Yale's Party

The choicest plum for a U. S. art student who is unmarried and not over 30 is the Prix de Rome. It gives the winner two idyllic years at the American Academy in Rome, is worth about $4,000. In 1912 one of the winners was Eugene Francis Savage, a graduate of Gonzaga College in Washington, D. C., who painted "sanitary," hard-profiled. Italianate pictures. They showed just what the Prix de Rome conditions asked for: "A keen understanding of the qualities which give to the classics . . . their universal appeal, of the technical methods by which those qualities were secured. . . ." In 1923 Mr. Savage became Leffingwell Professor in Yale University's School of Fine Arts. Within three years he had made the Prix de Rome practically a monopoly of the Yale School of Fine Arts. The "Little Savages" he taught painted the way he painted and the way the Prix de Rome juries, archconservatives and mostly Prix de Rome winners themselves, preferred. Last week the

Yale School once more swept the Prix de Rome with three winners, losing only the award in landscape architecture, not a Yale specialty.

Sculpture: Gifford MacGregor Proctor, 23, son of able Sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor. He won with a workmanlike and pretentious sculpture of two nude infantrymen crumpling, entitled We Arc the Dead.

Architecture: George Tibbits Licht, 27, son of able Architect George A. Licht.

Painting: Robert Berkeley Green, 25, son of a Pittsburgh chiropractor, for an egg tempera panel called County Fair.

The award in landscape architecture went to a graduate of Harvard and of Cornell's College of Architecture: James Mackenzie Lister, 28.

Last week Winners Green, Proctor and Lister went to Manhattan to be with their winning entries in the Prix de Rome show at the Grand Central Art Galleries. Confronted with a microphone they spoke a few words of modest thankfulness for the two idyllic years ahead.

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