The New York herald., 1922-04-30

form. They get the full amount Of
distance for their stroke.
Then. too. the French still have some
chic. That's their speciality, Of course
and it Is pleasant to see that it sticks
by them to the last. Pittsourghers
with leaning toward fashion are
hereby warned that the decorative
things by Charles Guerin, X. X. Rous-
sci, Pierre Bonnard and Georges d'Es-
pagnat are fairly good "buys." That
is not to say that they are great, but
smart. The Duchesse de Talleyrand
would have nothing ON the Pittsburgh
lady who owned any of these
The English pictures are-alas!--
dry. There is q certain amount of
French" competence about the Eng
lish work, but 1t seems hollow habit
left over from better days. A friend
to the English cannot see these pic
lures without becoming somewhat un-
easy. Even so successful a person as
Sir William Orpen spends himself
upon a joke that Pittsburgh will not
laugh at. He calls it Sowing the Seed
of the Irish Free State" and a scraggy
young female, partly dressed, scatters
some seed upon the sandy bank of a
pool to the edification of two amorini
and the dismay of an elder pair at the
back. This may have set Dublin
screaming. but doubt 1t. Even If 1t
be a joke. the tired. jaded way in
which it is told chills the would be
laugher.
The first prize Of the exhibition went
rightfully enough to the Eleanor, Jean
and Anna" of George Bellows, shown
In New York two years ago at the
New Society. This Is an ambitious
work that put the artist to a great
strain, much of which shows. 1t is
more serious than anything this artist
had accomplished for a number of
years, and he has not since done any
thing that compares with 1t. 1t is
necessary, however, in view of certain
things said earlier in the chapter, to
remind the reader that it is little other
than a technical exercise and not a
wholly successful one. 1t occasioned
some comment when first shown ow-
ing to the known predictions OF the
artist for the teachings Of Mr.. HAM
bidge. Whether Mr.. Bellows actually
employed the 'whirling squares" In its
composition Is not known, but cer-
tainly the composition Is decidedly
squeaky. The figures relate to each
other uneasily. There Is no other
work in all the institute that has
such debatable composition as this,
save "The Banks of the Seine. An
delys," by Henri Lebasque. also prize
winner and an exceedingly weak per-
formance. The other medal winners
are: Women Bathing in the Greve,"
by Emile Mcnard, Summer Design"
by Charles Reiffel; Dawn on the
River" by Henry b. Smell, and "Old
Mills, Winter" All of these are hope
lessly ordinary.
The great majority of the American
pictures have been seen by New York.
ers. Among the few strangers that
stand out for attractive qualities of
one sort or another are John Carroll's
Meditation" the Writers Corner"
by Frederick Clay Bartlett: 1.-THE Abb
duction OF Helen" by Bryson Bur-
roughs; the Portrait Of r. /. Jenks,"
by William James; Nevada" by Ar
thur B. Davies. and the forceful
Flight at Dawn, Montauk Point" by
Clifford Beal.
The Portrait OF Charles III. Wood
a pale. wistful ghost OF Mr.. Sargent's
former work. II is constructed well
enough and painted well though, but
the style lacks the old time flourish.
1t is a rather fatigued representation