New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-18
NOBLE ART WORKS
GIVEN FOR RELIEF
Noted New York Artists
Help War Ambulances
for French.
MRS. WHITNEY FORMS
STRIKING EXHIBITION
All Leading Painters, Sculptors,
Etchers and Photographers
Send Of Their Best.

In the great relief campaign which
forms Americas part in the European
war, our artists have shown splendid
generosity. They have given their
works to be sold for charity and many
Of them have, through their personal
activities, helped along the cause.
Practically all OF them have either
received their training in Paris or have
benefited in one way or another from
contact with that city's artistic atmos-
phere. The general sentiment in the
studios Of New York to-day testities to
grateful sense of an old debt which
ought TO be paid. It can never be paid
in full, of course, but every recognition
Of IL is worth while.
The latest instance of the good will
Of American artists is supplied in the
exhibition which has been organized by
Mrs. Payne Whitney in the studio Of
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, at 3 West
9Th 81.
This show has been admirably
planned. The artist contributing is 10
receive half the amount paid for ms
exhibit and the other half goes to the
American Ambulance Hospital in
Paris. There is common sense in the
arrangement, which ought TO win pub
lie support.
That support is very persuasively in
vited, too, by the nature of the exhibit
ton. The paintings and sculptures IN
the two main rooms, the photographs
in the hall, the drawings and prints
upstairs. include so many excellent
pieces that one might almost assume
that a fastidious jury had been at
work.
1t is especially interesting to note
the presence Of so many clever plct-
ures, not the negligible sketches sent
merely for the sake Of sending some
thing, but the serious works which an
artist ordinarily submits for the Acad-
envy OF some such affair.
An outstanding example is offered
in Miss Lillian Genth's nude, charm
ing full length, painted against the
sylvan background always to be ex-
pected in a canvas of hers. This is
no perfunctory gift.
II is the same with Hugo BALM, who
sends delightfully."- romantic subject,
a landscape in which interest centres
in a graceful figure raising an invoca-
ton 10 the muse. Mr. BALM, by the
way. is also represented by series
of the quaintest imaginable dolls, cut
out of fat pieces Of wood and then
painted. They are more or less IN the
vein of humor which we associate with
Maxfeld Parrish, droll bits Of decora-
ton which are not unlikely, we believe,
TO prove among the leading attractions
Of the show. =,
The group Of figure painters, headed
by Miss Genth and Mr.. BALM, gives
everywhere good account OF itself.
The picturesque type portrayed be r.
Luis Mora, the nude by Warren Davis,
the studio sketch by Irving r. Wiles-
these and other things are well done,
and, into the bargain, entertaining.
They illustrate the purpose at the
bottom of the whole enterprise, TO
justify the appeal made to the possible
purchaser on really artistic grounds
and not on charitable feeling alone.
Among the landscapes, as among the
figure subjects, the painter Of genuine
talent is frequently to the fore. Kan
dali Davey, Albert Groll, Jonas Lie,
Van Perrine, d. Putnam Brinley. Ernest
Lawson. Alden Weir, have all sent
thoroughly Characteristic work.
Occasionally some one appeals with
an unusual piece of painting. The
shore scene by Van Perrine, for eX-
ample. is a little finer than anything
we have hitherto seen from his hand.
Salient in the department of draw
ings are the brilliant studies by Ar
thur B. Davies and the delicate i'm
preston OF Kubelik by Miss Beaux.
The illustrators, too, are 70 be favor
ably noticed here, skilful and amusing
craftsmen like Arthur Keller, c.
Allen Gilbert and May Wilson Preston.
In a little room by themselves the
etchings of Ernest Haskell. Walter
Hale, Dwight Fessenden and others
make a capital effect. The exhibition,
In short. is one TO enjoy on its merits.
Being Of that sort it can hardly fail
to produce a substantial sum for the
hospital in Paris.