New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05

the right place on her canvas. Her
technique, like that OF most good ar
lists, is something learned and con-
sciously forgotten when at work. II Is
like the barbed wire fence that the
colt finds around the pasture by prick
ing himself on il. Later as he grows
he forgets the fence is there, buC some
how he never gets into further trouble
with it. Miss Walter has got by the
pricking days. She stays in the past
ure and enjoys herself So do you
with her.
"The theme is the meaning Of
America TO the immigrant and Of the
immigrant to America: America as the
fusion of many different races, tradi
tions and forces into a vital and unified
whole; America as the land of freedom
and the opportunity for individual de-
velopment." This is on the wall of the
exhibition of "The Immigrant in
America" prize competition at Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney's studio, at
West Eighth Street. II strongly tempts
the visitor to say 10 the adolescent
competitor, Young man, take some one
of your size"
The exhibitors, for the most part,
seem respondent about the immigrant.
However when the art does not cry
aloud for itself some one comes up and
mentions the fact that "the cross in
the prize bit of sculpture symbolizes
child labor" There are a number of
reasons for this dependency. In the
first place, the work, for the most part.
is that of young men; and the younger
the human animal the more he delights
in pictuI ing blood and gore, clean
back TO the time when he played Indian
and tried to scalp sister. As he goes on
in life and meets few of these stom-
ach-sickening realities he lodges them
a little in what he hopes 10 call art and
philosophy. Another source of discour-
agement comes from the fact that most
of the competitors have been through
the struggle themselves and have not
progressed in it any further than New
York City. IL needs a great deal wider
understanding than they have obtained
TO realize that this huge, insular melt
ing pot, called Manhattan Island is just
about the worst spot where they can
view immigration, and is not even as
typical of the meaning and scope of the
United States as Wichita. Kan.
Turn now TO the first prize compost
ton, sculptural group by Mr.. Benia-
mine Buffano, entitled 81 Come Unto
Ny Own and Ny Own Received Ne
Not" Granted that this is the way
he feels about it, his figures say so
with naive, jumbled effectiveness.
The composition is without movement;
yet ii is by all odds the best in the
room. The second prize is a painting.
Mr.. F. G. Apologize, in the third prize,
has got hold Of a real idea with a
genuine lift; the weight of toll, the
hope of future, the offering of youth.
all are there. Unfortunately, the
sculptor has TO say so in such weighty
symbolism of arms and legs-which
means that they are anatomically out
of the question-th his medium dis
tracts from his theme. The fourth
prize is naked horror.
Two other prizes are given TO black
and white drawing and a poster. The
prize drawing, by Mr.. Charles r. Har-
ley, has a sombre weight and effective
ness that attracts you 70 IL from across
the room. As for the poster prize,
some of US will beg leave 70 differ with
the Judges on the basis that the initial
requisite of q poster is to interest the
man in the street. For instance, they
might have given IL 10 the work OF
Arthur Crisp, representing the man
and woman and child Of the Old World
on the shore Of the land, turning. to
pluck from the tree of golden apples:
it is sincere, simple in its brown and
gold coloring, decorative and filled
with the hope that strangers must
bring TO our country. Miss Anne Mer-
RAM Park has said it in another poster
near by. "They Bring Forth Strength.
Ambition: They Ask Liberty, Oppor-
tunity." Neither Of these artists. how
ever. attempts TO crowd the emotions
of the universe into two square rect
of canvas. Both suggest that there Is
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