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ART NEWS

New Exhibitions of the Week

AMERICA'S ALLIED ARTISTS CELEBRATE AT A FIRST IMPORTANT SHOW 

THE first large exhibition of the season is held by the Allied
Artists of America who present over three hundred items in the spacious galleries of the Fine Arts Building. Work that is academic and slavish to convention predominates, so that one's spirit receives little refreshment from the oft-repeated formulas. Among the prizewinners, however, are to be found some of the paintings and sculpture which rise above the general level. The bronze medal for Steam, Smoke and Snow to Peter Helck has touch with contemporary life, and is successful in creating the chilly atmosphere of a railroad station in a typical small American town. Eloise, which won the gold medal, is by Keith Shaw Williams and is the study of a mannikin who seems from a distance to be a girl seated in an unconventional pose. Ernest Lawson's Central Park is a subtly worked out scheme of colors recreating the atmospheric effect to which he is sensitive, and which he conveys admirably.

Among the sculpture, Cornelia Chapin's Penguin is very well rendered in grey granite, with all her feeling for wild creatures. Rounded form and a sense of tension under its finely wrought surface suggest the oddly human character of this species which recommended itself so successfully to Anatole France's satire. Burr Miller's The Sculptor has power in its aloofness and reduction of detail to essentials. But the number of items before which one is intrigued to linger in this exhibition is not large.
J. L.