"Ill Advised"

Zuloaga, famed Spanish artist (TIME. Dec. 29, Feb. 2) offered, some weeks ago, the sum of $5,000 to start a memorial fund for George Bellows, famed U. S. artist, who died on Jan. 8 of acute appendicitis (TIME, Jan. 19). He suggested that the money--when other friends of Bellows, of Art, had swelled his benevolence--should be used to buy Bellows' Two Women (TIME, Jan. 12) for the Metropolitan Museum. The offer was made on the day of Bellows' death. On that day, Zuloaga and Bellows were both exhibiting in Manhattan. It is stated that 1,000 persons passed each day before the billowing, vehement, satiric canvases of Zuloaga; the sales had reached a huge sum. Fewer sales, fewer observers attended the Bellows exhibit. At the announcement of Zuloaga's gift, U. S. friends and artists talked among themselves. Zuloaga, they knew, had only twice met Bellows. Such phrases of their colloquy as "ill-advised," "condescension," "poor taste," "advertisement" were permitted, not unintentionally, to come to the ears of Zuloaga. Last week, his offer was withdrawn.

* Miss Beaux, Manhattan artist in her late fifties, is self-taught. In 1896, six of her portraits were hung together in the May Salon--a rare distinction. She has painted Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Martina Brandegee, the late President Sharpless of Haverford, all exhibited in Manhattan in 1903.