Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-23
WAR NOTES

| Paris, Dec. 2O.-The change in art
life in Paris is almost incalcula Bile.
AT the National School of the Beaux
Arts 1900 of its 1000 students have
Joined the allied armies. Four of the
| professors are also at the front,
Brandon, Mason, Marcek and Lee
roux.
The closing of the Louvre. the Lux
embourg and other museums: the
cancelling of many important exhibit
lions during the winter; the suspen-
! sion of the classes in many other
| large academies besides the Beau
| Arts; the departure of nearly nine.y
| per cent of the French artists who
are now under arms and the disap.
| pearance 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
! Morris Berthon, chief of Jaussely'.
atelier and also familiar figure u,
| Juliens. He had been a candidate for
the Prix de Rome and numbered man.
Americans in his circle of comrades
| Reaux Arts man, has fallen at the bat
tie of NGtry-le Francois; he receive
a second prize in the last Prix de
Rome concur. Noel Hall, Pierre
Sylvan Petit, Henri Caroly, Georges
| Aussenard. Maurice Vidal Pierre
| Sibien, Louis Planszewski, Georges
Demonehy and Lucien Roustan, Louis
Ringuet and Jean Petit, have been
killed in battles. Gustave Boisson
the guardian, so we'll beloved by the
Americans who have worked in the
great National school, has also fallen
as color bearer in the 18th Infantry
He was killed in rescuing the flag Of
his regiment.
Pierre Laurens, the second son OF
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, Ger
many. He has wide circle of friends
in Baltimore. where he had been re-
Gently to arrange the placing of the
decoration The Surrender of York
town. 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 ne
had been painting decoration com
missioned by the state. He is noN In
the French army A. R. Ulman is
another French artist with an inter-
national reputation who is at the
front.
Among the men who exhibited in
the "F,uturists' show two years ago in
New York are Andre Duren, who is
now a military chauffeur; Charles
Carmoen, on duty in one of the forts
near Dillon: Andre de Segonzac, on
guard near Toul and de la Fresnaye'
who was exempt, but nevertheless en-
tered as a volunteer. He was wound
ed. but has returned to his regiment
after a short convalescence. Jacques
villon is in the trenches near Las
signy. and dozens Of others could D.
mentioned. Matisse, who is still ~
Paris, is impatiently waiting his no.
tice to join his regiment, and has ar
ranged his affairs so that the eA-
hibitien which he. is to give In Ne"
York next February will receive some
of the best Of his works. notwlth-
standing the fact that many or MS
pictures are held in Berlin.
Charles Huard, whose wife is tne
daughter of the late Francis wilson
is one of the many well known etch-
ers who are now in the French army.
His chateau near Villers Cotteret was
occupied by Won Kluck and his gen.
4alr
thing except the four walls Of the
chateau. The beautiful coliect1on ..
porcelains, antiques and rare DOCKS,
which were the JOY Of Monsieur an
Madame Huard and their many
American friends have been taken w
the Germans In the collection We're
nine hundred original drawings by the
artist, representing the best OF MS
life's work.
But the list is unending as nearly
every studio In Paris has the htue
h,ue' white and red card placed in the
corner of the door, saying 'Mobhized'
will return after victory
There are but few American artises
in their Paris studios. F. Armihgto'i
and James Ryon are both serving az
orderlies in the American military
hospital at Neuilly. J. G. Casey en-
listed in the Second regiment OF the
Foreign Legion.
The American colony is more active
in aiding France at the present mo-
ment than in painting pictures. They |
are helping greatly in caring for the
large number of artists and mooeis
who are suffering from the effects OF
the war
A committee Of eighty-four artists
now in America, are gatherine- Keller
fund for the families Of the French