International studio (52.1914)

In the Galleries

TEDDIE BY C. S. PIETRO


The Arlington Galleries have been more circum-
spect this season in choice of exhibitions. Three
very good ones were, consecutively, Bernhardt
Gutmann, Robert H. Nisbet and Antonio Barone,
all young men but seasoned artists. Both Gut-
mann and Nisbet have been subjects of special
notice in this magazine. Barone’s Mrs. Aristine
Munn is quite one of the best portraits by one of
the younger men that we have seen in a long while.
The second annual exhibition of the Association
of American Etchers at the Brown-Robertson Gal-
leries was so successful that it was continued on to
April 20. At the same time a special exhibition of
forty original etchings by Dr. Leigh Hunt was
given.
New York as it appears to a Frenchman made
an interesting show at the Braun & Co. galleries,
where the Gotham set of Deville etchings was
displayed.
The Macbeth Galleries have been showing
selected paintings by American artists, many of
them being works of considerable distinction:
Autumn Morning, by Chauncey F. Ryder; a good
beach subject by H. A. Streeter; The North Atlan-
tic, by Waugh; pines and woods by Warren Eaton

and Foster, and an excellent canvas by Frank W.
Benson, showing two girls in the open, the elder
one seated on a rustic bench and the younger one
perched on the back of it, and with upraised arm
holding a bough from an overhanging tree. The
latter is not so well painted in point of structural
quality, but the tout ensemble is admirable and the
atmosphere brilliantly exploited. A good paint-
ing by Carroll Brown, who, like Nisbet and a few
others, paints exclusively American scenery, show-
ing fine colour harmony and careful study of
atmospheric values, was on view in the lower
galleries.
Two pupils of Twachtman, C. C. Mase and
Alice Judson, have recently concluded an exhibi-
tion in different media at the Powell Art Gallery,
their ground being respectively Staten Island and
Venice. Boats and colour have been nicely seen
in the Venetian subjects, while the other artist has
attended more to the attainment of atmospheric
results than to making mere pictures.
Picturesque Italy claims many etchers and cer-
tain etchers have laid their embargoes upon cer-
tain cities. Whistler, of course, captured Venice,
and in a sense Roth has done the same by Flor-
ence. Eighty plates have been on view at the
Keppel Galleries.
Extreme daintiness and chic distinguish the
plastic work of M. Paul Philippe, which has been
on view at the Gorham Galleries. An excellent
figure of Defiance, life size, is a fountain design:
Poseidon’s merry men spout and wriggle on wave
crest, while above and beyond them a charming
nymph smiles her scornful tribute to their efforts
to reach her. His small figures of dancers are
particularly graceful in their blending of Carrara
and ivory. The artist also employs a medley of
bronze, ivory and marble to advantage in his
statuette of Lohengrin; ivory and bronze meet well
in Radha and La Comedie, also in A Russian
Dancer, while in another Radha he uses bronze,
ivory and enamel. This may not be a high form
of art, but it is certainly effective.
The baby above is a fine child study by C. S.
Pietro, whose work is well known now. The mod-
elling is splendidly done and the characterization
is the acme of good sculpting. Mr. Pietro is
shortly going to Europe, and on his return will
hold an important exhibition of his work, includ-
ing Teddie.
Beautiful Eighteenth Century French drawings
from the J. P. Heseltine collection have been on
view at the galleries of Gimpel & Wildenstein.
One particularly fine example was No. io in
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