New Britain herald., 1917-03-23
AT LAST, CHANCE
 FOR POOR ARTIST
Democratic Exhibition Planned and Public Will Be Jury

New York Is to have what will be l the largest and most radical art ex- 1 hibition ever held in America. Ar rangements have besn made by the Society of Independent Artists to stage the collossal exposition which will be held in the Grand Central Palace, April 9 to May 6. Under the slogan, "No jury-no prizes." artists famed the world over. artists noted in America, and artists yet to strug- l gle fo fame, will exhibit paintings or sculpture. or both. with only the pub l lie to judge their merits from the public appreciation which is largely matter of association rather than knowledge. Al each member iaassthe privilege of exhibiting two pictures. or two pieces of statuary, or ono pic- l ture and one piece of statuary, and as there are already more than one thousand members. in the society, 1t is calculated there. will be at least 2,000 exhibits. or twice as many as exhibited in the Armory Show of 1913. Every school of art from the most radical to the most conservative will be represented. Cubists. futurists. post-impressioners, etc., will be there 1 in force.
 Pictures will be hung on a plan never before devised, not even by Paris They will be placed in alpha betical order without regard to clasa or artists reputation. So it is quito likely as not that Glackens. a Haw- | fhOrn4. Ra110xxyc nya famous paintings may be found hang ing side by side with the most imag- inative lines of the unknown who has never seen the Latin Quarter of Gay Paree. or beside an extreme artist portrait.
 Duchamp Has New Picture. Among the extremists who will ex- hibit at the art exposition is Marcel Duchamp. the famous cubist painter | noted chiefly for his Nude Descend ing Staircase" and one of his exhibits will be 8 new cubist painting to be 1 entitled Tulip Hysteria Co-ordinat- ing" MT. Duchamp received his in- spiration from a yellow tulip bed he saw at the present flower show in the Grand Central Palace.
 At the forthcoming art exposition the public is to be the only judge of i the pictures If the, pshalc likes a -l painting it is art, and tfs tho public ;l dies4s 1t may stin be art AAat art a bit too fu6uristic perhaps to sgain favor just now. Many of the pictures will be for sale and the members have been recommended to place as low a price ] as possible upon their exhibits, in or der to make the exhibitions of the society known to the buying public as the most advantageous market in America for contemporary art.
 F Among the patrons are Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. Mrs. William K. Van derbilt. ST.. Miss Katherine Dreier, c. C. Rumsey and Archer M. Hunting ton. The officers and directors of the society are: William J. Glackens, A. L., president, Charles E. Prendergast, vice president, Walter Pach, treas urer, John R. Covert, secretary. George w. Bellows, Homer Boss, Ka- therine s. Dreier, Marcel DucI1amp. Regina A. Farrelly, Arnold Friod- man. Ray Greenleaf, Charles w. flaw thorne, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, Maurice B. Prendergast. Man Ray, Mary c. Rogers, Morton l.. Scham- berg. Joseph Stella, Maurice Sterno. R. c. Farrelly and Waiter c. Arens- berg.
 Women have been placed on the board of directors because it was de- cided by their fellow artists they should have a voice in the direction of affairs as they form a considerable part of the body of exhibitors. Among some of the artists who will exhibit besides those already named. are Robert Vonnoh, N. A.; Augustus George Heaton. W. Sergeant vandall. Denman w. Rose. R. A. Rowland.