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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts by artists most of whom have work of some other type in the display are another feature of the exhibition. Wide and varied choice is evidenced in the assemblage of examples of decorative art, which include among other things an unusual tea service designed by Puiforcat, ceramic gardens and textiles conceived by Raoul Dufy, unique "Camel" and "Lucky Strike" cigarette cases designed by Legrain, jewelry of Raymond Templer, and ash trays by Lalique...
...such silliness did not submerge the occasional excellence of the exhibition. Patterning after the Paris Salon des Independants in its opposition to tight orthodoxies, the Society of Independent Artists provides a more exciting display than conservative bodies like the National Academy. Such reputable painters as John Taylor Arms, Pop Hart, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, Walter Pach. John Sloan (president of the Society) and Claggett Wilson were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon...
Illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank constitute the current exhibit in the Widener Memorial Room. A few water color drawings are shown, but the majority of the display consists of engravings made by these artists, sometimes original and sometimes copied from the paintings of other...
...from drawings by other men. The same thing is true of "An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo" written by William Mudford Esq. and printed in 1816. This artist is more appealing, however, in what is the most valuable and probably the most interesting work in the display, namely "The Humorist, a Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, etc., etc." The work is made up of several small volumes illustrated in an uproariously grotesque manner...
Next Tuesday, four days after the close of its current American exhibition, the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will present to the public a display of the works of the School of Paris. The second exhibition of the organization is intended to supplement, with the work of the last 20 years, the French Painting now showing at the Fogg Museum...