International studio (31.1907)

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh


PORTRAIT OF MY CHILDREN BY PAUL ALBERT BESNARD

all painted with simplicity and directness. Some
few of the Impressionists are represented, with can-
vases familiar to New Yorkers, among them being
Renoir, Monet and Boudin, and there is Joseph
Bail, with an enormous Bakery at Pontivy, Brittany,
that is monstrously clever, but seems an echo of the
dealer’s gallery, a direct appeal to the new collector,
who is liable to be carried away by dexterity and
tricks of painting, and among these better efforts
this work is by no means impressive. A name new
to us is Jean Adolphe Chudant, who has two origi-
nal landscapes, moonlight effects, decorative and
pleasing, and Andre Dauchez is forceful with a
realistic The Highroad, brutal in colour, perhaps,
and not overtrue in values, but effective just the
same.
There are interesting contributions from Ger-
many, notably by Arthur Kampf, of Berlin, whose
violinist at Rest is most entertaining. Here a man

is seated in a room,
his instrument
under his arm, his
hands clasped be-
tween his legs and
his head turned to
the right with a
quizzical expres-
sion. It is all
brushed in with
consummate
knowledge, the
colour, while some-
what dark, being
amusing and the
arrangement of
light and shade
well managed.
Surely this work
merited serious
consideration for
one of the prizes.
A Franz von Stuck,
Saharet, is com-
monplace, but
Stuck is proverbi-
ally an uneven
painter, Heinrich
Ziigel is more en-
tertaining with his
Heath at Luene-
burg, wherein he
has diffused his
light in a remark-
able manner, fairly
bathed his landscape with it, and all is rendered
in his usual broad way. A powerful work is by
Adolf Fischer-Gurig, whose View of Town Hall in
Emdem is an effective bit of work which merits seri-
ous consideration for its fine architectural rendering
and its general effect, and another excellent canvas
is by August Fink, again an architectural effort,
Evening at Gruensee, Bavaria. Max Clarenbach
has a large canvas with a church and snow, one of
the noteworthy contributions to the show.
The Englishmen have contributed freely and
make a brave showing, the Scotch and Irish being
strongly in evidence. Here is John Lavery, an-
other prize winner in previous years, with a fine pair
of portraits, one of a lady on horseback; Stanhope
Forbes, a Royal Academician enjoying popularity
at home, whose work, however, is largely of the
illustrative sort; Henry Tuke, Frank Brangwyn
and Frank Bramley, all well represented, while

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