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Studio-Talk
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Studio- Talk
Mr. William Ritschel exhibited some capital
canvases painted in the Far West, such as Blue
Depths, Carmel, California and Rocks and Breakers,
California. Mr. Fred. Wagner had four pictures,
actualities of the wharves and shipping, of which
Snow and Ice was the most interesting. Mr. John
S. Sargent was represented by a painting of A
Waterfall that revealed him as a landscape artist
of the first rank. _
The examples of portraiture were both numerous
and good. Mr. Thos. Eakins’s portrait study of
Dr. Agnew, painted for the large canvas of the Agnew
Clinic now at the University of Pennsylvania, may be
described as one of the strongestbits of character de-
lineation ever shown at the Academy. Mr. Wayman
Adams’s Booth Tarkington, Esq., impressed one as
boldly painted with a full brush and sure touch. Mr.
Leopold G. Seyffert’s portrait of Charlton Yarnall,
Esq., had much the same virile quality combined
with rare distinction. Mr.
Frank W. Benson’s
Coleman Sellers, Esq.,
probably showed more at¬
tention to detail yet with
no appreciable loss of
essentials. Mrs. M. Jean
McLane’s group Virginia
and Stanton Arnold,
awarded the Lippincott
Prize, was simply charm¬
ing in colour and freedom
of handling. Mr. Robert
Henri’s portraits of Irish
girls were extremely clever,
one of them, Herself, being
awarded the Beck Prize.
Mrs. Alice Mumford
Roberts showed a well-
painted portrait of Henry
T. Bryant, Esq., President
of the Geographical
Society of Philadelphia;
Mr. Hugh H. Brecken¬
ridge had a carefully
studied portrait of Dr.
Musser-, and Mrs. Lazar
Raditz another careful
work in the portrait of E.
Burgess Warren, Esq.,
Honorary Vice-President
of the Academy.
Mr. Gari Melchers
248
occupied the post of honour in Gallery F with an
offering of tender sentiment in Maternity. Mr.
William W. Churchill’s Pouring Tea contained
the elements of a highly wrought bit of genre,
and his The Painter showed some masterful draw-
ing of die nude. The Lovers by Mr. Charles
W. Hawthorne embodied the qualities of interest-
ing subject, tonal excellence and warm colouring,
recalling certain works of the old masters. Miss
Marie Danforth Page’s Tenement Mother was the sort
of work that would attract the seeker of pathos
and the connoisseur of technique. Beautiful in
colour and sparkling in effect was Mr. J. Alden
Weir’s Nocturne. Mr. Paul Connoyer’s Old New
Ypr.k was a convincing bit of urban scenery. Mr.
Frederick J. Waugh contributed some superb
examples of marine painting, pictures of the sea
that are the last word in this line. Mr. Frederick
C. Friesecke’s Venetian Blind was a beautiful colour-
scheme of blues and greens.
“BOOTH TARKINGTON, ESQ.” BY WAYMAN ADAMS
(Pennsylvania Academy)
Mr. William Ritschel exhibited some capital
canvases painted in the Far West, such as Blue
Depths, Carmel, California and Rocks and Breakers,
California. Mr. Fred. Wagner had four pictures,
actualities of the wharves and shipping, of which
Snow and Ice was the most interesting. Mr. John
S. Sargent was represented by a painting of A
Waterfall that revealed him as a landscape artist
of the first rank. _
The examples of portraiture were both numerous
and good. Mr. Thos. Eakins’s portrait study of
Dr. Agnew, painted for the large canvas of the Agnew
Clinic now at the University of Pennsylvania, may be
described as one of the strongestbits of character de-
lineation ever shown at the Academy. Mr. Wayman
Adams’s Booth Tarkington, Esq., impressed one as
boldly painted with a full brush and sure touch. Mr.
Leopold G. Seyffert’s portrait of Charlton Yarnall,
Esq., had much the same virile quality combined
with rare distinction. Mr.
Frank W. Benson’s
Coleman Sellers, Esq.,
probably showed more at¬
tention to detail yet with
no appreciable loss of
essentials. Mrs. M. Jean
McLane’s group Virginia
and Stanton Arnold,
awarded the Lippincott
Prize, was simply charm¬
ing in colour and freedom
of handling. Mr. Robert
Henri’s portraits of Irish
girls were extremely clever,
one of them, Herself, being
awarded the Beck Prize.
Mrs. Alice Mumford
Roberts showed a well-
painted portrait of Henry
T. Bryant, Esq., President
of the Geographical
Society of Philadelphia;
Mr. Hugh H. Brecken¬
ridge had a carefully
studied portrait of Dr.
Musser-, and Mrs. Lazar
Raditz another careful
work in the portrait of E.
Burgess Warren, Esq.,
Honorary Vice-President
of the Academy.
Mr. Gari Melchers
248
occupied the post of honour in Gallery F with an
offering of tender sentiment in Maternity. Mr.
William W. Churchill’s Pouring Tea contained
the elements of a highly wrought bit of genre,
and his The Painter showed some masterful draw-
ing of die nude. The Lovers by Mr. Charles
W. Hawthorne embodied the qualities of interest-
ing subject, tonal excellence and warm colouring,
recalling certain works of the old masters. Miss
Marie Danforth Page’s Tenement Mother was the sort
of work that would attract the seeker of pathos
and the connoisseur of technique. Beautiful in
colour and sparkling in effect was Mr. J. Alden
Weir’s Nocturne. Mr. Paul Connoyer’s Old New
Ypr.k was a convincing bit of urban scenery. Mr.
Frederick J. Waugh contributed some superb
examples of marine painting, pictures of the sea
that are the last word in this line. Mr. Frederick
C. Friesecke’s Venetian Blind was a beautiful colour-
scheme of blues and greens.
“BOOTH TARKINGTON, ESQ.” BY WAYMAN ADAMS
(Pennsylvania Academy)