Show I y American Artists Rarely 1 r Represented Re resented in Euro e 1 Correspondence f e f ONDON Jan there thero an any 1 LONDON American art Arent there thero any American artists Those TheS are ac questions that occasionally hurt an Americans feelings on the con conI continent I especially If he happens to be visiting nn an International picture et In response he pointS proudly to the tho Whistlers Sargent Abbeys Abbes and Pen nells which may perhaps be 00 included In the UIO exhibition either under the head of at h arty lIt or else In a I ment devoted to the tho odds and ends entIs that k I como come from countries not Important I enough to have havo buildings or depart departments I I ments of their own The humbled sisi tor explains as best t he can that h the ther r J world rl is indebted e to t the United te States D for far all these famous artists who be 00 because cause they happen to live Ile on this side t l o of the ocean know the tho Importance to toI I themselves and to their count country or of oft orr t r being represented at these International art shows He tries to make It clear 9 that there thero really are n a lot or of fine artists nt at home and that we me could make n a his bl t l exhibit if we should take the trouble troubie I But he never makes much headway against European scepticism i At tho recent International exhibition In Venial a num number r or of Joseph Josoph t i New ew York and etchings were r bought b by the city for the municipal art gallery which already alread has several 6 examples of oC Whistlers work and to tot Mr Pennell therefore the tho writer went t I for a solution of this mysterious back backwardness or of most American painters i etchers and sculptors sculptor In coming cominS for forward forward ward and doing themselves and their country due credit JOSEPH LL AT HO HOrE E I and Mrs Pennell are at home in n nan t It an Ideal place for such an the top lop of oC a build tog InS close to Adelphi Terrace just around the corner cornel from George Ber Bernard Bernard t nard Shaws house and from the Savage sav age club It Is on a block from the rOaring 11 in that one block blockyou blockyou you travel back a century and a half haIr to the very heart or of the lute district where some Home or of the most characteristic r work of the Adam brothers s can bo be seen and whore where the ve very street I names testify of oC them for you Ou go down Adam street to Set get to Robert street t named after the elder eider or of the two broth brothers ers and thence to the tho Adelphi which is s the Gr Greek k word for or brothers brothels was roamed named after both OUI of oC them It Is 15 1 Adelphi Terrace House In Robert Hobert street that the live In a room flat fiat flaton on the top lop floor of an Adam hou e com commanding manding a glorious view up and down the Thames It was CS this vIew doubtless that fascinated J M lf Barrio a single man again after his unhappy domestic experience and he Is 18 now settling down downto to a new lifo In the tho flat below the The artist Was In hl his big studio ex exactly as you OU see seo him In the accompany fag Ing photograph which shows the press r l on whIch he printed the etchings rel ro h here by his kind permission He Ii was gre greatly tl interested In this subject of oC making makinI a larger showing for American Amer ican can art In Europe and plunged Into the subject at once At home he said we dont take tako half enough Interest In these either on patriotic grounds or on the tho grounds or of personal benefit For example next year a L gr great lt international nl al exhibition opens In Brus Brussels eh An In has been sent Kent to the United States but It appears that our govern government government r ment will wUl have hae no part in n It although England and all the other European countries are arc to 1 be represented official officially I ly I have havo had a personal invitation to exhibit and doubtless other American artists have too hut but as there thero Is no American section wo we must mut be so scat about as to make malto no representative tive showing for American art I R NT I IN ENGLAND tan n England the discovery was I mace a few years ears ago that It is IB as Important Im to l look ok after ns as It ft Is Isto isto to look after an any other producer The board ot of trade organized a separate department the tho exhibitions branch and nd appointed a Permanent commis commission commission sion to see that Great Britain was properly und and officially represented In very cry International exhibition In the tho department or of art th the government col collects collects the pictures and pays at least sonic o of the expenses to make the best IIO showing a commis loner grants money and sees seel that t th the best collection Is s got together to gether ethor The rhe result Is that British art artt t today day Is known all over and the principal British artists are ure known too and make mako a surprising number or of oft t sales Jale to public galleries and private 1 buyers and win fame decorations and medals too It ought to be added though that the they dont as a rule charge such high prices as American artists of equal ran rank rankIn Ie In 1911 there Is to 10 be an International exhibition of oC fine art and architecture archi architecture in Rome Elaborate preparations preparations are arc already being ma made for or It and an Invitation has been Issued to the tho United States government In re authorities have re received received word that nothing can be done till Congress meets Yet the space for forthe the tho respective nations Is to ho be allotted l before the end of this year and each national exhibit must he be organized before b oro that SO g ss Congress can act at once It will be practically call Impossible for our country to be of officIallY officially represented Yet England has started 1 appointed a commis commissioner and sent out Invitations and no notices notices tices to artists to put up Its own build buildIng building Ing NOT GOVERNMENTS FAULT If It Is the tho law that Is responsible for the European supposition that there Is practically no art In America lets change that law and chan change e It gulch and get a permanent exhibitions board But It all the fault of the got gov government A lot or of good American artists are arc entirely too local In their Interests Thc They m make a big mistake In thinking these International shows shots arent worth bothering about Every exhibit they malo mako brings personal Invitations In to other exhibitions and the total result are worth having even If IC you ou leave national pride out of oC th the question The Thc exhibitions cost artists nothing for the exhibiting country countr usually pays pas all the tho expenses As the of the tho New ew York Na National 1 AcademY of Designs at the tho re cent e tT Venice exhibition I found the tho Italians keen Indeed to have hav Ameri American American can works and willing to t do any thin within reason to set get them 1 But I am sorry sorn to artists of everY other nation were moro more In Interested interested In the exhibition than my own countrymen men Time rhe sales at this exhibition tion were 11 an and the o previous results have been so satisfactory that permanent buildings s have been erect erected co coed ed for the tho exhibition oC the then art of other countries England Germany Austria and BelgIum now havo their own buildIngs there each erected by Venice and sold to the tat of oC the other governments And do you OU know that the tho building now occupied b by England was actually offered first t to the United States and at a less price I am told than it It was after afterwards wards sold to Great Britain or rathor to a few fow rich Englishmen or r some art Englishmen encourage English art In Inthis this way TARDINESS TO Br BLAME That we cant pay 11 as atten attention tion to the tho export or of our r works of oC art artas artas as we do to the export oC our r mechanIcal Ical products Is nothing less les than aBton stupidity Ono trouble Is or course courso that wo we leave everything until the lost horn blows an then tl tr to hustle not realizing that exhibitions like these have to bo be prepared for long IonS time In advance Probably that the reason the United States was WUI was the Unit United ed not represented at the g exhibition this his year In Munich We Invited 1 but nothing was done dono about It and w American artists who exhibited had to tog go Into th rather rathor build building InS g I found It well worth wile while to exhibit i In Venice ono result being that the themen municipality men bought 6 ht a set or f my Amer Amen AmerIcan lean Ican etchinGS for Cor the tho city cit art gal gallery I have hao some or Whistlers work They ThO there too and no o dou doubt t would have hao bought the work or of a good goad man many other American artists Ir if some ome pictures c been for sale or the tho prices ot of others not so high I CASE IN POINT school Is a The value case In point as to the tl pra practical of oC International exhibition Its Ill nu 1 was wa made by us a the tho only body of art over oer Europe some yeatH a and the they have hao havethe lIed u en In een sense of oC that reputation ever since the word on artists might tIo d We Ve worse than Imitate them And get known they receive Invitations from allover all over Europe and n 1 too or of They rhe and an honor to their count exhibition of n ThIs Roman Roma oC Hill 1911 Is a chance for Cor American artists awl great i architects and Cor America Italians Italian heard ot our our art and seine have have seen It In Parts In 1400 1000 and amI at St Louts Louis LouisIn In n 1904 But Dut now we may send te tend nd It to Rometo the tho heart or a great exhibition at virtual no International either to the country or tho the artists It if wo we only accept the tho Italian In t to show andL act at once For the artists there thero are arc important prizes I to be won and n a most excellent pros prospect I poet or of their works being acquired for Cor pUblic and private coU For tile the jj J architect there thero Is to be a comparative display or of modern houses but It If the I United States Is to bo be In It application application tion for or space must bo made instantly The rhe announcement or of the conditions was ns sent Hent out months month ago ugo and accepted b by other nations nation We as asyet asyet yet have dono nothing C B 13 BS I S |