insight into general and well as special character and characteristic.
It need hardly be said that he knows his business technically for he
has been acclaimed sufficiently all over the world by a series of
almost irrelevant medals and honours without end. The Stieglitz
exhibition is one that should have been seen by everyone regardless of
any peculiar and special predilection for art. These photos will have
opened the eye and the mind of many a sleeping one as to what can be
done by way of mechanical device to approach the direct charm of life
in nature.

The moderns have long since congratulated Alfred Stieglitz for his
originality in the special field of his own creative endeavor. It will
matter little whether the ancients do or not. His product is a fine
testimonial to his time and therefore this is his contribution to his
time. He finds himself, and perhaps to his own embarrassment even,
among the best modern artists; for Stieglitz as I understand him cares
little for anything beyond the rendering of the problem involved which
makes him of course scientific first and whatever else afterward,
which is the hope of the modern artists of all movements, regardless.
Incidentally it may be confided he is an artistic idol of the Dadaists
which is at least a happy indication of his modernism. If he were to
shift his activities to Paris, he would be taken up at once for his
actual value as modern artist expressing present day notions of actual
things. Perhaps he will not care to be called Dada, but it is
nevertheless true. He has ridden his own vivacious hobby-horse with as
much liberty, and one may even say license, as is possible for one
intelligent human being. There is no space to tell casually of his
various aspects such as champion billiard player, racehorse
enthusiast, etcetera. This information would please his dadaistic
confreres, if no one else shows signs of interest.

SOME WOMEN ARTISTS IN MODERN PAINTING

It is for the purpose of specialization that the term woman is
herewith applied to the idea of art in painting. Art is for anyone
naturally who can show degree of mastery in it. There have been a
great many women poets and musicians as well as actors, though
singularly enough the women painters of history have been few, and for
that matter in question of proportion remain so. Whatever the wish may
be in point of dismissing the idea of sex in painting, there has so
often been felt among many women en