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New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
\ Week Of Art Exhibitions

and file. Perhaps it is impossible, hu~
manly speaking, for them to do any
thing else. 1--WE all have a right to
exist" etc, etc, But even the rejected
might be reconciled if they saw the
flower Of their flock bringing honor to
to the common cause. 1t would be q
good thing if the National Association
OF Women Painters and ScuIptors
would consider the idea of making it as
hard to get a picture into one Of it's
shows as to drive dromedary through
the eye Of a needle Until it does, we
fear we shall 60 on wondering why
there is not chance enough in the va
rlous miscellaneous shows of the sea-
son for the ordinary painter, man or
woman.
There are some other women paint
ers visible at the moment, three of
them, who exhibit their works at the
Knoedler gallery, 1t Is opposite to
note how interest in their productions
IS determined altogether by matters of
attack, of technical proficiency. Juliet
Thompson's portraits have q certain
quality, as portraits. She makes q
fairly subtle approach upon character.
Her people are sympathetically real
lied. But there is not very clear con-
Strhctlon in her works, they are not at
all brilliantly drawn, and in color they
are curiously wanting both in force and
charm. The landscapes and coast scenes
of Louise UPTON Brumback have force
Il '5lley have nothing else There is q
good deal of rather naive, undisci-
plined talent in these paintings. They
Denote a large view OF nature, a GER
tain wholesome vigor. The tone in
them needs refining, and the artist
could with advantage ponder the mys-
teries of composition. Downstairs there
are three new portraits by Mile. Helene
Dufau, lady for some time favorably
known in the Salon. There is no dis
tlnction in her canvases. She has as
serted herself in far more interesting
manner in the decorative nudes through
which she has largely won her repute.
Some of them are here shown in pho
tographs. But if Mile. Dufau is not a
particularly beguiling type in portrai-
ture, she is at all events mistress of
her craft These three paintings are
technically first rate examples of the
accepted Partisan method. They hold
Lesson for the amateur 1t is the les
son of competent workmanship.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
|ecent American Paintings
And Some Foreign Works
By Royal Cortissoz

,,.rs,,sl interest attaches To the
~ - Academy, which will open to
rshlic on Saturday next. The
.l.- winter exhibition was skipped,
II nov, with the galleries at the Fine
n. Building put in order again, the
4 .,vtunity comes for our oldest ar
I i. organization TO show that it has
II r;tality of the Youngest. There
!. been special inducements to con-
.,sors to make special efforts. As
4 understand it, the familiar prizes
he doubled in number, thanks to
t,tt that none were awarded earlier
i n season. Even without this for
q ,,as development there would still
4 iot of them. But the important
i will be to see how far the Acad-
il, Is going under the progressive in
S,,,es which have been making them
Yrs felt in its councils. The transit
|. 10 the Brooklyn Museum last win
4. vas not bad thing. It made q
A. in q long routine, and such epi-
H., Of change sometimes have effects
4 |. 20 beneath the surface. The show
q, into new atmosphere year ago.
Sasps this will haze proved 8 stimu-
3, in the arrangement, at least, OF the
Atkcoming affair.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Art and Business
mes of Romanticisnl and.
Practicality

Ii. last time we had occasion to
.,.h upon the art OF Mr.. Vincent Tack
vas occupied upon a great scheme of
nal painting. Now, ab the Krau-
I.,r gallery, in collection of new
.ssses, he returns once or twice to
|. decorative motive, but. is, on the
rs., the painter of easel pictures,
rng himself to the expression of
rrs intimate ideas. He leaves an in
r:sting impression and, incidentally,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

and he has done several nudes. The
latter attract at first through certain
grace of line. Enthusiastically, Mr.. Faggi
has ideas and emotion. But he has not
yet mastered the difficulties of form,
achieved an Interpretation of it both
authoritative and personal. Legs and
arms are modelled on an hypothesis
which may have some recondite purpose
behind it, but hardly brings out the
beauty of nature. Mr.. Faggi seems a
dreamer who has put his conceptions
into solid material on too slender
basis of sheer experience in plastic art.
His forms move us vaguely as though
We were in the presence of creative in
tention where We crave creative achieve
ment. Works monumental in scope i'm
press us as strivings instead of as VIC
tories. But at least the striving is
there. 1t marks the sculptor as one
worth watching.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

tentously dull. Those artists of gen
uine ability who take part in it are
almost obliterated by q mass of work
that is conventional, commonplace and,
not infrequently, merely amateurish.
This comment on the ensemble is not
irrelevant. The association owes some
thing to the public and to itself. If, as
an organization it has a standard, it
ought to lift that standard up, make
the discipline of the jury stricter and
sift the mediocre stuff out. 1t is the
common fault of all large groups to
settle down to the average of the rank
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

A young Italian sculptor is showing
his work at the Bourgeois gallery-Mr
Alfeo Faggi, who has ideas and tech
nique, though the two are not always
successfully fused. In his portrait busts
this artist discloses real ability. His
heads of men are striking performances,
rich in the expression cf character, well
constructed in the broad sense and hav-
ing traces of beauty in the nuances of
modelling. If only the busts were ex-
hibited one would come away feeling
that Mr.. Faggi was one more clever
Italian workman, with cleyerness of a
rather exceptional order. His figures
both heighten and qualify this impress
sion. He is ambitious. His most I'M
portant piece is large "Pieta" in
bronze. He has modelled "St Francis"
in a. suggestive vein of medievaIism,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
verse, which is felicitously reproduced,
in fac simile, as frontispiece.
O,sf~- g.

verse, which is felicitously reproduced,
in fac simile, as frontispiece.
Only Sc
How shall ~s think on an your man
hood dead,
Thrice widowed France, nor reel be-
meath the woe?
For each bea1 xaleu nft rdby head
Safe ints loye and sunlight. Only so.
Mrs. John W. Alexander and Mrs.
James C. Roserson have been ceIebrat-
ing this last week the sixth anniversary
Of the opening of the Arden gallery, a
place Of beautiful things to which ap-
preciatiye reference has often been
made in these columns. Their exhibit
tions have sometimes varied in interest,
3,ut they have never let N the Philis-
tine. It is pleasant to congratulate
present occasion by hanging on the
walls a quantity of designs for the
theater made by Mr.. Herman Rosse,
young Dutchman who has been we'll
recognized in his own country, receiv-
ing a commission for the decorating of
the Peace Palace at The Hague, and who
has done important things at San Fran
cisco and in the Middle West.
His exhibition comes at favorable
moment. There has been sympathetic
public here during the last few years
for ideas on the improvement Of stage
settings Mr.. Rosse wins a welcome
partly through the wise art of omis-
sion. He is not revolutionary and
he advances no eccentricities. 1t is g.
pity that some of his schemes are not
exhibited in models, after the fashion
which Robert Edmund Jones and others
have made SO amusing and so sugges-
tive. But his sketches convey his main
principle, which seems to be one OF
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New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
morrow an exhibition Of recent paint
ings by Henry s. Eddy.

Their Book, the volume prepared for
the benefit of the "Fatherless Children
Of France" never got itself published,
for the excellent reasons which have
already been set forth in The Tribune.
But perfect substitute has been
supplied for it in the special cata-
logue Of the remarkable exhibition
at the American Art Galleries of the
autographs and works Of art which
were contributed for the original
scheme. This catalogue, which repro
duces the texts Of the various writings
offered by statesmen, soldiers, authors
and other famous folk, is also accom-.
panied by q number of fac SMILES Sad
by reproductions of some of the works
of art. Abel Faivres original study
for the head Of the poilu in his cele-
brated poster is given in one plate.
Drawings by Sargent, Renouard, Henri
Martin, Besnard, Mairhead Bone and
others are reproduced. There are
etchings also, by Stephen Parrish,
Arthur Heintzleman and E. Zarrini.
The halftones have been beautifully
made and they are inserted in semi
detached form, like extra proofs in a
book. Well printed and in decorative
cover this volume is a peculiar testi-
mony to the taste and care which the
American Art Association has given
to the whole affair. II makes an ideal
souvenir of the sale, which takes place
tomorrow afternoon and is continued
in the evening, ideal both for those
who can and those who can not bid on
the exhibits themselves. There ought
to be great turnout for this auction.
Edith Wharton sets the key in the
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Random Impressions
ln Current Exhibitions

A good idea has been carried out at
the Museum. All the casts of the sculp-
lures of Michael Angelo have been ar
ranged in the room of special exhibi-
tions- They are old casts, but they may
now be seen under better conditions of
lighting and arrangement. afording a
valuable opportunity for study.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

and charm of that masterpiece of old
book illustration, is not his success a
matter for rejoicing?
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Women Artists
A National Association and a
Visitor

good painter is a good painter, re-
gardless of sex. Sex, in fact, has moth
ing to do with the matter. The salient
women in modern art, women like Mary
sCassatt, Cecilia Beaux, Maria Oakley
Dewing or Ellen Rand, never reveal
anything in their work save the fact
that they know how to paint. Never
theless there is a National Association
Of Women Painters and Sculptors. 1t
is holding just now at the Anderson
Galleries it's annual exhibition, the
thirtieth in its history. By, this time
it ought to have demonstrated it's use
fulness. But it has not quite done so.
If we were considering the members
as belonging to a sex this might, per-
haps, seem a discourteous saying. But
we do not wish to do anything of the
sort. 1t is the association that ex-
plicitly affirms it's solidarity as a body
of women. Our own purpose is to deal
with its exhibition as an affirmation of
art, pure and simple, and there we are
constrained to remark that these an
nual organized affairs do not justify
themselves. The latest is one of the
most disappointing we have ever seen.
J. There are bodies of men who invite
precisely the same reflection. They
get together under one set of rules or
another, find gallery, and come out
con their own" In world already
overcrowded with exhibitions we are
moved to wonder why They do not
number among themselves painters of
notable talent. On the contrary, they.
are artists of modest caliber. Of
course, they have the fright" to ex-
hibit. owe all have right to exist,
we and our works." quoth Andrew
Lang. But somehow we have never
been able to see the persuasiveness of
this axiom as regards exhibitions. We
have always felt that lot of pictures
placed before the public ought to IL
lustrate a certain degree of efficiency,
at least. Now the walls at the Ander-
efficiently painted pictures, examples
of sincere feeling and moderately good
workmanship. Sometimes personal
ity pushes to the front. Consider the
virility in the canvases by Theresa
Befnsteih; the handsome way in which
Jane Peterson paints her "Peonies'';
the delicate charm in Ann Cranes
Winter; the firm touch in Marjorie
Commits "Piazza Portrait";' the deft-
ness~and the spirit in Camelia White
hurst's studies of children, and Edith
Magonigle's decorative originality.
These, and some few other instances.
do a good deal to vitalize the show.
The sculptors help, too Mrs. Fraser,
with her animals; Miss Frishmuth,
with her graceful fgurines; Miss Scud-
der and Mrs. Parsons, with their foun-
tain designs; Miss Grimes, with her
sensitively modelled bust-all these
contributors render good service. But
not enough do they do to carry the big
collection of more than two hundred
numbers.
Tie exhibition, in short, is por-
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

return now and then, after the high
and rather thin keys affected by so
many Of the young lions of to-day.
Murphy is the nearest to him in SEN
tlment, in two characteristic pieces,
and in Mr.. Elliot Daingerield's "Swim-
ming Time" there are some pleasant
reverberations of the influence of In
ness. lmpressionism is represented in
clever bit by the late Theodore
Robinson, and for the antithesis to this
one may turn to the charming woods
in Autumn" with figures, by Frederick
Ballard Williams. There are landscapes
also by Charles H. Davis, Bruce Crane,
Chauncey F. Ryder, Louis P. Dessar
and the late Fl. w. Ranger. There is
no aggressive luminism. The ensemble
IS serene, even subdued. 1t makes a
reposeful and welcome episode.
1t is interesting to turn from these
picture shows, in which art is wreaked
upon themes in themselves beautiful,
to an exhibition in which an accom-
pIshed designer allies himself with
achieves beauty. The designer in ques-
tion is Mr.. Walter Dorwin league, who
has quantity of his work in black and
white and in color at the Weyhe GAL
lery. He is valuable member of that
rapidly increasing company of men and
women who have proved that CONNER
clalism is not necessarily the enemy of
art, but is, In some quarters at any
| rate, functioning as it's friend. We
had occasion to observe this circum-
stance in traversing the recent exhi-
bltlon of industrial art at the Metro
politan, where some of the most salts
factory things assembled were the
containers designed for manufactured
articles. Advertising is to-day rich in
the enlightened influences which these
objects disclosed. Mr.. league reminds
US of it, in fascinating manner.
There is one little advertising leaf
let of his, designed for a Rochester
clothing house, the Adlers, from which
alone the material for homily on the
subject might be read. The decorative
lines, and the color, suggest q refer
ence to Pompeiian motives. The casqued
head of warrior superimposed
upon the scheme is taken from Leo
nardo da Vincj, And the thing comes
off, Mr.. league needs no adventitious
argument to support his audacity. His
point is, merely, that beautiful thing
is its own excuse, so long as it is
handled with good taste and good
Judgment. Add to those qualities a
rare manual dexterity and you have
an idea Of this designers equipment.
He draws upon any number of histori.
cal sources. Glancing through his
on, we see at once how much he has
profted by Renaissance ideas, how He
has turned to the French engravers OF
the seventeenth century, how he has
adapted almost any European tradition
of decoration or Typography that prom
ised to serve his purpose. But he has
drawn upon all this as man draws a
| bucket up from we'll when he is
| thirsty. He has found in the past just re-
freshment and inspiration. This gather
ing of business documents, nominally
prosaic, is to us positively moving. 1t is
as though a man saturated in the spirit
of the Hypnerotomachia" had sud-
denly decided to turn salesman for s.
mercantile firm. Since, in the process,
he brings back something of the beauty
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

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New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

Another foreigner is presently to
have an exhibition. He is Mr. Nikol
Schattensteino Russian painter. Por-
traits by him will be at the Kingore
gallery from March L to March 10. At
the Bahcock gallery there begins to-
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
LA SAllEAN KNITTED
IN MIGHT ATTACK

La Sale, H., Aug. IA knitting in
which the victim declared he could
imagine no reason for the attack and
which is puSGling police was reported
ia LA Sale Thursday night when
Frank kapsch, who gave his address
rs X, f, ID 2, was slashed about the
neck and head by a pair of men who
attacked him as he walked out of q
soft drink parlor cato West First
street.
When the case was reported to the
police kapisch was removed TO the
station, and when officers discovered
the extenk Of his wounds he was re.
moved to st. Mary's hospital for at.
tention, 1t was found that one cash
extended from the back OF the man $
neck up and over the scalp almost to
the forehead Wt
Police have been unable to develop
the motive OF the attack IL is said
that there was no attempt to rob the
victim and the authorities are con.
Sidering the theory that kapisch was
mistaken for someone else and thn'
his assailants fled when they discoy
cred their mistake. ,. h,FE
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given to all per
sons interested that the Council OF
the City of Ottawa Illinois. having
ordered the improvement OF certain
parts of First avenue. State street,
Catherine, Christie and Moore streets
together with the several street inter
sections appurtenant thereto by grad
ing. curbng end paving the same, the
ordnance for the same being on file
in the office of the Clerk of said City
Of Ottawa, having applied to the
County Court OF Ia Sale County, Hi.
nois, for an assessment Of the cost of
said improvement according to the
benefits, said assessment being payable
in ten installments, each bearing in
terest at the rate of six per cent per
aunum, and an assessment therefor
having been made and returned to
said Court, the final hearing thereon
will be had on the 29th day of August,
\. ID. 1921, or as soon thereafter as
the business CT the Court will permit.
All persons desiring may file objec-
tions in said Court before said day,
and may appear on hearing and make
their defense.
Dated at the City of Ottawa, Illinois,
this 18th day of August. A. d. 1921.
OWEN ANDERSON.
Appointed to make said assessment.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
LINK SPURGlN WITH BIG
DRUG SMUGGLERS' RING

Chicago, Aug 1S.--Warren c. Spur
Elm. fugitive wrecker of the Michigan
Avenue Bank and Trust company, was
named yesterday in connection with
an alleged Characterization $1,000,
000 conspiracy to Smuggle drugs into
the United States.
Federal agents have established the
banks safety deposit vaults were used
as a storehouse by the band in Chi
cago, and opium, cocaine and other
narcotics were sold from there.
The bank, az Michigan avenue and
Twenty-Second street Is but a few
blocks from Chinatown
Because Of Spmgin's known con-
nections in Mexico and near the bor-
der, Assistant United States Dstric'
Attorney Roscoe Andrews thinks he
was active in the smuggling
He Is already under Indictment.
charged with possessing Illegal llQuor,
alleged to have been smuggled into
the country.
John Lamb. alleged leader Of the
band. now sought H. said 10 have held
the safety deposit vaults with Spur.
gins knowledge and consent.
Dispatches from the border yeSter.
day tend to confirm the report Spur
gin is hiding at the hacienda Of an
American friend near chihuahua,
A dispatch from Maria. Texas, from
which point be IS alleged to have
made his escape across the border,
told OF the foiling OF an attempt to
spirit him to a mountain hiding place.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
.FARRAR TO JOIN SCOTT
ON CONCERT TOUR

New York. Aug, l3.-Speculation on
the cause of the sudden matrimonial
break between Geraldine Farrar and
her actor husband, Lou Tellegen, took
surprising ne wturn today when IL
became known that the singer had
contracted TO go on an extended tour
of the Pacific coast with Antonio
Scott, the Metropolitan baritone, this
fall
1t was recalled that rumors that
Miss Farrar was to become the bride
of the baritone were in general cir
culation in the musical world right
up almost to the time of Signor Scot
it's marriage. The two stars had
made it a custom to spend their vaca-
tons in Paris Confidently. and, al
though the reports of their engage
ment were repeatedly denied, the bari
tone continued to be her devoted cav
alier on their trips abroad.
Engaged at Same Time.
Both were in London when Scotti's
engagement was announced. Miss
Farrar Immediately departed for Mu-
nich-because of i'll health. 1t wasn't
so very long until American friends
heard she was engaged to Lou Tel.
legen
Mr.. Scott today said:
For long time | have had no
close association with Miss Farrar.
1t is true she is to join me on this
tour Arrangements for the enter
prise were made through her bust
ness representative, not through Miss
Farrar1or ler husband. 81
1.-THE tour will be an exclusive one
and will take us to cities LIN Calf
fornia, Oregon and Washington"
Start Next Month.
Signer Scott said he expected to
leave New York about Sept for
Seattle. Miss Farrar. it is understood
will leave about Sept IL.
The pritna donna herself could not
be found today. When a reporter
called at her home he found the door
closed, as it has feen since the sep
aration suit became public. In re-
Spouse to his ring a butler opened a
portfolio and announced, mo body at
home"
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
FINDS DAUGHTER AFTER
40 YEARS. SEPARATION


Philadelphia, Aug. 13.-After forty
years separation from his family.
Horace w. Alison of Philadelphia has
just traced his daughter, De Vile
Caroline, to Birmingham, Ala. where
he informed her that he held in trus;
for her an estate reported 70 exceed
100000, left her by her grandfather,
Walter Alison, in 1889. The search
began in MoDerly, Mo, where Alison
left his daughter after her mothers
death. 1t took him to Palestine. Tex,
where she had gone after marriage,
thence to Illinois and finally to Ala.
bama. Alison is said to have discoy.
cred he is the grandfather Of five
children. His daughters married
name is withheld.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
Tardy Science

1t has taken the scientists at least
5000 years to catch up with the poets
and lovers In respect to the mystic
tious force thrown off by the human
eye.--Chicago Daily News.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
SacriIeue!

The Girl Cat the Movies) Look
ere, Bert, amt you got no more sen.
tlment than TO crunch peppermints
while there's n love scene gon' on?
From Royal Magazine London.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
Document of the Early Cburrh

The "Didache, or Teaching of the
twelve Apostles" was a didactic work
Tor use In the early church. 1t was
discovered by Bryenaius at Constant.
nople and published In 1883. 1t had
peen written in Greek. about 1856 A. ID.
1t IS offgreat value for the study of
orga cation, belief and worship of the
eariy church ana was held in high es-
TEEN. In 1t Is a description of the two
@avs--of life and death---in the form
OF rules for Christian conduct.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-13
Weather Deck.

A weather deck" In ship building
terms. is a deck with no overhead pro
lection.