| Show f 1 r f lt J T 14 r. r AMERICAN ARTISTS ABROAD il Their Merit Recognized and Rewarded Reward Reward- ed Earlier Than It Is at I Home Once more an American artists artist's picture picture pic pic- ture holds the place of honor at the exhibition of the Royal Academy in London Sargent had attained that honor now it is Abbeys Abbey's turn with a picture distinctly American in subject representing Columbus landing in the new world Several other well-known well American artists figure among the notable notable notable no- no table exhibitors In the two annual picture shows now open in Paris the same fact is true reports the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York World American artists frequently complain as do singers and musicians that the surest way to distinction at home is recognition abroad The protest implies implies im im- plies that merit is not so readily accepted accepted ac ac- here as merit as it is in France and England The distinction attained by Sargent In London has done more than all his early successors in this country to assure assure as as- sure his preeminence The same may maybe maybe maybe be said to be true of Ab Abbey ey although I fame came to him easy as an tor Something may be due to the circumstance circumstance cir cir- that for years both have done most of their work abroad Beyond Beyond Beyond Be Be- yond a doubt however art is viewed far more hospitably in Paris and London Lon don than in New York We Ve have yet no art exhibitions that occupy so large a place in popular life Ufe as the regular shows of the two foreign capitals It Is noteworthy also that more contemporary con temporary American artists have room in the Luxembourg museum where living living liv lIv- ing painters must await admission to the Louvre than in our own itan The Paris list counts about 25 among them Whistler Sargent Winslow Winslow Win Win- slow Homer La Farge Alexander Harrison Harrison Har Har- rison Henry Mosier Walter MacEwen par sari ari Miss Cassatt Edwin L Weeks and H. H O. O Tanner Under the old management American artists were treated with suspicion at the Metropolitan It was sometimes difficult to get their works through the museums museum's doors even as gifts Fortunate all aU that is being rapidly rapid changed Sir Purdon Clarke advocates the necessity of building up a representative representative American collection Mr George A. A Hearn h has s donated a large fund of which the Income is reserve reserved for the purchase of American works It is a curious commentary on American American Ameri Ameri- can taste that it was not until a for eign director was put in charge of the Metropolitan that American artists were promised something of the sam sama public recognition they receive front from front the French government |
