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...artist has to be only fair to get a showing in almost any dealer's private gallery. Of last week's 862 exhibits, almost without exception the only ones that had the slightest artistic merit were those contributed by President John Sloan. Abraham Walkowitz. A. S. Baylinson, Jose de Creeft and other veterans of the Independents' early days. whose sense of loyalty still compels them to send annual contributions...
...linson founded it. Then the National Academy of Design's snobbism smothered unorthodox U. S. art. Now Henri, Halpert and Bellows are dead, and the discovery of new U. S. art has become a highly organized business. Except for pictures by Founders Sloan, Pach, Baylinson and a few others, only "undiscovered" art hung last week on the walls of a long room like a warehouse. The Independents have no judges, no jury, no awards, no places of honor. The shambles of bad art is hung alphabetically, beginning this year with the letter O which was drawn...
...show anything. Since then the discovery of U. S. talent has become a highly organized business and the Independents' show largely a waste of time. Last week in all the 944 canvases on view, the only notable ones were those contributed by President John Sloan, Secretary A. S. Baylinson, Director Warren Wheelock and a few other loyal lingerers from the Independents' early days, plus a few violent, ably drawn cartoons by persons who take advantage of the Independents' liberality to exhibit political propaganda. Critics noted that the founders of modernism are already sufficiently venerable to have direct...
...Paul Whiteman by Guillermo Bolin which clearly demonstrated the jazz-priest's resemblance to a sea-lion. E. E. Cummings, poet, hung a picture of angels wrestling in a vacuum. Such tolerant and able academicians as John Sloan (President of the Independent Society), Walter Pach and A. S. Baylinson- such earnest and successful strivers as O. Richard Reid, Negro artist, who worked his way through art school as a waiter and porter, and as Julia Kelly, who came untutored to the exhibition ten years ago and has recently got into the Luxembourg-leavened the works of their fantastic fellow...
...wine made by holy miracle out of water; William H. Anderson at the doorway in a derby hat. This parable?a raid on the marriage feast of Cana, painted by J. Francois Kaufman and exhibited last year in Manhattan?led to the arrest and conviction of Abraham S. Baylinson, Secretary of the Society of Independent Artists, for "violation of public decency." Last week an Appellate Court reversed the decision, returned to Mr. Baylinson the fine of $100 which he had paid...
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