Evening star., 1921-01-23
III sTERLING HEILIG.


w WITH the new year opening
\A/ q new era, and with the
wv world no longer surprised
at the great prices of art
sales, the question arises everywhere.
who are the Corots Of tomorrow?
Among the crowd Of known and un-
Known painters, the works Of which
Of them will rise 10000 per cent in
\ value. twenty years hence?'
There are a number Of Americans in
the salons. though not so many as
before the war. Many went home.
One and the other how do they sell?
Does 1t pay to work abroad? Does it
pay American boys and girls to go in
for art?
Yes. American art pays. 1t pays it's
practitioners today. will pay them
more tomorrow, and has already paid
the collectors who trusted them ten
years ago.
Recently an international collector,
who has taken to buying up young
Americans right and left said:
The Corots of tomorrow are Ameri-
cans. Some may be unknown young
fellows. just getting into the salons
Perhaps many, some of them already
well known. Their work is more
virile and they have 4 fresher eye.
Their color is as good and their tech
nique Is perhaps better than the Eu-
TODeQnS'. have fbav hp so0nk
of European painters. but are gen.
uine, original and Individual"
AS to the selling values. he said:
american pictures are the best in
restment young buyers can make.
You see. 1t is too early for the great
dealers to run them. But America is
the coming land of art and when they
begin buying more on their own taste
over there you will see the prices
shoot up"
WITH this I began an inquiry which
led me far. In time it took me
to the studio of Albert Gihon. the
American landscape painter. formerly
OF Washington, D. c.. and San Fran
cisco. Albert Gihon is a parsonage
in his Paris studio and his country
place at Montigny, on the Loing. He
clings to the old school. the classical
style of painting. of sentiment, dis
tinguished composition. color, tech
nique and drawing. and has no lean
ing toward jazz. confetti or get
that all successful American painters
have achieved their permanent sue
cess on similar principles.
Among hts American admirers have
been former Senator William A. Clark
(portrait of his niece, Miss Anita
AbascaD. Senator Simon Guggenheim
(Wanamaker prize picture), Perry
Belmont. Oliver Hazard P. Belmont.
J. w. Hawley. Charles H. Hyde. Henry
Doscher and the late Col. H. B. Will
Detroit Museum. Samuel Newhouse of
Utah, Charles Deering, Otis Skinner.
the actor; Harry Beekman. Samuel
and Isaac Untermyer and their COL
and J. e. Thornton Of St Louis, Sir
William Van Horn. president of the
Canadian Pacific railway; the late
r. F. Foster of Washington. Larz
Anderson and. in Paris. B. J. Shonin--
the Societe des Amies des Artistes.
Gihon is typical of the American
youth who goes on his own. without
state aid or patronage. At the age
Of twenty he was drawing for the
and Journal Of Commerce, with some
previous study at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia
He did the Pacific coast from Van
couver and Victoria to Panama, earn
ing 500 per week and expenses.
;. After two years Of that delightful
life he went to New York and started
to work with Louis C. Tiffany, the
decorator. at $500 per month. Two
years later he took contracts on his
own account. but he burned to study
painting in Paris. He had saved
enough money and he came.
After two years at the Julian Acad-
emy Of Paris he began to paint and
sell landscapes and portraits. At the
end of two more years he was in
the salon. In two years more he
was exhibiting at AL the annual ex-
hibitions Of the pf3ncipal American
and European cities.
Any one else. he says. can do the
same.
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"DoEs American a art % pay" ,r. he re-
YeA RanNAr Alexander Harrison. Tan