Arizona republican., 1914-12-25
WARS |NROADS
 IN ART COLONY
Between 1900 and 2500 Art Students of Paris Serv- ing i'll the French Army, Many of Whom Have Been Wounded
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIspATcH1


 PARIS, Dec 25-The change in art life in Paris is almost incalculable. At the National School of the Beaux Arts 1.SO0 of it's 2,0O0 students have joined the allied armies. Four of the profes- sors are also at the front. Brandon, Mason, Marcek and Leroux.
 The closing of the Louvre, the Lux embourg and other museums: the can ceiling of many important exhibitions during the winter: the suspension of the classes in many other large acade- mics besides the EeauX Arts: the de- parture of nearly ninety per cent of the French artists who are now under arms and the disappearance of thousands of other artists of every nationality are some of the consequences of the war upon this phase of life in Paris.
 Among the first of the Beaux Arts men to fall on the battlefield was Nor ris Berthion, chief of Jaussely's atelier and also a familiar figure at Juliens. He had been q candidate for the PrlX de Rome and numbered many Ameri- cans in his circle of comrades. Jean Hillmacher another prominent BeauX Arts man, has fallen at the battle or Vutrv le- Francois: he received sec ond prize in the last PriX de Rome concour. Noel Hall. Pierre Sylvian Pc tit. Henri Caroly Georges Aussenard, Maurice Vidal Pierre Sibien. Louis Planszewski. Georges Demonchy and I.ucien Roustan, Louis Ringuet and Jean Petit, have been killed in battles. Gustave Boisson, the guardian, so well beloved by the Americans who have worked in the great national school has also fallen. as color bearer in the 76th Infantry. He was killed in res cuing the flag of his regiment.
 Pierre Laurens, the second son ot the famous painter Jean Paul Laurens, has been wounded and taken prisoner. He is now being cared for in the Red Cross hospital in Wittenberg. Germany. lie has q wide circle of friends in Balti- more. where he had been recently to arrange the placing of the decoration -The Surrender of Yorktown, painted by his father. Pierre Laurens is also well known in New York city. where he has painted many important portraits.
 Monsieur Hauffbuer. widely known in America. has returned to France from Richmond Virginia, where he had been painting q decoration commits stoned by the state. He is now in the French army A. R. Ulman, is another French artist with an international reputation who is at the front.
 Among the men who exhibited in the "Futurists" show two years ago in New York are Andre Duren. who is now military chauffeur: Charles Carlnoan, an duty in one of the forts near Dijon: Andre de SegonZac, on guard near Torl and de la Fresnaye. who was exempt but nevertheless entered as a Nolun- reer. He was wounded. but has re- turned to his regiment after a short convaIescence. Jacques Villon is in the trenches near Lassigny, and dozens of others could be mentioned. Matisse, who is still in Paris. is impatiently waiting his notice to join his regiment. and has arranged hs affairs so that the exhibition which he is to give n New York next February will receive some of the best of his works, notwith- standing the fact that many of his pie lures are held in Berlin.
 Charles Huard. whose wife is the daughter of the late Francis Wilson, is one of the many well known etchers who are now in the French army. His chateau near Nillers Cotteret was oc- cupied by Van kluck and his generals. who have taken away everything ex- cept the four walls of the chateau. The beautiful collection of porcelains. an- tiques and rare books. which were the joy of Monsieur and Madame Huard and their many American friends have been taken by the Germans. In the collection were nine hundred original drawings by the artist. representing the best of his lfe's work.
 But the list is intending as nearly every studio in Paris has the little blue, white and red card placed in the corner of the door, saving "Mobilized will re- turn after victory
 There are but few American artists in their Paris studios. F. Armington