Show TAD TABOO 00 iN N I 1 BRITISH IA ACADEMY SH SHOW W reference Shown This Year for Draped I Subjects AR SHAW P PORTRAIT C T I ut or Claims Judges I B t Are Prejudiced LONDON May May- 28 United Press Because v very ry few tew nudes nudes and and no ones at all were all were accept accept- I t r exhibition this year at the yal Academy of ot Art here cynics suggesting that per per- ps the fact tact is an indication of ot e reasons which prompted the to reject over artistic forts Possibly it is argued many of ot the turned down were ings which depicted undraped In artistic attitudes which mid JUra have been shocking material i the he cen censor or rate although the oil 1 which now hang in the Jy l' l Academy of oC Art may not I t indicate the entire trend British art judging by the pro pio of pictures depicting depleting what J undoubtedly some of ot Britain's Britain s s beautiful women there seems be bea be-a a distinct tendency h here re to ene en- en nce e If IC possible the figures rep- rep i eted ted by draping them In the gorgeous colors I Indeed c eed with scarcely more than 3 score e of ot nudes scattered through- through I the e g galleries for public In IW were re it not for the fact tact that this year ear have painted one hundred portraits of oC beau- beau women It might appear that stY St of oC London's London s painters had beI bene be- be I ne women women haters haters and that art- art have deserted this very city of ot P Paris aris where is woman womans woman's s most admired where I HENCHMAN EXHIBITS Paris ris Incidentally Is represented he the exhibition b by a a. most stun- stun and ig-and and conventional portrait conventional portrait of oC frs Heathcote by the famous ench artist Jean Tean Gabriel Domer- Domer rh The rhe fact that the representative tl the nude-loving nude G Gay y City pre pre- a completely draped subject pre pre-I the sarcastic remark lemark I surely the Judges purposely w w to It that no shocking naked- naked ss should cause visitors to this ar s academy exhibition to Iver s sympathetically in a mody mod- mod y loving city like London With Wh nudes nearly banned and d t paintings conspicuous by Mf Ir Ir a aL ence the fe feature ture of ot this ilis E exhibition ion seems to be the ex- ex mely vivid and brilliant coloring of oC pictures Portraits portraits seem to predominate f which will be of ot especial inest inest int in- in est t to Americans Mrs Nicholas irray iy Butler painted by Sir John v very iy of the Royal academy here are also portraits of King orge in full fulI uniform Queen Fy the Duke of Connaught Sir sten sen Chamberlain Madame THUc TitU- TitU c cu wife of ot the Rumanian minis u b the court of oC St St. James Adi Adral Ad- Ad Adr r ral I Count H H. Togo late chief of oC i Japanese naval general staff d ot of Sir Alan J T Col Cobham ham the aviator and other prominent 8 although perhaps none attracting more comment than A A. A i art jart rt Hills Hill's s portrait of oC a colored n Mr Turner Layton NY CHILDREN umber number of ot paintings are devoted the subject df of children one ot Ich 11 Ii is remarkable for color and A Little Girl With ck toos by Marietta Cotton rhe je subject of ot the war has been untouched being ted by two realistic Images of oC the tish fleet in action at the battle J Jutland and R R. Caton Woodville's allow een 1914 showing hand- hand hand fighting on Messines Messine ridge three of oC which deserve a Per- Per nent ent place In some war museum subject painted by American and the works of oC two 1 sculptors and one CaHan Cali Ca- Ca li Han n are are among those accepted I Itis this years year's exhibition anada's contribution to the ex- ex Ulon Is a a forceful bronze bust of Rt Hon Sir Robert Laird Bor Bor- I it time one premier of his coun coun- the work of ot the well well known wn sculptor Lionel Fosbery Davidson American sculptor or studio is well welt known to to the thel l colony In hi Paris success success success- ly entered a stone bust of the Marshal Sir John Trench French lot of Ypres and a remarkable group of ot marble and nd copS cop'S cop cop- Paul S 'S Europa by of oC New York is is' the second secondi i rican sculpture exhibited ENTRY his work which Is Is' likely to act wide attention Paul Man- Man Pl a nude woman leaning hack ack against a horned golden g whose hea head is Burned urne urnel tow toward rd C the womans woman's arms he artists artist's idea Is original and andi anding anding i ing g and it displays talent of ot a fJ d which Is eminently typical of Aiming oming invasion inv sion of American T r yie e C Return of oC Commanders Byrd Bennett From the North orth Pole Aeroplane to Spitzbergen Is the theand and nd subject ct chosen by F. F W W. kes keg of New York for tor his oil ting In which the icy north Is idly depicted by the artist Ight thousand works are said eald to toe e been refused a place in the demy's art galleries this year many v many were presented by for for- fers is not known however beSe bese bese be- be se no mention of oC nationality Is aired upon the slips which must each work which Is sub sub- ted fras has however become known the Ithe e information has stirred ar- ar London that a painting by bythe bythe bythe the Hon John Collier of ot George Bernard Shaw was among those which th the judges turned down The fact tact that a portrait of nf Aldous Huxley by the same artist was given an excellent place at the ex exhibition exhibition ex- ex has led p 9 B B. S S. S to express the opinion that it is likely that Inthis in inthis inthis this case the judges took exception to the sitter the artists artist's reputation reputation reputation tion being unquestioned d since his picture of oC the younger author Al Aldous Aldous Aldous Al- Al dous Huxley was accepted When questioned the artist himself himself him him- self declared that he considered his painting of oC Shaw was better than the one which passed the judges at atthe I the academy |