Yalemen

Of all the major universities in the U. S., Yale has spawned the largest group of professional artists. So skillful is the technical training of the Yale School of Fine Arts that for years its graduates have had a virtual monopoly on the Prix de Rome scholarships. Recognizing these facts, Manhattan's Yale Club last week opened its first annual exhibition of professional Yale artists. Graduates responded enthusiastically. Over 70 Yale artists sent 116 pictures, 23 pieces of sculpture. In age exhibitors ranged from 87-year-old Edwin H. Blashfield (1914 Hon.) to recently graduated John Stull (1934). Other famed exhibitors: Muralist Eugene Francis Savage (1924); Etcher Troy Kinney (1896); Sculptor Wheeler Williams (1918); Satirist Reginald Marsh (1920); Portraitists Augustus Vincent Tack (1912), Deane Keller (1923).

Barred from last week's exhibition because of his amateur standing was the winner of the Yale Club's amateur art show last winter. To judge it a distinguished jury had been chosen: President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design, Dean Everett V. Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Portraitist Augustus Vincent Tack. Carefully they inspected the work of Yale's amateur painters, awarded first prize to an impressionistic watercolor sketch of a child's head.

"It is reminiscent of Renoir!" cried Judge Lie. "It has the breadth and simplicity suggestive of the French masters of the 19th Century!"

Prizewinning artist was Noble Foster Hoggson (1888), a dapper, peppery little gentleman of 71, member of the building firm of Hoggson Bros, which has in the past 45 years erected over 2,000 bank buildings throughout the U. S. Newshawks found Artist Hoggson in the club bar, more than willing to talk.

"I was three years old when I did that thing," said he. "Yes, I was lying on my little fat stomach on the carpet of mother's parlor when I painted the damned picture. It was with my first box of water colors. It was funny as hell . . ."

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