Evening star., 1939-10-29
Awards Made Art International Scope Reflects Unrest
New School
Displaces
Alien Work
Selections of Jury
Are Questioned
By Critic
By Leila Mechiin.

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Five of the eight much-coveted
awards in the Carnegie Internation-
al Exhibition at Pittsburgh, which
opened recently. went to American
artists, but whether for this reason
the findings of the prize jury will be
any more satisfactory to the public
at large than have its predecessors
upon similar occasions, is a matter
Of doubt.
The winners were Alexander Brook
of New York, first prize, 1000, for
his painting, Georgia Jungle"
picture of Negro life in the open
country essentially drab and unex-
citing; Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Woodstock,
N. Y. second prize, $500, for a semi
humorous portrait" of a female,
Lay Figure" lying slumped across a
chair in an altogether detected atti-
tude; Raphael Soyer of New York,
second honorable mention, 5000. for
a realistic but far from inspiring
painting of Bus Passengers Aaron
Bohrod, Chicago third honorable
mention, 5000, for Western land
scape in the midst of which is set a
dilapidated Deserted House-Wy-
oming," and Ernest Fiene, New York,
fourth honorable mention for cam
vas depicting "Razing Old New
York Post Office" an epitome of
changing times and destruction.
The three awards which went to
foreigners were as follows: Third
prize. $500, to Marc Chagall, Rus
sian-born resident Of Paris. for his
painting entitled The Betrothed,"
highly imaginary composition con-
sisting of huge bouquet of flowers,
an anemic couple in an ecstatic en-
brace and angels fitting around in
the backgrounds; first honorable
mention. s400. to Mariana Andreu,
Spaniard. but also resident in
France, for an elaborate and very
meticulously painted surrealistic
picture entitled The Duel With
Ones Self" and the Allegheny
County Garden Prize, 5000. to Maui
rice Brianchon of Paris for his still
life, Flowers on a Red Table"
Selection Of Jury.
The jury OF award was made up
this year OF two distinguished and
conservative American painters, Eu-
gene Speicher and Edward Hopper,
both Of New York; the well-known
British portraitist. Gerald l.. Brock
hurst. than whom none is more safe
and sane and artistically accom-
plshed both as painter and etcher.
and Spaniard. Hipolito Hidalgo de
Cavledes, winner of the first prize
in the Carnegie's 1885 international,
who is represented in the current
show by an impressionistic portrait
OF little child with very large. dark
eyes which peer wondering from the
canvas. Homer -Gaudens, di-
rector OF the Carnegie Institute, was
chairman of the jury.
Why such a group should have Sc
lected these works by American and
foreign artists to receive the highest
honors is difficult to understand,
unless many catalogued were hors
concours and the search was for
daring and novelty
The United States section COM
prises almost a third of all the paint
lngs m the eXhibition-105 out of
348-and is extraordinarily inclusive,
conservatives and progressives hav-
ing about equal representation. For
instance, among the first group rep
resented are Leopold Seyffert, Ed
ward w. Redfield, Daniel CARRIER,
William j. Singer, jr.; Wayman Ad-
ans. Jonas Lie, Frederick J. Waugh,
Eugene Speicher, Harry w. Watrous,
Irving Wiles and others. while with
the latter are numbered John Marin,
Jack Levine, Henry Varnum Poor,
Peter Blume, Doris Lee, John Car
roll, Jon Corbino and George Grosz,
not to mention others in the same
classes or those occupying halfway
positions. A better all-around rep
resentatlon of American art today
could scarcely have been assembled.
This makes it all the more astound-
Ing that not even the tiniest sprig of
laurel went to those who have con-
sstenrly upheld in their works what.
for lack of better words, We call the
great tradition,
There are five nations with
separate sections in this exhibition
England, France. Germany, Italy
and the United States-to which is
added an international section,
which includes works by artists from
Czecho- -Slovakia. Poland, Holland.
Italy. Russia and Spain, as we'll as
nationals of England and Germany
not in their home lands. Also. there