New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

Four years ago this winter the AS
ISOLATION of American Painters and
Sculptors held the exhibition which in
troduced a lot of the more freakish
modernists to the public here. and, in
spite of its absurdities, excited a good
deal of serious interest. "The Armory
Show" as it came to be called, has not
yet produced any important effects.
There has been some increase, perhaps,
i'm the number of young men eager TO
evade the discipline or art. but Amerl-
can painting and sculpture have shown
no sign of being Influenced 10 any ap-
preciable extent by the new" hypothe-
ses. But the show, as show, was
great success and was bound sooner or
later to excite emulation. The Alfred
Artists didn't quite hit the mark. WIN
the lust incorporated Society OF lnde-
pendent Artists do so? This body an
nounces that it will hold an exhibition
at the Grand Central Palace IN the
month of April, wherein each exhibitor
will have sufficient space for at least
two pictures, hung In daylight WIN
one on the line. Works will be hung IN
alphabetical order, thus relieving the
hanging committee of the difficulties
raised by their personal judgments.
Citing the great name of lngres IN sup
mort of its decision, the society states
that there will be no juries, and under
a similar sanction from Renoir IL eN-
nlains that there will be no prizes.
Also. "there are no requirements Tor
admission TO the society save the &C
ceptance of its principles and the pay
ment of the initiation fee of 81 and the
annual dues of So" Everybody is to
have a vote. o..
The secretary. Mr.. John r. Covert,
at 20 West Thirty first Street, VIII
give anv further information that is
needed. Mr.. Glackens is president, and
the list of directors shows Mr. I. W.
Hawthorne and Mr.. George Bellows
check bv iowl with NJ. Marcel Duchamp
and Mr.. Maurice Sterne. The pros
rectus is sanguine. For the public
his exhibition will make it possible to
form an idea of the state OF contempt
rarv art. No such survey could be oo-
tanned from a dozen visits TO the exnl'
bitions of former years, when none
could claim to be thoroughly repre-
sentative" This one is putting IN lts
claim a little early. But whether II
turns out to be representative or not
it ought to be amusing.
In the exhibition of drawings OF Italy
ard France by Herman A. WEBSTER AZ
the Keppel gallery are NUMBER doh'
a. or near the front. Mr.. Webster, the
in+roduction TO the catalogue tells us
"answered the summons Of war by
Fastening to Join the American Amou
LANCE Corps in France, and he has
served continuously at the front ever
sircen There are a dozen drawings IS
Sn;no from the envirOns of this service
Tbev are not unlike the majority OF
Jrav,;nos come 10 US from France. The
oraI;tv they want most is excitement
Vr Webster's nervous system has re-
NAMED apparently as it was at the be-
Ginning Of the war, and then IL wa
oui,e nnruffled. The result is a mum
her Of carefully scratched records by
Gentleman able to exc real pleasure ou'
Of matters of fact, who approaches
tbem with a cool head and reports them
ssoaciously. Thus the chaos OF new
ruin NAV. with wise calculation, attain
the order of an efficient village street.
eccord an impression of the very thine
v.h;cb il il not. Art in this way defeats
rho literal and also the emotional fact
The artist who is able TO keep his heaC
ard mind clear before a catastrophe Il
aiso able 10 remember his lessons, anC
is thus very likely to give us an IN
competent or Intellectual because too
placid record.
In the sketch done in crayon, al
"Aubreville, Meuse," he has worked out
of a scene of great devastation q
wonder of ordered line. Perhaps NJ
was unimpressed. Perhaps ne sought
merely to show that by the employ
ment Of two such powerful arms a.
! selection and omission any puzzle o.
intcrtwined lines could be unrayelled
made clear and simple and logical. M
has put down on paper in this man
ner, in water color and crayon ant
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