International studio (54.1914/1915)

American Artists in Paris


PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DRISCOLL, D.S.O.

BY MAX BOHM

pleasure to see. The stacks and fields covered
with snow are seen in strong sunlight and is a
great tour de force. The boldness, the vitality,
the brilliancy displayed, make it a big work. His
only limitation is a leaning too far in this direc-
tion, and a consequent lack of delicacy and of
subtlety.
Brown is a native of Illinois and from the
Art Students’ League, New York, followed the
trend of the art students to Paris, where he en-
tered Julien’s, and for two and a half years re-
ceived instruction from J. P. Laurens. He ex-
hibits in the Chicago Art Institute, Carnegie In-
stitute, Philadelphia Academy, Academy of De-
sign, etc., and in the two Paris salons. He is rep-
resented in the permanent collection in the
Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Elizabeth Nourse, who is the rival of her com-
patriot Mary Cassatt in the painting of mothers
and children, who, like her, has lived many
years in Paris and has received many decora-
tions and honours, was not represented in the
Salon des Beaux Arts this year except by two
drawings and two water-colours. She had a very
severe illness last winter, and did not touch a
brush for months. The picture here represented
was painted in the Spring too late to send to the
Salon. In it one sees no effect of her long illness,
no weakening of her powers, rather an added vig-
our and spontaneity, a looseness of touch, which
distinguishes her present from her former works.
In the lack of “posing,” the seizing of a happy
moment, the freedom of expression, she has
never been more successful. In the placing

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