The New York herald., 1921-09-09

interesting painters as Renoir. Courhet
Manet and Degas. What warning 70
art lovers who would make the museum
ths beBeaciaries OF their will.
Il have been warned not less than
Ave times that the Red Guard of Art are
gong 20 get me- I'll cross that bridge
(of the Styx) when come to Il. In the
meantime l shall meet tae inevitable
accusations which have referred to
above. II required no gift of prophecy
10 know that this brochure would be met
by the stock argument OF filthy minded
ness | once at q board meeting OF an
art school protested In the name OF the
fair fame and out of the love for my
alma mater of art. against what i had
epeatedly seen In life classes--oc-
currences whose description you could
rot print. A middle aged member arose
and with whitening scorn said: That is
the vilest talk ever listened to- ! an
swer.d: Yours Is the cry OF thief yelling
stop thief!' 1t Is the argument OF
every deg ,;erate against plea for COM
mon decency. and is as cowardy as It Is
dishonest !. might have added and
stupid as the facts were not denied, and
II Is this same answer that ] now give
n advance 10 all those who will brand
ne IS vile. They may call me absurd.
.gnorant narrow. malicious. DID, &C.
That is matter os opinion. and where
one of their faith says these things OF
me hundreds believe differently. and !
hava nearly thousand letters from the
most konored people in art. some OF
them from points as far distant as the
Riviera and South Africa, thanking me
ccr my fight on the disintegrating In
Auences.
why worry7 / am not worried about
the future OF art. My heart bleede for
the rising generation. The Mother Goose
OF the nursery Of art is singing, George,
Porgie, pudding and pie, kiss the girls
ard make them cry'--for more. And we
| hear the song:
Mother, may I 60 out to paint?
Yes. my darling daughter
Bob your hair and buy bicycle pants.
And you can do what you hadn't orter.
The tired denizens OF this feverish
town want to go to the museum to be
comforted or refreshed or diverted.
They 80, some as they would go to
church. some as they would go to
symphony concert. and some go as to
fine play. They do not want the
morgue, nor the red light, nor q prize
fight. They do not want to see the
record of unhealthy minds, the express
sion OF a perverted eplcureanisn They
want to see the records Of their own po-
tential soils. They want to hear their own
Gpokesnen. not the touts OF Sodom.
They don't want jazz: they want spir-
ituai bread and not war bread made
Of the potato OF faturism, mixed with
the chopped straw of spurious progress
siveness. Such diet can only promote
the attritioa. which in the body has
fallen on blighted Russia.
IAN OF which, OF course. is absurd In
the eyes Of the art writer's. who are
SO sticky that they would put the fly
paper makers out Of business. These
tanglefoots, who have not a leg to stand
on, succeed in making the pathetic
little bobbed haired boobs think them
verltable ethical and eesthetic centipedes.
CHARLES VEIN"
Exhibition Called Dangerous.
Joseph Pennell. the well known Amer
lean artist, was quoted yesterday as
criticising severely the post-impressioa-
ist paintings in tho Metropolitans ex-
hibition and the Museum for exhibiting
them. He said that q museum which has
room for such showing and no room
for a loan exhibition OF Sargents ''is not
worthy Of receiving public money" and
that IAN exhibition of this form is posi-
lively dangerous to the teaching of art
In America"
Mr. Pennell thought the leading spirit
Of the exhibition to be John Quinn, law
yer and art collector, and who. said Mr..
Pennell. had apparently been persuaded
by dealers to make a hobby of the
impressionist and post-impressionist
schools. Among the innprcssionist paint
ings in the exhibition Mr.. Pennell found
many good ones. But, he said. post
impressionism is not an outgrowth of
impressionism at ALL but is pure degen-
eracy the same form of degeneracy that
brought on the war: and with peace 1t
has been abandoned even in Germany.
where IL came from. Post-impressionist
stun that is sent to this country is
mostly unsaleable--in Europe 1t Is rub
bish. We are 1000 miles from Europe.
but sometimes I think some of us are
100000 miles away from knowledge
Of art"
In Philadelphia DR.. f. A. Hamilton
Of the Hospital for the Insane said he
had noted marked resemblance between
futurist and cubist paintings and the art
work of patients In his care
Some of our patients who cannot hold
an intelligent conversation, he said,
draw when they have an opportunity.
BY studying some of these drawings we
can pretty nearly tell in some instances
what the patients are thinking. We
have come to the conclusion that in
some of the drawings no thought was
used Sometimes when you are waiting
for a telephone number TO answer and
have a pencil and paper handy look at
the drawings you make. They are un-
consciously made. and ] guess that's the
way the futurists and cubists work
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