International studio (48.1913)

The Evans Collection of American Paintings

AN INTERLUDE BY WILLIAM SERGEANT KENDALL, N.A.


group of fifty-four native paintings given to the
Art Museum of Montclair, N. J., and other por-
traits and landscapes to the Brooklyn Institute
and the Newark Library.
From several examples of John La Farge we
may select for illustration Visit of Nicodemus to
Christ, a picture that reflects the artist’s powerful
feeling for color, his big sense for composition, his
skill in management of drapery. Note the size of
the hands; La Farge insisted on the import-
ance of the hand as only second to the face in ex-
pressing character. The face of Christ is said to
have been influenced by that of the author Henry
James, who when a young man lived at Newport
with the painter. Illusions, by H. B. Fuller, is a
fine example of the line in human figures and a
symbolical composition of uncommon charm.
Eros et Musa, by Henry Oliver Walker, represents

the classical spirit that comes naturally to a man
who has to clothe the walls of public buildings with
dignified figures, figures that suit a grand style of
architecture. Observe the skillful management
of the lines of the young, boyish form, his wings,
the arms and draperies of the Muse behind him,
the rocks and trees in the background. The Pueblo
Indian of the Southwest, with sacred feather,
moccasins and embroidered buskins, has sat for
his portrait to Eanger Irving Couse; he is a fine
type of the Taos tribe in New Mexico. A charm-
ing group of Mother and Child by Sergeant Ken-
dall, two pretty damsels watching a race between
tortoises in a studio by H. Siddons Mowbray, a
pensive gentlewoman by J. Alden Weir, a group in
opulent colors—-mother, babe and sibylline vase-
bringer, by Hugo Ballin, a smiling young woman
in a kimono, by Irving R. Wiles—these are exam-

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