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...first time in its history, swank Seligmann Galleries held a contemporary U. S. show priced from $10-$250; Valentine Gallery offered Louis Eilshemius watercolors at from $50 to $75; Ferargil Galleries exhibited unrecognized U. S. painters, sold their works...
...acquired five canvases-Disappointed Fisherman by Henry Varnum Poor from the Montross Galleries and four others chosen from the current biennial display at the Whitney Museum: Blue Heron by Jonas Lie; In a Cafe by Adolphe Barie; Union Square by David Morrison; Delaware Water Gap Village by Louis Michiel Eilshemius...
...last that caused critics' mouths to drop. Louis Eilshemius is a little old gentleman with a beard, a beady eye and the butt of a frayed cigar, who is known as New York's most persistent exhibition visitor. He is one of the most persistent newspaper letter writers in the country. Not long ago he adopted the title Mahatma (Great Soul) and has spent a small fortune printing little pamphlets and books to prove that he is the greatest painter, poet, musician and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer" in the world. He has also invented a portable piano...
...Mahatma protested less, the art world almost certainly would have accepted him sooner. About a year and one-half ago critics discovered for themselves that the ingenuous, colorful little canvases of the Mahatma Eilshemius really are worthy of serious attention. He was hailed as the "American Rousseau." Museums and collectors interested in modern art hastened to buy his pictures. At his exhibition at the Valentine Galleries in New York in March, 40 canvases were sold, almost a Depression record. Among the purchasers were the Detroit and Cleveland Museums but few critics ever expected the sedate Metropolitan to join the procession...
...instant has the Mahatma Eilshemius ceased to shout his scorn of every other painter in the world, his disdain of every art gallery that does not recognize the importance of his work. But he stopped painting in 1920. A few have suspected that he realized then that his pictures of Samoa, his ruins by moonlight, his strange nude ladies bathing in improbable streams were as far as he could go. Last week he grew suddenly frank with his press agent. "I won't paint again," said Louis Eilshemius, "I'm just a comedian...