International studio (48.1913)

Exhibition of the Society of Illustrators


AN ILLUSTRATION

BY HANSON BOOTH


AN ILLUSTRATION

With the Third Special Exhibition
of the Society of Illustrators, held there in October
and November, the National Arts Club has added
another notch to the
width of its scope.
It was, coinciden-
tally, in October and
November, 1899,
that the first exhi-
bition given by the
club took place. That
was made up of ob-
jects in gold and
silver, and included
a series of exhibitions
in which were repre-
sented all the many
varied branches of
the arts and crafts,
painting and sculp-
ture and drawing,
modern and ancient,
foreign and national.
While the work of
American illustrators
has been shown here
in connection with

The annual exhibition of
THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS
BY GUY PENE DU BOIS

the annual “Books of the Year” exhibition there
has never been a particular exhibition of illustra-
tions at the club; thus the significance of the
present show. There are two hundred and sixty-
one numbers in its catalogue. Apart from that
movement in illustrating, headed by William
Glackens and John Sloan, which numbers among

BY ARTHUR I. KELLAR

its followers Raleigh,
Gruber, Brown, the
trend of modern illus-
trating is very thor-
ough ly exemplified
in it.
One may feel there
immediately that our
illustrators march on
abreast of the paint-
ers in technical ac-
complishment.
Technical accom-
plishment is, indeed,
the keynote of the
show. That is la-
mentable or not.
There are many
things that an illus-
trator should be that
a painter must not
be. The line of divis-
ion is similar to the
one that comes be-

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