DOI Heft:
Nr. 159 (May 1910)
DOI Artikel:Spring exhibition of the National Academy of Design
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0329
Spring Exhibition of
the National Academy
PORTRAIT OF A BY ERNEST
GERMAN COMEDIAN BLUMENSCHEIN
Harum would say, from brooding on being a dog.
Mr. Waugh, we were about to say, deserves his
prize for the sea in his ample canvas. The heavy
slide and the lift of the water make the pirates tame.
The sea is more serious than they. We have never
stood by to repel boarders with revolver and cutlass,
but we may be permitted to say that after the pic-
ture we are as cool as a commander in a romance.
It is almost large enough for a wall decoration in a
State capitol; it might do for the Hall of Records at
Panama, when there is one; but it is, we submit, at
its best in black and white.
The Hallgarten prizes were awarded to Gifford
Beal, Louis D. Vaillant and Charles Rosen. The
Inness medal went to J. Francis Murphy, for a
painting, In the Shadow oj the Hills, quiet in tone
and simplified with deliberation. The Saltus
medal was awarded to Douglas Volk for The
Little Sister, in which the touch of sentiment is gra-
ciously obtruded. The Julia A. Shaw Memorial
prize was awarded to Miss Susan Watkins. Her
exhibit, An Interior, is a painting with much about
it that is delightful. The color, particularly, is en-
joyable. The workmanship is assured, and while
there is much clever detail the whole hangs to-
gether—all, perhaps, but the chair at the left, which
is somewhat uneasy in its relationship to the rest of
the composition. It cannot be omitted from the
corner, which is the most that can be said for it.
She has another interior, with a young girl seated at
a window, and well-handled reflections in glaze and
glass.
Ernest L. Blumenschein's Portrait oj a German
Comedian has a captivating drollery seriously stud-
ied. The characterization of this portly, smiling
person is arresting. The mannered suppleness of
the fingers, the jaunty placing of the feet, the way
the actor rides his seat astride make an instantane-
ous impression. The painting is solid work, lightly
hit off. Mr. Groll has justified his continued pre-
occupation with Arizona skies in his Mesa Encan-
tada. The effect of towering height, noted to scale
in the diminutive bright-colored figures at the camp
fire, it does not altogether achieve. But there is a
strange and empty dryness in the air which is un-
deniable and which is, no doubt, the result of the
MESA ENCANTADA BY ALBERT GROLL
NEW MEXICO
LXIV
the National Academy
PORTRAIT OF A BY ERNEST
GERMAN COMEDIAN BLUMENSCHEIN
Harum would say, from brooding on being a dog.
Mr. Waugh, we were about to say, deserves his
prize for the sea in his ample canvas. The heavy
slide and the lift of the water make the pirates tame.
The sea is more serious than they. We have never
stood by to repel boarders with revolver and cutlass,
but we may be permitted to say that after the pic-
ture we are as cool as a commander in a romance.
It is almost large enough for a wall decoration in a
State capitol; it might do for the Hall of Records at
Panama, when there is one; but it is, we submit, at
its best in black and white.
The Hallgarten prizes were awarded to Gifford
Beal, Louis D. Vaillant and Charles Rosen. The
Inness medal went to J. Francis Murphy, for a
painting, In the Shadow oj the Hills, quiet in tone
and simplified with deliberation. The Saltus
medal was awarded to Douglas Volk for The
Little Sister, in which the touch of sentiment is gra-
ciously obtruded. The Julia A. Shaw Memorial
prize was awarded to Miss Susan Watkins. Her
exhibit, An Interior, is a painting with much about
it that is delightful. The color, particularly, is en-
joyable. The workmanship is assured, and while
there is much clever detail the whole hangs to-
gether—all, perhaps, but the chair at the left, which
is somewhat uneasy in its relationship to the rest of
the composition. It cannot be omitted from the
corner, which is the most that can be said for it.
She has another interior, with a young girl seated at
a window, and well-handled reflections in glaze and
glass.
Ernest L. Blumenschein's Portrait oj a German
Comedian has a captivating drollery seriously stud-
ied. The characterization of this portly, smiling
person is arresting. The mannered suppleness of
the fingers, the jaunty placing of the feet, the way
the actor rides his seat astride make an instantane-
ous impression. The painting is solid work, lightly
hit off. Mr. Groll has justified his continued pre-
occupation with Arizona skies in his Mesa Encan-
tada. The effect of towering height, noted to scale
in the diminutive bright-colored figures at the camp
fire, it does not altogether achieve. But there is a
strange and empty dryness in the air which is un-
deniable and which is, no doubt, the result of the
MESA ENCANTADA BY ALBERT GROLL
NEW MEXICO
LXIV