International studio (21.1903/1904(1904))

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AFTERNOON TEA

BY CORWIN KNAPP LINSON

in the objects represented, and finally the freshness
and gladsomeness that the whoie scene exhaies. It
is eminently a painter's vision, rendered with a
breadth and directness that make it most interesting.
ZzrtwzZ, by Wm. M. Paxton,
is aiso a study of out-of-door iight, but scarceiy so
convincing. Possibly, however, it is the fact of its
being hung above Linson's that interferes with a
proper appreciation of its effect, for, by contrast
with the other's freshness and clarity of coior, its
iighting seems artificial.
The nude, by John H. Fry, has rnuch to
reconnnend it, especiaiiy in the painting of the ftesh
and the general tonality of the coior; but the right
arm seems unduly aggressive, which is due, if I mis-
take not, to its appearing against the distant trees;
for these are false in value, so that they look like
pigrny growths, and the arm by comparison with
them seems larger than it really is. One of the
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most charming figure pictures in the whoie exhibition
appears to me to be the little canvas by Frederick
Ballard Williams, as impressive in the
realized dignity of form as in the emotional sumptu-
ousness of its coior.
The same artist is also represented by two water-
pieces : dW AjMzZ Wz'zw, and
ZhZ&, ZV! y. Both are very fine in quality,
the latter being conspicuously successful in its ren-
dering of the condicting currents of the water.
Either of them might well have caused some di-
vision in the voting for the Inness Gold Medal,
awarded by the Jury to Charles Warren Eaton's ZWw
which, however, very well exhibits
the scope of his feeling and expression. Other in-
teresting landscapes are : yizzzF by Lock-
wood de Forest; ZVi^z/irZZ, by William A. Coffin;
vlAzz-jZ^' and Zz-azzzv, by Georgia
Timken Fry; Gzzzzzz<?zz ZfzVZr, ^zzz'zzzzzzz, by Carleton