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'ft S' 1 1 1 1 v- -'VVvv i': Jr y-'-YV i Vk: -'Y' 7' N7 yJ' BROOKLYN -v -r 1 V- 4- i i i i 1 'i v--- i- 'J i i -V rf I C'8 Vvl SUNDAY 'APRIL' 71935 at the Brooklyn Museum CARL RVGCLESt A PORTRAIT BY THOMAS BENTON The Annual Other Events of the Week 0 German? Rudolf S' iwleTON Pmp Karchetetar over-Ufa ate headcfa different approach to Ufa and a A Mkua IaIm tut wlrtl UlMlnMa JtWfiwt femilaMtanitlflS mjf aali It chanoeo different of Those teko no ah eompnaaton They have a which deflae inter- ifi j'v' -fry 1 i fcl tmaea despite all this Intimate knowledge Oi the subject Kronberg's ballet paintings are 'e least Impres slva ones tail the exhibition ot hla wort at the John levy OaUeries thrn they are good they are aUU not nearly as good Degas' ballet girls But there are two unpretentious canvases In the show Paris boulevard scenes which the fa- inous Cafrs Dome and Rcionde fg-urs Itbi understanding art-tt does prove ana very deflnlta thing boot Ur Ororeh art And what it pram to only anothtf way of reylng ho to an artlat' So ramalna Oeorga (tom and a German for an that ha haa trled toglvo na 'Aaartoa and to get tha eel of our manner! and morata and the Weltanabausg that pndnoea them -HO bai- merely franspoaed the attitude toward Ufa Which was enempHfled hi Me Berltn mtlree to thto eountry i It to only uother dance of death wlth the Amertcan aodety woman who Mao to etoy young and gtreg eadavoreui mutton of youth tn place of tha vulgar haitate irtio are featured in the Berlin aertoa: XT Orm hae been quoted aa aay- w- i BeUlngto nmrak in bromo wm he aurw to Intereet thta mnraholndod generation They an original effective and carry tho mulatto nodal maaaaga writhout deterlorattiig Into a erom betwroea a eomto atrip and a political cartoon Tho otory of man working through' thaogeo to too prpf of tha latest oadeu which to dfretoped in ametil baeitUef of varying thlckneoaoa of and which paes' a' variety of metals- btaaa'irea and copper for example These an the tort of decoration that belong In a modem rtycrapet and It to hoped that Ur BdUngt special By-CHARLES OFFIN HX 33d annual exhibition of tha Bodety if Illustrators to being querteral this year on memnlne gaUv-v ot the 0 A Building Rockefeue- Center and It to a pleasure to report once more oh the high professional ttandard of this organisation's work' lfaga-atno Illustrations and advertising drawings loom largo in the exhibition but there an also a number tf exh'blts modestly referred to aa playtime" wort tings etch-Inga sculpture and other efforts which the Illustrator sandwiched In between o-dere it would be 1m-poealble to list hler i all the good things that are to be seen at this exhibition for there rust be almost 30 entries and a high degree of competency runs through them alL WBDece Morgan's Qhiatrwttoni reveal as strong and expreaslre draughtsmanship as can be found la any of our artists WUUara Obar-hardfs portrait drawlrga are at the same time lifelike bi character and sculpturesque in nooellng: Mm Caaeal cartoonist of 'sm Eagle contributes a delight! human-lnter-eat drawing and by way of contrast then to a beautifully decorative pieoe of abetnet wrulpturo-a head of a woman cut out of aUver-plated copper BHUNO tn German aeulptor wort vu tint art town Modem Museum ood- txhiblUon haa errivtd and to holding a tho Annot Art BKO Building Quito It interesting and In-tin exhibition to because of the method -I exUMttoo taehntoua Mitoyi iZnatt to chreno-with explanatory 'ad wpptomMtlag tho -tan are entorged photo-Zr ptocea which fflUB- gggton of bach die-jn mi dndoiutot) ycause 4 ite or be-uetMpropertF 4wor eoOecton eold not bo yje exhibition Ao eomnienoea with hla fffHna figure eenpod tba Rodin tradi- evincing a definite ftonn for sake and luuough a period of pun rrlrtoi Anally i phase in which to erthatte eredo 4 hla 4i it A i A LAWRENCE ITEM 1 fy PEOPLE lure stopped talking for a while about the great Anirrt- ran novel and have taken to discussing the great American mural Thomas Craven seem to hare started It all In hla book "Modern Art" a vitriolic castigation ot the Influence of the School of Paris ending up by eulogising beyond all reason the mural wort of our own little embattled Napoleon of the btusl Thomas Benton There was never any doubt tn Benton's own mind that he wax tlteons and only great American mural painter but with thto gratuitous corroboration Benton's In flatus knew no bounds stuck tn the throats of other artiste especially of the class-conscious artiste to whom hto work seems onl a blend of dime-novel history Puck and Judge cart-rat ure and aortal chauvinism la the current issue ot the Art DU gset Stuart Davis goes so far aa to refer scornfully to dtoorgan-toation the had color the unpleasant surface and the aortal Nihilism of hto work" That to certainly bringing out tha Big Berthas of tho verbal artillery but how else demolish a colossal ego However if Benton' work were really aa bad aa all that tt would demolish ltaeit XtoVto criticism based onUrelv too much on personal antagonism and tha cooler heads In tha world of art will not be carried away by it any more than they are carried away by tha preposterous self-importance that Benton attaches to hla own Ideas and effort The current exhibition of Benton's wots at the Ferar-gll Oallertos dost not Include murals but hto easel pictures are similar to them In subject matter and purpose of enabling you to form your own opinions Xronberg wli hla life has a apedal enthusiasm for painting ballet ghb and stag performers understand that studied under Degas and Ilka tha Freneh'mae-ter be haa dona a great deal of poet-graduate study baek-etege and In the schools of the ballet Yet BOXER IN BRONZE Inehfaf fa in giAflMm ike ardsl's werk at us FtrmrgU Celfery period todndeapmtoatta Btmtonan and Anguat Tho Boxer Ilaz photograph of tho re- an placed as plaatie Me -GcsaotTerband In iroaUerTeratonofThe original of which la and Is placed In the the lllnerto Unko Berlin han tbooght of con-Oennan sculpture as an Ibe tradfc to a rpWtwllaed form mystical and sub-u opposed to tivltT U1 fhxl It dlf-Rudolf Belling Into te Belling to eonoemed extenib plaatto prebend ipae Besides this Inventor aqd a marter Who' delights in the dla-Tbtuodti and his abllltv materials servehto does ipras itself In hla theor-lt apace and form Tho luotation which express aa beliefs to evidence that to a race which haa to add a leaven of mjra-to its most factual pro- Persian Gallery at Museum Opens With Loan' Exhibition TTH the opening of the newfdated Fenian Gallery the Museum i ware twelfth and thirteenth century Quite apart from the' technical rightness of Brooklyn commence! its emergence from tho chrysalis stage which hae enveloped lta activities during the put year when exten-t re outer and tamer alterations shrouded Its eventual form and plan Tha Fenian Gallery to a uhlt In the gnDerire of Oriental art that win occupy ana wing of tho tint floor It also term os key to tha museum's policy and plan The galleries on tho whole are to be small each subject to to be represented by the beet -and most repreaentatlvs wiiHpi igg each to allowed plenty of space to which to tell Its story effectively tho emphasis to apparently tending toward artistic value rather than scientific Xn other word the Institute of Arte and Bdencre to becoming a more strictly fine arts institution than was immi tat tha original charter The Fsraian collection la a oare In point Where at ant time tire Far-eoOeetlon wu more strictly ethnological In lta acopa In tta present metamorphosis it to a more purely Ana arte aelecttoo Gone are selection Roberta technique white portlou periods painted blue of a of period must distinctive Christian Mongol the influence concluded RAINS GALLERIES (Kahn Auction Room IncJ IM4 last 4 Ml Miea i Wksrsh-M 2-0220 NOW ON VIEW MODERN ART PAMTINGI WATM C010K and DRAWINGS ham Ha fiMat of JULES PASCIN GLENN COLEMAN ant mIicHmii frssi Ha GEO HELLMAN COLLECTION Wlh AddlKwn Mmirefsd Catelsgv PUHICIAU fiMay Ivaalag April 12 at 1:20 "lair Jfaria ky Sir Tkeaui Umnmet tm At Atfroi UaUOua wHeeilsws on flew at Ike Aaianoa CaUartat prfer lo sale nilpture to prhnarllp a face Tor that reason air Just much thrills A poorly oat placed out of doon pad hr lta envelop- toflif KwHndgwfftoMi iterisl-alr to Jeatoua and A foe of an harmontooa fleet If It haa not been sad wariced with1 experiments hi no suggest that a cube air envelops tho forms uto this envelopment Ilka a Chinot pusala later stunt experlmenta With Ra does portraits by tons adknt and unfor-tonctobtto Bka nirt tarn far to repreeent tho doody anough -tba oyo Panda whole heed to Tbdey Belling to tntti notable for tholr ttalrh took deooratlvo Ifixtricaltom Notable flu Btreeemen 'I fi I i 'if ft- ii' i i talent te this tern of plastic deoo-ratton wm not bo overlooked by our archltoota NO Tbcmu Craven remarked la hto chapter on George Orere which to contained In hto discussed "Modem ArC that "In water-color Great to the foranost of living palntant" to acted ae a dlract chal-tooge to Alfred BtlegUta Bor Btle-gilts baa presented John Marla as tba sola aspirant to P11 dtattnctlon end haa brought up a geaerattoa to beltovu that thto to in unoontwvwrt-Bdo truth It waa generous gaa-tmw then te Ur BtteHto to hold tho Grqre exhibition which to prating to ho cm of tho oeneatloM of tho reason hi hto And tf the and tta Installation Mr has enhanced the exhibition by hto display of Installation The weBa are dead and tho square side of the whlch separate distinctive of Fenton culture are a deep blue to match the glare poteiy which wu a recurrent preference in the history Fenton ceramics Because of the emphasis on quality and tha chronological arrangement the collection Of miniatures to concise history of tha development Persian culture The earliest of Fenton and It be remembered that all Per-painting wu originally designed book shows Byiantlno and Early Influences After the Invasion In tha middle of thirteenth century tho Chinese to a distinctive characteristic The Mongolian period illustrated la the present exhibition to by a splendid page tram the famous Demotte MXHE characteristic quality of Uu Mongol period reveatod in the Brooklyn Museumb collection to a certain monumentallty not generally associated with the art of Persian miniature painting Tha Fenian pain ten of the period evolved hereto style reflective of tho life of tho Mongol rulers Although the colon of their miniature tend to be subdued the brilliance which wu to characterise Fenian palntlnk of tho fifteenth and sixteenth century to already foreshadowed Fourteenth century Fenian art to represented in the present collection by tho famous painting of Rustam tho here of the Bhanemah" depicted 'asleep in fabled wood while hto faithful hone Rakkih guard him frama maraud' lng Uou Mr Roberts' points out that the landscape with Its fentastlr trees and rocks to a Fenton fere runner of Rousseau's Jungle scenes The seventeenth century shows marked decline In'the art of miniature painting but a new contribution wu by tha miniaturists who apeclaltoed In portrait painting The exhibition also tndndes aome superb examples of Mamie calll-graph which wu regarded being quite aa Important an asthetto ax-presskm the art of miniature painting which accompanied it AR tag that hto fbat arttotte expceeston to draw a highly eoteed and ranantle version of what ha oo calved America tho land of the ftss to be Uka Bto conception ones he came lers wu very different Hot sauia' America hbn but becautt hto mature conception of art to a oatlre of tho -hum mdfg ot "Boot Homo" to ure the title which appeared over hto mart vttriollo series 4 social Indictments And as eattree they are unsurpassed not only became of tho ctoirity of vlston with whtoh he reveals the foU Hoi and vtore of tho iwii muotoa but atoobocaure hoihu brought something now to tho languago of art Ho haa created a new atyto and a new technique Tho exhibition at tho BOeglltx (Hilary la only another frideaoo of the vitality and Individuality of hto ipontributloii MASTER PRINTS If "ror NAr ant after MODERNS and ROWLANDSON ITCHMOt Tha ferfMia tf a wsH-fcaawa CsUadar tals-TbanlvalAprilt1alli20 Mm Sekmell egi a tealri are ladaiai la am aaklUtba ItoM 'mark at lha Jaaat 4rt Sekaal AMERICANA tart af fta Library af OIOROI COR UN PIRMI ISO IMTIMORL 440 Sab-Wad In April 10 at 1:10 Among the Current Exhibits: Modern Art at the Rains Gallery modem art exhibition tha American scene Lee Town' end who hae hto tt doomt prow anything about tho Irespecttvw atatua of tho two aspl and I rente tefbwtplooo' since each hae IXMHTIONS SUNDAY tb I pai Sabs CsadiKbd by MR I HAROLD 1H0MRS0N PtOWlNG 1J UNDER tha oaare crowded with doth of gdd costumei and ornaments suggesting passages in tha Arabian Mights gone are the Jeweled weapons and filigree panda and all the mass of material with which the lata Stewart Culln curator 4 ethnology mamatiaed tha manners and traditions of a 'race and a ctvUtaetton Xn the place of such a presentation of ethnological and decorative' material to a beau ttfully chosen and Installed loan collection of Fenian miniatures pottery and hooka Tha Items have bam lent by aome of the foremost leetore- of Fenton art among them Hdeklan Xarvotkbu Mlnai-ston and Parriah Watson The Metropolitan Museum hu lent aome of tta inert miniatures ai well aa collection of pottery rvwn exhibition has been arranged chronologically commencing with miniatures from the thirteenth oentury belonging to the Albasld School or Bagdad School whiqh are shown hi conjunction Srtth a group of large blue green glss Jars from Rakka (an andent' dty on the Euphrates between Aleppo and Bad-dad) by Xawnnea Roberta curator of Oriental and Bear Xuteip art who says that tha pottery to ra-mttodly aeeoctoted with Haraun Al-Raachld who lived In Rakka for ma time but aronaetogtota have dispelled thto pleasant fiction and IPCHILDE April l-20ft 1 HASSAM Etchings and Pastels GUY MAYER GALLERY BIS SU4lwa Aranat 1 IIIN Street spaai boyhood around the stables of the county 'airs and haa been drawing hones aver staca to showing aa Interesting group of such paintings at thaMon-toon Oallcrtos They consist of scenes dramatic jt amusing that meet tho eye at tho outlaw tracks Of tha Middle West Townsend worked for a long time In line be fore attempting to paint with the result that hto method ot painting hasn't ae yet arrived at a consistent statement la terms of volume and planes Thto to notloeable In the overly ambitious composition but the simpler eanvaets are spiritedly and expressively executed a NEUMANN iavites yea lo As exhibitioa of KOPMAN CONTEMPORA ART CIRCLE BOB MADISON AVENUE pi if I eon-silting of paintings water-oolors and drawlnp from tha estates of tha lata Jules Peseta and tha lata Olqna 0 Coleman two wen-known figures In the modem art world! Included la the exhibition kre sdectioue modem works from tho collection of Oeorga Heilman Xn the Peseta group an tha beautiful "Reclining Nude" and a number of drawings and wateroolora by thto artist Two 'canvases of tho Now Task scenes the typo by which Olenn a Coleman to beat known are to bo found among ottar paint-tags Rom the George Heilman collection coma tho tiro very Interesting Whistler Items one a pastel of tenuous quality representing aland-scape tn Chile done during tho artist's sojourn In South America tha other aa Intimate drawing of Whle-tlera mother1 room In tho famous Chslsea house Xt to said that if then era no difference jf opinion than would be no bone racing Judging by the amount of hone rao vg that is done at all tha big race tracks to aay no'hlng of tho roost at the great many county fairs around the country difference of op'idon must be one of our major Industries At any rate horse racing to an appropriate and pfctupistto Add for as-' TOM BENTON GARLAND GALLERY SB West 37th St XGERON PAINTINGS Eataadad la May 1st FERARG1L UL57thSLNY1 PORTRAITS "Drama tram lit 4 WOOLF Tbraasb April vEHRICH-NEWHOUSE lac 873 Madia aa Ava AS nib Hraat SOCIETY at INDEPENDENT ARTISTS aiNnilHVH ANNUAL IXNIBIVWN nwN SrN (life GRAND CENTRAL PAUCE eeseoeeselR 4Mi I S0 FM( si I PJIs ll II PiM( Portrait of Fay Bainter to BeShown One of the most Important worksaexhiblted in tha museums of Wor-of tha tote Robert Henri to to be shortly shown at tha Neighborhood Club 1M dark Brooklyn Helghta XI to a nearly Ufe-rire portrait of Fay Bainter "The in her celebrated success "The Willow Tree" Mr1 Henri was so Impressed by her performances in the rola that ha persuaded her to It for him In her character part When completed it wu greeted by critics and public one of hto outstanding achievements xt baa been caster Maas Springfield Ohio Providence and at the Chicago Art Institute Latterly It wu hung at the international show of the Carnegie Institute hi Pittsburgh then successively In Rochester Lynchburg Vs Philadelphia and Buffalo The painting Is one of tha largest ever done by Henri and will be bn view at the Neighborhood' Club on April 10 11 and 13 on tha occasion of tho Oriental fete and fair which wffl then bo under way Hrkil hp IIm UiM Suu by HENDRIK VAN LOON CtillMasd fef UissihntU ikstahM Rut sUnailsa la fivt solan BUs IMI Pries S1J0 A GALLERY 11 BANT NTBNH MOW TOO Raaanf Paalii igp hf'r LOUIS KRONBERG UalB April 11 JOHN LEVY GALLERIES he I East Wta kin Yf i- a i I.