International studio (54.1914/1915)

In the Galleries

Courtesy the Montross Galleries
THE WEST INDIAN GIRL BY CHILDE HASSAM


IN THE GALLERIES
Though New York’s art season does not
blossom until Christmas has come and gone,
the buds appear in plenty during November
and the current month. The most important
event so far has been the opening of the Benjamin
Altman collection to the public at the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art. Such a splendid showing of
Rembrandts and other treasures cannot be
touched upon lightly, and must be reserved for a
future occasion. An interesting one-man show is
that of Robert Henri at the Macbeth Galleries.
A sojourn in the West has furnished new types to
replace his Irish, and among our illustrations is
Tam Gan, whose nationality leaves no room for
doubt. Indians, negroes, Chinese, have sat to him,
and the exhibition is wonderfully effective, a glow
of rich colour decoratively and forcefully applied.
The Academy of Design is beautifully hung

with over five hundred water-colour drawings,
which will be noticed later.
The attractive galleries of Goupil & Co. have
had on view the work of Airs, de Loria Norman
and son. His tender years excuse his perform-
ance. Mrs. Norman’s work is very uneven, some
of the smaller sketches being pleasantly executed
in oil and water-colour, while her larger work of
imaginative quality lacks spontaneity and charm
of colour. The piece de resistance is a splendid
bronze by Bagatti, entitled Dix Minutes de Repos,
in which a big string of draught horses are enjoying
a brief interval of rest, while dragging a huge block
of marble. The grouping of the horses and the
pressure of the load upon the axles is an achieve-
ment. In the same galleries is a display of wood-
cuts by the talented wife of Mr. Austen Brown,
whose work is well known at the different in-
ternational exhibitions. Mrs. Austen Brown
achieves distinction by her great charm of colour

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