DOI Heft:
Nr. 108 (February, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Hoeber, Arthur: The exhibition of the National Academy of Design
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0494
The National Academy
that more interest-
ing. In figure work,
the show is mod-
estly entertaining
only, not too much
thought having been
expended in that
direction. H. M.
Walcott still sug-
gests the Illustra-
tion in his Her
Busy Day, wherein
a little girl is play-
in g with a cat. He
is very clever, draws
adequately and
composes well, but
the theme is scarce-
ly worth the trouble
and is more fitting
for a calendar or a
child’s magazine
than a serious subject for a painting composi-
tion in an annual exhibition. Edward A. Bell has
missed it this year in his Music, which falls below
IN COSTUME BY ROBERT VONNOH
BY CARLTON F. CHAPMAN
the charm and daintiness of previous efforts. Jean
McLane, in A Spot of Sunlight, is exceedingly
clever and interesting, securing a difficult arrange-
ment of light and shade, and if J. R. Ivoopman in
his Street Scene gets some notes that are too black,
there is nevertheless excellent painting with a pic-
torial arrangement to the snow and carts crowding
the thoroughfare.
There are no special departures in a figure way,
nothing of an experimental nature, though here and
there one is impressed by the earnestness of the
men, as for example, in DeWitt M. Lockman’s
Partiality, wherein he has taken a simple theme
of two white horses and a stableman and with these
evolved an entertaining composition in the play of
lights on the animals which are admirably drawn
and modelled, though the figure of man is less satis-
factorily rendered. It seemsthat thiswork wasorig-
inally given the hrst Hallgarten prize which was
subsequently refused by the artist on his discover-
ing that strictly according to the terms of the
award he was ineligible for it, though he had
begun his work before the age limit had expired,
when he had completed the canvas he was past
thirty-hve. Louis Akin has painted some Zuni
Indians coming down a native Street, making a
characteristic subject of historical value, and by
Paul King there is a group of fishermen Hauling
in the Anchor Line, wherein we have much move-
ment and a realism that are convincing. Elliott
Daingerfield has fallen short this year in his Garden
of Dreams, an attempt at an ideal composition that
THE ARGUS AND THE PELICAN
LXXXVIII
that more interest-
ing. In figure work,
the show is mod-
estly entertaining
only, not too much
thought having been
expended in that
direction. H. M.
Walcott still sug-
gests the Illustra-
tion in his Her
Busy Day, wherein
a little girl is play-
in g with a cat. He
is very clever, draws
adequately and
composes well, but
the theme is scarce-
ly worth the trouble
and is more fitting
for a calendar or a
child’s magazine
than a serious subject for a painting composi-
tion in an annual exhibition. Edward A. Bell has
missed it this year in his Music, which falls below
IN COSTUME BY ROBERT VONNOH
BY CARLTON F. CHAPMAN
the charm and daintiness of previous efforts. Jean
McLane, in A Spot of Sunlight, is exceedingly
clever and interesting, securing a difficult arrange-
ment of light and shade, and if J. R. Ivoopman in
his Street Scene gets some notes that are too black,
there is nevertheless excellent painting with a pic-
torial arrangement to the snow and carts crowding
the thoroughfare.
There are no special departures in a figure way,
nothing of an experimental nature, though here and
there one is impressed by the earnestness of the
men, as for example, in DeWitt M. Lockman’s
Partiality, wherein he has taken a simple theme
of two white horses and a stableman and with these
evolved an entertaining composition in the play of
lights on the animals which are admirably drawn
and modelled, though the figure of man is less satis-
factorily rendered. It seemsthat thiswork wasorig-
inally given the hrst Hallgarten prize which was
subsequently refused by the artist on his discover-
ing that strictly according to the terms of the
award he was ineligible for it, though he had
begun his work before the age limit had expired,
when he had completed the canvas he was past
thirty-hve. Louis Akin has painted some Zuni
Indians coming down a native Street, making a
characteristic subject of historical value, and by
Paul King there is a group of fishermen Hauling
in the Anchor Line, wherein we have much move-
ment and a realism that are convincing. Elliott
Daingerfield has fallen short this year in his Garden
of Dreams, an attempt at an ideal composition that
THE ARGUS AND THE PELICAN
LXXXVIII