Studio: international art (71.1917)

The Pennsylvania Academy

portrait of his mother was evidently true to life. Blumenschein's canvas The Chief Speaks. A
The same could be said of Mr. Albert Rosen- long procession of " Sceurs de Charite" " in Mr.
thal's Dr. Chester Morris, Mr. Lazar Raditz's P. Schmauss's Easter gave a touch of sentiment
Dr. John S. Wentz, and Miss Gertrude Fiske's able only too rare in these times,
portrait of the marine painter Charles H. Wood- While there was no lack of portrait and
bury. Mr. William T. Smedley sent a capital figure paintings, the really important land-
Portrait of a Man and Mr. Ercole Cartotto a scapes were fewer than one would have expected
beautifully finished work in Marion. in a show of American art. Mention, however,
Among the most carefully painted figure- should be made of Mr. Ernest Lawson's Early
subjects were Mr. William W. Churchill's The Spring, Mr.Charles Rosen's Windy Day, Mr. Jonas
Model, Mr. Carl Nordell's The Morning Lesson, Lie's Winter Morning, Mr. Kroll's Building New
and Mr. Wm. M. Paxton's Girl with a Hand York, and Mr. A. M. Sparks's Steel Mill, Pitts-
Mirror. Notable grouping of figures was seen burgh—all works of thoroughly good facture and
in Mr. Daniel Garber's The Boys and Mr. Luis inspired by the painters' environment. A very
Mora's Out-of-Town Trolley. Fine paintings of fine marine was by Mr. Charles H. Woodbury
the nude were seen in Mr. Charles W. Haw- entitled Z?am6ow, vibrating with prismatic colour,
thorne's canvas and Mr. Childe Hassam's Admirable in chromatic quality and brushwork
Against the Light. Mr. Douglas Volk was very was Mr. Henry R. Rittenberg's Still Life.
adequately represented in his figure of The Of the two hundred and five pieces of sculp-
Litile Canadian. A fine specimen of the North ture exhibited a considerable proportion con-
American Indian was portrayed in Mr. Ernest sisted, as usual, of portraits, but there was also

"WINTER MORNING'

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BY JONAS LIE