International studio (60.1916/1917)

In the Galleries

fluence and understanding. The idea of a world
artist like Zuloaga being condemned by a party
of ladies over their tea-cups! The same silliness
obtained when Lawton Parker’s superbly mod-
elled nude Paresse was condemned to the base-
ment of the Carnegie Institute only to reappear
with redoubled interest at the Winter exhibition
now on at the New York Academy of Design,
where it occupies to their credit and its own a
handsome niche in the Vanderbilt Gallery. Is
Greek art to be forever condemned because some
misguided schoolmaster censors the discobolus?
The International Studio recently received
censure from a little coterie of ladies who had
observed a reproduction of Job in our pages un-
clothed. The (anonymous) writer complained
about “that horrid Irishman” who outraged her
sense of decency. To what are we tending? It
is at least refreshing to know that the much-suf-
fering Job was of Irish descent.
Dance of Youth in the Spring, shown in repro-
duction at the top of the Contents page, is a
bas relief by the late Emily Clayton Bishop and
is on view at the Plastic Club, Philadelphia,
amongst the work of the fifty leading women
sculptors of America. This gifted artist died in
1912 under thirty years of age and has left im-
perishable work. So high is her reputation that
the Academy of the Fine Arts gave a memorial
show of twenty of her works and at Panama a
special exhibition of sixteen works was invited.
There will shortly appear an article upon her
work in The International Studio.
The Print Department of the Brooklyn Mu-
seum gave the first exhibition of the recently
organized Brooklyn Society of Etchers, com-
mencing Tuesday, Nov. 28, until Dec. 31. About
140 prints were exhibited. Apart from the work
of residents in Greater New York, who constitute
the larger part of the Society’s present member-
ship, other artists were represented from localities
as far north as Maine, and as far south as Wash-
ington, D. C. A certain number of prints by non-
members of the Society were sent by invitation.
Otherwise, all works exhibited, both by members
and non-members, have been passed upon by a
jury consisting of the following members: Miss
Anne Goldthwaite, Earl Horter, J. T. Higgins,
Harry Townsend, Ernest D. Roth, Troy Kinney,
John T. Arms, Arthur S. Covey, A. Allen Lewis
and M. Paul Roche. The officers of the Society
are: A. Allen Lewis, president; M. Paul Roche,

secretary and treasurer; E. D. Roth, A. S. Covey,
Troy Kinney and John T. Arms, council.
The new Brooklyn Society of Etchers was or-
ganized last spring for the purpose of advancing
the interests of good etching. Most of the mem-
bers up to the present time are residents of Greater
New York. The Society is ambitious, well organ-
ized and well supplied with funds.

Exhibited Folsom Galleries
MLLE. TOMESCU BY WILLIAM E. B. STARKWEATHER


In connection with the exhibition four talks
were given on etching at the Brooklyn Museum
by the following gentlemen: On Dec. 1, 1916, at
4 p.m., Troy Kinney and Fred Reynolds on “How
Etchings are Made,” a demonstration of different
processes; on Dec. 8, at 4 p.m., Mr. Frank Weiten-
kampf on “Some Famous Etchers,” illustrated