International studio (40.1910)

Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition

Temple Gold Medal, 1910

PORTRAIT BY HOWARD GARDINER CUSHING

liant. John W. Alexander's portrait of the late
Richard Watson Gilder is a record dating some

Carol H. Beck Gold Medal, 1910

LADY WITH BLACK SCARF BY ADOLPHE BORIE

years back. George DeForest Brush's Portrait oj a
Lady has an exquisite, painstaking sureness of
effect. Mr. Borie's portraits are workmanlike and
direct. Mr. Cushing repeats his now familiar es-
says in sparkling brush work and effective drawing.
Robert Henri continues vigorous and sharp, with an
air of almost reckless and instantaneous attack, ad-
mitting, or, perhaps, requiring, no second thoughts.

The landscapes run almost the whole gamut of
our present painting, from Mr. William Glackens's
biting palette and outwardly careless brush work to
Mr. Tryon's profound gentleness, as in the Autumn
Sunset, with its finely inwrought haze. Sentiment
and a high degree of control save Mr. Alden Weir's
charming Hunter's Moon from emptiness. Like
Mr. Groll he has here painted the sky on a low ped-
estal of land, but he has further essayed to put the
moon itself in his picture, and the success with
which he has done so without raising the odds too
heavily against him is remarkable. In a different
manner Mr. Redfield and Mr. Schofield paint the
air, as well as the land under and behind it. Other
men, like Mr. Dougherty, endeavor to get the solid-
ity, the weight and impact of material substance.
His seas and rocks make an interesting contrast to
Mr. Hassam's, for whom the surfaces of water and

Mary Smith Prize, 1910

THE MORNING AIR BY ALICE MUMFORD ROBERTS

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