Evening star., 1923-03-04

just that much. without at all re-
ducing the chance of ambitious young
French comers. who would offer any
how! The absentees. one would
think, are rather good men of the
second class, who will be sulking in
their tents
For the American pick of Paris
there is a special American committee
Of Paris, to act. in the same way, both
as picker and as jury of admission.
They are Walter Gay. Alexander
Harrison, Carl Friesseke and Florence
Este. Who could improve on these
names?-artists of long settled repu-
tation. beyond all suspicion Of whim
or private interest.
To these. Carnegie gave names of
twenty-five American painters of
Paris, with the request to pick fifteen
of them for invitation. Then Carl
F'rieseke put up notice at the Amer
lean Art Club; Homer Saint -Gaudens
published it in the Paris edition Of
the New York Herald, and Guillaume
I.erolle. foreign representative of
Carnegie, sent blank forms to all
known American painters and art
students Of Paris.
Their number is not great. Some
twenty-five have offered pictures. OF
these, ten may be accepted by the
American committee of Parfs-a good
sporting chance-would it not seem
so? How painstaking the committee
is in its work may be judged by the
fact, that none of the ten had been
voted in at this writing. and that
three of the invited ones are still
left blank.
The known American exhibitors of
Paris are Richard Miller. H. o. Tanner,
Elizabeth Nourse, Thorndike, Eugene
Vail, Mcclure Hamilton. Bernard Har-
rison. Edmund Scott, Alexander Har-
rison. Walter Gay, Carl Frieseke and
Florence Este-the last three being
III c.
And, ah, yes" broke in Saint Gau-
dens, "on the prize jury sit one
Frenchman. one Englishman and two
Americans. The French delegate is
Georges Desvallieres, who is of the
Salon d'AutomEe. The English dele
gate is Augustus John, about the big
gest painter in England today. and
also of a rather new school. We did
not choose these men - they were
elected by the national committees.
1t can't be said that the new people
are not having a fair chance"
Wont it risk loosening the con-
servative brakese"
NO" he replied. because both
Desvallieres and John are very wise
men and do not claim the whole uni
verse for the new
The home American committee,
which will invite and admit about
eighty American painters in America,
has Just been cabled to Paris.
The artists are George Bellows,
Jonas Lie. Edward Redfield, Eugene
Speicher, Edmund Tarbell, Horatio
Walker and Irving Wiles-all men of
weight, habitual prize winners, now
H. G.
The English committee is equally
at work. The members are George
Clausen elderly SCHOOL,. Sir William
Orpon (neither old nor new). Angus
tus John (new SCHOOL,. Mrs. Laura
Knight Qast years delegate, rather
new). William Nicholson elderly, &C.
Iectic), Maurice Griefenhagon (direc-
tor Of Albert Memorial Museum, ra-
ther new and Algernon Talmage
(young man of conservative tastes).
Saint Gaudens returned, emphati-
fcally, to the utterly novel character
of these national committees.
"Carnegie's only control of the
show has been the picking of these
committees at the start" he insists.
"And in this. even. by the nature of
things, the, direction Of Carnegie was
limited to eminent men in each
school. The idea is to make the emil