International studio (45.1912)

Exhibition of the Philadelphia Water Color Chib



The ninth annual exhibition
OF THE PHILADELPHIA WATER
COLOR CLUB
BY ALICE T. SEARLE .

Unquestionably the most successful exhibition
so far presented by this club closed on the 17th of
last month. The attraction of the display was
largely due to the unusually comprehensive scope
of work shown and the introduction of several novel
features. In reality it comprised a series of exhi¬
bitions of work in almost every medium save oil
color and sculpture, numbering nearly fifteen
hundred pieces and including water colors, pas¬
tels, lithographs, monotypes, illustrations, etch¬
ings and miniatures.
In Galleries A, I and K, at the head of the main
stairway, was hung a collection of rare lithographs
selected for the occasion by the Senefelder Club,
of London. Such signatures as those of Fantin-
Latour, Whistler, Carriere, Manet, Steinlen,
Pennell and Von Herkomer give some idea of the
importance and value of this section.
The north and south corridors were filled with
the illustrator’s work. This department is always
a strong one at the Water Color Club. Conspic¬
uously noted were the masterly cartoons by Violet
Oakley, the inimitable Dickens character illus¬
trations by Jessie Willcox Smith, and Elizabeth
BY HILDA BELCHER
the Blumenscheins, A. I.
Keller, Andre Castaigne
and others showed clever
work.
Gallery E held a few
groups of etchings and
some quite unusual
monotypes. The other
galleries, with the excep-
tion of the two given
over to the Society of
Miniature Painters, con-
tained the water colors
and pastels by the mem-
bers of the club and in-
vited contributors.
The place of honor in
the large gallery F was
accorded John Marin, an
exponent of the Cezanne
school and a former pupil
at the Academy. His fif-
teen panels of uniform

THE LITTLE BOSTON GIRL

BY HUGH H. BRECKENRIDGE

AUTUMN HILLSIDE

Shippen Green Elliott’s studies for “The Wings,”
while Paula Himmelsbach, May Wilson Preston,

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