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Show Any American Artist Finds Himself Practically Without Patronage By C. R. W. NEVINSON, British Artist Any citizen of the United States who strives to be an artist in his own land finds himself practically without patronage for the simple reason that Americans in general have no critical faculty whatever. Any Americans who have the idea that I am merely annoyed by a lack of financial success among them are quite wrong ; on the contrary, I regard that failure as a splendid compliment They will say. nice words in praise of American artists and they will support the growing chauvinist movement for American art But they will not buy American pictures; that is the last step that occurs to anybody. any-body. In this respect the women are more responsible than their men. The k&sfcatfe ti a criticil faculty net en!j Americans to tn'st the auction room, to invest in the gilt-edged dead, to avoid their own native talent; it has the most alarming consequences for the artists themselves. The real artists of New York, by whom I mean the adventurers in art, the creator, have to earn their living as draymen or waiters, achieving their intellectual work when they are dead beat with manual labor. |
