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THE MICHIGA:NDAILY
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1923,
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Aspects of American Paintini
A general review of modern artistic CARL E. GEHRING tovely "Brook by M
tendencies might well be based on the Blakelock. Unfortl
workof eadig Aerians nd e ,is mentally unbalaw
work of leading Americans and be abroad, and,.indeed, the English have representation entitled "Gassed" will nterval in which
considered as representative of art long considered him in the light of a amply testify. On another canvas heimendable work. Of
endeavor the world over. Our coun- transplanted genius. Such examples depicts the departure of American illiam howe, the
try, with its population drawn from are not infrequent in art. Was it not troops. remarked "When
the four corners of the globe, cannot Lully, an Italian by birth, who, mi- A comprehensive list of our modern member me to the
help but absorb ideas brought there- grating to France, came to be the landscape painters would include landscape painters.'
to by an ever-inflowing stream of im- father of French music? America has such names as Blakelock, Metcalf,'
migraion. hus i can be sad to e- (WinslowRoew
migration. Thus it can be said to re- more than her share of these acquired Redfield, Twachtman, Davis and Berg- Ameina me p
fiect world though. We hear much 'artists, as one might well imain. dciff. This school probably owed its American marineng
about the great American symphony,; Sargent was not born in this country inception to the movement first start- i surge of the oceangb
about the great American novel, which in the first place. The son of Ameri- ed in France at Fountainebleau. Then i a great eolorst, he
are to be developed through the pro- 2 can parents then residing in Florence, William Morris Hunt came under the panses of snow ist
cess of the melting pot in the years his early life might be likened to that influence of the French Barbizon he did the sea. His
to come. Will it be so, though, will of Mendelssohn, in that it was so well 'schoola ,t c he btt eea
it be so? I feel rather inclined to re- ordered and that he was always in brought with him many of their tra- Isthesstepi
gard these dreams of future glory in touch with the very best a high sta- ditions. "The Bathers" is one of hs nclude "The Gul
the light of a composite European, tion in life could afford him. During best works. This artist was a con- storm Signal," "All
perhaps world, thought, particularly his youth he traveled much and made temporary of a similar movement r
1 aus rocky coasts an
if the gates of immigration are kept noteworthy contacts. His teachei more geopraphically marked. The Csstawky"cisspsoan
open. This would naturally tend to was Carolus Duran, whom Sargent has Hudson River school was agroup of work.
place us in the position of well qual=J immortalized with a splendid portrait. men including Doughty, Cole, Durand,
ifled leader in all contemporary Incidentally, many of his best works Berstadt, Church, Kenselt and Moran, Innovators scarce
thought and ideals, if such exist. The are those done in portraiture. The who did'nature studies almost exclus- automatically head
American Indians are the children of man paints not so much as he sees ively and specialized largely on the Innes, Martin, and
the soil here. Theirs would have been his subjects, but rather as he con- 'beauties of the Hudson valley. More- school have an n
the great American novel, the great ceives them to be. For this reason, over, George Innes collaborated some-
American symphony. Ours is but much difficulty has resulted with a what with this school. His works, fol- with and carried t
European civilization transplanted. number of wealthy people, but his lowing closely on those of Whistler,I Homer. Four paint
An unequal degee of development commissions are so numerous as to were described as being perhaps more school, and they
Is the salient characteristic of the render him quite indepenednt of the typically American, but not possessed suhRads;hay
various fields of artistic endeavor in caprice and whims of offended nobii- of the originality aid spontaniety of Waugh, Richards, at
America. Although the matter might ity. the more cosmopolitan painter. that tenddous s
be argued pro and con with consider- Today Sargent stahds as one of the -Of, our miodern landscape school, ayr enforced to i
able to .be said for all the contending leading figures in art. .His best works Redfield and Twachtman devote themI- sthhe te
parties, it is generally acknowledged include a "Carinencita," which sub-aselves amost exclusively to winter donewith the eoy
that the greatest strides have been ject was also well done by Charles subjects. Both paint in a rather 3m- Her, novelties at
made in painting and sculpture. Our Merritt Chase, a work of children efI- pressionistic style. I find myself par- tues are introdu
ineen of letters have done much to titled "Carnation Lily-Lily Rose'ticulaly attracted to "The End of Through their ed
make known and iespected the Ameri- which reminds 'one of similar. sub- Winter" by the latter, which presents introduction of the i
can literatui'es, bt architecture seems jects by the Spanish master Velas- alittle brook just released by the cor-'more brilliant coo
to be but a replica o work born and quez, and the famous portrait simply ing of spring, running through the scapes haarbors,
perfected elsewhere throughout the known as "The Lady in Black." This fields. Bits of snow are still apparent coasts.
ages. Music in this country is still vies with the Whistler "Lady in the along the water's edge, but the atmos- At present, we m
in its infancy, no true school having Brown Cape," and the Lady in the phere is one clear and refreshing. paticlarly fortu a
been established as yet. white Shawl" by Chase. A study of Spring has come! His Niagara Falls exhibit in AlumniM
In considering the field of painting two Venetian women at a well recalls is representative of extreme impres- m oil"Paintings
we find that two veritable Titans have days spent in Italy. Among his better sionism, and I doubt if there are many H Lever.ng
done the most to identify canvasses known portraits are The Misses Hunt- who could identify the subject as such. virile and impressio
of Americans the world over. The one, ington, The poet Yates, Lady Church- Metcalf is chiefly remembered for his were almost all do
John Singer Sargent, is still living ill, Henry G. Marquand, and the Coun- charming "Apple Blossoms," and Massaehusetts, and
and will be discussed with the,con- tess Warwick and her son. The Tryon, for a number of important wall. The artist
temporary groups of artists. The oth- great war 'also received attention at works. One of his moonlight scenes rather with pattern
'er, J. A. MacNeil Whistler (1834-1903) the hands of Sargent, as the horrible might well be compared with that
with all justice to Smybert, West, nIdatsdancingupo
Copley, Stewart, Morse, Chase and a boats dancing upor
'ost of athers, was the first American
and th Pres Letoerhmoe inteerst
lainter to cause a furore among Euro- E thics and the Press touches rather
bean artists. Like sio many of our
great men he was asked to leave col- ane than prese
lege, failing miserably at West Poi'nt, A Talk With a New York Editor like, In bounding n
, Irocks. Thus lever
where his father had achieved such EDGAR HALES arTisc heritage to
ilistinction. He came early under theEDe.dorstoheAm;
influence of the Frenchmen Millet andcsedou :o A
Monet, who were his models of en- When, in recounting the lugubrious I I think repressive action is entirely considered our fore
deavor, and whom he later totally stale of Pyramus and Thisbe, the poet warranted." The collection is
eclipsed. Originalitywas the keynote Ovid observed that love burns more Dr. Gay is a fascinating conversa- ven alone. The bal
of his work. His butterfly signature ardently the more it is suppressed, he tionalist. In private, le vouchsafes in 'include oil paintir
was but one item among many so appears to have uttered a truth of abundant measure an enthusiasm and and etchings, which
characteristic of the man. Very fond contemporary application. Such, at a personal force which are not strik- prehensive idea of
of music, he produced works which least, is the view of Dr. Edwin F. Gay ingly evident in his forensic manner, tendencies. Among
he called symphonies in tone, and I '90, editor of the New York Evening Like every man of intellectual dis- water colors by Jea
thus originated the term "tonal paint- Post and Thursday's Convocation tinction, he interposes no barrier be- excellent etchings b
ing. His later years were marked by speaker, in regard to freedom of the tween himself and the reporter 'Who twelve water color
his impressionistic tendencies. Com- press. I had the honor of a brief con- knows what he wants, but talks sim- and twenty oil pain
paratively late in his career he ceme versation with Dr. Gay Thursday and ply, directly and with great rapidity Baker. These men
decidedly under thespell of' Oriental learned from him that he is unquali- and fluency. Our meeting was a brief with either of the
art. We may doubtless thank this fiedly opposed to any censorship of one, scarcely more than ten minutes Other paintes belo
source of inspiration for the beauti- newspapers or magazines. to be exact, yet it is safe to assume gory are Melebers
ful "Princesse du Pays de la Force- "Generally speaking," he declared, that Dr. Gay said more in that time Hawthorne, A. B.I
laine." Other well-known works of "freedom of the press I regard as than most of us could in an hour. Be ,-der, Fuller, Noch
his are the _'Ldy in the Brown Cape," fundamental in a republic. Those ing himself a newspaper man he ap- Benson. A lot of t
"Portrait of Carlyle," a harbor called who are continually agitating sup- i'rreciates -the beauty of conciseness on the fantastic. T-
"Nocturne," and the "Portrait of My pression of radical journals and un- and substance. san, for examnwe.
Mother," that cultivated woman who, 'patriotic literature would defeat their The wave of radicalism largely artists who concer
recognizing her son's artistic tenden- own purpose if they succeeded. They sponsored by the "young intellectu- figures alone, and
cies, made possible his studies abroad. wowId shut off the 'safety valve through als" which is sweeping over the coun- highly interesting. G
Modern American painting might which the excess of radicalism can try, Dr.-Gay does not consider a men- "The Rainy Night,"
possibly be resolved into three distinct safely pass. Anti-conservatism is an ace. "Criticism is essential," he stat- ing to the Oriole.
channels of endeavor. On the one almost inevitable reaction to a percep- ed, "for without it there would be no "The Lady,"' by D
hand we have Sargent, who stands tion of social and political evils by a progress. But the foundations of our i rook little incident
quite apart, not only for the very qual- young, inexperienced observer. W; government-and of our civil scziety about them the very
ity and scope of his work, but for be- should permit this tendency harmless- C are too securely laid to be destroyed ies, just so d1 thes
ing a most unusual personality as ly to exhaust itself instead of encour- by so light and transient a cause. The ize seemingly corn
wll. The other divisions of our con- aging it by suppression. In wartime, young intellectual 'is to be admired existence. But as it
temporary painting are the two cf course, this would not hold true. If for his zealous interest in progress. E ty to properly appi
schools of landscape and marine, the nation is imperilled and national' His aim seems to be a more beautiful so it takes the true
Most of Sargent's life is lived salvation deends upon national unity. (Continued on Page Seven) .nd properly inter:
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