The New York herald., 1921-04-29
Three Nen York
Artists Win at
International ShOW
Ernest Lawson, Howard Giles
and Eugene Speicher Get
Prizes at Exhibition.

Special Despatch to THE New York HERALD.
PITTSBURGH, April 2s.-The twentieth
international exhibition OF the Carnegie
Institute opened here to-day and at the
Founders Day exercises the list Of
awards was announced. Three Ameri-
can artists, all from New York city, car
ried off the money prizes and another
American received one of the honorable
mentions Two Englishmen got the re-
manning mentions.
The list of honors is as follows:
First, Ernest Lawson. New York city,
for his vanishing Mist" the gold medal
and s1,5o0.
Second. Howard Giles. New York city,
for his painting of Young Woman"
the silver medal and $1,000.
Third, Eugene Speicher. New York
city, for the Girl with the Green Hat"
the bronze medal and $500.
Honorable mentions were received ny
r. j. Enraght Moony, London. for "A
Spring Evening; by Sidney Lee. Lon
don for "The Ruined Castle" and Ross
j.. Moffett of Provincetown. Mass, Tor
"The Old Fisherman"
Two of the paintings. on the above
list had already taken prizes at the
spring exhibition of the National Acad-
envy in New York city. The Vanish
ing Mist" of Mr.. Lawson won the Alt
man prize Of $1,000 and the "Old Fish
erman" of Mr.. Moffet won the $500 Hall
sarten prize.
The distribution of the prizes very
clearly indicates the character Of the
,ternationalism that figures in this
years Carnegie exhibition, for the
Americans dominate the occasion and
the foreigners are scarcely in the run
atng. Ardent patriots might jump too
quickly to optimistic conclusions, but as
\ matter Of fact, it will not do to imagine
fnat America now leads the world in
ar just because foreign countries have
no. seen fit to send to Pittsburgh this
.ear.
England and France are Wretchedly
represented. and if means cannot be
found 20 induce the committees Of those
Two countries to send higher class or
work here in the future the Carnegie
Institute exhibition might just as well
drop the word international from It's
Title.
Sir William Orpen. who was the life
or the company at last years show. is
now conspicuously absent. Augustus
John does not replace him adequately
Cor though his Canadian Soldier Is not
without cleverness, it is but a sketch
George Bellows's "Old Lady in Black.
which, like most OF the American works,
has already been shown in New York.
will probably be considered by most vis-
ttors to be the strongest picture in the
collection. II was Ineligible for prize.
since Mr. Bellows himself was upon the
jury of awards.
Other exhibitors who attract attention
are Camille Innocenti, from Italy Sir
John Lavery, Leon de Smet Nine. De
Bonznanska, Mary Cassatt Laura
knight. Lucien Simon. Charles Cottet,
Bryson Burroughs. Clifford Beal. Walter
Ufer, Robert Henri and G. II. Davis.
Four comparatively early portraits by
John S. Sargent are included in the dis
play and there are special groups OF
works by the Fr-nchman, lie Sidanier,
and by the late J. Francis Murphy.
There are indications here and there
IN the galleries Of more liberal attitude
than usual toward the new men. For
instance, a portrait study by the arch
modernst, Henri Matisse. has been
smuggled into the show and skied in a
corner of one Of the most remote rooms
But in spite of this, the exhibition as
whole Is duiler than within recollection
OF man. and this Is due to the dimin-
ished internationaiism of the affair.