DOI issue:
Nr. 106 (December, 1905)
DOI article:Hoeber, Arthur: The international exhibition at Pittsburgh
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0254
The International Exhibition at Pittsburgh
broadly indicated and full of c.harm. Moffit P.
Lindner, in The Flowing Tide, recalls Alexander
Harrison at his best, which Mr. Harrison is not this
year, and Julius Olsson has a strong Mponrise and
A fterglow, showing consummate knowledge of wave
movement.
A Frenchman, Charles Hoffbauer, of Paris, is
represented with a night scene on a roof restaurant,
which he calls The Intense Life, wherein some
fashionable men and women lounge at table after a
supper. All about may be seen tall buildings, a
light here and there, and the whole scheme of the
painting is in a low key, wherein the values are well
preserved and the glow of the electric lamps gain
a remarkable brilliancy. Astonishingty well drawn
and interesting in composition, the work comes
near having the look of
an unusually hne illustra-
tion, being saved only by
the brilliancy of the tech-
nique and the dexterous
manipulation of the pig-
ment. L. R. Garrido
sends from Paris a sort
of glorified J. G. Brown,
in the shape of many
peasants Standing look-
ing at something passing
—perhaps a circus—the
title being A Humorous
Incident, wherein much
excellent work is wasted
overa banal theme.
Henry O. Tann er is clis-
appointing in his Judas
C ovenanting with the
High Triests, and, in-
deed, for some time he
has fallen short of the
interest earlier work in-
spired. Both on account
of the artistic quality of
certain pictures he sent
back from abroad years
ago, and from the fact
that he was the first of
his race—for Mr. Tan-
ner is a negro—to achieve
artistic distinction, he was
an entertaining personal -
ity in his profession and,
confining him seif alm ost
entirelytoBiblicalthemes,
treated in a modern artis- portrait
tic manner, he attracted much attention. The
virility of earlier performances, the personal
note and the enthusiastic treatment of his can-
vases are quite gone, a certain indecision re-
sulting instead, with indefinite colour and a way
of handling his pigment that is far from
agreeable. The intellectual quality of the com-
position once so marked is nil to-day and there is
little health in the work. Obviously Robert Reid
has been occupied with recent decorations and
schemes for stained glass, since his one envoi is a
remembered study of a girl, Fleur de Lys, a sym-
phony in violet, the young woman being seated in
the corner of a garden among some flowers.. It
is distinguished and of decorative quality, but it
has done yeoman Service at exhibitions, though it
BY CECILIA BEAUX
XL
broadly indicated and full of c.harm. Moffit P.
Lindner, in The Flowing Tide, recalls Alexander
Harrison at his best, which Mr. Harrison is not this
year, and Julius Olsson has a strong Mponrise and
A fterglow, showing consummate knowledge of wave
movement.
A Frenchman, Charles Hoffbauer, of Paris, is
represented with a night scene on a roof restaurant,
which he calls The Intense Life, wherein some
fashionable men and women lounge at table after a
supper. All about may be seen tall buildings, a
light here and there, and the whole scheme of the
painting is in a low key, wherein the values are well
preserved and the glow of the electric lamps gain
a remarkable brilliancy. Astonishingty well drawn
and interesting in composition, the work comes
near having the look of
an unusually hne illustra-
tion, being saved only by
the brilliancy of the tech-
nique and the dexterous
manipulation of the pig-
ment. L. R. Garrido
sends from Paris a sort
of glorified J. G. Brown,
in the shape of many
peasants Standing look-
ing at something passing
—perhaps a circus—the
title being A Humorous
Incident, wherein much
excellent work is wasted
overa banal theme.
Henry O. Tann er is clis-
appointing in his Judas
C ovenanting with the
High Triests, and, in-
deed, for some time he
has fallen short of the
interest earlier work in-
spired. Both on account
of the artistic quality of
certain pictures he sent
back from abroad years
ago, and from the fact
that he was the first of
his race—for Mr. Tan-
ner is a negro—to achieve
artistic distinction, he was
an entertaining personal -
ity in his profession and,
confining him seif alm ost
entirelytoBiblicalthemes,
treated in a modern artis- portrait
tic manner, he attracted much attention. The
virility of earlier performances, the personal
note and the enthusiastic treatment of his can-
vases are quite gone, a certain indecision re-
sulting instead, with indefinite colour and a way
of handling his pigment that is far from
agreeable. The intellectual quality of the com-
position once so marked is nil to-day and there is
little health in the work. Obviously Robert Reid
has been occupied with recent decorations and
schemes for stained glass, since his one envoi is a
remembered study of a girl, Fleur de Lys, a sym-
phony in violet, the young woman being seated in
the corner of a garden among some flowers.. It
is distinguished and of decorative quality, but it
has done yeoman Service at exhibitions, though it
BY CECILIA BEAUX
XL