College Art

If a young man wants to be a novelist, a poet, a playwright or an architect, college is the traditional place for him to get his training. If he wants to be a painter he is expected to go to Paris or to one of the big art schools of New York, Boston, Chicago, despite the fact that all U. S. universities give art courses. Critics who wondered why this is so went last week to the dingy galleries of the College Art Association in New York to see an exhibition of student work from 26 U. S. colleges, universities, museum schools. It was not overinspiring. From New Hampshire to Texas, the student body of the U. S. presented anatomical drawings, studies in perspective, hand-dyed batiks, linoleum cuts, designs for football stadia and perfume bottles "according to the laws of dynamic symmetry," and a number of paintings in oil. Critics were most interested in the exhibit from Yale. Prominent on the faculty of the Yale Department of Fine Arts is kinetic Eugene Francis Savage, Leffingwell Professor of Painting. Professor Savage is a mural painter with most distinctive style. He designs strapping, greenish-white nudes with a great many muscles, posed in theatrical attitudes against classical landscapes. In this manner he has decorated the Elks National Memorial in Chicago and other buildings. Noticeable is the fact that most of his pupils draw and paint exactly like him. There is often rich reward for their fidelity. Professor Savage is a trustee and a member of the executive committee of the American Academy in Rome. Able Savage pupils frequently win the Prix de Rome in painting; three of them enjoy comfortable studios on the Janiculum at the present time. The works of the entire Yale delegation to the College Art show--and they included a Spaniard, two Irishmen, an Italian and a Chinese--looked almost as though it had all been designed by Professor Savage in person.

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