New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
Scrambled Art
Annual Review
Opens Tonight
remperarnental Rio, of All
Schools and Cults Given
Free Hand in Exhibition
Put On by Independents
Public To Be Sole Judge
~ Galleries on the " a!dorf
Roof Filled With Work: :
Tragic Turnip' a Magnet

81. independents Show, the annual
.:..s, ~ Gree e-for-all" is ready for the
nGsst;onsl opening tonight st the
,nr...,,.spnrf.Astoria. 1.-THE Tragic Turnip"
NsTh s ~The Poets Dream arc in their
sas ss with the thousand and more
pa Essr works by artists Of all castcs and
s.ne. lions scattered from New York
slscss,fornia. The weary hanging com
70 ,.ss .se' at work on the biggest art dis
u,"r If the year. stepped back last
rr;ght and, with representatives Of the
nrsss. viewed results
Pc, FrTs-v Imaginable school, influence
.,s theory is represented this year in
~. saa event. which brings together tho
s.t.ueat prodigy. the futurist. the
.'.s MS. and the acaGemlcian as wcll as
.ss' ...asv lshorer and millionaire. There
W. nlentiful assortment of fried-egg
~rsnniss. hand-tjnted crazy quilts
sJ sculptured whatnots. Every man
:. ""s ssuowed to speak for himself without
..strction. The mo Jury, no prize, :"
iSea prevails and the public is the
judge.
Roof Crowded With Exhibits
rron, sill walls OF the seventeen gal
lerics erected in the spacious roof gar
ien Of the hotel mazes of color and
rccmetric form smite the eye. Curl
eus figures in clay and stone tower in
the intervening spaces. 81 nc Tragic
Turnip" is calculated to take it's place
along with the famed "Nude Descend
me the Staircase Alfred Dreyfus is
ne responsible sculptor. The work is
clsssed as expressioHistic It is all OF
that in it's salmon pink hue, its arti-
dcial glass eyes and its fshlikc mouth.
There are paintings and sculptures
Cy several child prodigies and q collec-
ton Of water colors Of native Indian
seremonials by Hopi Indian artists who
until recently never saw the inside Of
N art school. TeXie Myers, IN
sighteen-year-old artist, known as the
"grl Michaelargelo OF Texas has
some remarkable wood carvings.
Other young exhibitors are Nuvart
Bsrberian, an Armenian girl, who has
ors textile designs. and Cecil Gay
nd q negro boy who has painted the
Nof scenes of lower Manhattan. Near
r is dclicately painted nude which
srs vase on It's shoulder and which
8 contribution from Irving Brokaw.
he millionaire champion ice skater.
nsewhere is d large sculpture Of fig
vs with a shovel called an the
trench by Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
rey Merton Cliyctto, said once to
have been circus performer, has sont
curious likeness of Woodrow Wilson.
represented as the head Of John the
Baptist which reposos on a plate.
There arc many curiosities, but per
maps the most amusing is the painting
aT Anna Belle Ca aldwell, who translates
l'sFslly the traditional attributes of
woman Her head is invested with
eeFries for lips, pearls for teeth, a
HVsa for her hair, and so on.
Too Much for One Days View
The feature Of the show, dcspitc its
Irrigated character, is it's size. Per-
sons taking it in should reserve dav
q two. Most of the exhibitors are
'nparatively unknown. John Sloan,
fynods Beal, Walter Pach, GEORGE
s.lOws Robert Henri, Alfred Il.
asurer and Winthrop Turney are few
comment ones. The biggest painting
Il the show is 9X10 feet, called The
lhree Brothers Verschaeren," by Barth
''s,Tschsren. THE Eternal Vamp," an
0taer sample OF his work, is a curious
reee representing through the figure
u an Egyptian goddess the various
great love episodes of history. The
sPIft OF modern times is portrayed in
ns 'Eo subjects entitled Jazz" One
inalclever work by Frueh, another is
S!inez 7! inez st. Aletz, a California artist.
'er asl'er Pach has curious interpre-
suon OF st, Patrick's Cathedral seen
.n mom the interior of shop across the
In. Inc exhibition Will be open to the
suolc si on Saturday and thereafter until