The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-17
WOMEN'S ART SHOW
IS WELL BALANCED
Paintings Are Hung SO a. ITO
Harmonize With Sculp-
lures. ~..
PORTRAIT BY MISS BEAUx
Works by Annette st. Gaudens
and Jane Poupelet Also
on Exhibition. sA-

The National Association OF Women
Painters and sc1iptofs. inc, publishes
rs age upon the hrst page Of the catA-
iosue Of its new exhibition, 90 II 10 not
sying away any great secret 10 an
nounce that II IL twenty eight years old.
p,r Il had to get to be twenty -eisht years
old before II got into the Vanderbilt
Gallery The women are now Installed
for two or three weeks in the Fine Arts
building, on West Fifty-seventh street,
and they and their friends at the private
view seemed pleased Mt TIE outlook upon
the art world which can be obtained
from these hallowed but men haunted
precincts
In the first room piece OF sculpture
hy Annette *. Gaudens has q place %
prominent that the subject OF the work,
salvation" seems to bear q direct reaa-
ton upon the beatitudes of the women
who used 10 fnd II dlfficalt 10 M the
small Arlington Gallery on Madison ave-
nue. and nov find Il twice as dif3cuIt
to contain themselves IN the great Fine
Arts Building
Miss st Gaudens's RELIEF. which a CEN
fury ago. had this artist fiouftshed then,
would have been simple "Resuffec-
ton" with promises OF peace m the life
hereafter. shows a modern Christ who
legends that are part OF the decorative
scheme may be believed, instant and
manifold comforts In our present exist
ence He seems to be shatterink our
dsbeliefs upon such subjects "a sex
equality, hereditary privilege. drink. pow
srty. and the like, but gives Ms no as
sursnce whatever in regard TO the pros.
rects Of architects In the United States--
class that needs urgent and instant
help, if poverty Is really to be abolished.
Their nest show In 70 Years.
but It is quite plain. In every way and
in every room. that the women have
taken the occasion seriously. They never
gave go good show In all OF their
twenty-eight years nor never had II 20
well hung. The hanging committee, Ade-
lside Deming, Bertha NJ. Peyton, Lind.
sey NJ Sterling and Harriet Frishmuth,
must be mentioned because the members
did 20 well The task Of balancine
sculptures and paintings IL not easy, as
many committees have discovered, but in
this exhibition the eye naturally travels
from sculpture to picture and back asain
without sense OF confusion or fatigue.
To decide upon the chief honors would
he difficult. for large number among
The contributors have been clever. with
an approximately even cleverness. The
most distinguished name amonR the
painters N that OF Miss Cecilia Beaux.
and her portrait OF Robert BrandeRee
will be much looked at. She has chosen
paintable sitter. which IL q thing that
rot all portrait painters can AFFORD TO do,
and has had good but not an intense
time with her brushes.
This artists technique Is flowing. and
sometimes she becomes 40 fascinated BY
the mere flow OF colors that the sitter
survives, as II were. by accident The
present Mr.. Brandegee IL mot 30 much
removed from us by Miss Beaux's f,re-
occupation with values rs he would have
heAn we're we Viewing him through a
wire screen: but there can be no doubt
that Frans Halls, who also cared for
values but was never hampered by them,
would have made us feel him more SOL
'dN II is a pity that any member OF
the National Association or Women
Painters and Sculptors. Inc, should al
low herself to be eciipsed by man,
even by Frans Halls.
Jane PoupeIess Sculpture.
tors Is Jane Poupelet OF Paris, who
seems to he able to continue getting her
nronzes TO Us. and her ''SpringinK Girl"
VIII he found worthy OF her reputation.
u has touch Of modernity In It's sim
pllhed hut sure construction and Is full
OF the Inconsistencies that In 30 easy
for the French and 30 dificult for
Americans.
Two excellent portraits. one Of
Douglas Robinson and the other Of Ur.
walter r. James. have been painted by
Mrs Ellen Rand Emmett. although there
seems to have been a trifiing hesits-