International studio (15.1901/1902(1902))

American Studio Talk

THE CARNEGIE ART INSTITUTE EXHIBITION AT PITTSBURG
“PROFILE” by FRANK W. BENSON

with many different phases of nature, a penetrating
vision and virile skill in drawing, and neither hunts
for poetic sentiment nor carries it with him to at-
tach to the scene he studies, but fully absorbs its
character and spirit, and by a faithful rendering of
these succeeds in expressing the inherent poetry.
So there is a smack to his work which many of the
professedly poetic landscapes are without. Charles
M. Young sends three Winter subjects of canal and
cottages, one of which has been seen before, while
the others seem familiar, for each repeats, with slight
variations in the forms, a single way of seeing the
subject and of handling it. It is an effective one,
which it is to be hoped, however, may not be al-
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lowed to stiffen into a mannerism. A Midwinter
Evening by W. Elmer Schofield, a very dark canvas,
I could not properly see owing to the poorness of
the light: a circumstance I regret, for this young
painter’s work is full of interest, quite individual
and forceful. The marine Winter does not come
up to the best that Charles H. Woodbury has done.
It shows a low strip of snow-covered coast with an
edging of orange-brown foliage : inshore a wave is
recoiling in a wall of white and sulphur colored
foam, while in front slides up a big green roller.
There is not quite so much suggestion as usual of
wetness and movement in the water and the sulphur
streak is not convincing. It is too obviously pig-