International studio (58.1916)

In the Galleries


serene poise in the dancer. To have recorded
vibratory movement is a great achievement, but
to have recorded also the idea of repose as con-
veyed in continued action is a still greater act
of this magician of the pencil. But the public
must not think that these drawings are unfin-
ished on account of their lack of detail. They
are as complete as the most finished Greek figures
which decorate an Attic vase and they possess
the same simplicity of line.
In these drawings we find a strong element of
decorative design. The leaping figures do not
bewilder the eye of the beholder, but rather tend
to soothe it with a sense of power and poise.
The artist has expressed completely in a few
words what another might fail to say in a hun-
dred rhetorical phrases.
If Edmund Van Saanen Algi had only sug-
gested abstract motion, his drawings would not
have such a direct appeal to us. It is because
he has expressed emotion behind motion that his
drawings possess the charm which music exerts
over our souls.
It is significant that Edmund Van Saanen Algi
feels no sympathy with the movement of the
Cubists and the Futurists in their endeavour to
express motion. T. L. Fitz S.

William H. Powell.—It is with very deep
regret that we record the untimely death of Mr.
William H. Powell, whose gallery and store have
for many years been a rendezvous for artists and
collectors in New York.


IN THE GALLERIES
The Allied Artists of America have strength-
ened their claim to permanency by holding
their third annual exhibition. Just at first
this association was rebellious and hot-headed,
with grouchy feelings toward the alma mater on
57 th Street who with the complacency born of
traditional prestige can afford to smile benevo-
lently at any little outbreaks in the art industries
of the city. This was three years ago. The
allied artists then were not very closely allied—
lucus a non lucendo—and the work that they dis-
played in a somewhat petulant manner in no
wise tended to strengthen their precarious hold
on the sympathy of the public. Added to medio-
cre canvases the quarters selected for the out-
break were unsuitable and in consequence good
hanging was beyond the question. However at
the bottom of the enterprise was a sound belief
in the justice of their cause, a capacity for hard
work in forensics or in oils, and a patient attitude.
They have won out, as all such associations win
out. To-day they are on a firm footing, in perfect
sympathy with the Academy whose galleries they
occupy, and a glance at the hanging list shews how
closely affiliated they are with the parent organi-
zation. Among the exhibitors are Chauncey F.
Ryder, Ernest L. Ipsen, Ernest Peixotto, Olson
Skinner Clark, Robert H. Nisbet, H. L. Hilde-
brandt, Roy Brown, Eliot Clark, Henry Salem
Hubbell, Gustave Wiegand, DeWitt M. Lock-
man, Helen M. Turner, Arthur P. Spear, Arthur
Crisp, Howard Giles, Hobart Nichols, Orlando
Rouland, Robert Vonnoh, Birge Harrison, Cullen
Yates, Edmund Greacen, Paul Cornoyer, Jules

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