The sun., 1919-03-23


ton.
1t remains. therefore, only to give
clue or two to the line OF goods
thus offered. so that those who react
to these forms may rush to the
Knoedler Galleries while there Is yet
time. The most notable of these
Americans. Mr.. Sargent, sends work,
THE Waterfall" that has already been
seen by students OF the academy.
Those who wish to see II again should
wait until about $3.50 or 6:45 in the
late afternoon, for 1t looks Its photo
graphic best under the electric lights.
In bright day light the high lights
upon the foaming water become mere
Cremnitz white.
The American who comes nearest
to providing a topic for conversation
is Max Bohm. but 1t Is not OF himself
or of his technique that visitors talk,
hut of his subject. the famous Mary
Baker Eddy He has chosen to rep
resent her at her most ethereal. She
seems so haggard and unearthly that
her followers might easily have be-
lieved, as come say they did, that
she would never die. for as Mr.. Bohm
draws her, there seems nothing In
her that could die. She seems all
spirit. The painting. however. has no
Interest as painting; nor the color as
color. A work with a religious title,
Christ Walking on the Water" is
provided by II. o. Tanner. This paint
ing may shock the truly pious. as the
| figures are vague, and the main thing
one sees is the uncanny light upon
h.
church, artists were expected to teach
religion and not aesthetics. but there
is something wrong with the times, no
doubt, for the public does hate, now. to
have artists take Bible themes literally.
| There seems to be no way of evolving
a satisfactory platform upon which
tie zealots and the artists of the
church may both stand
| Other Americans in the group are
John Mcclure Hamilton, whose por-
trait of Gladstone Is crisply and clev-
erly executed; Charles Thorndike. who
does an Alpine Torrent" with less re-
alism than Mr.. Sargent. but with more
care to At 1t decoratively to the dimen.
sion of his panel; Walter Griffin, who
soaks his landscapes in color, but who
this time thought little OF the place.
ment of his Bear Grange" and Pau
Bartlett. sculptor, whose bust OF La
| fayette was doubtless study for his
statue of the same hero. 1t Is reticent
III style. and does not distract the at.
| tention OF those who study the neigh
boring Mary Baker Eddy" but once
| seen it may be allowed to contain some
| Of the ardent qualities of the young
| nobleman who crossed the dangerous
ocean upon what must have seemed
| to Europeans of the time as a mighty
forlorn mission.
There are also three American i'm
pressionists. one of whom. William IL
Singer. sends the best study of the
| Norwegian scene that he has shown
us this year, and the other two. +. C.
Frieseke and Ricrard Miller. keep &c
the level they have already established
| The paintings are accompanied BY a
selection Of American drawings anG
etchings in the two smaller galleries
and these are dominated by contribu'
lions from Mr.. Mclaughlin and Mr.
| Pannell.
The list OF painters to be represented
in tho Luxembourg show, Paris, is al
follows:
wayman Adams. Karl Anderson
Frederic c. Bartlett, Clifford Beal
Reynolds Beal Cecilia Beaux, Georg'
Bellows. Frank w. Benson, Loui
Belts, Louis Bouche, Max Bohm, Rob
ert y. Brnndegee, Hugh II. Brecken
ridge, Roy Brown, George dc Fores
Brush. II. Paul Burlin. Bryson Bur
roughs, Howard Russell Butler. Arthu
b. Carries, Emil Carlson, John +. Car
son, Charles s. Chapman, William A
Coffin. Glenn .. Coleman, Colin Camp
bell Cooper.
Paul Cornoyer, William Cotton. Ken
yon Cox. Bruce Crane. Arthur Crisp
Charles G. Curran. Andrew Dasburg
Randall Davey. Charles II. Davis
Joseph de Camp. Charles Melville
Dewey. Edmund w. Dickinson, Pau
Dougherty. Frank V, DuMond, Bel
Foster. Kenneth Frazier, Maurice
Fromkes. William Glackens, Walter
Griffin. Albert l.. Groll, Oliver Dennet
Grover, Bernard Gussow, Gardner
Hale, Philip l.. Hale, Samuel IIalpert
John Mcclure Hamilton, Birge Harri
son. Childe Hassam, Charles W. Haw
| IhoDtII i-uscIlt illee
Victor Higgins, Charles Hopkinson
William II. Howe. Eric Hudson, Johr
c. Johahsen, Francis c. Jones. RI. Boil
ton Jones, Julia Kelly. Rockwell Kent
Edward A. Kramer, Leon Knoll, Ma,
Kuehne.
Ernest Lawson, w. L. Lathrop
Haley Lever. Jonas Lie. Dewitt NJ
Lockman. George Luks, Henry lie,
McFee, NJ. Jean McLane. Alfred Fl
Maurer, Kenneth II. Miller, Richard
+. Miller, +. Luis Mora, Jerome Myers
Hobart Nichols, Violet Oakley, Georg,
F. OF Walter l.. Palmer. William NJ
Paxton. Joseph T. Pearson. Jr., Val
bearing Perrine, Maurice Prendergast
Grace Ravlin. Edward W. Redheld
Lieut., Henry Reuterdahl. L. S. y. r. F.
William Ritschel, William s. Robinson
Edward +. Rock.
Charles Roseps Ernest 4, Rosen
Chauncey T. Ryder. Leopold Seyffert
Charles Sheeler. Everett Shinn, join
Sloan, William r, Smedley. Eugene
Spicher, Robert Spencer. Carl Sprin
chorn, Modest Stein. Joseph Stella