Mr. Shinn is, indeed, extraordinarily adroit. But between the personality that it is to be inferred he is endeavoring to express and the sympathetic but unprejudiced eye there stand the brilliant figures of Degas and Forain. It is not that Mr. Shinn has borrowed their motives. Theatrical scenes, ballet girls, have been painted by unnumbered artists. It is that what these Frenchmen mean as regards style keeps getting into the foreground of the young American’s work, only there it wears the air of a mannerism, of a derivative thing. It is impossible to consider the situation without regret. A man of such ability ought surely to be doing fresher and finer things