New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Random Impressions
Of Current Exhibitions


Harry Kemp has given his blessing to
the exhibition of paintings by George
Mather Richards and Gertrude Lund-
borg Richards, now at the Paint Box
Gallery, on Washington Square, in the
following tribute that appears on the
catalogue:
You'd be surprised how much of the
genius that blossoms in The Village
comes from the West.
"The genius of Chicago overAows
New York. California is evident, too.
But Californians and Chicagoans have
the Godgiven faculty of blowing their
own horns.
$50 hand me the horn, Wat. want
to blow it for these Richards folks
from Kansas and the exquisite work
they are doing, if the pictures you are
now exhibiting on your walls afford any
criterion. There's no sham,
nothing blatant about them
no pose. They're full of the simple,
quiet beauty that anybody ought to ap-
preciate."
The subjects of these paintings range
from "Rain" to "a Chinese Princess"
and include "Attila," '@The Sea Lady"
"Chatham Sands" "Willows," "Mush-
room Gatherers" and Gust Babies"
and in their treatment of these varied
themes the artists have been moth
ing if not versatile. A few pictures by
Tom Phelan, Olaf Olson, Harriet Ford.
Ezra Winters, Adele Klaer, Wat Will
Jams, Mendel Ranbach and Hugo Robus
are also included in the exhibition.
a summer exhibition. Of PAINTINGS ia
now open at the Babcock Galleries.
The pictures include representative
paintings by Blakelock, Frank De
Haven, Winslow Homer, Gustav Vie
gand, Glen Newell, Ossip Linde and
others. There is a group of Western
paintings in Gallery B. These include
Frank Tenney Johnson's "Land of the
Blackfeet," Charles NJ. RusselPs "Med-
icine Man." William R. Leigh's "Chief
Little Wound and Albert L. Groll's
"Hopi Indian Village"
The art committee of the Peoples In
stitute, United Neighborhood Guild
(lnc) has assembled a number of
sketches, the work of artists who have
been in service in Europe. The
sketches were executed within the
zones of activity and represent in
many instances the "tiIne off" of ar
fists in the camoufage division. The
collection is being shown this month
at Erasmus Hall, Bay Ridge, and Bush
wick High Schools.
R. T. Walker is represented bv a
group Of six virile sketches, made
around Bar-le-Duc. c. c. Allen, who
is now located in Washington, D. c.,
shows some attractive water colors, in
many of which the grim humor of the
war region is brought out. He is espe-
cially happy in figure groups, in the
celebration Over the Signing of the
Armistice," for example. Kenneth Hart
we'll contributes number of excel
lent sketches made in the Fismes and
Toul sectors. His moonlight piece,
Rue de Docteur Denis" is especially
noteworthy, as is the "Camouhage
Dump a Pannes" and sketches of the
artists own dugout. A group of oils,
thumb-box size, the work of Edward
P. Knox, constitutes a charming note
in the exhibit. 1t is to be hoped that
the painter will use some of these
sketches as the theme of larger can
vases, From Oakland, Cals Louis F.
Voorhees, sends three excellent pencil
sketches done in Nancy, street scenes,
with, in one instance, a view of the
cathedral.
A summer exhibition of paintings by
young contemporary artists will open
tomorrow at the Parish House of the
Church of the Ascension, IL West
Eleventh Street.