The New York herald., 1922-02-19
Notes and Activities
In the World of Ar,

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Richard Ederheimer. who is exhibiting
at the Anderson Galleries. says that
critics have called him a fake naive"
but he doesn't mind bit. He says ::
They have already given me a category.
| laugh at this truly fiattering epithet,
as Ii gives me more honor than | de-
serve i could not fake anything If
wanted to. don't possess the technical
ability.
THE actual fact is, in my portraiture.
that II / should try to hold certain
characteristic quality in a sitter con-
sciously ! should most likely fail. The
fact that is still mysterious to me in
my painting Is that | get the qualities
that are there most IL am not aware
of them at all. After working now for
three years I have naturally acquired
some technique-but technique Is moth
ing-art begins only where that ends"
Mr.. Ederhemer has been painting por-
traits of Alfred Stieglitz. the great
old actor. Emanuel Reicher" the young
Siegfried." Carl Zigosser. Das Gupta
and the Eurasian girl. Marion Ling.
MSS is the latest litreary-artistic
review to apear and the first issue con-
tains articles by Sherwood Anderson.
Rosenfeld. Herbert J. Seligman and Will
liam Carlos Williams. 1t costs ten cents
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months or ten years. The risk is
yours" Subscriptions and donations OF
money will be received by Paul Rosen-
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The entire cost of the first issue. was
1894. and this was paid by the authors
mentioned above. each of whom Is re-
sponsible only for what he signs and
each of whom will receive complaints
only for what he signs. The cover de-
sign is an adaptation Of Marcel Du-
champs dada review Of last spring. but
since the source is acknowledged the
swpe isn't actionable.
MSS. doesn't say so. but 1t Is TO
be inferred that the authors who pub
lish in II use the Mss. they cannot
place elsewhere.
Paintings by c. Harry Allis. Ben
jamin Eggleston. Stanley Middleton and
Charles Vein adorn the gallery Of the
Salmagundi Club. The Salma gundi Club
is the haven for artists not yet famous.
and nowhere is talk so fervent as in the
circles where hope has been deferred.
Possibly because of al the aspiration
ti.at has been breathed within It's rooms
nowhere Is the atmosphere so sympa-
thetic to pictures as In the gallery Of
the Samagundi Club, and there is al
ways the temptation to put on rose
colored glasses when viewing pictures
there.
However, in spite of the rose colored
glasses. Mr. Eggleston appears TO be the
only one of the present quartet who has
an apprecable command over his
medium. He works in Connecticut and
has a rather direct though literal APP
proach to the stony landscapes of that
region.
MIR. Middleton's weakness is the ten
dency TO take things literally His
portrait of Cardinal Mercier is rather
terrible and there Is grave danger that
il will offend the many admirers OF his
sanity sitter. Mr.. Vein INDUCES In
sweet and pretty color. but is weak In
values. Little touches jump out of place
in his productions due not so much 10
fiery temperament as TO faulty training.
Wherever dealers congregate In Lon
don little else is talked about than the
"Rembrandt' at Phillips Son and
Neale's Briefly. the story Is this, as
told in an English paper:
In n sale at their auction rooms. 10
New Bond street. of miscellaneous deco
rative and household furniture. a few
pictures were included. One OF these
was catalogued as: BY an unknown
artist. subject, "The Wayside Blessing"
gilt fram. carved in shells and foliated
scrolls. II appears that the picture
which had come from a depository. had
belonged 10 a we'll known London pro-
fesslonaI man who had paid about $50
for II many years ago and In whose
house Il had long hung While on view
IL seems TO have attracted a good deal
OF notice. Most OF the London dealers
turned up at the sale, and instead or
being knocked down for trifng sum 81
quickly jumped from a small opening bid
10 500 guineas. and at 2.i00 gulneas was
purchased by MIR. +. Ssbin.
There Is no doubt about the subject OF
tho picture. which Is that Of st Philip
Bapuzing the Eunuch." and the scheme
Of the picture is Identical with Rem
brandt's conception Of the subject. But
Rembrandts picture Of ths subject.
painted in his early youth, about 1928
30 and etched by J. J. Van vliet at the
time has so far eluded the Investigations
of Rembrandt students. Or. Hostede d.
Groot describes II from the copy az
Oldcnburg and says that other copies
repeatedly occur. That in the Grand
Ducai Gallery at Oldenburg. he says.
perhaps comes nearest to the original.
but Is certainly not by Rembrandt" An
other copy Is at Schwerin. No. S5e, the
small catalogue of that gallery stating
that the original was in the Tolstoy
collection at Odessa and formerly came
from the Mocenigo collection at Venice.
IL will he interesting 10 know II the
picture sold at Phillips, Son & Neale's
IS the original or one Of the many copies
to which Or. Hofstede de Groot refers"
The following In In a note from Alfred