New-York tribune., 1922-01-29
Random Impressions
In Current Exhibitions

Two exhibitions open tomorrow at
the Knoedler gallery. One Is composed
os drawings by F. Walter Taylor, the
illustrator who died last summer The
other will be given to the etchings Of
Muirhead Bone.
The next show at the Art Center, to
open February ]. Will be given to wall
papers and wall paper designs Other
epochs "a we'll as our own will be rep
resented. among them the period in
which the wall paper industry Of
France was built up.
We will return upon another occa-
sion to the important exhibition Of
American industrial art. the sixth in
the series, recently organized at the
Metropolitan Museum. This illustrates
current work by manufacturers and de-
signers who have proated by study os
the museum collections. 1t embraces
advertising, Typographical. design,
ceramics. commercial containers, enam-
els, furniture, lighting fixtures, rugs,
tapestries and so on.
The annual exhibition OF the National
Association CT Women Painters and
Sculptors will be held at the Anderson
Galleries II hprii. Meanwhile the as
socistion announces an auction to be
held in the rooms of the Architectural
League carly in March. The league, by
the way. will hold its exhibition this
year at the Fine Arts Building. opening
on February 8.
M. Harrington Mann is ar English
pcrtrait painter, skiilful and decorative,
whose latest works may be seen just
row at the Scott g. Fowies gallery
Incidentally. he includes a few things
oe earlier date. This is fortunate. FOR
the best thing IN the show is the Mrs.
T. Skiddy Won Stade,' painted several
Ycars ago. The pose is happily chosen,
the figure is we'll placed on the canvas,
It is admirably drawn and in the paint
lng Of the subdued tones Mr.. Mann uses
his suavest and strongest touch. He
ras made in this instance a really
charming thing He is deft in all his
canyases, dcft and spirited, and some
os his portraits of men have an at
trsctive solidity. In general, however,
he is a conventional type.
Recent portraits by Miss Dorothy Z. !
Vicaji will be nsced on xhibition at
the Enrich gallery tomorrow, TO re-
main there until February II. One OF
them is Il portrait of Queen Alexandra.
The paintings by NJ. +. Louis elliot /
in IN upper room at the knoedler make !
\ creditabc but By no means important
exhibition u. Gillot has evidently !
been we'll trained in the French schools. /
He can draw, as is we'll shown By such |
LANDSCAPES as the "Autunln Road, Lor-
rainc,' or thc Road in Snow" His
studies of docks and Of ono or two
architectural motives arc clever. Some !
military subjects reveal d grasp upon !
form AMI movement The exhibition as
a whole has a moderate interest.
There can be no doubt about the
ability of Miss Renee Prahar. the |
young sculptor who is making an cX-
hibtion at the kingorc gallery. There
s prodig iously clever modelling in her
various busts aud rcliefs. She shows
fountain design that is picturesque |
In conception AVID decorativclv handled |,
Technically she would seem to be capa
bic of almost anything. III her ideas
fhc tends toward the bizarre and is
not altogether persuasive. She works
In diverse materials. Ono Of her OK
nibits is nn entrance hail in which
monkeyr provide the decorative motive.
Carsbir, year ago IN Paris, INDUCED
In much the same sort Of fantasy. Has
Csrabin survived? uis fantasy, at any
rate. has gone down the wind Miss
Prahsr's monkeys strike us A. Of the
asmc dubious durability. Her design
10 an amusing tour de force and re
fleets her technical aptitude, but i'll
makes 10 ]astrs appeal. The break
fast room which follows, in lighter
key, is no more convincing, and the
big music room, with its large panels
IN relief, wakes the same doubts. The
background in The various panels con
ventionalizes the forest irto a series
al straight vertical linen which theo-
rctically should yield a good effect
bot which actually recall stalactites in
a manner not quite fcllcitous. The ad-
ventures cf the faun made familiar
here by the music Of Debussy are mar
/ rated with much elan and some humor.
, he figures are well modelled Action
10 viyldly interpreted. And yet the en-
senoie seems trifle heavy-handed
At Is another tour dc force, one which
In the nature of things is handicapped.
, Modelling would have to flicker with
incredible lShtness to give this scheme
Its full value. On the whole. II might
be the better for Miss Prahar's gifts
they were to be wreaked ur N the
busts and garden figures which she
does so we'll.
The exhibition opening tomorrow at
the Montross gallery will lie devoted
to early Chinese paintings, etc, be-
longing to Mr.. A. W Bahr. At the Aok-