International studio (57.1915/1916)

The Work of Mario Korbel and Walter D. Goldbeck

THE RED FAN BY WALTER DEAN GOLDBECK


seems to satisfy so many artists and their sitters
now-a-days. In Mr. McCormack’s picture, the in-
terest is centred on the jovial face, with its pene-
trating deep-set eyes, while a fur coat is happily
used to hide outlines that might otherwise have
been disturbing. The more or less conventional
portrait of Mrs. Ray Dennis, in a black evening
dress, is distinguished by a harmonious com-
bination of grace and dignity, qualities which
are even more apparent in the picture of the
artist’s mother, perhaps the most complete and
most satisfactory of all of Goldbeck’s portraits.
It is not a brilliant experiment, nor a dazzling
exercise in colour, it is an aristocratic canvas

done with great knowledge, deep insight and
reverent love—qualities that invest it with a
rare feeling of permanence.
Goldbeck’s eye is unclouded by a recollection
of the old masters, and not blinded by the
pyrotechnics of modern experimentalists, though
in his studies in Germany and France and later on
in America, he has come in contact with revolu-
tionary spirits. He escaped their influence with
his strong individuality intact, merely stimulated,
refreshed, and broadened. The Red Fan is a
masterful, daring symphony in red, the broad
dashing brushwork not obliterating the basis of
solid draftsmanship, a splendid arrangement of

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