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If you are interested in the new directions American Art is taking, you will want to see this Exhibition . . . the work of four of the younger men: A. Henry Nordhausen, C. G. Nelson, Gerald Foster and Paul Sample, The work is varied, and offers an excellent opportunity to acquire good pictures at modest cost.
Macbeth Gallery
15 East 57th St. New York

April 25th to May 10th
Old Masters
18th and 19th Century Paintings
Shown on Request
NEWHOUSE GALLERIES
578 Madison Ave. [corner of 57th St.]
NEW YORK

manency in the effect desired by the artist. This permanency is obtained when good pigment is used on good canvas, and I, and many other American manufacturers, not only make good canvas, but as good canvas as is made by any European manufacturer.

It is regrettable that an artist of the reputation of Mr. Sloan should display so monumental an ignorance as regards one of the tools of his trade. For his information, I will tell you that only 10 percent of the canvas used by American artists painting in this country is foreign canvas. In other words, 90 percent of the paintings painted here by American artists are painted on American canvas, and this has been true for a good many years.

In testimony given before the Ways and Means Committee on Tariff Readjustment in 1929 appears the following:

"Congressman Davenport: 'Is it possible for us to make now as fine artist canvases as were made for the old masters?'

"American Manufacturer: 'Yes, sir.'

"Congressman Davenport: 'Do we make better canvas in America than they now make in the continent of Europe, or just as good, would you say?'

"American Manufacturer: 'We make a better product.'

"Congressman Davenport: 'So that most of our importations of canvas are inferior?'

"American Manufacturer: 'Yes, sir.'"

THE ART DIGEST can pass no opinion in this controversy. But it will open its columns gladly to a discussion of the subject.

THE ART DIGEST will gladly try to find any work of art desired by a reader.

New York Criticism
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normal impression of his subject. In the other mood——in which too many of his pictures are painted——he inclines to the establishment of an arbitrary perspective, as though there were something talismanic about topsy-turvydom, something that would by itself make his work interesting."

Going His Own Way

Paintings of France and Virginia by Berkeley Williams, Jr., shown at the Montross Gallery, revealed Williams to be "a competent, rather conservative type of painter," said the Herald Tribune.

Although he studied with Boris Grigoriev and spent two winters on the Riviera, he "seems farther removed temperamentally from the Grigoriev type of brash insistence than from the more subtle refinements of French influences," said the Post. "Both the handsome still life of red peppers and the landscapes have this Gallie tinge, but it is only a tinge well assimilated to the artist's native endowment. He is an excellent craftsman, using luscious pigment, building up his landscapes knowingly with a few planes of color to a rich, full statement."

"Distinctly Carrollian"

John Carroll's drawings, shown at the Rehn Galleries, comprised preliminary sketches for paintings, studies in line and wash drawings in color. The bright hues and piquant figure studies were "distinctly Carrollian," according to the Herald Tribune.

"The drawings should be approached not as formal expression but rather as an adventure along the way," said the Times. "Many of them are very beautiful, instinct with Carroll's absorption in esthetic problems that we have learned to associate with him alone. One never thinks of these sensitive searchings as harnessed to theory. John Carroll is not the least bit doctrinaire. Yet he is steadfast in his fine spiritual honesty."

Renée Lahm and Utrillo

Views of Central Park as seen from the vantage point of a skyscraper apartment made up a good part of the exhibition of paintings by Renee Lahm at the Delphic Studios. The Herald-Tribune: "with her subject constantly at her elbow, so to say, Mrs. Lahm has caught apparently much of the fascination of children who inhabit the setting far below her window. In one of them their smudgy forms may be distinguished at ring-around-the-roses to an accompaniment of arabesques 
of roads and fields."

The Times critic compared her with Utrillo: "Mrs. Lahm's series of Central Park——at noon, at nightfall and in every season of the year——have a curious emotional quality, not unlike that found in Utrillo's portraits of the Sacre Coeur and the 'Boul Mich.' 'Evening,' particularly, communicates a pantheistic sense of the personality of the park."

Historic Mansion for Virginia

Gunston Hall in Fairfax County, Va., home of George Mason, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights which was a source of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, has been given to the state of Virginia by Louis Hertle, who acquired the mansion in 1912 and restored the house and grounds approximately to their Colonial condition. Gunston Hall was built before the Revolution with bricks brought from England.

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