New-York tribune., 1921-02-06

The Salmagundi Club is holding its
annual show of paintings by members.
These are to be sold at auction on the
evenings Of February g. 10 and II, At
the National Arts Club the American
Water Color Society is holding it's fifty
fourth annual exhibition.
There is something humanity stirring
about the sculpture which DIR. r. TAFT
Mackenzie is exhibiting at the Ferargil
gallery. He is described in the catalogue
as professor of physical education,
scientist as well as an artist. His work
is based upon thoroughgoing knowl-
edge Of form. But not all the anatomi-
cal authority in the world would have
enabled him to achieve the particular
quality which distinguishes his sketches
OF athletes, his Impressions of form and
movement in relief and in the round.
We miss in his work the accent of style,
the absolutely fresh and powerful touch
which proclaim the master; yet we miss
much left that is charming. In one of
his memorial tablets, for example, the
Clarence Bayne," he seems to us to
have embodied the very spirit of youth
and TO have done it at once SO skillfully
and so biithely that we are not only i'm
pressed, but, in a very happy manner,
touched and eXhilarated
In this ebulient vitality Of his lies
DR.. Mackenzie's most winning gift. he
calls one of his compositions, medal
Ion in which three nude youths are
leapng hurdle, "The JOY of Effort"
That is characteristic of him. There is
JOY in all of these numerous studies of
valiant young manhood. He has made
some memorials to men lost in the
great war. Their spirit is as admirable
as is their technical quality. DR.. Mac
kenzie understands movement as we'll.
as form. "The Youthful Franklin" is
enc of the most animated pedestrian
figures Wo ever saw. Besides the many
vivaeious expressions of his talent which
arc here to be observed there is large
group of portraits in low relief, por-
traits like the one of Forbes Robert
son as Julius Caesar. In these the
sculptor reveals again the feeling for
line which is manifest in his statuettes
and he shows in addition great tact in
the placing of his profles. He is OBJ
viously Il student of character. These
portraits are, as portraits, convincing.
In ono respect DR.. Mackenzie has been
i'll advised. His exhibition is too
crowded. He might have shown only
half OF the things now placed on view
and the effect would have been better.
In tho inner room at this place Mr..
Charles W. Hawthorne displays twelve
or fourteen new canvases. Subject is
usually of special significance with
him and on this occasion he is not as
interesting as We have known him to
be. "The First Communion" has its
subtle qualities and there are one or
two other pictures in which he makes
his wonted appeal OF tender revery.
But mostly he shows us this time por-
traits and studies of types, resting
chiefly on the matter of technique.
Here he marks distinct progress. The
head and face of his little girl in yell
low is perhaps the finest thing in
modelling and drawing he has ever
done. In the PORTRAIT of Mrs. Becker"
he suggests new note, for him, in
color He has painted greens and
blacks before, but he has never got
as much out of them as in this in
stance. The show as whole has much
to say of his growth as a colorist. In
that role he has gained in depth, in
quality, in beauty.
An exhibition Of monotypes by
Marion Gray Traver has been opened
at the Schwartz gallery. AT the Bab-
cock gallery there are recent pictures
by III. Melville Fisher. The Daniel
gallery shows water colors by Archi-
penko, a collection supplementary to
the works Of the same artist at the
gallery of the Societe Anonyme.
There will be opened at the American
Art Galleries next Wednesday an ex-
hibition of the italian antiques be-
longing to Mr.. Luigi Orselli, who is
going out Of business. The collection
consists Of old furniture, including pieces
from the Bardini and other famous col. |