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6 T1IK KUOOKIAX DAILY NEW YOKK, SUNDAY. APRIL 18, 1926 NEWS AND VIEWS ON CURRENT ART POSTER DESIGN Museum Usefulness CHILDREN IN SUNSHINE pfrpr 1 The Modern Spirit in Textile Design Exhibition at Art Alliance. Complete Collection of Etchings by John Sloan At Kraushaafs By HELEN APPI.ETON REAI. AT a recent dinner given In his honor Cecil Reginald Grundy, editor of the well-known British art magazine, the Connolaseur, who la ovr here to study conditions and methods In American museum management, expressed surprise and admiration at the way we had been ahla to bring our museums Into such close contact with the people. In other words, that the American museum was not only the storehouse of beautiful and costly relics, a thing apart from the business of life, which toe visitor with a thirst for beauty could seek out If he so chose, but which made no effort to attract htm other than by merely being, aa pertains In European museums, but was a storehouse for beautiful things made to radiate usefulness.

The American museum Is a museum militant and to borrow a phrase from museum literature the American museum must work for Its Through its educational department and through the presentation of its several departments; the fine, the Industrial and the decorative arts; the classical, the archeologlcal and so forth; the museum acts as an Influence and inspiration both practical and esthetic. The passive museum has Paintings by Joseph Pollet at Dudensing Galleries Thla is a young artist whose works have attracted attention from the time they were first shown at the Whitney Studio Club two years ago. He Is a painter with the lrreplacabla gifts of personality, courage and zest for life. He views the universe through his own eyes and la not Influenced by the I 'ay other artists have said the same thing. His sub-Jecta are chosen from the world ha Uvea In.

When he Is In the city he. paints types and city scenes, when In the country landscapes. It happens that the types which he elects to paint In the country are not human types but remarkably keen characterizations of villages and houses. Getting the personality of places is one of his outstanding qualities. Mr.

Pollet is still a very young; painter, and the praise that he aaa received is of a dangerous variety. Coming aa It does from the emancipated in art, he may be too readily satisfied with hla achievement. For, given the Important qualities which he has, he has still a long way to go. To his sensitive, emotional response he needs add a finer quality of workmanship and a greater care) far detail. None of these mora considered attributes need lose for him a Jot of the emotional impression which nature makes upon hint and which he In turn puts upon-canvas and so conveys to his audience.

It is still the lovely tapestry Ilka views of forest and distant hill or lakes with wooded shores In which he has achieved his greatest success, Mr. Pollet Is one of the Americana chosen to represent contemporary American art at the Newark Mb seum. Tp fjpn Activities at The no place In the American scheme of things. As examples of museum usefulness there are the remarkable textile collections belonging to the Brooklyn Museum and collected by Professor Stewart Culin, which are not only available for students of de-slim In the museum workshops but are sent about the country. Professor Culln believes In the Inspirational quality of first-band contacts with beautiful things.

And at the Metropolitan there are the annual Industrial art exhibitions which, until the most recent one, hae had as requisite of admission that the material submitted be of museum Inspiration. So Into the avenues of trade From the Drawing by Mons, BreidVik, Shown in the Exhibition of His Works Now Current in Brooklyn Museum Print "Galleries. have come designs which may be directly traced to museum material. A lamp manufacturer has adapted a Oreek mirror or a Cellini bronze to his uses; a textile manufacturer studies the designs of mummy cases, or a manufacturer of costumes gets a new touch from armor. Two things are thus accomplished: the museum projects Its Idea of usefulness and practicability and the American manufacturer is made aware of the Importance of design in determining the salablllty of an article.

Since few designs come fully designed from the head of the designer, but must grow out of other Ideas, the museum, with Its wealth of articles displaying the best design of the past, offers fertile soli for the designer of new material. Aa an interesting corollary to the Idea of museum usefulness there Is being shown In the Print Galleries of the Brooklyn Museum a group of posters designed by pupils of the senior art classes of Pratt Institute, who receive their Inspiration from uc BROOKLYN MUSEUM Inspired by natural history speci mens at Brooklyn Museum and shown exhibition of work by students of Pratt Institute, Print Department, Brooklyn Museum. Robert Brackman At Babcock Galleries At recent Academy exhibitions here and In Philadelphia paintings by Robert Braijkman have stood out as being the worka of a painter with a distinctly modern trend aa re gards design and structure, but one who has not found some or the man-nerlsma of modernism a neceasary adjunct to being modern. In other words ne nas given draftsmanship as careful consideration as the most academic of painters, if he does not make it the outstanding qualification for our con sideration, in his portraits ne combines an interesting arrangement of still-llfe and background with keen characterization. His types may fit into a scheme of decoration but -they remain none the less competently handled portraits.

Among his smaller canvases are a couple of land scapes which have a zest and spontaneity which la aomewhat lacking In hla larger, more fully realized works. It is this quality which the artist with his already well-stocked box of accomplishments needs to cultivate. In the Inner gallery are being shown landscapes by John 8. Wltt-rup, gay spontaneous little Impressions of the New England coast about the region of Cape Ann. Mr.

Wlttrup is a Norwegian and recently exhibited at the Scandinavian exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Except for a predilection for marines and shipping subjects paint ed In a high keyed pallet there is little to stamp him as a Scandinavian painter. His sympathetic Informal renditions of his subjects re flects a purely American point ot view. Water Colors By Ernest Fiene A group of recent water colors by Ernest Flene Is being shown at the Rehn Galleries. Mr.

Flene has won for himself a high place among the American school ot modernism in the few yenrs that he has been an exhibitor. If his work has seemed a trifle too arid snd doctrinaire In his seeking to express nature In terms ot structure and design, the present selection rinds him well away from these qualities. He has given us a direct fresh response to nature. And while far from being an emotional statement, it is sufli clently spontaneous to belle the doctrinaire. The color Is warmer, the treatmeht looser.

One senses a bit of romance and Interest In sub ject, attributes conspicuously lack' Ing In his other work. Pictures which exemplify these qualities are the two brick factory themes snd the "Waterfall Ramapo." RFST.M'RANTS BROOKIYN. HOTEL B053ERT MONTAGUE, HICKS14 mMStN STREETS BROOKLYN Table d'Hote Dinner Every Evening, 0 to 8:00 o'Clock $1.75 Mutlc daring Dinner; afterward concert la lb foyer Irora to 9 P. M. REOTArRAJrTft MAJfHATTAJf.

A complete collection of etchlnss by John Sloan, Including those for the novels of Paul de Kock. a set not known to the collector of Sloan etchings. Is now on view at the Kraushaar Galleries. John Sloan has been our most faithful recorder of contemporary American life. Like the famous Nineteenth Century draftsmen of France and England, Daumler and Oavaml, Leech and Keene, he found his greatest Inspiration In the manners and morals of the life about him.

Commencing with his first etchings dated KOS. we find that it Is this theme In Its Infinite variations wnich has held him. Sloan and nenri were the men who were largely Instrumental In showing the art student of 20 years ago that emotional landscapes and studio ar rangements were apt to produce stereotyped copy book pictures. It was through their teachings that the vogue for realism took hold of the younger generation, George Bellows being the outstanding example. Sloan's Independence of spirit did not, however, stop with his personal taste In art.

He became president of the Independents and is thus one of the most powerful allies of Independence In artistic thought. It Is Interesting to trace the change of manners which has taken place during the last 20 years. As such, these etchings are a valuable record of 1905 to 1025. Among the etchings are many which have no connection with historical document and have been chosen as subject matter because of their beauty, notably the series of nude figures. Concerning these the etching connoisseur, who thinks of etchings In terms ol technicalities rather than of how the artist has conveyed his idea, will have amnio material for eulogy.

Sloan's ability to exemplify the etchers' line la well Illustrated In these. Stimulating Group At Montross Galleries Mr. Montross has a way of creating aomethlng special and choice out of Ingredients, which, while standing for high qualities, offer nothing piquant It would be supposed to the gallery frequenter. In his collection of water-colors by American artists now on view we find many familiar names. If one ur two are only commencing to be well Known.

'ine combination ana in many cases the fact that the examples areunusual are the Ingredients which make this a stimulating collection. Here for an Instance, la an early Arthur B. Davlea pen and Ink drawing, a meticulously observed and executed study of trees and a river. Each leaf and twig la atudied, a pretty good evidence that back of his sometimes somewhat Impalpable draftsmanship he has the knowledge which enables him to know what to leave unsaid. An early Wlnslow Homer Illustration, while exhibiting certain provincial and homespun qualities, foreshadows the native and epic quality which characterized his later work.

H. Varnham Poor, better known as the creator of exquisite pottery, is here represented with group of water-color studies of flowers, dc signs similar to those which he uses to decorate his pottery, and most likely studies for them, but existing fnr themselves aa sensitive, nigniy Individual flower stlll-llfes. Demuth's delicate flower studies symbolize the frairrance and fragility of all nowera, He has never shown more lovely arrangement than the bunch of nrlne- flowers which he exhibits. Bradley Walker Tomlln and Frank London also exhibit characteristic flower studies, and Paul Bohland two of his fresh, colorful Impressions of nlrturesnue places. It Is pleasant to see Herbert Tschudy In this group, a sensitive artist whose work la too seldom Been on gallery walls.

The landscape which he has chosen to renresent him is one of his South western series "Ilaln Clouds, Grand Canyon" a flnely bnlanred composi tion both as to color ana arninxi- ent, carrying with It the nutnoruy r.f a genuine Impression. Hnrry Herlng, whose name appears wim growing frequency upon exhibition gallery walls, shows two landscapes, painted with his characteristic gusto. The homeliest aipect of the American scene furnishes him with material which, deaplle the a-nse of actuality they convey, are. through the alchemy of color and design, transformed Into beauty. Other pictures are by Alan Burroughs.

Maurice Prendergast snd Charles Burchfleld. Another exhibition which Is being shown simultaneously with thla one Is a group of water-colors by Ruth Pavne Burgess. The outstanding characteristic of these little Impressions of beautiful and picturesque places Is their chorm charm of selection nnd charm of presentation. The artist has a fine, careful technique well Bulled to her closely-observed presentation of her subject. PAINTINGS ky JOHN S.

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alafawaee (leslle set test The art Alliance Is holding its tenth annual textile design compe tition nnd exhibition In Its galleries at 65 E. 66th at. This Is, to my knowledge, the first industrial art competition to have been held in this country in which a distinctly mod ern trend la evidenced. Competl- tlona for industrial design have been many of recent "years, but without exception the designs submitted have all been traditional In feeling and execution. One explanation for this preponderance of the modern spirit may be traced to the fact that thU la the first exhibition to have been held atnee Art Decoratlf motives have been widely disseminated over the country.

Quite clearly, despite the fact that many of our manufacturers are still hesitating as ti whether or not the new colors and designs will make a hit with the I public, the young designer has decided that It la the way In which he can best express himself. Incidentally the largest number of designers competed for the prlzea since tho war days, when, owing to the fact that the manufacturer waa obliged to buy American designs, the "made In received tremendous Impetus. All of which Is portentloua of the fact that the day is not far distant when we can genuinely say that an American design is the equal of a European In point of Idea, practicability and execution. Once our designers commence creating according to their tastes and personal reaction to the life about them Instead of readaptlng and 'copying old designs reflecting another period of taste, we may hope that this condition will pertain. The present collection of deslgna reflects the modern note In that many of the designs are geometric and use flat, bright colors.

Realistic detail is entirely dlregarded and poster-like effects are sought for. The pictorial subject is a popular one, due to the fact that one of the prlzea offered specified that the motive ahould be of American inspiration. This brought forth many extremely clever adaptations In the form of designs featuring American motives Rene Clarke, winning a prize for a textile, In which the motives were excerpts from a typical Sunday rotogravure page, and Leslie Herskowltx, winning another, for a design In which the subject was frontier life. The prizes offered this year, of which the total was $1,026. were given by Cheney Brothers, R.

H. Mal- llnson, Marshall ield at me Stehll Silk Company, Collins Aikman, the Orlnoko Mills, Wlt- eombe McQechln, Turner Van- dam, Clarence Whitman, Schwar- zenhach, Huber F. Shu- macher the Silk Travelers Association and the publication, Silk. The prize awards were as follows: For silk First prize of 1200, Emma P. Garrison; second prize of 1100, Theodora Van Wageman.

Cretonne First prize of I1Z5. Zllpha L. Bentley; second prize of 175, Elsa Tennhardt. The Silk Publishing company prize, Martha Davis. Stehll ailk prize, ratricia Youni.

Four originality prlzea or II on each: Leslie Herskowltx, Rene Clarke. Nina Vaaallerekala, Nettle Burton. Honorable mention: Gladys A. Ttemsen. Esther Fosbroke, Louise Thomas.

Virginia Lignell, Henrlette Rtess, Aina Illnnk, A. Flory, Mary rinux. Jennie Greenburg. Mildred Watts, Bene Clarke, Eva Marshall Bates. Helen M.

Brown. Elsa Tenn M. Solotaroff, Hllma Keto. hardt, ART CALENDAR nrtooKXYfr. BnoOKLTN MURRUM Mumsrlal exhlbl Hon of nalntlnsa by Bon Foater; wo men painters and seulptore oponlnr April It.

BROOKLYN MUDKUM PRINT OAM-BHT Drawings ana atrhlnra br Mnni. Broldvlk and Uno Btallarholra, com. mtnctns April 7. NEIOHllflBHOOD 104 Clark at Water colors by Janet Blossom, to April 11. OIRtJI COMMERCIAL KIOH BCHOOti-Brnoklrn society of Artleta until April It.

MANHATTAN. AIN8MK OAI.I.KBIKS Palntlnsa by Tra-man Paaaolt. ANDKRSON OAt.l.r.BT Kihlbltlon by mimbrra at Whltnoy Studio Club. ART CENTKH Soclotr ot llluatratora. ARDRN STUDIOS Eihlliltlon of New York Chapter American Society of Land'arapo Architects APT ALL! A NCR, R.

lath at Tenth annual textile corrpatltloa and exhibition. ART IN TRADR CLUB Robert OrlfKn wall.papor eompotttton. BABCOCK OAI.LERIRS Palntlnsa ny John Wiltrup; recent palntlnsa br Robert Brackmaa. CITY CLUB. II W.

44TH ST Lendseapee br Jamae aVett. AMY RICHARDS OOLTON. Ill K. ITtk at Decorative ablp palntlnsa by Warraa Dahlvr. CIVIC CLUB Palntlnaa br atererawltB.

PANIKL UALLER1ES Palntlnsa br Ku-alyoahl. DURA VD-RUEtc Palntlnsa by Andre. FKAMON GALLERIES Palntlnsa br Barsua. PEHAHOIL OALt.ERIES Palntlnsa by Paiton; roramlea br ffunt Dlederleh. TINE ARTS BUILDING, til W.

ITth at Slirlns eradomr. ORAND CENTRAL GALLERIES Car. ats'e laternatloaaL aaeond InetatlmoaL INTIMATE OALLERT Palntlnsa Charlee Demuth. JACKSON HHK1S GALLERIES Minia ture ervlpture br Louie Buaatathal. KRAUBHAAH GALLERIES Palntlnsa br Paul Burlln.

KENNEDY Si CO. Audubon bird a KNOEDI.ER CO. Portraits by Bonaat Lmdcr and otrhtnga of an-hlteeture. KEPI'EL OALLERIES Etchings by Karr Ebr. la April 14.

MACHKTH A I.I.ERIES Affalra af Ana- lola by Rnhort Bold, to April It. METHiiptil.lTAN MUSEUM Opening ef Wins K. MILCH ilALLERIES Pictures ef (ardent br Abbot Oratoa. MONTHOSE OALLERIES Carved and patatad wood panala by Elmor MaeRae. Walar rnlnra by Ruth Parna Burseaa.

HEW GALLERY Palntlnsa by Maaa Nerdae and Rlallns. REIIN GALLERIES Aa Epoch la Amer Icaa Art. Water colore by riene. REINIIARDT OALLERIES Voa.tlaa palntlnsa BCH ARTS OALLERIES br arise petal. Inst by Frnnk Vlalas Smith.

WETHE OALLBRY Paleness by Emll Uaaee. CHAMBER TO HEAR PACK Arthur Newton Park will speak next Tueariny evening, April 20, at a mem- bera meeting of the llronklyn Chamber of Commerce. Ills talk will he In rnnnei-tlon with Amerlcnn Forest Week. He la secretary of the Amer-Iran Tree Aaaoclatlon of Washington Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum's predilection for Scandinavian art Is again evidenced In the exhibition of drawings, lithographs and etchings by two Scandinavian artists, Mons. Breidvlk and Uno Stallnrholm, now on view In the Print Galleries.

Both artists exhibit their national characteristics, as we have come to believe them to be. Mons. Breidvlk Is a Norwegian painter living In this country, several of his pictures having been shown at the recent Scandinavian-American exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. His point of view and manner of presenting it has the healthy, sunny, out-of-door quality, the board, vigorous technique of traced directly to Zorn's Influence. Vor subjects he has a predilection for blond children and women bathing In streams or In the ocenn or playing on sunny beaches.

His simplicity of statement Is saved from emptiness by the fact that one Is conscious that there Is an underlying knowledge of form and structure which permits the leaving out of the unessential. In his portraits this same painstaking simplicity Is even more noticeable. While the compositions of women and children perhaps constitute a more attractive group, It Is tr. portraiture that he has done his most serious work. If sunny and out-of-door qualities constitute one aspect of the Scandinavian temperament, another equally characteristic one is morbid introspective.

I'no Stullarholm exemplifies this point of view. The etchings which he exhibits are violent and tragic In their Import, even when the subject matter Is not necessarily Illustrative of this. It Is the artist's first American exhibition, although he Is well known abroad; his principal exhibitions have taken place In Stockholm ud Copenhagen. American Artists At Daniel Galleries This Is another collection In which the spring note Is sounded. Although It is hardly to be believed that the Daniel Galleries would arrange an exhibition with so, we might say, commercial point of view.

Flower motives and spring landscapes predominate. The former naturally would, since Charles Demuth exhibits two of his exquisite flower ar rangements which In the field of flower painting come as near to being completely satisfying as- any others that have come to my attention In an assiduous following of contemporary art. It so happens that his latest theme, wild flowers (a similar subject is being shown at the Montross Galleries), Is the most lovely, the most flower-like of any of the many nower tnemes which he has exhibited. The same careful arrangement, the nothing InJ excess, and the cool refinement Is here, but with an added warmth and bloom which enhances the other characteristic qualities. Elsie Drlggs Is another sensitive and Individual painter who is only recently figuring in the exhibition world.

She paints naturally charming subjects flowers and decorative arrangements but a certain austerity, a deflnate seeking for the reasons for their several beauties, prevents her work from having anything of sweetness or sentimentality. Charles Sheeler's metb-r still remolns water-colors snd pastels. His super reflnement of surface snd design loses In the more sensuous robust medium of oil. The result Is a slightly thin and meager flower. Happily there are on view two of his stlll-llfes In pastel repre-sentatlve of his best work.

Other exhibitors In this extremely well-chosen group are Yasuo Kunlyshl. Klske Iloyd, Preston Dickinson, Karl Kasller and Peter Blume. MILCH GALLERIES 108 Wtil S7tk New York Painting! of GARDENS ABBOTT GRAVES April 14 PAINTINGS of FIELD DOGS by PERCIVAL R0SSEAU JOHN LEVY GALLERIES 5S Fifta Ate, N. Rear 4ttk St Phone Regent Paul Burlln At Kraushaar Paul Burlln has recently returned from abroad where he has been painting for soms years and Is now exhibiting his work at The Kraus haar Galleries. Mr.

Burlln, while painting In what may be best designated as the modern Idiom, exhibits distinctive and personal ways of attacking his problems. Design and rhythm and all the rest of the familiar terminology of tho modern artist plays its Important part, but he has never lost sight ot the equally Important part which subject and the human Interest side plays In work of art. He Is not related to all the sad young men who divest their pictures of any trace of subject interest in order to prove their es- thetlo integrity and intellectual superiority. Clearly the studio view with Its crowded detail and delight fully distorted perspective, because the artist is looking down upon it from an upper balcony, Is an arrangement, but a natural one, af fording, because of the optical dis tortions which take place, a splendid opportunity for esthetic dis tortions in the interest of design. Mr.

Burlln views of Venice are a delightful variant from the generally accepted point of view, which Is the romantic and picturesque. The plc-tuesque Is here but aspects of the picturesque which have not hitherto been stressed. The shapes and patterns of wndows. of old Iron grill work, lampposts, the scrolls of gondola prows, and the flat colors of old stucco are all seen with an eye trained to see the thing as it appears to him, not as seen through the eyes Influenced the countless paintings of similar subjects. RESTATJTtANTS BROOKlVxTf "From Ocean fa Osf jWs" OETJEN'S Charch and1 Flatbain Avenues Telephone Flatbsah lotat Luncheon, 75c Dinner, $1.50 The 'Beit Ike Sea Can Civs Fine Foodi, Ample Portions, and the Utual Excellent Service BANQUET ACCOMMODATIONS 6 P.M.

DANCING To Cloiuif MARCIA ELIZABETH 169 Lrrinfitoa Street Brooltlrm, N. Y. Luncheon, 11 to 2:30, 45c Dinner, 5 to 7:30, 65c First door Beit te Liviaestoa Street Entrance te Loew'i Metropolitan Theater RF.STACRANTS MANHATTAN. JU JIKSTATRA VTH IX)NO IHLAITT specimens In the department of natural history. The fine and the decorative arts have teen used as Inspiration by students for many purposes, but this Is the first time, to my knowledge, that the natural history collection has been utilized for decorative purposes an angle of museum usefulness which would still further amaze Mr.

Grundy. Considerable Ingenuity has been displayed In the way the students have combined design with some humorous characteristic of the animal selected or his applicability to museum usefulness. Pome of the clever catchwords used In combination with birds and animal studies are, for example, a design In which a condor figures bearing the Inscription, "Condors look for dead ones. Be alive at the Brooklyn Museum." and a highly decorative flamlnsi poster which henrs for an Inscription the pun, "Oo where the flamingoes," and one of a fish design which reads. "Add us to your line.

Visit the Brooklyn Museum." We reproduce one of the moat successful, "Get on Top. Study at the Brooklyn Museum." The classes which are represented In this group are under the eupervt slon of Ernest W. Watson. William L. Longyear and Mary B.

Hyde of the Pratt Institute Art Department. EXHIBITION JOSEPH POLLET DUDENSING" GALLERIES 43 Will 44 th TRUMAN FASSETT Painting ot Sea Gull Continued to May lit AINSLEE GALLERIES 77 Fifth Avenue, New York SPAIN PENNOYER April 20 May 1 OILS: ANDERSON GALLERY 48 Perk New Yerk PASTELS MACBETH GALLERY IS Es.t 57th New Yerk Exhibitions of Flower Subjects It is perhaps fitting that at this time of year, when it would seem that spring Is to linger for an unduly length of time In the lap of winter, that we ahould be heartened by ex-hlbitlona of flower pictures. Two entire exhibitions are given over to this subject, the Abbott Graves paintings or American Gardens at The Milch Galleries and the flower arrangements by Henry Farre at The Ehrlch Galleries, while the group exhibitions to be seen at the galleries ana The Women Painters and Sculptors Exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum feature flower canvasses. The point of view today towards rendering a flower atlll-llfe has changed considerably since the Ideals or modern art have taken ao atrong a hold upon the Imagination of our still-life paintera. But when all is aald and done it la the essence of a flower that one sets out to paint; Ita color, lta fragrance, Ita ahape, and all thoae qualities which the concept brings up.

The past generation may have overemphasized virtuosity, the present structure and design In painting flowers but neither succeeds unless they give the essential qualities of their subject. Ccianne may have painted flowers using paper ones for his models, because the real ones faded before he could grasp their significance, but what he achieved were vital growing flowers. The present generation with Cezanne as an example have had a tendency to Ignore this vital fact. We see flowers arranged into arresting compositions build up with architectural soundness but the tlower-llke quality conspicuously absent. Abbott Graves belonga to the group who patnta flowers as nn opulent profusion of blooms.

Peonies and rosea are his specialties, their full ness of form and richness of texture giving his technique, with Ita tendency to virtuosity, full play. No question that he can paint flowers, knows them as painter and a Doton- Ist; but often, In endeavor to paint each flower and almost each petal, he loses sight of design and the first fresh, vivid Impression which an artist with a lesser concern for paint might better convey. Many of the canvasses are of gardens. In which he has combined a picturesque doorway or garden walk with his close uns of flowers. Henry Farres palntfnga of flowera on view at the Ehrlch (lallerles are also examples of virtuosity.

He Is Frenchman reared in the Salon nes Artists Franrnls tradition. Hii nnlntlng is exuberant florid. No or rangement la too complicated or too crowded but he can sot it down in thick glowing Impaatoa of paint. He Is not content with Just flowers, but must arrango them In conjunction with crystal vases, sliver baskets. parrots and on glass-topped pro fusely decorated tables.

He la an amaxlngly expert painter, If one some time longs for restraint and a more careful consideration of de sign. Albert Andre Pictures by Albert Andre, one of the latter day Impressionists, are being shown at the Dursnd-Buel Galleries. The artist's pictures, while exhibiting a sensitive appreel atlon of light and color recorded In the traditional Impressionist man ner, have never been marked by any great degree of Individuality. In the present group he has brok en away, if not entirely, from the traditional viewpoint. He has painted some lovely landacapee and views of French towns in whlrh the fussy Impressionistic technique gives way to a more direct anil simple statement, and one In which de.

sign is given greater attention than heretofore. The quality which waa, however, hla especial contribution, that of giving the quality and feel of place, whatever subject hs paints, be It still life, Innsrapes or Interiors, is not lost by hla newly acquired suc cess with design. The exhibition Is extremely worth while and should not be missed by the art lover who still loves the Impressionist but has been won over to modern art. The WHITNEY STUDIO CLUB 14 WEST EIGHTH STREET Exhibition-, of Taintings by ISABEL BISHOP MABEL DWIGHT FRANKLIN L. GIFFORD mnd LLOYD PARSONS By DUNCAN FERGUSON 4pril i jth to e4pril lata Dprtt Daily 1 1 co a m.

is 6 oo p. m. Scandinavian Rooms on View The Importance of color In mu aeum installation Is well Illustrated In the three Scandinavian rooms recently opened In the Brooklyn Museum. All museum frequenters are conscious of the slightly depressing; effect which the uniform gray walls of museum galleries Induces. For the most part, museum directors are afraid that the liberal use of color will somehow or other Impair the dignity for which the museum stands.

For Instance, the new wing of the Metropolitan Museum Is an excellent example of Rood taste and dignity, but conspicuously lucking In any distinctive or exhilarating method of installation. The same neutral tints of gray, green and beige are still adhered to. Only In the Venetian room may one find the stimulation which color brings. The Brooklyn Museum has, however, always favored color and originality In its method of display, as wltnesB the gold walls used as background for the Oriental and Cloisonne collection nnd the variety of colors used by Professor Culln In his ethnological hall. Now the department of decorative arts has Installed Its collection of Scandinavian decorative arts In three galertes whose walls are the vivid pink, red and cobalt blue chBrscterlstlc of Hcandlnavlal peasant art.

The effect la incredibly stimulating, coming unexpectedly upon this brilliant color spot In the midst of the cold grays of the new sculpture court, of which It forms one of the alcovea. The embroideries and hand-carved painted furniture needed Just this color to set them off to their best advantage. The rooms, while adhering to certain museum necessities, such as placing the more valuable objects In glass cases, have, on the whole, maintained an air of In formality and give the aplrit of an actually llved-ln Interior. The museum Intends adopting this policy of installation In the other period rooms, which are to be an important part of the new wing. It must not be supposed that the rooms are In nny way complete; rich as the collection la aa It stands.

It will be further augmented by a collection of Hcandlnavlan decorative arts which is being assembled abroad. The Ben Foster Memorial Ben Foster belonged to the group of American landscape painters who, while recording careful and painstaking obaervattona of their subject, were nevertheless primarily concerned with depicting a mood of nature to which emotional response was felt. He had a predellctlon foi the serene and twilight aspects of nnture, favoring arrungements In sober colors. There are few Ameri can painters who transmitted a more sincerely native quality to thel works. The very flavor and scent of New England hills and wood Inle rlora are portrayed.

No technical sty I lam atood between hte Interpre tation of naturo and the beholder, one reuson for the popularity which his pictures enjoyed. The present exhibition has been assembled as a memorial, the artist having died In January of thla year. Certain bio. graphical facta may be of intereat to those who are not familiar with them, the most Interesting being that lien Foster was a pupil of the late Abbott Thayer and one time art critic of the New York Evening post. Among the pictures on eshlbltlor are onea loaned by Charles Foster.

Ilnrold Pratt, Mrs. William Hunter, Alexander White, William Putnam John J. Walton, the City Art Mu aeum of f)t. Louis, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg and the Macbeth and Orand Central galleries. The exhl bltlon will remuln -on view until May 1.

FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY OF WOMEN ARTISTS THE ANDERSON GALLERIES APRIL 20-MAY 1 'I Aa ttihlMtlaa as Sato Oil raJsUass br Um UM George Gowet Everett at th Ovlnstoa llulMles. ttl rultea It, llrooklrs. Th eMIpettna Inrlurt- SMrtflM ef MnsheesS lilsne, Mains, slae flvws et Yarh Harbor, THI Brooklyn Society of Artists lOTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION AT Pratt Institute. Art Gallery It rams St- seat DiKalW Ave. Brooklra, N.

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