DOI issue:
No. 208 (June, 1914)
DOI article:B. Nelson, W. H. de: Pittsburgh international, 1914
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INTERNATIONAL
STUDIO
VOL. Lil. No. 208 Copyright, 1914, by John Lane Company JUNE, 1914
PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL,
1914
BY W. H. de B. NELSON
The season of American art, limited
by custom and convenience to the period extend-
ing from November to the end of May, meets with
its apotheosis at Pittsburgh, after which the grim
message of Shipka Pass, “All is Still,” is appli-
cable to the reign of art, until once more winter
resumes its interrupted sway. The Eighteenth
Annual Exhibition, so eagerly awaited and specu-
lated upon by painters, critics, art lovers and col-
lectors has shown once more the immense prestige
of the Carnegie Institute and its colossal import-
ance as America’s only Salon, the supreme tri-
bunal of art in the Western Hemisphere. Pitts-
burgh has no rival city; New York sinks into
insignificance beside it; it is the one and only loca-
tion in America where once a year are congregated
in a harmonious ensemble the best examples
obtainable of national and foreign art. No pre-
vious show has succeeded in presenting so many
exceptionally good canvases and Director J. W.
Beatty deserves the fullest recognition for his
untiring zeal and discretion in presenting a display
of wTork so convincingly representative of the best
painting that is being accomplished at home and
abroad. Very noticeable is the fact that the
young painters have been given opportunity.
There is a distinctly vital and vigorous impression
imparted by the different galleries and wholesome
absence in a great measure of those tedious mon-
sters known as exhibition pictures, and of those
academically painted ever-recurring theses which
point to stagnation in art and induce apathy and
indifference in the minds of the discerning public.
The impression gained at private view and in-
creased by subsequent visits, is an impression of
fresh, spontaneous art, of the kind that reacts on
the beholder, forming in imagination an intimate
bond of thought between him and the artist.
Courtesy to the stranger would induce one to
mention foreign performances first, even if no
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THE SOUTH WIND
BY ROBERT ANNING BELL
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STUDIO
VOL. Lil. No. 208 Copyright, 1914, by John Lane Company JUNE, 1914
PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL,
1914
BY W. H. de B. NELSON
The season of American art, limited
by custom and convenience to the period extend-
ing from November to the end of May, meets with
its apotheosis at Pittsburgh, after which the grim
message of Shipka Pass, “All is Still,” is appli-
cable to the reign of art, until once more winter
resumes its interrupted sway. The Eighteenth
Annual Exhibition, so eagerly awaited and specu-
lated upon by painters, critics, art lovers and col-
lectors has shown once more the immense prestige
of the Carnegie Institute and its colossal import-
ance as America’s only Salon, the supreme tri-
bunal of art in the Western Hemisphere. Pitts-
burgh has no rival city; New York sinks into
insignificance beside it; it is the one and only loca-
tion in America where once a year are congregated
in a harmonious ensemble the best examples
obtainable of national and foreign art. No pre-
vious show has succeeded in presenting so many
exceptionally good canvases and Director J. W.
Beatty deserves the fullest recognition for his
untiring zeal and discretion in presenting a display
of wTork so convincingly representative of the best
painting that is being accomplished at home and
abroad. Very noticeable is the fact that the
young painters have been given opportunity.
There is a distinctly vital and vigorous impression
imparted by the different galleries and wholesome
absence in a great measure of those tedious mon-
sters known as exhibition pictures, and of those
academically painted ever-recurring theses which
point to stagnation in art and induce apathy and
indifference in the minds of the discerning public.
The impression gained at private view and in-
creased by subsequent visits, is an impression of
fresh, spontaneous art, of the kind that reacts on
the beholder, forming in imagination an intimate
bond of thought between him and the artist.
Courtesy to the stranger would induce one to
mention foreign performances first, even if no
wk
! LA .A
** *
J '
j
IL >
. f
THE SOUTH WIND
BY ROBERT ANNING BELL
CV