DOI Heft:
No. 55 (September, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Caffin, Charles H.: The picture exhibition at the pan-american exposition, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22775#0309
American Studio Talk
Among the figure subjects in
water color may particularly
be mentioned Albert Sterner’s
Phoebe. It is the portrait of a
child, executed with affectionate
tenderness in decorative masses
of transparent color. His Por-
trait of Mrs. Albert Sterner is
equally refined in its sober har-
mony of drab, brown, and green,
ill its grace of line and sweet
tranquillity, but lacks the artless
spontaneity of the other picture.
It lacks, too, the style which the
latter has, — a result one might
ascribe to the happy union of
very serious intention with ap-
parent improvisation of method.
In the Romola, by Mrs. Sarah
C. Sears, there is the seriousness
and the method is honest and
effective, but has not the sugges-
tion of spontaneousness, and by
so much falls short of being an
entirely satisfactory example of
water color. It does not explain
and justify the use of this par-
ticular medium rather than that
of oil. To a certain extent this
seems true, also, of Louis Loeb’s
Letitia, though the sweet mys-
tery of this girl’s face is very
fascinating; and seems more
fully true in the case of Albert
Herter’s Gloria. The latter is
sumptuous in color and draw-
ing; but, although the purity of
its color may be due to the use of
water color, the fragrance of the
water color has been crushed
out of it by the evident elabora-
tion to which it has been sub-
jected. On the other hand, one
finds the true feeling present in
George H. Clements’s brilliant
Arab Wedding Procession, in Leonard Ochtman’s
very tender Early Winter in Connecticut, and in an
exceedingly clever study of Children on the Beach
by Miss Rosina Emmet Sherwood. Two others
which call for mention are Rhode Island Farm by
Sydney R. Burleigh, and The Star and the Bt-ook
by Miss Bertha D. Sanders.
EXHIBIT OF PICTURES, PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION
PORTRAIT OF MR. WALTON BY J. CARROLL BECKWITH
Turning again to the oil-paintings, one notes with
so much interest the Woman in White and Violet
by Howard Gardner Cushing. If I interpret rightly
the motive of this young Boston painter as gath-
ered from this picture and others, seen before, of
women in beautiful and sometimes rather fantastic
gowns, it is the problem of the eternal feminine that
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Among the figure subjects in
water color may particularly
be mentioned Albert Sterner’s
Phoebe. It is the portrait of a
child, executed with affectionate
tenderness in decorative masses
of transparent color. His Por-
trait of Mrs. Albert Sterner is
equally refined in its sober har-
mony of drab, brown, and green,
ill its grace of line and sweet
tranquillity, but lacks the artless
spontaneity of the other picture.
It lacks, too, the style which the
latter has, — a result one might
ascribe to the happy union of
very serious intention with ap-
parent improvisation of method.
In the Romola, by Mrs. Sarah
C. Sears, there is the seriousness
and the method is honest and
effective, but has not the sugges-
tion of spontaneousness, and by
so much falls short of being an
entirely satisfactory example of
water color. It does not explain
and justify the use of this par-
ticular medium rather than that
of oil. To a certain extent this
seems true, also, of Louis Loeb’s
Letitia, though the sweet mys-
tery of this girl’s face is very
fascinating; and seems more
fully true in the case of Albert
Herter’s Gloria. The latter is
sumptuous in color and draw-
ing; but, although the purity of
its color may be due to the use of
water color, the fragrance of the
water color has been crushed
out of it by the evident elabora-
tion to which it has been sub-
jected. On the other hand, one
finds the true feeling present in
George H. Clements’s brilliant
Arab Wedding Procession, in Leonard Ochtman’s
very tender Early Winter in Connecticut, and in an
exceedingly clever study of Children on the Beach
by Miss Rosina Emmet Sherwood. Two others
which call for mention are Rhode Island Farm by
Sydney R. Burleigh, and The Star and the Bt-ook
by Miss Bertha D. Sanders.
EXHIBIT OF PICTURES, PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION
PORTRAIT OF MR. WALTON BY J. CARROLL BECKWITH
Turning again to the oil-paintings, one notes with
so much interest the Woman in White and Violet
by Howard Gardner Cushing. If I interpret rightly
the motive of this young Boston painter as gath-
ered from this picture and others, seen before, of
women in beautiful and sometimes rather fantastic
gowns, it is the problem of the eternal feminine that
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