International studio (54.1914/1915)

In the Galleries

A MINIATURE BY STELLA LEWIS MARKS


paintings, a canvas 40 x 45, which he called
IPEncore, and which in colour was a charming
harmony of delicate tints with Much graceful
movement. The picture was seen in this city
last season, at the Municipal Art Galleries on
Irving Place, at the exhibition of the Allied Art-
ists. Subsequently it went to the display at
Toronto, where it was officially purchased, to-
gether with the original sketch and the studies
for it. Mr. Crisp some years ago executed several
mural decorations for the Belasco Theatre in New
York, and he has done other wall embellishment
in connection with the architects of several city
and suburban dwellings. He has also done much
illustrating for the magazines, and has been repre-
sented in most of the exhibitions throughout the
country. Many of his pictures have been of
ballet dancers.
The miniature reproduced here is the work of a
young Australian artist, Stella Lewis Marks, who,
with her husband, a landscapist, has come to this
country to stay. Mrs. Marks is a portrait painter,
too, which explains the broad treatment accorded

to her ivory. If sitters would only
allow it, the miniature might be a
really artistic little painting, instead
of being, as it so often is, a toy, just
a pretty little dolled-up photograph.
They intend to hold an exhibition
later in the season. Meanwhile Stella
Marks is busy at her first American
commission, the little daughter of
Mr. Ordway Partridge, the well-
known sculptor.
Oscar Fehrer, who has recently re-
turned from a long sojourn abroad,
has been exhibiting at the Reinhardt
Galleries and the MacDowell Club,
besides at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D. C. A glance
at the reproduction of his Girl in a
Garden will show clearer than words
his peculiar and characteristic tech-
nique, along with his great decora-
tive sense. His manner of laying on
his paint in short, parallel strokes, in
beautiful gradations of tone, lends a
vibrant character to his pictures,
which makes them intensely vital
and entertaining. His backgrounds
are garden or woodland.
Worch, of Paris, on Fifth Avenue,
opposite the Public Library, has at this time of
writing arranged for a one-man exhibition of the
recent workof Augustus Vincent Tack. The No-
vember number of Ti-ie International Studio
discussed this exceptional work in an article by
Jessie Lemont, entitled “Old Subjects in New
Vestments,” giving four full-page illustrations.
Besides these four big subjects, some twenty land-
scapes painted in a similar manner are to be shown.
The Ehrich Galleries have been exhibiting sev-
enteenth-and eighteenth-century French paintings
of great interest. Messrs. Ehrich, on their last
trip abroad, secured two delightful Rigaud por-
trait groups, Hyacinthe Rigaud’s own family and
self, and his brother Jacques’ family. These can-
vases have come direct from the Rigaud family.
Some portraits by Vigee Lebrun, some Van Loos
and an unusual Fragonard, the head of an Apostle,
made the display particularly attractive.
In the Print Room above, Ehrich Brotheis ex-
hibited the work of Rozel Oertle Butler, paintings
of California and Mexico. Some of the simple
landscapes without figures, such as Phantom

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