International studio (40.1910)

Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition

The sculpture in these ex-
hibitions holds normally a
secondary place, owing to
the output which is avail-
able, the limitations of space
and the unfortunate con-
ditions of lighting in those
galleries to which the sculp-
ture has to be for the most
part confined. The showing
is representative, though con-
fined for the most part to
works of small scale. A
group of five characteristic
notes of the West from the
hand of the late Frederic right and left by winslow homer

Remington serves as a re-
minder of the loss which his

death has entailed in facile and incisive record of grasped a hard-won success. At present the horses
all but past conditions. and dog are mere dummies and the figures are too

Perhaps the most extraordinary exhibit among obvious in their poses. John S. Sargent's skill is
the paintings was Mr. TarbelPs huge portrait group shown in the portrait of Joseph Pulitzer, a keen de-
entered as "unfinished." This is so out of the lineation, and in the portrait of Dr. J. William
usual range of the painter's work and so assertive in White, of Philadelphia, painted last summer, and
its mere size that it immediately raises doubts. now for the first time publicly exhibited, a work in
How far it can be vitalized no one can say before- which the color scheme is rich and somberly bril-
hand, but if Mr. Tarbell succeeds later in striking
twelve with this work he will have reached out and

Waller Lippincolt Prize, 1910
the hunter's moon

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by j. aldex weir

portrait of
a lady

by george de forest
brush