International studio (49.1913)

In the Galleries

IN THE GALLERIES
The swan song of the art season is the
close of the Pittsburgh Exhibition, but visit-
ors to New York must not for a moment
suppose that the migratory nature of picture
dealers and pictures precludes the chance of see-
ing anything further until the winter. May has
been rich in different sorts of minor delights, and
June, too, will not prove a barren period to art
lovers.
At the Reinhardt Galleries were on view for a

Oriental background, revel in delightful pinks,
blues and orange tones. Desert and foothills by
Groll are surmounted by a splendid fleecy sky of
immense size, the cloud scud being very realisti-
cally observed. This is entitled Hopi Indian
Land. In the lower galleries the work in oils and
pastels by Blendon R. Campbell has attracted
much interest for its originality and quaint design,
added to fine discrimination in color. His frieze,
typifying Joy, is a charming medley of happy
maidens in puris naturalibus, in different attitudes
upon the seashore. Especially attractive are the


BY LESLIE w. LEE

A MEXICAN RANCHERO

not infer that an occasional
Among

short while the
work of two com¬
rades in art who
occupy adjoining
studios in Chicago
and devote their
energies — Mr.
Walter Dean
Goldbeck to
painting, his
friend, Mr. Joseph
M. Korbel, to
sculpture. They
are both young
and talented in a
more than ordi¬
narydegree. Ina
later issue we shall
show some repro¬
ductions of their
work.
A selected group
of Americanpaint-
ings, instead of the
usual one-man
show, concluded
April at the Mac¬
beth Galleries,
and they are to
be congratulated,
although we would
one-man show is not a great blessing.
many excellent canvases one of the most notice-
able is The Lovers, by Charles W. Hawthorne.
Rarely have lovers been treated so unconven-
tionally and rarely has artist found two such
utterly unconventional subjects. The woman
is especially pleasing. L. Ochtman has a small
picture, entitled Hills in February, excellent in
tone and composition. Paxton’s Bellissima is a
fine piece of work. The girl is good in pose and
color, while the dainty costume and cloak, with

two central figures
as they bound
happily along,
laughing and jest-
ing. The Blue
Room is a fine ex-
ample of simplex
munditiis. Two
adjoining win-
dows let in a sub-
dued light through
the curtains, and
show a high-back-
ed wooden chair,
a draped table be-
neath a plain oval
mirror and—noth-
ing more. And
yet that light is so
feelingly handled
that the picture
rivets the atten-
tion and excites an
interest quite be-
yond its seeming
deserts. Other
contributors of
good canvases
were Guy Wig-
gins, with Towers
of Manhattan, a romantic title for our skyscrap-
ers; Gardner Symons, with a strong winter scene
executed with his accustomed skill, and Emil
Carlsen, who showed two excellent pictures, a
marine and a woodland scene.
At the Montross Galleries Arthur Wesley Dow
showed seventeen pictures, large and small, of the
Grand Canyon of Arizona, a decided change from
the Marshes of New England, his previous field of
endeavor. Mr. Dow has given himself an impos-
sible task. To render this welter of nature,
earth’s terrific struggles with the Titans, is given

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