International studio (35.1908)

The Ten Americans

the open and the lively color scheme contributing to
make a most agreeable result. And Mr. Benson
knows well his metier, painting with certainty and
capacity, securing his results with a freedom of
touch, a healthiness of method that cannot be
over-commended. Still another portrait of a young
girl, Eleanor, was no less attractive, and he had as
well an interior of a girl reading before a fireplace,
which he called A Rainy Day, while there was seen
again his Girl with Veil—many were the women
with veils in this exhibition—which was a highly
serious performance. William M. Chase had sev-
eraljrontributions, but they were all eclipsed by his

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PREPARING FOR THE MATINEE

remarkable still life, of some fish, and no one quite
reaches Mr. Chase’s excellence in the portrayal of
such themes.
Thomas W. Dewing is surely a wizard with his
medium. We seem to recall having said this be-
fore, but it is so applicable now, and for that mat-
ter, always. How he accomplishes his results is
quite beyond the ken of the observer. Robert
Reid, fresh from a summer out of doors, has chosen
to devote his time to the portrayal of a lovely model,
whom he has represented, now in a boat, again
before the door o£ some arbored dwelling, or wan-
dering through woodland in fashionable attire;
but always with
feminine charm,
always beauty and
grace, and with
this, delicate, dec-
orative color.
It remains onlv
to speak of Ed-
mund C. Tarbell,
not the least en-
dowed of this gift-
ed group, a man
who never puts his
brush to a canvas
without saying
some worth the
while. Only two
efforts this time
were to be seen,
Girl Cutting Pat-
terns and Prepar-
ing for the Mati-
nee, which last was
loaned by the
Saint Louis Mu-
seum of Fine Arts.
The simplicity of
this was notable,
for it represented
only a girl before
a mirror arrang-
ing her hat. It
was however, an
object lesson for
the student in the
way of placing
pigment on the
canvas, in the way
of drawing and
the disposition of
by e. c. tarbell light and shade.


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