The New York herald., 1921-01-09
New and Reveps of the WordExhbtion of Forains Works

uary 20. How to Look at Pictures"
Questions at the end of each< lecture
win be a swered by Miss Dreier. Joseph
Stella and Marcel Duchamp.
! II is now announced that The Arts
will appear every month during the art
season instead of every three weeks as
at first planned. 1t has been enlarged
to sixty-four pages and the Illustrations
have been doubled in number
One of the chief features in tho dis
play in the Ton-ying Galleries is an
imposing wooden carving of the God
dees of Mercy, which bears the inscrip-
tion: Made on tho 22nd day of the
5th month in the Sth year of TIA Ting"
"a. ID. 1850. The figure. which is six
feet high. represents the goddess as
seated. with one knee raised high in the
air. similar goddess in the British
Museum also bears an inscription. but
the one recently acquired by the Boston
Museum does not A carving of like
character Is also in Mrs. John GARDENERS
collection. This Goddess of Mercy is
gilded and brilliant with color, and its
state of preservation is remarkable con-
sidering it's great age.
announces that next Saturday will be
the last date for entering the exhibition.
No entries will be accepted after that
day.
Artists photographers, etchers. pho-
tographers, sculptors, &c. who wish to
ion are asked to communicate with A.
s. Bayllnson, secretary, 1947 Broadway.
Tho membership fee this year Is $S in
stead of $40. which was charged last
year. The principles of the society are;
No prizes. no jui1es ana aipnapeticai
hanging of pictures.
Sculptors are permitted to enter four
pieces instead of the two usually ell
lowed, provided they see to their own
installation:
Members or would be members are
asked not to send their communications
to the Waldcrf-Astoria. The exhibition
Is to be held there, beginning February
26, but up to that time all letters
should be addressed to the headquar-
ters OF the society," at 1947 Broadway.
About $50 paintings. etchings. draw
ings, Autographs, batiks. with some
sculpture---the work of Jewish artists
in Poland--recently brought to this
country for purposes Of disposal for the
| artists benefit, will be exhibited at the
Jewish Centre, 1873 West Eighty-sixth
street, from January IL to 23.
| Nearly q score of artists will find rep
! resentation In this exhibition, a largo
| fraction of their number possessed Of
considerable renown in divers European
| art centres, having repeatedly exhibited
In France, Germany. the Scandinavian
| countries, Italy, &C. These artists by no
means exhaust the list Of art workers
| of Jewish origin in Poland. The artistic
merit of q goodly number Of the exhib-
| its lends particular value to an exhibi-
ton interesting in more than one regard.
| Some of the exhibits are Of local
| Polish and Jewish interest; some depict
| places dear to Jewish tradition, others
portray popular types and scenes In all
manner of artistic rendering, from the
| literal academic to the moderately OBJ
| iective impressionist. to the bolder mod
ern symbolic modes of manifestation
| commonly classed under the heads OF
post-impressionism eXpressionisn, &c.
A few of the represented artists are
Henryk Berlewi, II. Barcinski, Bension
zukerman. Glicenstein. Regina Mundlak.
Jozef Seidenbeitel. I. Spiegel, Jakub Ad-
| Ter, Haenryk Kohn, Marek-Schwarz,
| Jozef Hecht.
| The dominant part of the exhibition
is an eloquent proof of the essential
| lxinship of all art, whatever the ethnic
origin; a proof of the close tie that
unites the leading spirits Of European
art expression despite high barriers
reared by nationalist and religious d.si-
sion. The whole of the exhibition. intend
ed as It is to temper the ravages of So.
cial disruption that followed in the wake
| of the world war, Is strong evidence of
a vigorous force among the Polish Jews
struggling for self-assertion and social
| integration.
Admittance to the exhibition Is free
to the public during afternoons and
evenings.