[9] A reviewer for American Art News wrote in February 1918, Adrien Karbowsky shows, at the Petit Galleries also, a series of sketches of the heads of soldiers that are without distinctive merit, being for the most part wooden and characterless.

But in the same room are 3 paintings of flowers by the same hand that are almost as wonderful, in delicacy of coloration and in truth of form, as Nature itself.

One wonders how such an artist can be drawn away, even by the stern impressions of his life as a soldier at the front, from that vocation to excellent achievement which is incontestably his.

[10] In 1923 Karbowsky was among the 27 dissenting members of the board of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts who formed a new and more eclectic Salon with the encouragement of the Minister of Fine Arts.

[1] Karbowsky contributed decorative tapestry designs for the Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins.