International studio (34.1908)

In the Galleries



Courtesy of M. Knoedler &” Company
AMONG THE LILIES
Exhibition has followed exhibition with great
regularity at the Knoedler Gallery, No. 355 Fifth
Avenue, and the native painters have predominated.
There have been many portrait shows here, good,
bad and indifferent, and there have been collec-
tions of water colors, black and whites and minia-
tures, the American Society of Miniature Painters
holding here their annual exhibition. Out of the
mass there has been much of interest and the years
see the American painters gradually assuming a
proper importance. The pictures of Douglas
Volk have attracted attention, notably a recent one,
Pond Lilies, wherein the artist has in a way broken
from earlier traditions, and painting with greater
breadth, has secured as well better color. His
figures never lack for grace and charm and this
group is admirably managed and composed in
interesting lines.
Collectors will welcome a new catalogue of etch-
ings and engravings just published by Frederick
Keppel & Co., No. 4 East Thirty-ninth Street,
with careful description of the prints, reproduced
by half tone in many cases, and the prices plainly
marked. The book may be had for ten cents and
is surely a valuable addition to the reference library,
while the pictures will serve well to bring up mem-
ories of such work as one does not possess for one
reason or another, yet to which there is occasion
now and then to refer. There is as well a small
biographical notice of each artist. There have been
several exhibitions at these galleries this winter

of the work of men
famous for their etch-
ing, engraving or mez-
zotinting, and in many
instances rare prints
have been shown, ar-
ranged in a chrono-
logical order, so that
the displays were of
the highest educational
interest and value. The
work of the early mas-
ters received consider-
able attention while, of
course, the moderns
were not neglected. It
is proposed to issue, as
a supplement to this
catalogue, what will be
called The Print Col-
lector s Bulletin, a work
that again will be of the
utmost value to the col-
lector, in which will be listed the etchings of such
masters as Bracquemond, Buhot, Haden, Jacque, La
Lanne, Legros, Meryon, Pennell, Whistler and Zorn,
with others, and there will be a record of authentic
prices, information worth preserving. A collection
of Mr. Pennell’s work is hung in these galleries, his
French cathedrals particularly attracting attention.

BY DOUGLAS VOLK

Courtesy of Frederick Keppel & Co.
WEST FRONT BY JOSEPH
ROUEN CATHEDRAL PENNELL

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