Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1924, Page 77

B) STERLING HEILIG. PARIS, March N April 24 America will open a picture show, or salon, of all the great painters of the ' 24, world. Ten European coun- tries have sent what they to\\h‘illerk ir newest. strongest and most] autiful . pictures to the Carnegie i (ternational exhibition of oil paint- | which at Pittsburgh in pring and tours American cities summer and autumn &s, opens 1 1 It is the world's salon come ml America has now, in fact, the inter- | vational art show of the world, sur- | passing that of Venice, which has Leretofore been paramount The Paris salons show French art. | The London exhibitions show l:n:-\ is i i | Lh art. The Carn ernational, ;um[ nobody prot by its oxtraor- American & more v than paint- ! ety 130 canvases this home will at sreat show Amierica, they with Carnegie’s audens, in impartial various dealing painting, committees formed groups or parties of paint- their best wrn W lected own Fac thinks its own to be art of the world,” | n the illustrious old | sculptor, Augustus Saint is only natural, be- only genuine expres- | tion’s emotional utstanding “MADAME St BY AlLGL S1A” 3 This the STITUTE. The paint- north. European of extrem angements of forms y which make up the art of | o th this ing advanced who can gratify thesc hus shaken pubiic s wnd express them « usly in q We « where « itself w Th has Tike satis it public that vary | strength.” th enorn arned n ne not at all say the “new withy r work togethe ay determine for a4 enduring, qualities ¢ Consequently its own indi- ljas begun to exercise truth n such matter: A is far from advanced” (scion equ: ) that seed not vender there you assurance of £ New Yor! ari artist « na exhibit to the organi person tist 20 “PORTRAIT OF ROLAND KNOEDLER,” BY SIR WILLIAM ORPEN. IN THE TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE. which they would solely desire to hang in Carnegie's permanent collec- tions. “We do not cven wish Gaudens, “to draw con which is the mos or group Saint-Gaudens found strong art in Cracow, amid snow, mud, fleas, filth, bad cooking and cigarette stubs of former occupants on washstands hotel bedrooir He found " eays Saint usions as to outstanding nation art world ERE the American public gets | promotion. ¥or as surely as the avorld salon is shifting westward, so, surely, according to Saint Gau- |by the art of the future depends | much on the individuality of the yublic as on that of the artists! Like this: As a whole European ert is returning to strengtl sanity even more rapidly t in s never th plait- n ed straw and ‘hen wa andering sme] i | the courtyard and wet chickens tied pigs W s the leg fro disconsolate to cluck Here, he a outdoor figure pa i t vestibules, too den: brilliant Filipiewlicz, ski, rather Jurock nter and are EXHIBITION AT THE CARNEGIE IN! THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHIN STUS JOHN. IN THIRD INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AT THE Prusz £oud ones ish painters « “Such for Freneh art, interested P o are n eir ¢ wn o tan h r Bozn; Polis far ry they are is stud are week's stur last Guudens told her wept ept over cow she Apart the Frenct exp and when th start ©s by groups the secretary of rational to the Kot them a 1) to Pitt and all bolsh it burgh nex latter, with Khajof, Pu like which 1. he tanding and tt of th, youngs ay “I do clders, not ke the T Spanish younge aman, and An but for a’ vi the I gian »nal cader! He novel vers work tions of the Labic Rue des Martyr The restauran art. Austria and Take and your reof leaks, you have n boots ar do not pa ome anima nti ture “In in and t will ha vear:” * A | Gaudens sons not profiteers < | tion this egie | T Just | Y vakia | prosperity for A | fresn, brilliant, and happy! Indeed, they “The su compar, Zuloaga,” oung cone of you spend your day pursuit of food, why buy afthat outstanding chap of the new sks the kind heart of Saint- adjoining {once THE TWENTY- RNEGIE IN- aris s W in r- le udens people Saint-¢ 1 wh suntries. and Mutor, paint 1 s we have Hope it impo whi tw ari znansk phere bird an, io of Olga Cracg atm P canary arli he Vi are not e atriated pai ither ar the Inde to hang t head i} nters howith ed Signac c seet Carnegic year.” E depend Ne ust at T with gres ancini or th says, “but the the B Urilliant and pe lifs done t he Collin Gil aton rile. Carte, eption o he is recently in the W che restaurant I decors n th complex is strong -time Lrigh if your tax are billions, an ustria the only pe he; ve no Austrian se is draincd ustria), Iyrical. to whose art have “PRINCE OF WALES ON HORSEBACK.” BY A. J. MUNNINGS, IN THE TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL wit Eng merican Public Will Soon View Foreign Art of Different Schools zkowski and seventoen more very witheut including the Pol- iu Paris do near- ki a 1- in | , ar- | | it your clothes | adroit, paints anything), Wagama he 1911 vintage, if | (all-round jmpressionist), (which like | scene; r- condition are war | (wild buy automobiles, Szechuslos mak prosperous | sky, who is rather erotic, sensuous, luxurious in the old theological sense, but a master! They have, as a fact, a galaxy of Iyric painters, who go rather strong jfor lovely femininity—Obrovsky, with his brilliant nodes; Hudecek, Kal- voda and others. “Prague, a smaller town than | pittsburgh, seems more ulive than Austria and Poland put together! Fancy my beink sought out by the | mayor of Pittsburgh or the Governor of Pennsylvania. Yet, in this post- war nation, miven over to practical pursuits, 1 was summoned with all honors to the chancellor, Dr. Samal { (since the president and prime min- ister were away), and to the head of the big bank of the country, Dr. Preiss. I had the minister of fine arts, virtually, for private secretary, and an official government limousine to go about ™ It is absolutely an art town, “yet 1l the time they are ‘up on their ully toes commerc “They w ha exhibition Svabinsky In art gul- : the inauguration of a new cen- t hall ated by U decorator well known and everybody was Junming a | magnificent cafe-restaurant adorned inside by talented Oblopda. So true concludes the negie art director, “that to produce a land must not only possess agination and the decorative in- stinct, but must also have a su- perabundance of shelter, clothes and food. “Not all are sound artisticall “but all European countries which sound artistically are sound cially. Where artists flourish sure there's superfluity to feed re ing an their new ir Much: to hest ¥ the it is, races sound financially | Happy peoples, they have no | nistory. | artistically, it comes quite nat- {ural to take France, England, Bel- pain, Holland and the {gium, 1o | Seandinavian countries for granted. JFROM England, Carnegle will hang sixty pictures. Most of the names are already known t th publie | through ch exhibitions—Brangyn, | Alnesby frown, B, Cameron, | George n, and Collin Gill, {of the most important youngsters | Eurone, of a not unp! radical- isn, say. Clay asant Charies Holmes, ational gailery), Au- Ambr McElbay, th Munnings, Talmage, Willlam Orpen, the Royal leader of about ! zustu: | Nush John, brothers, { Underwood rles Sims, keeper William Steer, England, Academy: the old men \tifteen others, { The Belgians include Baseleer (a |1andscape, impressionist), Claus | (landscape, light style), Vaes (young, in HOMER SAINT-GAUDENS, DIREC: TOR FINE ARTS AT THE CAR- NEGIE INSTITUTE, PITTS- BURGH. Laermans Belgian school peasant a great friend of the queen, is deaf and dumb), and Anton Carte, (typical school. Amofig the animals), Swedes are Liljeters Fjacstad o (snow Boberg (snow scenes, To- ta von Hennigs, (circus theater), Schultzberg (snow impresslonist), Sparro (por- and Lindman, an nes "r;fll.. conservative) {01t man bf cighty years, recently dis- [covered. Nobody knew him all his long life, and now he is famous! | The Dutch are,sending Bauer (real great Dutch landscape painter), Jur- res (professor of Academy of Art of Amsterdam, romantic painter), Doo- |yewaard (impressionist, light color- | ing), Voermans (landscapes, style old | Dutch . masters), and Isaac Israel, clever man, who paints much like is father, old Israel” The lands of light! "The Spani as a whole,” says Saint- Gaudens, "a¥Ye not at all inclined t L3 ward “advanced” art, but they paint in & high and brildant key, quite dif- ferent from the drab, lowtoned pic- tures of more northern peoples. It is the refigction of their 1'}! te, evi- dentlyp “Their two most importent masters are Anglada and Zuloaga. Anglada, tremendously brilliant portrait and landscape painter, rather a recluse, not very well known in America, is sending five pictures. Zuloaga, the old master of Shpain and probably the big painter of Hurope today, along with Augustus John, end Mancini and Anglada close behind them, T7ith these. Carnesie has Mir (iand- scapes), the two Zubiaurre brothers, Hoymond and Valentin (both deat {and dumb): G: . “brilliant youns- | ste= of Seviiie”; ana Solana. “our one radical Spaniard.” Solana paint= the disagreeable side of -peasant life, but even the comservative painters are strong for him—Sargent bought one of his pletures. Also, there is Mes- quita, “an all-round good man,” Russinol, fine old landscape painter, and about twenty other Spaniards. HE giant Italian is Mancini, but Italy is going through a fine pe- , with bright ambitious voung- ~ GTON, D. C. | | | he specifies, | APRIL 6, 1 924—PART 5, )3 2 yuter Shrine Is the Chief Feature BY KARL K. KITCHEN. ( HE Valley of the Tombs of the | Kings is some twelve miles,| long and, curiously enough, | about the same size and shape | as Manhattan island. But here the| similarity ends, In fact, this gloomy | valley of yellow rocks and sand in| the Lybian Hills on the west bank of the Nile, opposits Luaor, is as un- like little 0ld New York as any thing could be. However. to give an idea of the e act location of King Tut nkh-Amen's | i | i ¥ { | ! | ! tomb, which is situated almost the center of the t might ated that if it occupied the sam relative position in Manhattan vald be found not far from Broa There are seventy-seven kings bur- {ied in this rocky val which far | more resembles the dump of a mine {in Arizona than u royal cemetery { Forty-five of the seventy-seven { towbs have been vered, the tomb jer Tut-ankh-Amen being the forty- {6fth. The ¢ cos are ull within a {few minutes' walking distances of | { i sters like Gaudonzi, Castorati (aca- ! demic), and Romagnoli (very fin | tending toward the new ). And great made me “Tite who s the living much Saint-Gaudens j “not consciou too im- | portant to copy | ing a lot of | Spanish.” | He cites Brass of Venice, I land Boppi Ciadi. brother . Pomi, Busetti, Natali, dozen more. It scems | the ¥ man (whe W { head of the Villa Medici ernment art school at {strong, too, for these Ttaliar | The great Besnard The first news of the French end | of this show is that Besnard, peasant ! head of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in | Paris, 1s coming to Pittsburgh, on the | jury of awards! 1" Bonnard has sent three picture {He is the big official painter of| France. Bernard Boutet de Monval.| igreat son of an illustrious fathe | sends a picture —Carnegie bought his | { exhibit last year From Fr Maurice Denis (important {lead the voungsters), th | Derain, Matisse and Picasse: lieres (religious painter), Ma'rf: [rencin (of the Matisse group), two lextreme academics, Picrre Laurens |and Ernest Laurent; Henry Lerelle, !fine old conservatiye, and Le Sidinar, ce equally, there will be fellow to| another. |” With these come Letiren and Andre | illflrc. two " radicals. Henri Martin, | whom Saint-Gaudens calls a conserv- |ative; Marquet, mildly advanced; Men- lard, an old conservative; Ottman, pretty strong radic y Simon, i radical but not Prinet, | conservative, and president of the independents. | AR, now, the last word of Car- H negie. “It is not for us, in this xhibition,” says Saint-Gaudens, “to pick and earmark any one special group or tendency. We are getting the knowledged leaders of all acknowl- edged ‘schools, whether or not we i perscnally like them or have no use for them at all. “Stick them up! Let the public judge what they think fine and beau- tiful the real standard.” “Is the public fit to judge?” I asked. “The public is never going to be fit to judge, unless it is allowed to i try,” he answered. ou are never | koing to walk unless your nurse lets g0 your hand, and you begin to ex- ercise the muscles of your legs. “You can never use your eyes o {long as you depend upon a critic,” { concludes Carnegie's art director.. “I! ihave my own opinions, which are! ineither here nor there, about that thing. But if the public will come {into the show and fight with cach other over pictures—tell each other they are bughouse if they like this i pleture and not that—get real sore at cach other over pictures, then the | cxercising of art muscles has begun. “The public may rest assured that g will ot let them In for any crazy innovations. But Dorain, -Ma- | tisso and Picasse have been accepted ws important artists in another tand | than ours, and It Is not for Carnegie | to pass any judgment on them. | “Let the. public get the judging! habit. To judge, they must see’the, stuff. They cannot lift themsleves; by their own bootstraps, or get art education from their own insides. You must gi¢e them something. to exercise on; ‘and that is what this f{show Is, every vear. | | | 0dd playhouses in the fto the center of the valley and while the comparison is rather far-fetched, th Dy about the same relative positions (o King Tut's tomb as fity- ey oce theater district | silen, I found it worked perfectly. Tn faet, for just you nt to admire in upon the Cairo Museum, find a statue you w vour dragoman launche: as do to Broadway and 42nd sercet. The | an inaccurate deseription in atrocious comparison might even be rrigd | English. However, a dragoman s further by adding that forty-four of [a necessary evil and at the Valley these forty-five roval tombs are open |of the Tombs of the Kings he is inv|‘ for busincss—for the visits of tour- ists, archeologlsts, Feyptologiets and any one else who will pay the cn- trance fee of 120 plasters-—abant $6 in real money. At the forty fifth tomb, King T o) be annoyed by his chatter thg casiest way to aveid it is to engage a dragoman who spe punish, Italian or some other language you don’t understand. Then he can talk to his heart's content and your an- noyance greatl lessened the fact that you can’t.understand a sin- gle word he says. I followed this plan at Cairo when 1 @id not wish to be annoyed and dispensable. As the electricity in the Kings is turned c in the afternoon it the Tombs of i at 1 o'clock practically is At Tomb of Young Egyptian Ruler Persistent Beggars Amo,ng Pests Encountered to the entrance of the tomb, where t is the only plan to adopt in visiting | padlocked door confronted us. The custodian produ ment later the doc and 1 stepped way into the tomb, I was more prepared for what 1 encountered. for [ had been t01d that its walls were bare of dec- oration, except in the extreme inner chamber occupied by the sarcophagus itself. But when the custod‘an switch- d a key and & mo- as swung back through the passage- I of the antechamber necessary to see them fn the morn-|ed on the electric light, I felt a dis- light their attractiv ing, as by note—a canvass tent—but occupied, «las, by the Egyptian soldiers, who were off dufy. A score of tourists, dragomans and water venders were scattered about nearby, but the im- pression I had was one of utter deso- lation. Presenting my official permit to the custodian, an Egyptian official at- tached to the department of antiques, 1 was allowed to descend the steps “l DESEEND INTO THE ANTECHAMBER OF KING TUTS REST- ING PLACE. | For | three cham tinet shock of disappointment. The entrance is more ness snsiderably lessencd vers through which 1 was houses the newest and most talked-of | th ason nearly every one cros conducted were simply small rooms show in.the valley. Unless one has a | the Nile 4 o'clock in the morning | cut out of the limestone rock—and permit of the ministry of ¢ito make the six-mile trek to the| with their dirty white walls and works in Cairo, it Is impossible - lentranee 1 alley ceilings they reminded me more than ter it But such a permit is ne . as 1 had tra anything clse of an empty Harlem cult to get—at least for a newspaper | than 5500 miles to pay flat—only not as good man. Not only are newspaper As 1 bad arrived at Luxor during given free admission to all the tombs the dispute Letween Howard Carter and temples in the cha of the de- my carriage was and the Egyptian government over partment of antiquities, which Is ur could climb inte the control ib. there was der the jurisdiction of Morcos B \ dozen venders | DO one it Mr. Carter Hanna, minister of public works, hut scarabs, several |and his It assistants were not in the Zexptian fals are particulariy ive donkey ce. custodiun informed me wlad ave American newspaper | boys and as many rvival drivers, and rv equipment e ndents & Tut's t f an had not come to the | found in the tomb had long since to remind H. r rescuc 1 would have struck one of removed of the most re- not his propert them with my stick. been arrested | cently discovered articles were in the tian government is ind probably deporte nearby laboratory, tomb of Seti 1T Yand of th Yalles or o where they were being prepared for Onee one cessary admis- | let the shipment Cairo, but because all 1 is in Luxor—a visit For. the Egvptian gov- | Work had heen tempor suspended of ‘the Tombs of the lermment ¢ to be as- . 1Was unable to see any of them % is mo mor. ificult, although |saulted by the scum of its popula- * more une table, than @ visit 1o tion, if you retaliate you find your- T owly interesting sight fa the six or eight miles from | self in no end of troubls !4 tomb was the so-called outer [ shrine protecting the sandstone sar- IV IGHT here 1 an te <ay|cophagus of the boy king, which was "[‘l.lv ost reabl 1o make {ipae” the wonderful antiquities of | found intact in the sepulchral cham- the trip is to have a carriage fer- would he <till more wonderfol | VeT- The walls of this chamber wers ried across the Nile —and to drive the b0 re mo Eevptians in their | decorated with paintings and hiero- HIN miles 1o the entrance (o the val- {0 e O B both the | EIYPUicS, Lut the ceiling was bare 3. Many tourists think it more pic- | yanace o5 Gl oo to love | AN the chamber was So small that tur to make the journey on the {0 € L LTRSS o e b ¢ the outer shrine filled the greater denkey—but that takes|p gires pegears, many of whom are | PATt of it. Its sides were gilded and s lomr and is four times as i 0 ot stages of the most loath- | ©aborately decorated with fnscrip- bard—to put it mildly. A the valleyl oo ©or o T hese eves] figures, but its top was less Be tombs of the kings is loeated o0 G0 O E R e fdeq | than four feet from the bare cell- scesyary. o\ cross the hot dusty) day = allowed to make any a rowhoeat, an incident of the | yoever, in less than an hour, I in the tomb, and that requires nearly half ani . o inoentrance of the valley, and eum T was not oz, despite the fact thay the after 1 had sh my pass to the to list the articles taken b S i . Ik through the rocky pass to a bad Leen an Egyptologist I b - all clearing - a imient | pobably would have been greatly im- OyAuARYEIE RIS, N0l matteriRow Egyptian soldiers and a walled | pressed by this view of the esterior o oAk e FID. oF opening with a dflight of steps—notjof the royal scarcophagus of Tut- Comty o Tr I SverY |unlike & subway entrance without jankh-Amen. Dut, frankly, 1 was not dragoman Wil et e Shie to mratacs | the Elass Kiosk—confronted my veiw. | moved. Memorics of the gorgeou: ot Tram e o bt able o Proteet |And having been a faithful reader of | tomb of Seti I made me sec this tomb o el off Somalof thic s 4 2 the picture supplements, 1 at onec ‘;m its true light he will prove useful in tipping m:r(‘x‘,lf('"‘l:)“ 'Tu“l":h:' ‘\'{‘““m'"'““" { 1t is remarkable only because of plstadians af levers fton oy | e pite the intanee ravs ot the sup, | its furnishings that were found more Sgypiian guard and carctaker Masl, “ore interesting and depressing|Cf. %" Intact. IC the protecting his hand out for a tip and unless you | ¢noy would be hard to imagine, |5 DCF re Te moved, the sarcophagus fullow the custorh of the country,! \round me on all sides were vellow |CPERed and the mummy exposed to which, of course, is the easlest thing | jimestone rocks, pierced here’ and | ¥1€W: it Will be worth visiting, bul to do, your life for the time being |ihere with openings, which I knew |Until then the tomb itself—I am not LB T e to be cntrances to various tombs, At | SPEAKINE of Its treasures—will rank If you are fortunate enough o £et|ine entrance of King Tut's tomb, | °" below the tomb of Seti I and of a really intelligent dragoman a Visit| which 1 could see by leaning over |Amenhotep Il where the royal mum to the Valley of the Tombs of the|(he stone wall which protects ite]¥ €an_be secu in his open granite most interesting. despite the { flight of steps, svere four or five | SaTeophag his face upturned to the flies, dust, broiling sun, natives and } empty packing boxes. Directly across | STy ceiling of his beautiful burial vther drawbacks. If you don’t want|the clearing was the only cheerful | Chamber. The story of the “Destrue- tion of Mankind” in the walls of the former tomb is of greater historica! value than anything discovered in all the tombs put together. I appreciate the great educational value of the articles discovered in the tomb, but T am writing from the standpoint of the tourist and traveler —not of the Egyptologist and ar- cheologist. And so T say frankly, a visit to the tomb of King Tut is a de- cided disappointment. The daily newspaper accounts of its splendors for the last year and a half—most of them pure press agentry—have giver a large part of the reading public = false impression of its importance Judged strictly on its merits, it ix one of the least interesting Vsights' in upper Egypt. When the tomb Is opened to the general public next winter—or the year after—thousands will flock to it to be disappointed by the barrenness, just as thousands of tourists this winter lhave been disappointed. by being refused admission to it. But those who alreany bave been danied admittance wll have a decided ad- vantage over those who see it in the future—for their illusions will not be shatterea. ‘What I say is that the importance of (he disesvary and almoct evame thing connected ivith it have been overcatimated. (Copyright, 1924.) Temporary Substitute. From the Boston Globe. Mr. Pewee—Goodby, dearie, I'll write every day. His Wife—Be sure you do. And God be with you until T get back home. Then F1l look after you.