New-York tribune., 1922-03-25
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Artists Open Annual Show
With ''Narnisl,ing Day"
Ceremony i'm Which Old
and New Painters Assist
Many Patrons Attend
Design Acade,nicians Have
81 Canvases on View;
Outsiders Contribute 200

The ninety-scventh annual exhibi-
tlon of the National Academy of De
sign was opened yesterday at the Fine
Arts Building, 212 West Fifty-seventh
Street. with the traditional ceremonies
which make an academy show a dis
tinctive and memorable occasion in art
circles. "Varnishing day" was OBJ
served by the artists, according to the
time-honored custom in putting final
touches to their exhibits, adjusting
them to the proper alignment on the
walls and complimenting or cuss ing the
hanging committee, as the case hap
pcned to be, for The positions ac-
corded them. 1t was distinctivcly an
artists gathering, a kind OF reunion
among the older acadcmicians and an
opportunity for the youngsters who had
lust "brohc into the academy" with
their art 20 edge up 20 some OF the
| distinguished characters on hand.
his Observance was followed by the
opening reception for invited guests,
seVera hundred Of whom, including
many prominent patrons Of the arts.
were present during the afternoon and
evening.
The exhibition, which is known as
the Spring Academy, contains this year
422 pictures, singled by the jury of
selection from more than a thousand
submitted specimens in oils, water
color and black and white. All avail
able wall spnce in the soatn gallery, the
middle gallery and the Vanderbilt
gallery and the print room is filed,
though the hanging Of pictures has
been kept within the limits of good
taste. There is to be seen the work Of
academcians, associates and non-mem-
ber5, the latter predomnating. There
are 260 examples by outsiders, seventy
eight by associates and eightyfour by
the acadcmicians,
The prize winning pictures and
sculpture make an imposing showing.
On the east wall Of the Vanderbilt
gallery is Daniel CARRIERS "Tohickon,
which received the Altman $1,000 prize
for tho best landscape painted by an
American born painter. 1t is a wooded
| hillside with the walls OF houses show
ing through luXuriant growth Of
shade trees, viewed from a nearer slope
from which rise TO divide the picture
the spreading arms Of a large tree.
Garner Symons's painting, "Gleam of
Hilltops," which received the second
Altman prize Of $500, is hung on the
west wall Of the same gallery 1t is
winter scene with coldly flowing
stream showing between wooded hills
beyond which rises loftier crest soft
ly tinted by the sun.
Robert Philips "Portrait Of Him
self" awarded the Julius Hallgarten
second prize of 5000; A. T. Nibbard 5
Late February which won the Hall
earten first prize OF $500, and Louis
Ritman's "Sunlit Window awarded
the third Hallgarten prize Of 500, are
shown also in the Vanderbilt gallery
with Dewitt NJ. Loc(mans 'Portrait of
| Cullen Yates" winner Of the Isaac N
! Maynard prize The sculpture group
cntitled New York Fire Engine Horses,
! by Amory C. Simons, took the Ellin ?
| Speyer prize of $500.
The large gildcd statue OF "Diana'
| by Anna Vaughn Hyatt, awarded the J
Sanford Saltus gold medal, is the
dominating sculpture figure in the
south gallery. It is a life-size nude
! figure which raises a bow over hen
head in the act of discharging an
arrow, while at her feet runs hunting
dog. In the center gallery is Gertrude
Fiske's figure painting, "The Carpen-
! ter" with which she won the Thomas
| y. Clarke prize Of $500.
The exhibition will be open to the
public from to-day until April %.