The New York herald., 1922-04-09
AND REVIEWS = MODERNISTS SHOW IN MANY GALLERIES

impressive landscape by Van Gogh that
requires seeing. The powerful water
color by Charles Burchfield called
"Scrapped Locomotives" one of the
most striking productions TO come to
light this winner. is present. as well as
particularly strong and successfui
flower panel by Walt Kuhn.
In the Colony Clubs varied exhibit
ton there is much that has already
been seen In separate one man SHOWS
but the collection as whole is very
important. Mr.. Dickinson. VINO Is un-
even, sometimes but not always strik-
ing the heights, sends to the Colony
Club the best picture he has shown this
season 1t Is an admirably compact
composition and interesting in its re-
strained color also.
Frederick Keppel Co. have been
fortunate within the last few days IN
5, touring collection of Joseph Fen
relrs etchings. The collection begins
with his earliest prints and includes
examples of almost all OF his famous
Prints up to the present. II will be
shown in the exhibition OF Mr.. Penneli's
work which will open in the keppel
Gallery on April IL.
Kennedy & Co. announce an exhibition
OF the work OF Troy Kinney, opening
April TO- Besides etchings the as
sembled work includes drawings. pastels.
water colors and oil paintings. Mr. KIN
fey continues to gather his subjects
from the dance, a great part or the
present material having been gathered
from the Pavlowa company, the dance
halis of Spain and the Paris opera
ballet
A new etching, Youth" makes is
cebut coincidentally with the exhibition.
In the series of exhibitions of Amer
can prints in the Stuart Gallery of the
Public Library the one Of "Old City
Views has given place to one devoted
to 'The Modern Etcher and the City.
The new show. to be on view during
April, offers an interesting contrast to the
one that preceded 1t. In the latter there
vas evident the old printmakers' puT-
pose to present the city as an ordered
whole, or in it's notable streets or build
ings, as an evidence of national growth
ard achievement. Invaluable historical
records this gave us Of the young coun-
try's urban development.
With the last quarter OF the nineteenth
century there entered the painter -etchcr,
whose interest in city subjects was ex-
pressed in less impersonal way. TIL.
artists point Of view found more em-
rhasis and the search for the picturesque
led to the out of the way. the un-
familiar angle, the humble section cr
building. as we'll as the imposing AMI
tie familiar. Not only the fine building
's being pictured to-day, but the com
otemned tenement" not only the sky-
scrapere. but the gas tank, not only the
city in the presentable shape of achieved
architecture and paving, but the streets
urset by building operations, torn by
subway trenches" the steam shovel
supreme.
New York, Cincinnati, New. Orleans.
Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston. Portland
and other places are pictured in the
present exhibition by etchers, including
Deville, Farrer, Horter. Hurley, Lun-
Eren, Miclatz, Mygatt, Nordfeldt, Osgood,
Pandolfi. r. c. Parrish. Pearson, PEN
nell, Plat, Quinlan, Sawyer. Schneider,
Shope Smillie, Smith. Helen B. Stevens,
| Tallmadge, Edward Thorpe Vanderhoif,
| vondrous, Weber, c. II. White, Wins
low. The list takes us from the be-
ginning of the New York Etching Club,
! ir the late eighteen to the
very present. and thus illustrates also the
changes in technique and ideas and ex-
preston which the intervening years
have brought.
| There Is an exhibition OF the work of
| eight women artists, all members of the
| National Association of Women Painters
and Sculptors at the Art Club OF Phila-
delphia until April 20. The exhibitors
| are Eleanor Abrams. Cora s. Brooks,
Isabel Branson Cartwright. Constance
Cochrane, Fern 7. Coppedge, Lucille
Howard, Helen X. Mccarthy and NJ
Elizabeth Price. All are affiliated with
Philadelphia, though Miss Abrams, Miss
Howard. Miss Mccarthy and Miss
Price now have studios In New York.
The work shown will be varied In
1 character and will include marine and
landscape paintings, still life. portraits
and canvases of purely decorative In
tent. In the latter group will be the
work of Miss Abrams. whose canvases
combine a fairy tale quaintness of theme
with a painters execution. and produce
thereby a distinctly individual note In
the province OF decoration.
Miss Brooks will show a group OF very
handsome studies OF floral and still life
arrangements Of decorative value to the
modern home. She will also show land
scapes painted near her summer home
at Boothbay Harbor, Me. Mrs. Cart
wright will show a portrait of Miss
ticularly successful commissions. por-
traits OF Bishop Garrett Of Dallas.
Texas; G. Wishart Melville of Philadel-
phia, Matthew Cartwright and 8. Dean
Caldwell OF Washington, d. c.
Miss Cochrane In her vigorous ma
rines and landscapes depicts coast and
shore land Of the Boothbay Harbor
region. particularly OF the neighborhood
of Newagen. Miss Howard will show
cloud studies and landscapes painted In
the North Carolina mountains and In
Europe. Among her foreign sketches
will be a canvas of st. Afghan, the "St.
| Agony" known TO 40 many OF our
doughboys. This canvas IL now owned
by Col. T.. d. Landon. whose command
was at st. Afghan with the Sunset Di-
vision.
Miss Mccarthy win show landscapes
Of varying locale, two portraits and
characteristics studies OF Gloucester sub
l jects. Among her sketches will be
Spring" which was awarded the
sketch prize at the annual exhibition
Of the National Association OF Woman
Painters and Sculptors N 1913. The
work of Miss Price will include two dec
| orative canvases OF fruit and flower
motives in her characteristic vein. Her
other contributions will be group OF
/ canvases showing her outstanding In
terest In foreign market places which
she portrays with interesting emphasis
upon architectural surroundings Her
studies were made In italy and Brittany
and among her sketches she viii in