Anybody with $5 and a picture by himself can get it hung in the Society of Independent Artists' annual exhibition. Last week the Independents' 20th show produced an impressive display of bad art, a few first-class pictures by successful Society old-timers and a few faintly promising works by unknowns. Notable was the scarcity of abstracts and revolutionary posters. On the principles laid down by the Society's vice president Abraham Walkowitz last week that "Every artist who hangs a picture here hangs only his conscience." the 20th show offered plenty of conscience hung, drawn...
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