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DOI Artikel:Hoeber, Arthur: The winter exhibition of the National Academy of Design
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National Academy of Design
Copyright, lqob, by William Schaus
THE LAND OF THE HOPI BY ALBERT L. GROLL
subject is an incident that happened last summer
when the balloonist, Dr. Thomas, passed in his
air-ship near a yacht on which Mr. Reuterdahl was
cruising and hailed the boat, asking to be “ spoken.’’
This unusual happening the artist depicts with con-
siderable force and in a pictorial manner, making
an entertaining composition. There is an animal
picture of some oxen, by Matilda Browne, most
creditable in every way, with a cow and calf by
DeWitt M. Lockman, the last a large canvas of
serious import. Emil Carlsen sends one of his
large still-life canvases, in which direction he is mere
able than entertaining.
A large landscape by Edward Redfield, Low-
lands of the Delaware, shows a stretch of country
lightly clad with snow, and it is painted, as is all that
Mr. Redfield does, with engaging enthusiasm, ap-
parently direct, with no after treatment. The spec-
tator partakes of the artist’s delight and enters
into the spirit of the scene. There is no mistaking
the truth of nature apparent here, and the painter
has given alluring, simple lines of composition that
make the work one of the best in the display. A
fine sky characterises Albert Groll’s Land of the
ILopi Indian, the delicacy of the blues and the
fleecy white clouds being admirably caught, and
there are great refinement, serious drawing and
construction in a landscape way to Edward Post-
hast’s Summit of the Alps, a most difficult proposi-
tion, by the way, which he has worked out with
much skill. Guy C. Wiggins has caught the senti-
ment of the scene in his Clouds and Uplands, brush-
ing in his canvas with much virtuosity and with
a certainty of touch full of promise, while
Everett L. Warner, in his Old Houses of Montreuil-
sur-Mer, shows he is no less artistic in the medium
of oils than he is in water colour. The older men,
Arthur Parton, H. B. Snell, Birge Harrison, Charles
Warren Eaton and George H. Bogert, are adequate-
ly represented.
It is some time since a winter exhibition has been
tried before in New York and this is far and away
the best the Academy has yet organised. There is
no reason why such a display should not be a suc-
cess, for it offers the men an opportunity to show
work fresh from their summer’s outing and, in a
way, brings the painters together. With the demise
of the Society of American Artists, such a show
would, in a measure, take the place of those of that
organisation, and it would not be unreasonable to
expect a fair measure of public support. At any
rate, the trial has been made auspiciously enough
to meet the approval of the most exacting, and the
results are waited for with much anticipation.
Copyright, iqob, by Louis Loeb
miranda” ■ by louis loeb
civ
Copyright, lqob, by William Schaus
THE LAND OF THE HOPI BY ALBERT L. GROLL
subject is an incident that happened last summer
when the balloonist, Dr. Thomas, passed in his
air-ship near a yacht on which Mr. Reuterdahl was
cruising and hailed the boat, asking to be “ spoken.’’
This unusual happening the artist depicts with con-
siderable force and in a pictorial manner, making
an entertaining composition. There is an animal
picture of some oxen, by Matilda Browne, most
creditable in every way, with a cow and calf by
DeWitt M. Lockman, the last a large canvas of
serious import. Emil Carlsen sends one of his
large still-life canvases, in which direction he is mere
able than entertaining.
A large landscape by Edward Redfield, Low-
lands of the Delaware, shows a stretch of country
lightly clad with snow, and it is painted, as is all that
Mr. Redfield does, with engaging enthusiasm, ap-
parently direct, with no after treatment. The spec-
tator partakes of the artist’s delight and enters
into the spirit of the scene. There is no mistaking
the truth of nature apparent here, and the painter
has given alluring, simple lines of composition that
make the work one of the best in the display. A
fine sky characterises Albert Groll’s Land of the
ILopi Indian, the delicacy of the blues and the
fleecy white clouds being admirably caught, and
there are great refinement, serious drawing and
construction in a landscape way to Edward Post-
hast’s Summit of the Alps, a most difficult proposi-
tion, by the way, which he has worked out with
much skill. Guy C. Wiggins has caught the senti-
ment of the scene in his Clouds and Uplands, brush-
ing in his canvas with much virtuosity and with
a certainty of touch full of promise, while
Everett L. Warner, in his Old Houses of Montreuil-
sur-Mer, shows he is no less artistic in the medium
of oils than he is in water colour. The older men,
Arthur Parton, H. B. Snell, Birge Harrison, Charles
Warren Eaton and George H. Bogert, are adequate-
ly represented.
It is some time since a winter exhibition has been
tried before in New York and this is far and away
the best the Academy has yet organised. There is
no reason why such a display should not be a suc-
cess, for it offers the men an opportunity to show
work fresh from their summer’s outing and, in a
way, brings the painters together. With the demise
of the Society of American Artists, such a show
would, in a measure, take the place of those of that
organisation, and it would not be unreasonable to
expect a fair measure of public support. At any
rate, the trial has been made auspiciously enough
to meet the approval of the most exacting, and the
results are waited for with much anticipation.
Copyright, iqob, by Louis Loeb
miranda” ■ by louis loeb
civ