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DOI article:Current art events
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Current Art Events
‘knight ERRANT” BY LEE WOODWARD ZIEGLER
Louise L. Heustis. The exhibition, as a whole,
betrayed a lack of sound, vigourous material avail-
able for hanging, emphasised by the negligible bits
of still life and commonplace flower studies and the
dependence on illustrations. This is a condition
which gives no immediate promise of remedy. It
makes all the more welcome the persistence of
significant work. The gen-
eral level, however, was
not assertive enough to
lay the impression on
viewing the galleries that
the tradition of an invari-
able gold frame for water
colours is a hale and hearty
delusion. All the insistence
of a pleasure-dome in
Xanadu spread on the
walls did not outdo for
freshness and clarity the
effect of the dull frames
in neutral tones and even
sharp black.
At the exhibition of
water colours by the mem-
bers of the Salmagundi
Club, New York, the Alex-
ander C. Morgan prize was awarded to Arthur
Schneider for his pa-inting The Henna Market.
The club has abandoned its former plan of award-
ing prizes by vote of the artists and lay members,
and has fallen into line with a jury. Not a few of
the exhibits here had been seen just previously at
the New York Water Colour Club. Mr. Petersen
had worked here with a feeling for atmosphere in
his Along the Canal. Embers by Charles Austin
Needham, a landscape of what might almost be
called an obscurantist sort, was full of vigour in the
dark swoop of the brush. We reproduce an at-
tractive study of autumn landscape by W. Merritt
Post and a notable outdoor rendering by G'. Glenn
Newell of the light effects of the early hours of
day, which recalls his painting of a similar subject
last season.
The National Society of the Fine Arts,
which was organised in Washington, D. C., in
March, 1905, proposes to hold a national conven-
tion, the general purposes of which may be inferred
from those of the society. To this end the society is
endeavouring to extend its membership and scope
of work and to make it national in character as
well as in name. Art organisations and institutions
throughout the country are invited to become mem-
bers in the following manner. The annual dues of
individual members are five dollars, and each
organisation or institution, of which from five to
ten members are willing to join, will be entitled to
send one delegate to the convention in Washington.
For each additional ten members one more delegate
‘WATCHING FOR THE boats” BY MELBOURNE H. HARDWICK
LXXXIII
‘knight ERRANT” BY LEE WOODWARD ZIEGLER
Louise L. Heustis. The exhibition, as a whole,
betrayed a lack of sound, vigourous material avail-
able for hanging, emphasised by the negligible bits
of still life and commonplace flower studies and the
dependence on illustrations. This is a condition
which gives no immediate promise of remedy. It
makes all the more welcome the persistence of
significant work. The gen-
eral level, however, was
not assertive enough to
lay the impression on
viewing the galleries that
the tradition of an invari-
able gold frame for water
colours is a hale and hearty
delusion. All the insistence
of a pleasure-dome in
Xanadu spread on the
walls did not outdo for
freshness and clarity the
effect of the dull frames
in neutral tones and even
sharp black.
At the exhibition of
water colours by the mem-
bers of the Salmagundi
Club, New York, the Alex-
ander C. Morgan prize was awarded to Arthur
Schneider for his pa-inting The Henna Market.
The club has abandoned its former plan of award-
ing prizes by vote of the artists and lay members,
and has fallen into line with a jury. Not a few of
the exhibits here had been seen just previously at
the New York Water Colour Club. Mr. Petersen
had worked here with a feeling for atmosphere in
his Along the Canal. Embers by Charles Austin
Needham, a landscape of what might almost be
called an obscurantist sort, was full of vigour in the
dark swoop of the brush. We reproduce an at-
tractive study of autumn landscape by W. Merritt
Post and a notable outdoor rendering by G'. Glenn
Newell of the light effects of the early hours of
day, which recalls his painting of a similar subject
last season.
The National Society of the Fine Arts,
which was organised in Washington, D. C., in
March, 1905, proposes to hold a national conven-
tion, the general purposes of which may be inferred
from those of the society. To this end the society is
endeavouring to extend its membership and scope
of work and to make it national in character as
well as in name. Art organisations and institutions
throughout the country are invited to become mem-
bers in the following manner. The annual dues of
individual members are five dollars, and each
organisation or institution, of which from five to
ten members are willing to join, will be entitled to
send one delegate to the convention in Washington.
For each additional ten members one more delegate
‘WATCHING FOR THE boats” BY MELBOURNE H. HARDWICK
LXXXIII