International studio (34.1908)

Architectural League


MAIN WAITING ROOM KENNETH M. MURCHISON
HOBOKEN TERMINAL, D., L. AND W. R. R. ARCHITECT, NEW YORK

spective of a double house near Tuckahoe, N.
both of which were interesting architecturally as
well. There were several beautiful drawings in flat
washes and pencil by Mr. Frederic B. Warren, a
newcomer into the Long-Guerin school of archi-
tectural drawing.
Mr. Taber Sears sent only one study for stained
glass, The Miracle at Bethesda. Mr William Wil-
lett showed his drawings for some of the Pitts-
burg Calvary Church windows, chief among which
was a marvelous drawing in color of the chancel
window. From the D’Ascenzo Studios, in Phila-
delphia, came a number of sketches for stained
glass, among which the' most interesting was the
Prophets.
Sculpture in the exhibition made itself felt more
through quality than quantity. Mr. Chester Beach
had an attractive drinking fountain; Mr. Karl
Bitter showed only a photograph of his noble pedi-
ment for George B. Post & Sons’ Cleveland
Trust Company Building; Mr. French was repre-
sented by two of his groups for the new Federal
Building at Cleveland—Jurisprudence and Com-
merce—and Mr. Charles Keck had, among other
studies, an impressive Mohammedanism.
The painters were well represented in quantity
and quality as well. Mr. Blashfield’s studies in
charcoal and chalk for the decoration of the College

of the City of New York gave promise of a wonder-
fully dignified and impressive scheme for Mr. Post’s
buildings. Miss Clara M. Burd’s mural decoration
for a church, The Angel at the Gate of Eden; Miss
Ellen MaCauley’s two panels, Dawn and Twilight;
Mr. Fred Dana Marsh’s Excavators; Mr. F. Luis
Mora’s Isle of Plenty; Mr. Francis Newton’s Rattle
Watch of New Amsterdam, a large mural painting
for the new police headquarters; Mr. Eduard J.
Steichen’s mural decoration for a country house
over-mantel, and Mr. W. B. Van Ingen’s decora-
tion for the United States Court-House and Post-
Office at Indianapolis were perhaps the most
interesting painting exhibits to the layman.
Then there were various other works of especial
interest—Mrs. Charlotte Harding Brown’s “ Punch
and Judy” nursery decorations, Mrs. H. Butter-
worth’s carved oak panel for a chimney decoration, a
lot of clever work on leather, Mr. Russell Hewlett’s
curious painted cypress over-mantel and walnut
panel of a Madonna, and some fascinating tile
work from the Gruebys after paintings by Charles
S. Voorhees. H. Id. S.
Under the auspices of the Art Committee of
the Public Education Association of Newr York,
a meeting was held on March io in the interest
of the decoration of schools and schoolrooms.

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