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Nr. 204 (February, 1914)
DOI Artikel:Rainey, Ada: The mural decoration in the State Capitol of Wisconsin painted by Hugo Ballin
DOI Artikel:N., W. H.: A painter of Panama: Jonas Lie
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43454#0378
A Painter of Panama: Jonas Lie
UNITY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR MAKING PEACE BY HUGO BALLIN
of his talents, for his work has found place in
public galleries and private collections, more
especially in the East. He won the Shaw prize
in 1906, given for the best painting by an American
artist without limitation as to age or subject.
The Thomas B. Clark prize in 1907, offered on
the same conditions was won with his picture
entitled Mother and Child. He received the
Isadore gold medal in 1908 and honours from the
government in Buenos Ayres for work sent to
the exhibition there in 1911. The Hallgarten
prize in 1907 was awarded him for his Three Ages,
and three medals have been received from the
Architectural League of New York for com-
petitive designs.
It should be a cause for great encouragement
to us as a nation that our young artists, absolutely
American by training and ideals, are proving
themselves equal to the demand laid upon them
to produce works of art of dignity and importance,
truly American and representative of the artistic
impulse that is undoubtedly stirring at the heart
of the Nation. We are beginning to express our-
selves artistically.
A PAINTER OF PANAMA:
JONAS LIE
„ When Mr. Jonas Lie returned from
Panama with his Homeric canvases,
representing the mighty achievement of America’s
latest waterway, it might indeed be accounted to
him that “He went, he saw, he conquered.” No
one has grappled with the situation in the heroic
measure that Lie has. Prettyman brought lyrical
souvenirs of good pictorial value, but nothing big,
nothing bloodstirring. The exhibition at Knoed-
ler’s Galleries has filled New York with wonder-
ment at the immense .task that Colonel Goethals
and his staff had to cope with. Picture after pic-
ture deals with the gigantic work in its different
aspects and each one offers such variety that all
idea of monotony is banished. The great scarlet
gates of Miraflores ajar, giving view to deep purple
structure beyond is fine beyond words, broadly
painted with decisive brush strokes and in re-
strained colour. Realistic such work must be in
order to express the immense forces at work, but
on occasion this young artist reveals his spiritual
cxcn
UNITY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR MAKING PEACE BY HUGO BALLIN
of his talents, for his work has found place in
public galleries and private collections, more
especially in the East. He won the Shaw prize
in 1906, given for the best painting by an American
artist without limitation as to age or subject.
The Thomas B. Clark prize in 1907, offered on
the same conditions was won with his picture
entitled Mother and Child. He received the
Isadore gold medal in 1908 and honours from the
government in Buenos Ayres for work sent to
the exhibition there in 1911. The Hallgarten
prize in 1907 was awarded him for his Three Ages,
and three medals have been received from the
Architectural League of New York for com-
petitive designs.
It should be a cause for great encouragement
to us as a nation that our young artists, absolutely
American by training and ideals, are proving
themselves equal to the demand laid upon them
to produce works of art of dignity and importance,
truly American and representative of the artistic
impulse that is undoubtedly stirring at the heart
of the Nation. We are beginning to express our-
selves artistically.
A PAINTER OF PANAMA:
JONAS LIE
„ When Mr. Jonas Lie returned from
Panama with his Homeric canvases,
representing the mighty achievement of America’s
latest waterway, it might indeed be accounted to
him that “He went, he saw, he conquered.” No
one has grappled with the situation in the heroic
measure that Lie has. Prettyman brought lyrical
souvenirs of good pictorial value, but nothing big,
nothing bloodstirring. The exhibition at Knoed-
ler’s Galleries has filled New York with wonder-
ment at the immense .task that Colonel Goethals
and his staff had to cope with. Picture after pic-
ture deals with the gigantic work in its different
aspects and each one offers such variety that all
idea of monotony is banished. The great scarlet
gates of Miraflores ajar, giving view to deep purple
structure beyond is fine beyond words, broadly
painted with decisive brush strokes and in re-
strained colour. Realistic such work must be in
order to express the immense forces at work, but
on occasion this young artist reveals his spiritual
cxcn