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DOI Artikel:B. Nelson, W. H. de: Students' exhibition at Wanamaker's, Philadelphia
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Students Exhibition at Wanamaker s, Philadelphia
A GLOUCESTER FISH-MARKET BY FERN I. COPPEDGE
STUDENTS’ EXHIBITION AT WAN-
AMAKER’S, PHILADELPHIA
There are two cogent reasons for
feeling interest in the thirteenth annual
Competitive Art Exhibition which opened Nov.
6, at Wanamaker’s, Philadelphia, in spacious
galleries specially set aside for the students and
having no connection with the store other than
being under the same roof. The reasons are
briefly: The increasingly high quality of work
shown and the fact that in Mr. Wanamaker
America possesses a real patron of art. A col-
lector who buys at a fabulous figure an Old Mas-
ter is not necessarily a patron of art, more often
than not he is merely a patron of the art-dealer,
but the man who fosters American art by making
it possible for hundreds of students to use his
galleries and compete for his prizes, year after
year, besides purchasing many of the pictures,
is in very sooth a patron of art. What Mr.
Wanamaker has done for F. C. Frieseke, H. O.
Tanner, the one-time newsboy, and countless
other successful artists, is sufficient proof ofjthe
necessity to patronize art to-day, not forgetful
of past history which has ever shown that no
great art has existed without broad-minded and
liberal patrons. The few selected cuts are evi-
dence of how narrow a margin separates the
artist and the student. The illustration showing
a bleak December night with the belated youth
desperately regarding the last departing cab, is
well conceived and full of humour. The portrait
of the Indian maid has been so excellently han-
dled that the judges passed it by in the firm
belief that it was drawn from a photograph. As
an example of fine draughtsmanship it certainly
should have received a prize. It would be im-
possible to do more than carry away an impres-
sion when confronted with 650 exhibits, and the
impression is one of the sincerity and artistic
sanity of a very large percentage of the work on
view, and the opportunity the students enjoy of
making their first bow to the public. W. H. N.
LX
A GLOUCESTER FISH-MARKET BY FERN I. COPPEDGE
STUDENTS’ EXHIBITION AT WAN-
AMAKER’S, PHILADELPHIA
There are two cogent reasons for
feeling interest in the thirteenth annual
Competitive Art Exhibition which opened Nov.
6, at Wanamaker’s, Philadelphia, in spacious
galleries specially set aside for the students and
having no connection with the store other than
being under the same roof. The reasons are
briefly: The increasingly high quality of work
shown and the fact that in Mr. Wanamaker
America possesses a real patron of art. A col-
lector who buys at a fabulous figure an Old Mas-
ter is not necessarily a patron of art, more often
than not he is merely a patron of the art-dealer,
but the man who fosters American art by making
it possible for hundreds of students to use his
galleries and compete for his prizes, year after
year, besides purchasing many of the pictures,
is in very sooth a patron of art. What Mr.
Wanamaker has done for F. C. Frieseke, H. O.
Tanner, the one-time newsboy, and countless
other successful artists, is sufficient proof ofjthe
necessity to patronize art to-day, not forgetful
of past history which has ever shown that no
great art has existed without broad-minded and
liberal patrons. The few selected cuts are evi-
dence of how narrow a margin separates the
artist and the student. The illustration showing
a bleak December night with the belated youth
desperately regarding the last departing cab, is
well conceived and full of humour. The portrait
of the Indian maid has been so excellently han-
dled that the judges passed it by in the firm
belief that it was drawn from a photograph. As
an example of fine draughtsmanship it certainly
should have received a prize. It would be im-
possible to do more than carry away an impres-
sion when confronted with 650 exhibits, and the
impression is one of the sincerity and artistic
sanity of a very large percentage of the work on
view, and the opportunity the students enjoy of
making their first bow to the public. W. H. N.
LX