DOI issue:
Nr. 108 (February, 1906)
DOI article:Hoeber, Arthur: The exhibition of the National Academy of Design
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0492
The National Academy
PORTRAIT OP HENRY OLIVER
MRS. IT. WALKER, N. A.
ders, which he has painted in a virile way, with
directness and a literal regard for the truth of
physiognomy that may not be overlooked. Robert
Henri’s Portrait of a Young Actress is a most artistic
performance, albeit the tones, other than the face,
incline to a certain blackness, and we should pre-
sume would make the work difficult to hang in a
drawing roorn. But there is strength here, a
personal interpretation and a great freedom of
brushwork that make the canvas most distinguished.
Of a decorative nature, and with much grace, is
Robert Vonnoh’s young woman In Costume, an
agreeable colour arrangement and an entertaining
pose wherein the directness and free handling are
to be noted, and there is likewise a decorative
quality in August Franzen’s In Jasmine Land,
which is another name for a well-painted portrait
of a lady, out of doors, holding in her hand some
flowers. Orlando Rouland’s portrait of Miss Hall
represents a young woman seated in a round-backed
chair, leaning forward with her hands on her knees,
the face seen in proiile. It is honestly painted and
possesses much character, the work having a con-
vincing sincerity. Kenyon Cox renders his brother
artist, Maxfield Parrish, in a scholarly manner,
somewhat hard as to technique, though this is
characteristic of Mr. Cox’s work as a rule, but the
likeness is excellent and the pose characteristic.
The decorative and pictorial quality of the portrait
of Mrs. H, by Henry Oliver Walker, is marked
and the sobriety of tones is agreeable, the pose being
easy and natural. Mr. Walker’s recent work has
been so entirely in the line of decoration that this
portrait shows his predilection for this in every
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PORTRAIT OP HENRY OLIVER
MRS. IT. WALKER, N. A.
ders, which he has painted in a virile way, with
directness and a literal regard for the truth of
physiognomy that may not be overlooked. Robert
Henri’s Portrait of a Young Actress is a most artistic
performance, albeit the tones, other than the face,
incline to a certain blackness, and we should pre-
sume would make the work difficult to hang in a
drawing roorn. But there is strength here, a
personal interpretation and a great freedom of
brushwork that make the canvas most distinguished.
Of a decorative nature, and with much grace, is
Robert Vonnoh’s young woman In Costume, an
agreeable colour arrangement and an entertaining
pose wherein the directness and free handling are
to be noted, and there is likewise a decorative
quality in August Franzen’s In Jasmine Land,
which is another name for a well-painted portrait
of a lady, out of doors, holding in her hand some
flowers. Orlando Rouland’s portrait of Miss Hall
represents a young woman seated in a round-backed
chair, leaning forward with her hands on her knees,
the face seen in proiile. It is honestly painted and
possesses much character, the work having a con-
vincing sincerity. Kenyon Cox renders his brother
artist, Maxfield Parrish, in a scholarly manner,
somewhat hard as to technique, though this is
characteristic of Mr. Cox’s work as a rule, but the
likeness is excellent and the pose characteristic.
The decorative and pictorial quality of the portrait
of Mrs. H, by Henry Oliver Walker, is marked
and the sobriety of tones is agreeable, the pose being
easy and natural. Mr. Walker’s recent work has
been so entirely in the line of decoration that this
portrait shows his predilection for this in every
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