New-York tribune., 1921-04-17


give way to an exhibition of works by
Miss d. A. Dreier. Conneisseurs OF the
modernist hypothesis will be interest
ed In the exhibition at the Daniel gall
lerv of water colors 'pertaining to the
sea" done by Mr. John Marin. Save
for an occasional fash of agreeable
color. they have left US unmoved. The
Weyhe gallery announces show of
etchings by Orovida Pissarro, with
drawings and Autographs by Marie
Laurencin.
The new Art Guild Galleries are
opened auspiciously. This is to be a
place of sssemblage for works of deco
rative art. A number OF interesting
mantels are placed against thewalls and
over them hang paintings produced for
that particular point in room. charm
ing things by Mile. Dufau, NJ. Henry
Caro- Delvaille, Mr.. Ernest Pexotto,
Hr. Robert ". Chsnler and others. Mr..
Arthur B. Davies is represented by one
OF the loveliest of his little idyls. He
scnds also a panel of nudes, in his
more or less modernistic vein. but the
exhibition as whole is advanced in
design and taste without being at all
freakish. Mr.. Bryson Burroughs. by
the way, is represented by the best
thing of his we have seen in years,
''The Abduction of Helen Foul Man
ship, Malvina Hoffman, Hunt Diederich
and other sculptors contribute to the
ensemble. and Mr. Chanler adds
couple of screens. A resplendent feat
ure is the group of batik paintings by
Miss Ethel Wallace. sSome of these
decorations are as beguiling as any
textiles that ever came out of the East.
This artist transmogrifies the velvets
she handles, making them doubly
beautiful.
Mr.. Percival Rosseau's paintings of
held dogs at the Levy gallery have the
documentary value of obviously faith
full portraits. and through a clever
treatment of landscape backgrounds
they arc given an ingratiating pictorial
effect. sportsmen must delight in his
conscientious and freely enddgh paint
ed work. He might profitably include
IN his annual displays more canvases
like the big Sandy, Martha's Vine
yard" a capital study of a scene to
warm the heatt of duck shooter.
There are a number Of portraits and
figure subjects, the latter drawn large |
ly from the Arabian Nights. at the
babcock gallery. Mr.. C. Bosseron
Chambers is the artist. He has a
friendly hunior. Something like a smile
ripples across nearly every visage that
he paints. 1t excites sympathy, and
this is deepened by his facile habit of
workmanship. In taste he is shade
STACEY and meretricious.
The Allied Artists of America make
At the Fine Arts Building their eighth
annual exhibition. Their luck falls to
them capriciously, in patches On the
south wall of the Vanderbilt gallery |
there hang five or six paintings which
one after another give pleasure two
graceful decorative figure pieces by
Miss Helen NJ. Turner and Mr.. Edmund
Greacen, good portrait of Daniel c.
French by Mr.. Robert w. Vonnoh and
pictures by Miss Lillian Genth, Mr.. FIR
nest Albert and Mr.. Robert Spencer. If
the walls everywhere were as we'll COW
cred as at this point the show would
be fairly exciting But the better
things are too few, too widely scat
tered. Coast scenes by Mr.. Cullen
Yates, still life by Miss Anna Fisher.
An interesting study of night life by
Mr. Orlando Rouland, a fine winter
scene by Mr.. Richard NJ Kimbel. few
pieces by Messrs. Karl Anderson. De
Witt Parshall, Harry r. Waltman. Paul
King. Victor Higgins, G. l.. Nelson and
Sidney f. Dickinson these make the
show There is more entertainment of
hight sort in the room devoted to
fugitive sketches than in the bulk of
the more ambitious painting displayed.
In the main the spacious galleries seem
out of proportion to the merits of the
collections spread through them.
At the Powell gallery there is a mis-
cellaneous array, not at all impressive
OF paintings by about fifteen contrib
uotrs, The outstanding canvas is an
excellent winter scene, "By the River"
painted by Ann Crane At the Mich
gallery, where Mr.. Metcalf's landscape.
hold the field space is found in the
middle. room for number of por
traits, and other paintings by Miss
Edith Catln Phelps. "Rehections"s is
an attractive production.
The paintings by Mr. John Sloan
which are hanging in the Kraushaar
gallery embrace work early and late.
scenes painted recently in New Mexico
and others which date back as far as
1906. The older canvases are bv all
odds the best. Time has only improved /
the whites in "The Cot and it has mel
lowed also the handsome study of the
Philadelphia City Hail. the early ferry
and market pictures. 1t is curious to
see how something like quality has de-
veloped in the work of an artist who