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Fourteen years ago when Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows, founded the independents, there was scarcely a place in New York where artists who had broken with the academic tradition could show their work. Today modernist galleries blossom in all the side streets, the discovery of artistic talent has become as highly organized as philanthropy, so that Mediocrity appears excellent by contrast with the average. The Independents are, of course, the average...
Because he is chief U. S. spokesman of the conservative attitude toward art, he is particularly interesting. For, while modernistic art may or may not be valuable, it is undeniably fashionable in the U. S., and this is due in no small measure to the increasing publicity and support given it by U. S. art critics. But you will not find Royal Cortissoz in the fervid com-pany which swirls in adulation around recent esthetic figures. Post-Impressionism and other modern cults and coteries are not sacred to him. In the March Scribner's, he regretfully says farewell...
...inevitable that the success of Holabird & Root should encourage the modernist faction in the Architectural League. Added to this, perhaps a larger proportion of the exhibits than ever before displayed the influence of utility and simplicity. Even in domestic architecture there were more plain surfaces, less elaborately romantic Tudor, more convenience and less picturesqueness...
Washington and Philadelphia beat New York by several years in establishing modern museums, and the art institutions of Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Brooklyn, Rochester, Denver, Worcester, Los Angeles and Newark all have large sections devoted to modernist art. Manhattan's firs'; modernist museum, called the Gallery of Living Art, was opened two years ago by New York University in Washington Square, financed by Albert Eugene Gallatin. Three months ago New York's second museum of the kind, The Museum of Modern Art, was established in the Heckscher Building, and when the name of Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and others...
...west as California, and in towns as small as Springville, Utah, are associations showing modernist art. The attendance at the opening of the Museum of Modern Art show of Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh and Seurat, was 47,000. Neither art lovers nor the curious visit displays of academic art in such crowds. Cynics say that even the National Academy of Design, the very last and as yet uncaptured citadel of conservatism, had to hang a picture sidewise and then publicize the fact that a somewhat modernistic picture had been so hung by mistake (TIME, Nov. 18), to get people...