope To make New York the capital
Of the arts. We have poised morality
and art in the scales before this and
sometimes morality wins and sometimes
art wins, but ~ far, AZ each decision
there is always n voice that insists that
there has been Juggling with the scale7,
SO much depends in young countries
such as ours, for instance, upon who ~
umpire Emily Dickinson, our almost
forgotten puctass. claimed IN a poem
that all Boston agreed was perfectly
al right, that truth and beauty wer,
one, and as truth and N lallty are also
me, II follows as the night the day thai
morality and beauty are one; ana con
scquently if PasCin's drawings are beau
i!ful they are moral.