DOI Heft:
Nr. 159 (May 1910)
DOI Artikel:In the galleries
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0343
In the Galleries
The Prelude, seen also at
the Pennsylvania Academy,
which we reproduce here-
with. We had occasion
some five or six years ago
to call attention to Mr.
Johansen's original and in-
dividual treatment of figure
subjects under decided
lights, as in The Picture
Book, and it is a pleasure to
record the progress with
which he is distancing his
earlier achievements.
The annual exhibition of
the Ten American Paint-
ers, which has been held at
the new Montross Galleries,
550 Fifth Avenue, near For-
tieth Street, has been one
of the most delightful of the
groups of paintings recent-
ly seen in the city. The in-
dividual quality of the vari-
ous members of this society
are, of course, too well
marked and distinct to pro-
duce any noticeable super-
ficial differences in the ex-
hibitions from season to
season. One or two ex-
amples have already been
noted in other exhibitions—
as, for instance, Mr. Weir's
study of night, The Hunt-
THE FLOWER GIRL BY. J. ALDEN WEIR e^S M00fl,Mr.T&J0-
sephine and Mercie, now
Julius Oehme, at his new galleries, 467 Fifth owned by the Corcoran Gallery, and Mr. Hassam's
Avenue, opposite the Public Library, near Fortieth Chinese Merchants, about which it would be difficult
Street, has been showing a collection of works by not to wax enthusiastic. Mr. Reid's painting, The
John C. Johansen, a painter who has been rapidly Shell, is one of his best works so far. Mr. Weir has
coming to the front. The group of Venetian scenes produced in The Flower Girl a canvas most charac-
hung in the galleries have a fresh and original char- teristic in its technical delicacies,
acter which one does not learn to expect from the An unusual series of prints by Hokusai, illustrat-
subject. Venice has been painted so much that it ing scenes from noted Japanese poems, is on view at
adds a genuine pleasure to find it interpreted with a the Yamanaka Galleries, 254 Fifth Avenue, and
distinctive note. Mr. Johansen handles his archi- should not be missed. A more extended descrip-
tectural drawing firmly and well, but in a summary tion of these prints, of which some examples are
enough fashion to subordinate it to its more fluent shown herewith, will be published later,
pictorial purpose. Besides the Venetian and the An exhibition of paintings by Alfred East, presi-
other Italian subjects which he has chosen to depict dent of the Royal Society of British Artists, has been
he is better known in the larger exhibitions for his put on view at the National Arts Club. The exhi-
figure groups, in which he shows great interest in bition was opened with a reception to this distin-
the management of lighting. A recent example is guished English painter and etcher.
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Courtesy of N. E. Montross
The Prelude, seen also at
the Pennsylvania Academy,
which we reproduce here-
with. We had occasion
some five or six years ago
to call attention to Mr.
Johansen's original and in-
dividual treatment of figure
subjects under decided
lights, as in The Picture
Book, and it is a pleasure to
record the progress with
which he is distancing his
earlier achievements.
The annual exhibition of
the Ten American Paint-
ers, which has been held at
the new Montross Galleries,
550 Fifth Avenue, near For-
tieth Street, has been one
of the most delightful of the
groups of paintings recent-
ly seen in the city. The in-
dividual quality of the vari-
ous members of this society
are, of course, too well
marked and distinct to pro-
duce any noticeable super-
ficial differences in the ex-
hibitions from season to
season. One or two ex-
amples have already been
noted in other exhibitions—
as, for instance, Mr. Weir's
study of night, The Hunt-
THE FLOWER GIRL BY. J. ALDEN WEIR e^S M00fl,Mr.T&J0-
sephine and Mercie, now
Julius Oehme, at his new galleries, 467 Fifth owned by the Corcoran Gallery, and Mr. Hassam's
Avenue, opposite the Public Library, near Fortieth Chinese Merchants, about which it would be difficult
Street, has been showing a collection of works by not to wax enthusiastic. Mr. Reid's painting, The
John C. Johansen, a painter who has been rapidly Shell, is one of his best works so far. Mr. Weir has
coming to the front. The group of Venetian scenes produced in The Flower Girl a canvas most charac-
hung in the galleries have a fresh and original char- teristic in its technical delicacies,
acter which one does not learn to expect from the An unusual series of prints by Hokusai, illustrat-
subject. Venice has been painted so much that it ing scenes from noted Japanese poems, is on view at
adds a genuine pleasure to find it interpreted with a the Yamanaka Galleries, 254 Fifth Avenue, and
distinctive note. Mr. Johansen handles his archi- should not be missed. A more extended descrip-
tectural drawing firmly and well, but in a summary tion of these prints, of which some examples are
enough fashion to subordinate it to its more fluent shown herewith, will be published later,
pictorial purpose. Besides the Venetian and the An exhibition of paintings by Alfred East, presi-
other Italian subjects which he has chosen to depict dent of the Royal Society of British Artists, has been
he is better known in the larger exhibitions for his put on view at the National Arts Club. The exhi-
figure groups, in which he shows great interest in bition was opened with a reception to this distin-
the management of lighting. A recent example is guished English painter and etcher.
LXXVIII
Courtesy of N. E. Montross