The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-10

ever been installed in a church in the south, or anywhere else, like this marvellous organ, the gracious, generous gift of MT. and Mrs. Munger"
 Ready for the Test
 Here's a naughty little story just little naughty-you under stand-that I perfectly love: ! It was near Christmas time; they were sitting at little table for two in a remote part of a fash ionable cafe; the music was play ing; the lights were low.
 He told her she was pretty.
 Of course she liked it; yet her conscience troubled her every time he repeated the compliment.
 If you could just see me early iii the morning." she said naively, trying to be honest, "before I put my makeup on, you wouldn't think l was so pretty"
 But he was true to his convic- tions.
 "Oh, yes would" he answered quickly. Put me to the test"
 With Palette and Brush
 It was Saint-Gaudens, I believe, who said that 'it is high time that the public ceased to look upon art as q species of cloud off on the horizon"
 This comes to mind as I re- ] call that tomorrow the exhi- bition of Independent Artists will open and that many beautiful pieces of work will be displayed both from artists abroad as well as at home.
 l am the last one in all the wide world to even so much as pretend to criticise-or even write about art; either like a painting, piece of sculpture, or l don't. Which Reminds me of the little verse so apropos to my case, which goes like this:
 If you are an artist
 And lady says to you,
 As tho it were sensible re- mark:
 "I don't know anything
 Of art,
 But l know just what l like" fou may answer:
 "Yes, so do monkeys In the Park"
 However, in this case it is not so i much a criticism of art. but a plea for It that l make. Mrs. George 1 A: Gibson, the efficient president | of the exhibition of Independent Artists, telling me of some of the noted exhibitors whose work will be shown at this exhibition, said yester- day:
 ''In the first place there is the portrait which our own Mrs. J. W. Luke has painted of Mrs. Richard F. Johnston. Mrs. Luke regards it as the best piece of portrait work she has yet done. It is a very large portrait. a forty-eight by forty can vas being used. Against a back ground of exquisite blues and laven- ders-orchid tints-a blue velvet curtain makes an amazing effect.
 "A green velvet chair is used for the pose of the subject=and across one arm of the chair is a scarf thrown gracefully-of vari-colored | tints.
 Mrs. Johnston's gown is of black chiffon-diaphanous and airy-and l in her hand she holds a handsome black coque feather fan, with ir- ridescent shades-while at her waist is corsage of violets.
 "One of the notable features of the portrait which Mrs. Luke has done of Mrs. Johnston is the like ness; also the 'realness,' if I may coin the term-the delicately tinted flesh showing through the black chiffon-as lifelike as anything could be made with palette and brush.
 "A visiting exhibitor will be Wu- Hams Sartain of New York city, whose The Sunset Hour,' Arab Boy and The Marsh PooP will be seen. MT. Sartain has carried the palette and brush as the Knight of the Painters Guild' for nearly three score years and ten, and it is the wish of every artist that he may equal Cheoreul in years of fame.o i Mabel Welch, one of the most important miniature painters in America today, will loan a beauti- ful exhibit. She is the head of the School of Miniature Painting in New York, and her work is world famous.
 John Lillie sends four of his masterpieces-'The Cross,' Emerald Lake, Summer and The Battle ment.' These are rare and beauti- ful works of art--by great artist.
 With shaving brush, an assort- ment of house paints and no train- ing, John Lille, up in his home town, Dorset, Vt., was discovered by art-and his first picture, although crude and uncouth, was wonderful.
 Today, like John Keats and Walt Whitman, John Lillie has been singled out for mysterious, unpre- pared visitation, and all who know him are more thoughtful and rev- erent for the experience" The Exhibition of Independent Artists throughout America corrals it's idea from Paris-that marvellous center of art-where the "Gallerie de Refuses" was first opened proving to be one of the most pro- gressive steps the art world has ever 1 taken.
 Birmingham will have the pleas ure of viewing a replica of the l Parisienne Salon this week in this 'loan exhibit"
 An Attractive Exhibit
 I wonder if, like Mary Queen of Scotts. I'll be beheaded if dare perpetrate this:
 "The loan exhibition is far and Away
 Ahead of all else in our city today;