International studio (21.1903/1904(1904))

I.ANDSCAt'E BY FRAXCIS McCOMAS

H ^ HILADELPHIA. — The Seventy-second
[ Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, an institution
* whose shows are always worthy of careful
cons'deration, was especialiy remarkable for the
number and excellence of the works in portraiture
shown on the wails of the galleries. The names of
most of the best-known American painters in that
branch of Art were to be found in the catalogue.
Very interesting also was the display of sculpture
arranged attractively on pedestals and screens about
the central corridors of the galleries. The exhibit
of the American Society of Miniature Painters,
grouped with the work of many others not con-
nected with it, formed an agreeable contrast with
the life-size, boldly-handled portraits in the adjoin-
ing galleries. Good taste, combined with a broad
view of what constitutes artistic results, charac-
terised, for the most part, the work of the jury. At
the same time it must be admitted that this was
neutralised in a measure by injudicious hanging
of the works passed as eligible, giving a spotty
appearance to the in many places, and
certainly net adding to the attractiveness of the
general view, or to the proper exposition of some

of the painters' work. There were 1128 members
in the catalogue, making one of the largest and
most comprthensive exhibitions that has ever
taken place at the Academy. Some work was
seen that evidently had been accepted for purely
personal reasons, but the general Standard was
quite up to the previous exhibitions.

Mr. John Singer Sargent led the list of dis-
tinguished exhibitors with the Gold Medal of
Honour of the Academy. The Walter Lippincott
Prize was awarded to the picture by Mr. Frank
W. Benson, entitled (see p. 82). The
Temple Gold Medal was awarded to Mr. Edward
W. Redheld for his picture entitled
The Jennie Gesnan Gold Medal
went to Mr. W. Eimer Schoheld for the best
landscape in the exhibition, entitled -Day,
The Mary Smith Prize was
awarded to Miss Jessie Wilcox Smith for a series
of pictures of child life, entitled ^4

Among the many good portraits on the walls
of the principal gallery, the ones which imme-
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