International studio (15.1901/1902(1902))

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THE CARNEGIE ART INSTITUTE EXHIBITION AT PITTSBURG
“AN ARRANGEMENT” BY ALFRED H. MAURER

Awarded, the Gold Medal

latter is a large circular canvas, too big to escape
notice, too banal in color and feeling to win ap-
proval. Mr. Daingerfield has before now shown
some propensity for religious subjects and a skill in
introducing handsome passages of color, but neither
trait is to be detected in the present picture. In a
symbolical subject, Light on the Way, I. H. Caliga
has indulged in a most extraordinary plagiarism of
Abbott H. Thayer, extending beyond the color
scheme and general character of the composition

even to the features and expression of the young
girl and the angel who leans above her. One
wonders whether the reason be that he is an enthu-
siastic student who follows unconsciously in his
master’s footsteps, as many do in Mr. Chase’s and
others in Mr. Howard Pyle’s, or whether he is
making a bid for popularity on lines that have
proved acceptable, or, again, whether the affair
be merely a joke. In any case it is an un-
fortunate impropriety, for, while Mr. Thayer's

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