International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

The National Academy

PARTIALITY

BY DEWITT M. LOCKMAN


ends by being spotty and fails to convey the poetry
intended, and the colour is not satisfactory, either.
An ambitious effort is by David Ericson, called
The Nativity, the old theme receiving, however,
nothing new in the Interpretation, being worked
out along conventional lines and not over-impres-
sive at that, yet showing no little academic ability.
There is an Indian picture by E. Irving Couse
that is entertaining, and Frank Day has an interior
with mother and child that is well painted, while
good character and cleverness in the rendering are
evident in the Pere Mark, by Fred Sutton.

It is perhaps in landscape that the native puts
his best foot forward, and one may find several
Capital compositions here, one of the notable can-
vases being by George Eimer Browne, called The
White Clond, showing a simple Stretch of landscape
with a man and cart. This is treated with unusual
simplicity and the result is most effective, for the
artist has personal colour, an individual rnanner
of seeing nature, and secures in the end strength
and beauty. W. L. Lathrop is another who obtains.
with much simplicity of technique excellent results,
as may be seen in two envois, and Walter Nettleton,

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