DOI Heft:
Nr. 204 (February, 1914)
DOI Artikel:In the galleries
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43454#0482
In the Galleries
was one of a little club devoted to art in Mil-
waukee and to-day is president of the Milwau-
kee Art Society, numbering 721 members and
owning a handsome gallery. Such a record should
entitle him to be modelled in gold, let alone in
bronze or marble.
The Carroll Galleries at 9 East 44th Street are
showing extensive collections of the drawings and
paintings of Arthur Davies and the screens of
Robert W. Chanler.
Mr. Davies’ paintings are symbolic, decorative,
splendidly drawn at times; at others he rather falls
short of complete expression. What he has to say
is essentially interesting, his use of the human
figure recalls the freedom in expression of some of
the early Italians, but the impression conveyed is
vague and not always convincing.
Mr. Chanler’s screens, especially the large one
painted for the studio of Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney, is effectively decorative. There is a
strong animal feeling in the jungle figures of birds
and beasts that easily fill the dozen panels of the
screen. The craftsmanship is of the finest and
merits praise apart from the artistic worth of the
work.
The new Daniel Gallery, 2 West 47th Street,
opened about the first of the year with this inter-
esting platform: “With the faith that the ideals
it represents will find a wide and genuine appre-
ciation.”
It is dedicated to the younger painters of indi-
viduality and to the older who have kept alive an
ideal through many years of work and endeavour.
The aim of this gallery is “to encourage individu-
ality and promote general appreciation of the finer
things in art;” to which we may add “amen,” and
“may this ideal be kept up.” Such high aim will
meet with hearty approval of all who are sincerely
interested in “the finer things in art.” At pres-
ent, and according to the announced exhibitions,
until the middle of February, the younger men,
notably Samuel Halpert, William E. Schumacher
and Ernest Lawson, will have their innings. In
the first exhibition representative wTorks by
William J. Glackens, Rockwell Kent, George
Luks, H. Pendleton, Maurice Prendergast, Leon
Kroll and Claggett Wilson weie shown. The men
are mostly neo- or post-impressionists, among
whom Ernest Lawson, one-time independent, is
yclept academic! Rockwell Kent has joined the
camp of the insurgents, and is represented by a
female figure unsteadily balanced on the top of the
world, surrounded by her young flock, decidedly
lacking in previously considered necessary ana-
THE FIGHTING FIFTH
BY WALTER BECK
CCXII
was one of a little club devoted to art in Mil-
waukee and to-day is president of the Milwau-
kee Art Society, numbering 721 members and
owning a handsome gallery. Such a record should
entitle him to be modelled in gold, let alone in
bronze or marble.
The Carroll Galleries at 9 East 44th Street are
showing extensive collections of the drawings and
paintings of Arthur Davies and the screens of
Robert W. Chanler.
Mr. Davies’ paintings are symbolic, decorative,
splendidly drawn at times; at others he rather falls
short of complete expression. What he has to say
is essentially interesting, his use of the human
figure recalls the freedom in expression of some of
the early Italians, but the impression conveyed is
vague and not always convincing.
Mr. Chanler’s screens, especially the large one
painted for the studio of Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney, is effectively decorative. There is a
strong animal feeling in the jungle figures of birds
and beasts that easily fill the dozen panels of the
screen. The craftsmanship is of the finest and
merits praise apart from the artistic worth of the
work.
The new Daniel Gallery, 2 West 47th Street,
opened about the first of the year with this inter-
esting platform: “With the faith that the ideals
it represents will find a wide and genuine appre-
ciation.”
It is dedicated to the younger painters of indi-
viduality and to the older who have kept alive an
ideal through many years of work and endeavour.
The aim of this gallery is “to encourage individu-
ality and promote general appreciation of the finer
things in art;” to which we may add “amen,” and
“may this ideal be kept up.” Such high aim will
meet with hearty approval of all who are sincerely
interested in “the finer things in art.” At pres-
ent, and according to the announced exhibitions,
until the middle of February, the younger men,
notably Samuel Halpert, William E. Schumacher
and Ernest Lawson, will have their innings. In
the first exhibition representative wTorks by
William J. Glackens, Rockwell Kent, George
Luks, H. Pendleton, Maurice Prendergast, Leon
Kroll and Claggett Wilson weie shown. The men
are mostly neo- or post-impressionists, among
whom Ernest Lawson, one-time independent, is
yclept academic! Rockwell Kent has joined the
camp of the insurgents, and is represented by a
female figure unsteadily balanced on the top of the
world, surrounded by her young flock, decidedly
lacking in previously considered necessary ana-
THE FIGHTING FIFTH
BY WALTER BECK
CCXII