International studio (42.1910)

New York Water Color Club

The catalogue
lacks many house-
hold names closely
identified in former
years with exhibitions
of the Water Color
Club: Ben Foster,
Jules Guerin, Luis
Mora, Lydia Emmet,
William J. Whitte-
more, Albert Herter,
Horatio Walker, Cul-
len Yates and Alice
Schille. Where are
they all? These
painters, many of
them officers of the
club and several, like
Walker, masters of
the old-time water-
colortechnique which
seems to have quite

impromptu playgrounds by jerome myers r . ,

gone out of style,
would have given by

Jane Peterson and Florence Francis Snell showed their presence a certain stability and spirit to the
groups of studies of rather hackneyed French sub- display which it appeared to lack. A. T. S.
jects, the latter offset by rare variety of treatment.

Jerome Myers interested as usual with his incom- The National Society of Craftsmen will hold the
parable views of New York slum life. Alexander fourth annual exhibition of arts and crafts from
Robinson, H. B. Snell and Charles Warren Eaton December 7 to December 30, 1910, in the galleries
showed the fruits of a summer spent on the Conti- of the National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, New
nent. Harold M. Camp, a newcomer last year, in York City. An invitation is cordially extended to
one picture out of several monotonous variations.on crafts workers throughout the country to partici-
one theme, Asters and Goldenrod, the brow of a pate in this representative exhibition,
flower-decked hill re-
lieved against a really
wind-swept sky, ex-
emplified again over
last winter's achieve-
ment.

Among the few dis-
tinctive newer fea-
tures in the little ex-
hibit may be noted
the Japanese flower
studies of Genjiro
Kataoka, Marion H.
Becket's Three Fates
—a delicate, beauti-
fully lined pastel—
and the clever room
interiors in the same
medium by Louise

West. twilight after rain by charles p. gruppe

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