International studio (42.1910)

Frederic Crowninshield

To this same period be-
long the most important
of his mural paintings.
The three panels in the
ceiling of the dining room
of the Hotel Waldorf at
the corner of Fifth Avenue
and Thirty-third Street,
New York, are well drawn
and delicately colored.
These were followed by the
frieze in the Manhattan
Hotel cafe, depicting an
Italian landscape with fig-
ures. An entire wall of the
cafe at the Simpson-Craw-
ford Company's store is
decorated with a graceful
composition of classical
figures in a landscape set-
ting which gives dignity to
the room. At present he
in engaged on a decoration
for the Law Library of the
new Municipal Building in
Cleveland, Ohio.

As chairman of the Laz-
arus Scholarship Fund for
mural painting, which every
three years holds an exami-
nation and sends the win-
"chase" cartoon for decoration by frederic ner to Europe for three

in the waldorf-astoria crowninshield rf he ^ come

in touch and greatly help-

Andromache, presented to Memorial Hall at Har- ed many ambitious young men. During the past

vardby the class of 1863; the Arnold window for the few years Mr. Crowninshield has developed an-

Emmanuel Church in Boston, thesubject of which is other side of his talent—landscape painting. His

taken from "Pilgrim's Progress"; the Goodridge inspiration comes from the Berkshires, where

window in the Church of the Ascension, New York; his country home commands a wide view of

two windows for the First Church in Providence, rolling hills. In these landscapes there is a

R. I., the subjects being The Prodigal Son and freshness and purity of vision, a simplicity and sure-

Christ and the Little Child, and six little windows, ness of execution, which places them among the

illustrating Spenser's" Faerie Queene," in the Sigma most vital work of to-day and permits of their being

Phi fraternity house at Williams College, where the shown side by side with the work of the younger

charm is entirely dependent on the beauty of the men. He uses pure color laid on in simple touches,

lead lines. In the designing and making of stained to try and keep up to the pitch of nature. He loves

glass Mr. Crowninshield found the pleasure which the blue of the pine and fir and is wonderfully sensi-

he has so well expressed in his sonnet, "For Arts tive to the beauty of the "tree tops, thrusting high

and Crafts," wherein he says: their darksome domes and pinnacles, that to heaven

When we can sacrifice aspire."

Our time and thought upon the humblest things- Much of Mr. Crowninshield's time during the

Those useful things that make life s everyday _ 6

Almost a pastime (not some thing unique winter is devoted to guiding the activities of the art

Of value which conspicuously brings societies in New York. He has been the president

A solitary joy), then we may say . . :

We love our Art as did the Pliidian Greek. of the Fine Arts Federation of New York since 1900

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