aphic artist is concerned with "_pictorial_" ideas. These are
necessarily limited; they must be ideas possible of expression by light
and shade, by line, by form, by color. The artist's vision includes his
point of view. He receives an impression and simultaneously determines
how he will express it. He has, as it were, analyzed his subject and
decided at once on the form of its presentation--in the clay, on the
canvas, in the drawing or photograph.

Given the most favorable mechanical contrivances which science places
today at the disposal of the painter or photographer, the latter may
proceed in his work under the same maxims, the same theories, that guide
the painter. His design may be as interesting, his key as aptly chosen,
his black and white (values) as colorful, his composition in the space as
distinguished.

If over and above his technical skill the photographer starts with a
"vital idea," he may like the painter convey with his photograph "_the
moving thrill_" which is the final test of any work of art.

Then perchance, working patiently along the lines here barely indicated,
the artist may one day unconsciously achieve that coveted note of true
originality which marks a forward step to be hailed and recorded in the
great tradition.

Albert Sterner

THE YEAR'S PROGRESS

_By _HENRY HOYT MOORE

We cannot claim for our art any outstanding phenomenon like the interest
in the radio that has swept the country this year, or any remarkable
development in the science of photography like the invention a few years
ago of the Lumiere plate. The day may come when our exhibitions will show
masses of color on their walls which will make the water-colorists and the
miniaturists green with envy, but that day is not yet. And I for one
would be sorry to see it come. There is to me a charm about good monotone
photography that is all its own and that puts it on a plane with etching,
engraving, lithography, and other monotone processes. Of course some
artists, strictly so called, object to regarding photography as anything
but a mechanical process, but the number of those who would make art a
close corporation is happily diminishing.

In fact, the recognition that photography is receiving from accredited
representatives of the fine arts makes its position no longer a doubtful
one. Any of the arts may be used for commercial purposes, but that fact