International studio (48.1913)

In the Galleries

Courtesy of The Macbeth Gallery
“THE stoker” BY CHESTER BEACH


the world archly from her cosy vantage ground.
The knee being drawn up to the chin gives a
straight line of limb, which though characteristic
of the pose can hardly be styled graceful. Our
illustration represents The Stoker, and recalls
Schiller’s famous lines:
Von der Stirne heiss
Rennen muss der Schweiss
Next month will be on view works by Paul
Dougherty, F. C. Frieseke and Gardner Symons.
At the Detroit Publishing Company it has been
possible to see a very interesting collection of
pictures, ten oils and four pastels, by that gifted
artist, Leon Dabo, whose claims to fame are
amply justified by the large number of museums
in which his canvases have a lasting resting-place.
Vol. No. 39 (January, 1910) contains an article
upon Leon Dabo written by J. Nilsen Laurvik.
Among his pictures on view here, No. 3 in the
catalogue is the most attractive canvas, represent-
ing Early Dawn at Covenhoven. The simplicity
and breadth, with its mysterious coloring, hold
one spellbound. In No. n, a pastel, the artist
has attempted the difficult task of painting white
light in an Indian Summer. Here he has not been
so successful, and, in fact, several people have
taken the picture to be a snow scene. His sea-
scapes are quite beyond criticism. His Nocturne

(No. 9) reveals black night on the East River,
faintly illuminated by the lights from a few giant
buildings; it is sketchy but very powerful.
At the Rraushaar Gallery were on view some
forty etchings by Hedley Fitton during Decem-
ber, two of whose works were selected from the
Paris Salon, 1908, for the Petit Palais Collection.
The subjects on view are all recent work, executed
mostly in France, England and Italy, and show
exquisite bits of architecture, such as the Bargate
(Southampton), the Rialto, Winchester Cross,
Chartres, etc., of excellent transparency and
gradation, his shadows being particularly rich and
suggestive.
Excellent pictures by great artists can be viewed
at the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., such artists
as J. B. Corot, Daubigny, Harpigny, Dieterle,
W. Maris, Mesdag, Van der Weele are well repre-
sented. There is an excellent portrait painting
executed by De Forrest Brush in his inimitable
manner. Another painter who is in a class by


Courtesy of The Montross Gallery
“winter landscapes and swans by night”
FROM THE CHINESE PAINTING BY AN ARTIST OF
THE T’ANG DYNASTY

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