New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-10

Tor n time. until my hand became at
tuned 20 the work.
Then the soul o. an Italian artist
must have got control % ne. for be-
gan TO turn out drawings which were
said by critics TO be fine specimens Of
Italian art. lie was supplanted by
oswald. an artist OF the court OF Al
phonse III. who impelled me 20 turn
out Castilian figures"
Here she held up her pictures for IN
speetion. pointing out that the faces IN
one were Castilian, in another Italian.
A third picture showed one OF the
sportivo spirits having n little joke.
Mrs. Wells holds IL responsible for a
funny old bear who sits in a Louis XIV
chair. She talks as Familiarity and cas-
lily Of her spirits" as IL they were hu-
man beings.
Myriad faces appear through these
drawings. just as they do in the work
Of Mrs. Emma Mabel Field, who came
here recently from Chicago with scores
OF pictures with Egyptian symbolism,
all OF which she declares she drew
automatically
The oil paintings and water eolors
done by several Of the other exhibitors
have the forced and elementary effects
Of n ohild's paintings The outlines
are conventional and the eoloring Is
crude and splashy. Flower designs are
the fayofite. with so many layers OF
paint applied that they bulge from the
canvas.
Automatic. Mind You
Miss Snore. who is expert in three
phases Of so-called automatic drawing
pencil. water colors and oils-sup.
plies the Oriental touch with gilded
temples and purple minaretS A num-
Der OF her vivid. diversified oil paint
ings hang on the walls. Her water
eolors are deleately executed Sc is a
woman Of twenty-three. who said she
never had had an art lesson in her
life. She became Interested in spirit
ualism upon the death Of her mother
Turning 10 the ouija board she got a
message from il that she was 10 draw,
Miss Spore explained. She took a
pencil and almost imperceptibly her
hand began to move In common with
all the others who do this work she
said that she did not go into n trance
but that her hand appeared 10 be auto
matically guided and that her thought
might be anywhere She does not have
TO concentrate. The Interrogation
simply projects itself on the canvas
before her.
Thompson. who is mentioned by the
late DR.. Hyslop in his findings on auto.
matte drawing. does wind-swept land
scapes and isolated scenes-a ship In
full sail. a clump Of ferns. a barren
moor. There is more subtlety IN the
work that comes from his brush. II
lacks the harsh note OF some Of the
other paintings and is hay and vague
Miss Talmadgc works with crayon. A
single flower in a solid background is
her usual theme. Il Is beautifully exc.
euted and shows sophistication Of color
and line that the u7initiated could
scarcely achieve. according 10 the art
critics who have viewed her work.
The drawings done By Mrs. julia
Forrest suggest the book OF Euclid
more than anything else. Her con-
trolling spirit must have been a
mathematical hend, for her designs
are one geometrical problem after
another. Rows and rows OF perfect
circles done, she vows. without com
pass; dozens and dozens Of squares
and triangles: every bit OF her wori
capable Of being reduced, in the tna
ANALYSIS, 10 arcs and angles.