International studio (55.1915)

The Architectural League of New York

izes this painter’s work. We feel quite sure that
they are in keeping with their environment, the
first point to be scored in a mural decoration.
Milton Bancroft exhibits a series of carefully
composed studies for the Court of the Seasons,
while Childe Hassam shows a colourful sketch for
one of a series of lunettes now in place. Edward
Simmons’ preliminary study is too tentative for
a just criticism, and Robert Reid shows a
series of panels for a dome which are somewhat
involved in design but very beautiful in colour.
The east wall of this gallery is dominated by a
pentaptych of painted panels on wood by J. Wil-
liam Fosdick, illustrative of the life of Joan of Arc.
Robert Chanler exhibits a large panel executed
in his own process of lacquer work. A very hand-
some section of wall decoration is that of Barry
Faulkner, who has called into use oriental meth-
ods of massing colour and gold with the intimate
sense of the true craftsman. Thomas Watson
Ball shows an admirable set of mediaeval panels
for a baptismal font.
W. T. Benda’s sections of a frieze, The Oriental
Dance and The Modern Dance, while excellent
drawings of themselves, are possibly more illustra-
tive than decorative. A mediaeval choristers
triptych by Taber Sears is tonally beautiful, fine
in spirit and good in composition.
Frances W. Vreeland exhibits a study of wall
decorations for the Washington High School, and
Bert G. Phillips a lunette, Hospitality, a thor-
oughly decorative arrangement of Indian life.
Ralph M. Calder exhibits the,elaborately deco-
orative loggia of the art gallery in the home of
Mr. Thomas F. Ryan, and Hugo Ballin a
sketch for an end wall in a church vestry.
Feon V. Solon’s study for a faience wall is as
consistently worked out in the spirit of the primi-
tives as are Alexander Bonnano’s fine ceiling
studies in that of Tiepolo.
Designs for wall decorations by Mina Fay ex-
hibit a thorough knowledge of the restrictions de-
manded by this method of design. Frank P. Fair-
banks’ large decoration for the Southern Adminis-
tration Building shows negro cotton gatherers in
the field surrounded by great masses of cotton
bales.
A decorative panel of inlaid woods by Frank
Brangwyn is characteristically vigorous in compo-
sition. Francis Newton exhibits a series of deco-
rations for the residence of J. D. Rockefeller, Jr.
For the decoration of a summer home nothing

A FOUNTAIN DESIGN

BY A. A. WEINMAN


could be more charming than Arthur Crisp’s over-
mantel panel, with its refined play of colour.
William Laurel Harris has demonstrated his
facility of expression with various mediums in his
decorative panels and frames.
Nicola d’Ascenzo is represented by several
studies for stained glass, while admirable decora-
tive designs, also for glass, are shown by William
Willett, Annie Lee Willett and Mrs. Parrish.
New Canaan, Connecticut, is to have a well-
composed decoration by Charles E. Hubbell.
Leon V. Solon’s ecclesiastical decorations in
faience must be mentioned, as well as Clement
Heaton’s designs for five windows to be placed in
a Swiss church. Robert K. Ryland exhibits a
design for an over-mantel, entitled, The Nymph of
the Pool. Louis Valiant’s panel of well-balanced
vine and child forms is essentially decorative.
When an average easel painter gazes at the
colossal projects evolved by the students of the
American Academy of Rome, he sometimes won-
ders if his own field of effort is not a narrow one.
These almost limitless projects, wherein archi-
tecture, sculpture and painting go hand in hand,

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