International studio (61.1917)

In the Galleries

Exhibited at the Ralston Galleries
THROUGH THE DOOR BY S. J. WOOLF


Palace, no-prize-no-jury exhibition, com-
mencing April 8, will have no trouble in
finding under the D’s, for it is an
alphabetical hanging, Tulip Hysteria
Coordinating. Should this picture not
meet •. with approval, there are 2,000
others to observe. We are curious to
see what “The Art World” will print
on this show which bids fair to out-
Armour the Armory exhibition, which
made such a stir some four or five years
back.
The well-known firm of R. C. & N. M.
Vose of Boston have recently sold to the
Art Institute of Chicago an important
example of the late George Fuller entitled
The Trial of the Salem Witches. It rep-
resents the Colonial courtroom with the
presiding judge and attendants on the
left of the picture, this group being one
of the most interesting and refined in
treatment of all Fuller’s works. The
accused stands near the centre of the
picture, while in the background and in
galleries are the witnesses and specta-
tors. The size of the canvas is 36 x 54.

are plans of the same frontage as it actually is.
The paintings done in the Lee Lash studios make
excellent murals being good in colour and design.
At Ardsley Studios, no Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn, throughout March, was exhibited a
painting and fifty lithographs by Daumier from
the collection of Hamilton Easter Field. The
lithographs included most of the early carica-
tures of Louis Philippe. They are very caustic
and played an important role in the overturn of
the monarchy in 1848. Daumier’s reputation
was at first founded entirely on these lithographs
and they show him at his best—the bitter op-
ponent of political abuses—fighting for reform
through his art. Marsden Hartley’s paintings
and those of Morton Schamberg are interesting
but they have little of the intensity of Daumier.
It is as if Daumier’s art was his life—his very
being—and as if Hartley and Schamberg were but
playing with form and colour.
It seems that Duchamp who earned notoriety,
if not fame, for his Nude Descending the Stair-
case, has been under the spell of a yellow tulip
recently. Visitors to the monster Grand Central


BUST OF
JOHN HEMMING FRY, ESQ.

BY CARTAINO
SCARPITTA

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