Evening star., 1923-06-05
SHOW AMERICAN
ART IN PARIS SALON
Painters and Etchers Get
Good Places in Spring
Exhibition.
Nv RHETA CHILDE DORR.

PARIS France, May 10.-Among
the miles of paintings and acres OF
sculptures that this spring mark the
end of the twenty-year feud between
the old and new Paris salons. the
work of American artists stands with
the best. 1t cannot be claimed that
the 1928 spring salon reveals any re-
markable genius. unless a special
room devoted to the work of the great
cartoonist. Forain. he excepted. but
the work of the generality of artists,
including the Americans. is excep-
tionally good. Comparatively few
American scuiptors are represented,
but upwards of sixty American paint
ers and fair number of etchers and
engraverS are well hung.
Cecilia Beaux, forsaking her almost
top classical early manner. shows
three canvases singularly moving and
lifelike. Her best portrait. Sur la
Terasse," is a painting of beautiful
young woman in a yellow satin gown
and cleaning white slippers against
| a BACKGROUND of luminous night. Her
portrait of Lieut.. Platt Andrews Is
also a distinguished piece of work.
Many American Exhibitors.
Another military portrait worthy OF
mention is that of Gen Allen, com
| mandant A. F. G.. 1918, painted by A
! Leslie Cotton of the French general,
BGvdulat usually haS an interested
group before It, while her portrait Of
Nils rlls 1tra S etea sef. sena1 me a'tsnesPn
I u Oh
American subjects such as Edgar AL
win Payne's High Sierras." William
p. Sylva's three California land
scapes. Frank a. Browns "Nord des
Etats Cnis.'' and Lionel Walden's two
Hawaiian scenes.
French and especially Partisan sub
jects, such as Adolph Berson's
Churches of Montmartre and Frank
Boggs' studies of Notre Dame and
the Seine. F.. A. Bridsman has some
vivid studies of Cairo and the Tour
COURT. and Albert Gihon's Canal de
Bruges cannot he overlooked as
piece of fine color.
George Howland has four interest
ing studies of the coast of Normandy
and Aston Knight son of the veteran
painter, Ridgeway knight. exhibits
four poetic canvases rejecting moods
Of twilight and winter bleakness.
Some good interiors and still LIES
DE Thalia Malcolm. Minerva Chap-
man. NJ. Nelson. Eleanor Norcross and
Hubert Eos are well hung.
An American "SchoOl" Created.
Among minor exhibits II will not do
to omit mention of the youngest
American painter. Miss Mardue Bur
rows. aged fifteen. who shows two
creditable miniatures. one OF her
mother and another of a sturdy peas
ant. 1t can be said OF most, if not all
hn
have ceased to initiate their French
masters and have really created
school of their own. purely national.
One can now pick out an American
painting in crowded roomful for
certain liveliness and sureness of
drawing a sort of four-square hon
esty which is entirely American.
One piece of combined architecture
and sculpture which is not American
but (which is dedicated to America is
a model. thirty feet high. of light
house TO be erected at the Point de
Grave on the River Gironde, to COM
memorate the arrival in Bordeaux of
the American troops in 1918. 1t is the
composite work of the decorators Au-
berlet and Laurent. the architect
Ventre and the sculptors Bartolme
and Bourdelle.
There is a decided suggestion Of the
Egyptian in the design and in a con-
fined space Of an exhibition II ap-
on an elevation we'll out at sea II
will doubtless be quite inspirationa1.
Dedicated to the Doughboys.
Looking seaward is Bourdelle's
heroic figure of militant France shad-
ing her eyes with her hands while
she watches for the first sight of the
approaching American transports. On
the landward side of the monument
are appropriate bas reliefs and the
following inscription ITO the Glory
of the American Soldiers of Gen.
Pershing, Defenders of the Same
Ideals of Right and Liberty Which
Brought to America the Volunteers of
Lafayette"
The United States did not, as a mat
| ter of fact land many troops at Bor-
| deaux. Thousands of work troops
and most of the army supplies came
through the Gironde. but the great
masses of fighting men landed at st.
! Nazaire and Brest. However. Bor-
deaux needed a lighthouse and ar
| IDENTIFY desired to express her graft
! tude for American aid in the darkest
| days of the world war. Hence, one