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With such wise, earnest words Mrs. Edith Halpert, smart mistress of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, this week opened her sixth annual "$100 show." Mrs. Halpert's previous $100 shows suffered from studio remnants. But no critics could spot unwanted leftovers in this week's exhibit. For sale at $100 each were pictures by such U. S. artists as Peggy Bacon, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ernest Fiene, Marguerite Zorach, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer and many another. Most of the pictures had been marked down from $300 or more...
While Mrs. Halpert's experiment was the most spectacular "$100 show" the city had ever seen, the idea was not new to Manhattan. Nine years ago R. H. Macy (department store) inaugurated a "$100-and-under show," which successfully sold the work of many an unknown. This season other Manhattan galleries have followed suit...
...Independents were a brave cause in 1916 when able young Artists Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows. Samuel Halpert, Walter Pach and A. S. Bay-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...
...Independents ("No Jury. No prizes.") were founded in 1916 by a group of able young artists - Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows, Samuel Halpert - in revolt against the pontifical National Academy of Design. At that time they filled a real need. U. S. painting that did not imitate 19th Century French impressionism was frowned upon by dealers. Customers had no chance to decide whether they liked independent work or not. The original Independents set up no school to rival the Academy. They simply opened a place where any painter could show anything. Since then the discovery of U. S. talent...
Fifteen years ago the Independent society was founded by a group of serious younger artists, among them: John Sloan, George Bellows, Robert Henri, Samuel Halpert. Since then New York has sprouted out all over with modernist galleries. The discovery of artistic talent has become a business as highly organized as philanthropy, with museums, trust funds, press agents of its own. Left to exhibit at the Independents' show are a few loyal veterans of its early days, and the hopelessly mediocre, the would-be humorists, the self-advertisers. Some 700 of them paid their $6 each last week to show...