Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-08

of the twenty votes has let the paint
ing in.
Before other pictures tand the
same for scuIpture). canes and
umbrellas go up instantly The mas
tiers know perfectly what is very
good work. and they would be
ashamed to pass it. Also they de-
sire It
Before yet others not a cane is
raised Again no doubt is possible.
Some buds are really too bad
Such is the first rough voting in.
BY article 4. chapter .. Of the by
laws, they may admit each year 1850
paintings in addition to those pre-
scented in their own right by them
selves and other Hors Concours men.
Now, suppose the jury has raised
canes for 1900 pictures? II must
go back and vote out the overplus.
Is there injustice in the Salon? !
do not know but should there be IL
will be found in the overplus.
CUPPOSE my Americans rejected
y work had. at first. been accepted
III the overplus. | refer TO the
man Of the travelling scholarship.
Suppose that the waist ribbon had
been admitted beside it. Which, do
you think, would have been voted
out in the sverplus-the blue paint
by the hand Of a jurymau:
Wives of financiers and statesmen
paint. They have beautiful studios
and take lessons from jurymen-
quite privately-who meet at their
dinners the kind OF folks who order
high priced portraits and can swing
government orders. So these ladies'
pictures must be admitted to the
Salon. They harm no good artist
il he is already in" They are never
for sale.
There are great ladies who take
interest in art They discover
geniuses, whose work must be adj
mitted, right away, this spring.
Who is hurt by their admission?
Who is hurt by the waist ribbon?
Evidently. only the overplus-the
works Of unknown men not of tran
scendent merit, but deemed plenty
good enough. originally. to have them
voted in on their own worth without
a shadow of backing.
The art of getting into the Salon
consists in not being voted out in the
overplus.
know an American who seemed
to do it on q lucky huke. He arrived
In Paris just five days before the
closing of the Salon entries.
One day he spent IN dreaming. In
the four remaining he put the dream
on canvas He pushed it himself in a
hand cart to the Grand Palais. 1t was
hung on the line, received a second
class medal and was sold for $500 to
a French collector.
But wait. At fourteen the boy had
won a Chicago newspaper prize for
drawing. Three years later he won
an art institutes generous prize for
drawing. He arrived in Paris, passed
the Beaux Arts examinations, got
portrait received into the Salon. re-
turned to America as teacher in
school Of fine arts, won a $4,000
scholarship-and on those dollars he
arrived in Paris just five days before
the closing of the Salon entries.
You see. there was no sudden jump.
no favoritism. But / can tell story
of favoritism. 1t Is Of an American
who quit the Beaux-Arts courses
after two weeks. THE Beaux-Arts is
too SLOW" he said-and switched to
the Julien Academy.
X X \
WELL, after theree weeks work he
W won that Julien studios medal
for portrait painting, and his effort
was hung on the wall. Now for the
favoritism. Besnard happened to
drop Unlocking for something. He
was impressed by the portrait and
talked with its author.
Come down to Berck and help me-"
said the then vice president Of the
New Salon to this American tender
foot. All that summer the boy
worked at filling in Besnard's outlines
of church frescoes. Now he is a great
painter himself
The Paris Salon
it, has been SO high aud happy!