New-York tribune., 1919-05-11
The collections of Senator w. A. Clark,
Mr.. H. C. Frick and Mr.. George Blu
menthal will be visited.

The collections of Senator w. A. Clark,
Mr.. H. c. Frick and Mr.. George Blu
menthal will be visited.
With reference to this convention,
and to that of the College Art Asso-
citation, which also occurs in New
York this month, the Macbeth gallery
has just opened special exhibition
of American paintings. Thanks to the
cooperation of various private own
ers, it has been possible to make this,
to some extent, retrospective, each
artist included being represented by
"a work of his early, middle and late
periods. The men shown are Wyant,
lnnsss, Martin, Homer, C. H. Davis,
Carlsen, Weir, Melchers,, Daingerield,
Blakelock, Davies, Dewing, Hassam,
Hawthorne, J. F. Murphy and Twacht-
man.
The Ralston gallery announces a new
exhibition of pictures. 1t is devoted
to the work of Norwegian artist, Mr..
Thorolf Holmboe.
The modernists are again in EVIL
dence at the Bourgeois galleries. They
have two spokesmen in the catalogue
on this occasion-M. Albert Gleizes,
who congratulates American art on its
"impersonality," and NJ. Bourgeois him
self, who observes, to begin with, that
"the enjoyment of art is a question of
habit" The inference is that with
greater familiarity we will become bet
ter habituated to the modernists, and
therefore more in sympathy with them.
1t is difficult to believe. There are one
or two things in the show which make
an Immediately winning appeal. The
we'll drawn "Nude" by Mr.. Andrew
Dasburg is one of them. The really
noble bronze bust by Mr.. Maurice
Sterne, "Pueblo Indian" is another
The fantasies of Mr.. Joseph Stella
have in them some color which, merely
as color, is pleasing to the eye. The
rest is chaos and old night. Max
Weber, Paul Burling, Louis Bouche
John Marin and the others, possibly
have artistic ideas which would make
us less forlorn if we could fathom
them, but it is as if, like Gautier, they
stopped at halfway house" Their
ideas are obscured by their technical
inadequacy, or perversity, whichever
it may be. If they have things to say
they take terribly queer ways of say
ing them. Sometimes they seem merely
feeble, as Mr.. Abraham Walkowitz does
her pupils. But mostly they seem, like
Mr.. Weber, to be enmeshed in DALI
ance with impossible theory. No, we
doubt if the case Of modernism" habit
will ever lead to enjoyment.
At the Montross gallery the modern
istic hypothesis still further has its
chance. There is a whole set of etch-
ings by Mr.. Arthur B. Davies executed
under it's influence. plates which only
convince us that the needle Is not his
instrument. Mr.. Weber also and Mr.
Henry Fitch Taylor have their say.
But, fortunately, the extremists are
not permitted to dominate. Mr.. Davies,
in fact, is represented by some charm
ing examples Of his earlier manner as
we'll as by the etchings aforesaid, and
in the same room with the latter shows
several capital drawings. There, too
may be seen brilliant series Of draw
ings after dancers by Mr.. Van Dearing
Perrine. In the main gallery the more
conservative element is quite in con-
troll, with pictures showing how simple
it is to be both conservative and crea-
tive. Ryder, for example, in his mag
nifcent Resurrection" in the ro.
mantle moonlight Marine" and in the
poetic "At the Ford" is as steady as
an Academician, but it doesn't seem tc
prevent his working "big magic" ir
each one of the three pictures. There
are similarly comprehensive paintings
by Blakelock, Hassam, Homer ant
Schilling. There is pleasure in them
if not any recondite mystery. There
are few things on the borderland
like Mr.. Kenneth Miller's "The Ser
pent," or the flower studies by Mr.
Walt Kuhn, which avoid convention
without doing violence to the beauty
of life. But in the conflict between
modernism, so called, and the art which
it would displace, the older school i.
an easy victor.
Glass day exercises Of the New Yorl
School of Applied Design for Womel
will take place on Wednesday at 2:3
o'clock, at 100 Lexington Avenue
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