International studio (52.1914)

The Humphreys Collection

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1914
POLO CROWD BY GEORGE BELLOWS


Cannon, a very strong bit of characterization.
Albert Weinman shows an heroic portrait bust of
Lincoln. Lillian Baer’s Ideals; Bessie Vonnoh’s
little Mowgli girl and butterfly; Chester Beach’s
Achievement; Brenda Putnam’s Parting; Edith
Parsons’ Faun and her plump little Duck Baby;
the spirited work of Joseph J. Mora, and Mahonri
Young’s Scrubwoman are charming studies both
in serious and in whimsical statuary.
HE HUMPHREYS COLLECTION
AT THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE,
PITTSBURGH
This collection, the property of Dr.
Alexander Humphreys, president of Stevens In-
stitute of Technology, of New York, consisting of
158 paintings by 61 American artists, was placed
on exhibition at the Carnegie Institute on Febru-
ary 21 for an indefinite period.
The history of American landscape art can
readily be traced in this notable collection.
For many years Mr. Humphreys has been gath-
ering together paintings by Americans, and to-day
his collection ranks with such famous ones as
those made in past years by Thomas B. Clarke
and T. T. Evans.

The one hundred and fifty-eight pictures which
have been selected from the Humphreys collection
to be shown in Pittsburgh are his choicest paint-
ings, and will give a fine opportunity for a fair
judgment of the work of American painters.
Many of these painters have pictures in the per-
manent collection of Carnegie Institute, or have
exhibited in the International exhibitions. One
of the unusual features of this exhibition is a
group of water-colours by Winslow Homer. As
many people consider Homer even more remark-
able as a water colourist than as a painter in oils,
this group will attract especial attention. Among
the paintings by the earlier men, the Dr. Hum-
phreys collection contains seven pictures by
Wyant, three by Inness, eight by Martin, three by-
Fuller, three by Hunt, three of Theodore Robin-
son’s, twelve by Ranger, nine of Murphy’s and
two of Twachtman’s. And of the later men there
will be four pictures by Dessar, eleven by Dearth,
seven by Dougherty, three of Walker’s, three by
Childe Hassam, four of Daingerfield’s.
Director Beatty has done a great thing for
American art in attracting such a splendid group
of paintings, of which we shall have more to say-
in a later issue, along with a reproduction of
Winslow Homer’s A Voice from the Cliffs.


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