Monday, May. 19, 1924
In Detroit
The Detroit Institute of Art is holding, through May, its tenth annual exhibition of American Art. While the number of canvases is only 136, the collection is a good representation of modern painters. The name list is led by George Bellows whose Red Headed Girl, painted by Dynamic Symmetry,* is the outstanding picture of the show. Eugene Savage's Expulsion, which won a prize at the National Academy of Design Exhibit in 1923, and Robert Henri's Chow Chow (portrait of a Chinese girl) have also attracted great interest.
Gari Melchers of Detroit shows his Madonna of the Rappahanock. Other exhibitors are Gardner Symons, Wayman Adams, John S. Sargent.
* Dynamic Symmetry was discovered by the late Jay Hambridge, formerly connected with the School of the Fine Arts of Yale University. It is a mathematical process of composing a canvas or sculpture, supposedly used by the Greeks and founded in the logarithmic spiral.