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The New York herald., 1920-12-05
MARSDEN HARTLEY HECKLED.

The members of the Societe Anonyne
were somewhat troubled by the after
results or the Marsden Hartley lecture
on the evening of November go Not
but that the lecture was a successi Mr..
Hartley Is a man who thinks and his
loosely pat together essay, illuminated
by nicely spaced epigrams, stimulated.
as IL was hoped II would, the somewhat
hungry looking audience. But after the
lecture the occasion was made for some
questions. and Il was this part of the
evening that did not proceed along ex-
pected lines.
At first people wouldn't ask questions.
Miss Dreier and Mr. walkowitz of the
societe were there to assist Mr.. Hartley
with the answers, but a strange shyness
descended upon the long haired young
men and short haired young women who
filled the rooms and for a time II seemed
as though nothing was 10 be dada.
Suddenly this embarrassment was re-
placed by another. An actual question
was being asked. The speaker who had
a young college professor air, was start
lingly slick. His tones had a mocking
caress In them that was disturbing and
there was a neat precision in his choice
of words that gave them a fictitious inn
portance. Such finished form upon the
part of an interlocutor started a bending
of necks to see him and the official an
swerers of the question were caught in
the general confusion and hemmcd and
hawed, until the young man asked an
other question in still more mellfluous
accents and stll more stylish words.
At that there was general panic. Who
is this awful stranger who has come
here to destroy modern artY was the
whisper that ran around the room. Is
there no help anywhere The conster-
nation of the answerers was so COM
plete that even when the stranger lifted
his voice above the young uproar to put
the time worn query, What is cubism"
they could not tell him.
The voice Of lady was heard to say
that Il was a slang term invented by
critics, but Mr.. Hartley confessed he
didn't know what cubism was. The
general aim OF the meeting had not been
stated, but undoubtedly there were
many present who had hoped that the
occasion would marID the formal entry
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
LITHOGRAPHS AT LIBRARY.

! The New York Public Library has ar
ranged an exhibition of American
Lithographer of To-day" that follows In
line the big exhibition of American
etchings held in the same place last
spring. The collection will remain on
view until January Is.
If lithog1 Apply has not been adopted to
the same extent as etching by artists, the
Library believes there is all the more
| reason for reviewing the work that has
been already accomplished. 1t may help
to show how well the medium is adapted
to the artists needs. 1t has been con-
sidered by many to be purely synony-
nous with commercial undertakings. And
yet the process is peculiarly one for the
artist. 1t is most directly obvious
through the great variety of technical
effects, such as crayon. pen and ink,
washes, grained tones and scarped lights.
In this variety of opportunity lies the
possibility of response to every tempera-
ment that may seek expression.
In the early days of lithography in
this country artists of note were occa-
sionally enlisted in the service of the
photographic printers--Sully. Inman ct
al-and this fact has some significance,
even though the results were not start
ling. In the present exhibition the work
Of that time Is noted in little group of
prints. as are also impressions by Will
lam Morris Hunt, ]. Foxcroft Cole,
Thomas Moran and others, done in the
sixties and seventies, connecting more
directly with present day activities In
the movement toward 'painter-llthog-
raphy," fathered about 1896 by Mon
tague Marks and responded to by Alden
Weir, II. w. Ranger, Carroll Beckwith
and others. Then Whistler took up the
art joyously and the French masters ac-
customed us to blacks Of a rich reso-
nance.
These possibilities appear likewise in
the more recent work forming the ex-
hibition proper. which latter as in the
etching exhibition, is arranged in strict
alphabetical order by names of the ar
lists. There is thus no emphasis on any
artist or print.
There are evidenced about as many
different ways of handling this most
pliable and adaptable medium as there
are contemporary artists represented,
about forty as II happens. The stone
responds in obvious fashion to the touch.
In these modern examples of lithog-
raphy one finds the utmost delicacy OF
pearly tints and the rugged vigor Of
broad. heavy crayon strokes, straight
realism and an imaginative quality that
leans toward Blake, the sketch made TO
try the process and the products of a
most thorough knowledge of lithographic
printing, the open line and the tone. And
when 1t comes to matter of subject
there Is the choice of the city view or
the roadside, the imposing cathedral or
the farmhouse. the realistic portrait or
the idealistic composition. the prizefight,
or the nymphs by the river bank. But
throughout all there runs the interest
or the use of the varying medium. at
times colored by the strong preoccnna-
tion with the delights of technical ex-
perimeutation.
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cautioned perhaps. that Mr. Demuth
has founded his present piety upon very
direct contacts with practical life in the
early days of his career. Alls we'll that
ends well, / suppose, but certainly Mr..
Demuth once was not the pillar of virtue
that he is at present. In the little gal
Iery to the left as you enter (clergymen
are warned TO shun iD hangs series Of
little water colors inspired by a reading
OF Zolas Mana"
The change from the warm, perfumed
atmosphere of the Mana" drawings to
the chill OF the "Coatesville Steel Mills"
reminds one OF an anecdote OF Mr..
George Moore. Mr.. Moore. as all the
world knows, does not specialize in
religious instruction. but he says that a
young and beautiful daughter of noble
house once came to him in great per-
turbation of soul. asking how she could
be good. Mr. Moore says he asked her
which she would prefer--to be good in
youth or In old age-for one couldn't be
good in both, and the young lady. after
grasping the idea in it's entirety, went
sadly away, resolving to be as bad as
she possibly could, so that she should
eventually be surfeited with badness and
come naturally to sanity wind-up
later on.
Mr.. Demuth evidently has been perus-
ing the fables of George Moore, as well
as those of Emile Zola.
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NeuS and
Charles Demuth Displays His
Beautiful Landscapes at
Daniels.
BY HENRY MCBRIDE.

~HARLEs DEMUTE has painted
little during the last year, but
he has painted well. He grows
more earnest ard eloquent with the
times; his exhibition which has just
opened in the Daniel Galleries proves
His studies OF aspects of New England
and Pennsylvania would be quite ter
rible--if they were not so beautiful.
Whether he has studied Nietsche or
not ! do not know, but he certainly
sees plenty of applied Nietschianism in
this beloved but hard country of ours.
Mr.. Demuth must have gone through
the period OF terror into which most
sensitive artists plunge upon returning
to this country after the dolce far
,lfente of the Paris school days, else he
could not have accepted in this stern
fashion the formidable straight lines
OF our architecture as revealed in our
unblinking light.
He bravely plays our game. He holds
the mirror up to nature-I use this
term in spite of the fact that Mr..
Demuth is cubist-and through sheer
enthusiasm of youth-or perhaps it's
the incurable poetry of his disposition
arranges his Impressions of the un-
speakable buildings in which our Amer
lean dollars are gained-into lovely
report. His version Of the Coatesville
Steel Mills gives that place an excuse
for having existed. The town Of which
the mill is the blossom once acquired a
measure of Ill fame by burning a negro
1T the stake in a particularly revolving
manner. This circumstance, thanks to
the accident of an artist having passed
that way. has now something to offset
it upon the Coatesville escutcheon. The
"Coatesville Steel Mills" by Mr.. De-
muth, is memorable work Of art, and
is recommended TO mill owners and
noralists for purposes of study
Clergymen in search of spiritual SUD-
port who may be led into the Daniel
Galleries by this review ought to be
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Francis McComas, an Australian, who
has made California his residence and
the deserts his field of artistic endeavor,
is exhibiting his latest water colors in
the galleries of Wildenstein & Co. He
exhibited once before in New York.
they say, eight years ago. and met with
considerable appreciation at that time
He is said to have been hailed as the
one man in America who does the des-
ert.' / might amend that by saying he
is the one gentleman who does the des-
ert and that VIII be considered high
praise according as you consider gen.
tlemanliness or savagery conscnant with
the desert.
For Mr. McComas is suave. Mr.. Tracy
says he has had practically no training.
But in that case Mr.. McComas has stud
led cur unwritten laws we'll He has
put himself in class with such Amerl-
can painters as Paul Dougherty and w.
l.. Lathrop, and that is to say his per-
formances will not outrage too much
the susceptibilities of the ordinary
American buyers of the day. OF these
three, Mr.. Lathrop risks a shade more
Of the je ne sais quoi in his work, but
upon the whole, business houses would
regard all three men as equally safe.
Mr.. McComas has painted in oils and
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of Ar-Attractipe Winter Exhibitions Many Galleries

hibition will open March 5 In the re-
constructed art galleries OF. the Ameri-
can Fine Arts Society. The winter ana
spring exhibitions will be united in one
for this season, an amalgamation that
ought to help along the interest, as the
arrangement OF allotting the Altman
figure prizes to the fall exhibition has
had a damaging effect upon the spring
show heretofore.
The jury OF selection Is Incredibly
large. numbering over sixty, but the per-
sonnel of the jury OF awards, which 70
most artists is the matter OF chief mo
ment may be mentioned. II consists OF
Robert I. Aitken. Solon II. Borglum. A.
Stirling Calder, Thomas W. Dewing
Rudolph Evans. John Flanagan, James
+. Fraser. Daniel CARRIER. Charles W
Hawthorne. William III. Howe. John C.
Johansen, w. l.. Lathrop, j. Francis
Murphy w. Elmer schofield and FrsS-
erick ]. Waugh.
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group OF young American painters
who have banded together permanently
are exhibiting in the Babcock Galleries.
They are landscapists and figure paint
ers of about even merit, but the can
vases OF George Pearse Ennis and 9. j.
Stengel stand out for vigor OF treatment
and charm of color above the others.
Mr.. Roth, the etcher. submits a.fand-
scape that is almost abstract-but the
color of II Is agreeable. Others who
show are Richard NJ. Kimbel, Walter
Farndon, H. Vance Swope. Oscar Julius,
T.. X. Detwiller, Arthur r.. Friedlander,
Bella Mayer. John r. Costigan, Frank
HAZEL. w. e. b. StarSweather, G. l..
Berg and Eric Hudson.
Clark G.. Voorhees,, whose landscapes
have been seen In the Touchstone Gal
leries, Is a capable painter, who follows
rather closely In the footsteps of Mr..
Hassam and Mr. Metcalf-partlcularly
Mr.. Metcalf His color Is pleasant and
his choice of q subject Is sound rather
than singular He paints at all seasons,
but his snow scenes are a shade more
conventional than his autumn scenes,
which Is odd. for most impressionists
do most of their daring when the snow
Is on the ground. He paints, II is said,
In the neighborhood or Lyme, Conn,
once a stamping ground for Mr. Has
sam, and still frequented by hordes of
artists.
Jean Gabriel Domergue, a collection
of whose works Is being shown in the
Belmaison Galleries, at Wanamakers
Is dashing French painter. who uses
color in livelier fashion than most
American artists dare TO do, and also
Yields his brush freely. There are traces
OF modernism In his style, but there Is
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and the tables will be attended by many
Of the pretty models dressed in costumes
Of various designs and periods.
The thirty-frst annual exhibition OF
the New York Water Color Club will
be held IN the galleries of the American
Fine Arts Society. beginning January
Is. Pictures will be received at the gall
leres on December 80 between and s..
The jury of selection consists of Hilda
Belcher, George Elmer Browne. John f.
Carlson. Charles G. Curran, Edward
Dufner. Frank Tenney Johnson, Mary
Nicholepa McCord. II. c. Merrill. r. L..
Mora. Aiethea II. Pratt. Emily N. Van
derpoel and Cullen Yates. The AleH
ander NJ. Hudnut prize of 800 will be
awarded to the most meritorious water
color in the exhibition.
The National Academy OF Design an
nounces that its ninety-sixth annual ex-
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not enough of ii 90 interfere with his
successes in official circles. He won the
Grand Gold Medal at the Salon of 1920
with a group of canvases. one of which,
La Douce Illusion" figures in the pres
ent collection. He has exhibited In
Edinburgh, San Francisco, Buenos
Ayres, Rio Janeiro. the Carnegie Insti
tute of Pittsburg. in Chicago and In the
Buffalo Institute.
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
NOTES OF THE ART WORLD.

A loan exhibition Of old masters, for
the benefit of the Bellevue Hospital Con-
valescent Relief Committee, occupies the
main gallery of NJ. Knoedler & Co., and
includes works by such great men as
Rembrandt, Raeburn, Gainsborough.
Hopner, Manet, Moroni Nattler, Rom
ney. Stuart. Copley and the American
landscapist Inness.
The Rembrandt is a small portrait of
the artists son Titus, and an especially
spiritual aspect of him. IT Is owned by
Jules S. Bache. The example by Manet.
lent by Mrs. John w. Simpson, Is
vigorous stifflife still life study of fish.
Mrs. Simpson lends also q fine Chardin
Blowing Soap Bubbles" One Of the
Copley portraits is the recently discov-
cred portrait of Henry Laurens. now
owned by Thomas y. Clarke. Henry
Laurens. born in Charleston, S. c.. who
sat for it. was president Of the Continen-
tai Congress in 1777. Later he was inn
prisoned in the Tower of London for his
ardor in the cause of American inde-
pendence. The former owner of the
portrait, Mrs. Bagwell of Clonmell. Ire
land wrote of 1t to ID. D. Wallace. an
author of life of Henry Laurens. Thus
brought to the attention of critics the
picture was easily identified. Prof. Wal
lace believes It to have been presented
by Henry Laurens to some contemporary
member OF the Bagwell family
Others who have lent masterpieces to
the exhibition are G. NJ. Schwab, Mrs,
Harry Kearsarge Knapp, Mrs. Nicholas
Brady. Mr.. and Mrs. George Blumen-
thai, j. Horace Harding and A. w.
Mellon.
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upon the New York scene OF "Dadism."
and to waste time upon anything so
ancient as cubism seemed beside the
mark.
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paints his water colors as though he
were loath to relinquish the qualities
that one obtains so easily In oils. The
sparkle that one usually associates with
water colors has been replaced with an
opaquenesS in consequence.
The new water colors, so Mr.. Tracy
says, are the fruit of many arduous trips
INTO the remite corners of the Arizona
desert-trips taken by wagon and pack
through the villages of the Hopis and
into the wilder regions dominated by
the Navajos. "Here nature is fail-
ingiy magnificent, prodigal with DIOR
as nowhere else in America, but cruel
always to the traveller. These pictures
are all landscapes-mesas in dramatic
light. Indian houses, ancient towns
standing desolate in caves of forgotten
canyons-all subjects that call for ex-
traordinary rendering"
"McComas came to America Young.
Beyond receiving some slight early
academic training in the Sydney schools
ne studied little under other men, He
mas worked out his Ideas alone Twelve
years ago he gave his first exhibitions
abroad and was received very warmly
Doth In Paris and in London. but he
never went back to repeat those tri-
umphs. At that period he was best
.. 80 ans "ateiS SoloFS OI trees, eS-
pecially the oaks of California which
grow to impressive proportions, and for
his paintings, OF Greece and the high
towns of Spain
In the last ten years Francis Nc
Comas has lived much in the desert and
come out with studies that mean such
hardships as few artists are willing to
endure, because water and food are
still matters of struggle on the mysteri-
Gus sands of the Southwest. He does
not go where there are communities of
painters. but into the remote places
where only a little party Of archaeolo-
gists or venturesome explorers may be
found"
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Glen Cooper Henshaw is the artist OF
the moment in the Touchstone Galleries
Mr.. Henshaw undoubtedly has tempera-
ment, but he Is still torn between vari-
Gus strong nclinations. and has not yet
really struck his stride. His studies OF
the large office buildings of New York
fairly drip with color. The brokers and
other busy men in the lower part OF the
city would be quite amazed at the radi-
ance Mr.. Henshaw has discovered in the
skyscrapers that look so grim and gray
to them in these days OF low securities.
The annual Christmas sale at the Art
Workers Club, 224 West Fifty-eighth
street. which viii take place December
and 8, promises to be of more than
usual interest, for, In addition TO the
regular popular art objects-tanagra fig-
ures casts, frames. book ends. trays
boxes, &c.-there will be a decidedly at
tractiye showing of original small PIC
lures and sketches in oil and water color
by recognized artists. Unique plans Tor
the tea room decorations are in progress
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shows also a large overmantel landscape
and many glimpses of attractive spots
In Normandy and in Maine.
The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1920-12-30
LEGION TEAM TOO
MUCH FOR WALL

The Legion team of basket ball
players met the Wall town team at
Pohle's Hall on Tuesday evening.
From the start to the the finish,
the game was whirlwind. The
locals proved too much for the
boys from up the line, literally
playing them off their feet. The
Wall players held their own in fair
shape during the first part of the
game and the score at the end of
the first half was 10 to II in the
favor of Philip. During the last
part of the game the pace set by
the fast Philip bunch proved too
much for them and the game
ended with a Al to 16 score IN
favor of the Legion team.
Several substitute players were
put in from time to time by both
sides and the game was the fastest
ever witnessed on the local floor.
The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1920-12-30
OTTUMWA NEWS

Most wives will sit longer with
the hero of a story than with their
own husbands.
III. B. Hudson was hauling lum-
ber and building material from
Midland to his ranch last week.
Mr.. Hudson plans on building q
large and up to date hog house
during the winter and early
spring.
A large crowd was in Ottumwa
attending the school program on
Wednesday evening and all are of
the opinion that it was the finest
of its kind ever rendered In this
community. Mrs. Austin, the teach
|er, deserves great credit for her
patience and ability in training
the children ND to the high stand
ard of perfection they have attain
ed.
Miss Bernice Thombson who is
GIIGiluilS SClltFOi at HUI OIl 10 SpViiOi
ing her vacation at home a few
miles southwest of Ottumwa.
Ed Daum is spending a few days
visiting with Harold Johnson.
Bert Shoemaker was hauling
coal and other supplies from Mid
land last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wn. Haerer were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Crum
Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Thorne took
Christmas dinner with the Stouts.
On Christmas eve Miss Hansen
ably assisted by her school and
Mr.. r. B. Stevens, gave one of the
most pleasant entertainments at
he Manila school house the pub
lie has had the pleasure of attend
mo in a long time. It would be a
difficult task to saw to whom be-
longs the most credit, the teacher,
The school or Mr.. Stevens, as all
have rare ability, far above the
average, and on this occasion each
seemed at their best and perform
The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1920-12-30
CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS
GIVEN BY CHURCHES

Christmas programs were given
by the various churches in Philip
on Friday evening. and in spite OF
the extremely cold weather, all
were we'll attended and the pro-
grams were above the average OF
such affairs.
At the Presbyterian church the
program was attended with a tree
loaded with good things for the
youngsters. The Methodist church
was crowded with the little folks
and parents and friends and after
n very appropriate and interesting
program, they were loaded with
the things that make Christmas
worth while.
The Catholics held their exercis-
es in Pohle's Hall, and here also a
large Chritmas tree was the main
The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1920-12-30
RECEIVERS CAR STOLEN LAST
SEPTEMBER

Sheriff Slocum, accompanied by
e. S. Golf and A. E. Dennie, went
to Wasta yesterday where they
recovede the automobile belonging
70 Mr.. Dennie, which was stolen
from the streets of Philip during
the Haakon County Fair which
was held during the first days of
last September.
The car was located by Deputy
Sheriff Mackrill, of Pennington
county, who through correspon-
dence with Mr.. Slocum identified
the car as that belonging to Mr..
Dennie. The machine was found
to be nniniured, in fact the speed
ometer showed that it had been
run less than one hundred miles
since it was taken from the streets
of this city several months ago.
1t had been carefully put away
in a barn on deserted homestead
a short distance from Wasta, and
while some of the residents of the
country knew it was there, they
thought from the way it had been
stored that it had been put away
while the owner made a trip out
Of the country and that he would
no doubt return and get it. II
is not known who the party is who
took the car, but an effort will be
made to learn his identity.
Mr.. Dennie is fortunate to re
cover car stolen for as long {
period OF time as this, esT,eciaihi,
so when he find the car in the best
of condition, not even the tires
showing any use.
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ed their parts accordingly.

ed their parts accordingly.
This short skirt dope has re-
vealed the fact that some legs are
limbs and limbs are twigs.
MANY men marry in haste and
pay alimony for the rest of their
lives.
A man likes to empty the ashes
about as well as the average wo-
man likes to wash the dishes.
The community dinner given at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas,
Apce Christmas evening was a
complete success as these dinners
have always been, A large crowd
was in attendance and the many
good things to eat and the good
cheer and clad hand, pleasant
wishes and God-speed. which has
come to be habit with this peo-
ole makes one forget for the time
at least the misfortunes which
have come to be life's principal
asset.
The neople of the Manila dis
trict, otherwise known as the com
munity bunch, will meet at the
bone of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Lauer
| New Years Eve, where the old
year will be watched out and the
new one in and another of those
famous feeds and good times will
be had.
| ANYWAY, there is consolation in
the fact that this is the last ''Bur,
Lesson Christmas"
The ice man of this neighbor
hood are preparing for the ice
| harvest.
Some ono hes said, there are
| drugstore blondes and home brun
ettes."
| Some people have trouble with
their stomachs and others have
| trouble getting something to give
ithrm stomach trouble.
! Joe Philips and C. d. Hoover
were in town a few minutes or
start something, in fact did star
| it. but made rather a poor finish
| Jack Swarton and wife spen'
| Christmas with the latter's par
nets.
! Ed Kimbro the prize corn-raise
or grower of Haakon county. wa
doing business in Ottumwa Tues
| day.
j Very little doing these days il
the way of business. All seem t,
be waiting for the rush of worl