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MacChesney, Clara T.: American artists in Paris
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American Artists in Paris
FLOWERS BY MYRON BARLOW
the art colonies of Paris and of Etaples. He
came to Paris thirty years ago, and has hewn his
way through many difficulties to numerous hon-
ours and great success. His pictures are well
known on both sides of the Atlantic. Two years
ago, he painted a mural decoration for the library
of the city-hall in Cleveland, Ohio, which city is
his birthplace. The subject is A New England
Town Meeting in Early Days. It is conceded by
all to be a great work. He will shortly execute
another in the vicinity of Boston. His broad,
flat treatment of tones lends itself especially to
mural decoration.
He is one of the few of our artists who renders
his conception from the imaginative side. The
idealization of mothers with groups of children,
with the seashore as a setting, is one of his favourite
subjects. His portraits are never literal nor hack-
neyed, but pictorial in their treatment. In the
portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Driscoll,he is shown
on a battlefield, with a big sweep of sky behind,
which Bohm so loves to paint. On the horizon
line, low in the picture, in the far distance, a few
mounted soldiers are visible. Another successful
portrait, and of his wife, is on exhibition at Shep-
herd’s Bush, and has been shown in America. It
is a harmony of browns and yellows and has the
same big sweep of sky and a low horizon, being of
beach and sea. This, like other of his subjects,
is “braced against the wind,” which gives flowing
lines of great charm.
Bohm is too strong a man to be influenced
by the “blue school” or the post-impressionists.
His work is big, simple, vigorous, like his person-
ality. It is brilliant in colour and original in
treatment.
Never could it be said of Bohm’s work that
it was influenced by the French school, or that he
“seemed anxious to pass a certain examination
standard.” Here, if anywhere, could the Times
critic find signs of American art.
Myron Barlow is one of the oldest residents
in Trepied. A long, one-storied peasant house
he has transformed into a delightful studio. In
its low-ceilinged rooms, or out in the garden where
the poppies glow against the white wall, he poses
his model and gives us The Reader, Flowers, The
Apples, etc. He claims to be one of the first in
the art world to paint blue pictures. These are
high in key, and his figures are generally placed
against a very light or white background. Ver-
meer is the old master whose work he constantly
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FLOWERS BY MYRON BARLOW
the art colonies of Paris and of Etaples. He
came to Paris thirty years ago, and has hewn his
way through many difficulties to numerous hon-
ours and great success. His pictures are well
known on both sides of the Atlantic. Two years
ago, he painted a mural decoration for the library
of the city-hall in Cleveland, Ohio, which city is
his birthplace. The subject is A New England
Town Meeting in Early Days. It is conceded by
all to be a great work. He will shortly execute
another in the vicinity of Boston. His broad,
flat treatment of tones lends itself especially to
mural decoration.
He is one of the few of our artists who renders
his conception from the imaginative side. The
idealization of mothers with groups of children,
with the seashore as a setting, is one of his favourite
subjects. His portraits are never literal nor hack-
neyed, but pictorial in their treatment. In the
portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Driscoll,he is shown
on a battlefield, with a big sweep of sky behind,
which Bohm so loves to paint. On the horizon
line, low in the picture, in the far distance, a few
mounted soldiers are visible. Another successful
portrait, and of his wife, is on exhibition at Shep-
herd’s Bush, and has been shown in America. It
is a harmony of browns and yellows and has the
same big sweep of sky and a low horizon, being of
beach and sea. This, like other of his subjects,
is “braced against the wind,” which gives flowing
lines of great charm.
Bohm is too strong a man to be influenced
by the “blue school” or the post-impressionists.
His work is big, simple, vigorous, like his person-
ality. It is brilliant in colour and original in
treatment.
Never could it be said of Bohm’s work that
it was influenced by the French school, or that he
“seemed anxious to pass a certain examination
standard.” Here, if anywhere, could the Times
critic find signs of American art.
Myron Barlow is one of the oldest residents
in Trepied. A long, one-storied peasant house
he has transformed into a delightful studio. In
its low-ceilinged rooms, or out in the garden where
the poppies glow against the white wall, he poses
his model and gives us The Reader, Flowers, The
Apples, etc. He claims to be one of the first in
the art world to paint blue pictures. These are
high in key, and his figures are generally placed
against a very light or white background. Ver-
meer is the old master whose work he constantly
xxvm