International studio (35.1908)

Current Art Notes


COMMERCIAL design of the sort rep-
resented by the example reproduced
above shows the advantages of good
workmanship. If advertising is to be
illustrated, the one satisfactory and
ultimately profitable step is to put the work in the
hands of an artist. Such execution as this bit from
Mr. Penfield’s studio gives an emphasis to the
advertising legend originally enclosed within the
border which could never be secured by second-
rate draughtsmanship and composition. On the
other hand, it helps to contradict those uneasy
people who complain that this is the day and this
is the land in which we think nothing can be art
that is not mounted in a gold frame and hung in a
dining-room or museum.
R. THEODORE HANDFORD
POND, for many years superintendent
of the department of applied and fine
arts of the Mechanics’ Institute at
Rochester, N. Y., has taken charge of
the organization and development of the new de-
partments of instruction in design and applied arts
which open in October at the Maryland Institute,
Baltimore. We have had occasion to review the
work done under Mr. Pond at the Rochester school
at various times, and have in hand an illustrated

article on the new building of the Baltimore school
lately erected, which will appear shortly. These
institutions represent an important element in the
art education of the country.
THE sketches reproduced on two previous
pages are by a young artist who has
with notable success and distinction
stepped into the field occupied by Jules
Guerin and others, a borderland be-
tween usual landscape work and architectural
rendering. Mr. Frederic B. Warren’s sketches at
recent New York exhibitions have attracted favor-
able comment and have already been mentioned
in our columns.
The regular June exhibition of the work of
students of the Eric Pape School of Art, Boston,
has been postponed until January io, 1909, when
Mr. Pape proposes to hold a large exhibition to in-
clude the best results of the ten years during which
the school has grown to its present proportions.
The Worcester Art Museum announces the
purchase of the following pictures: At Sunset, by
Charles H. Davis; Sally, by Joseph De Camp;
Entrance to Harbor of Polperro, by Henry B. Snell;
Snow, by Twachtman.


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