International studio (57.1915/1916)

With the Portraitists and Elsewhere


amuse the eye; every
school seems to have rep-
resentation. What could
be stranger than an ancient
Sargent of dirty yellow but
splendid characterisation,
side by side with the pris-
matic canvas of Johansen,
or the smashing colour of
Bellows’s portrait, where
the brilliant yellow and
green offset by dark pur-
ples react on a new set
of faculties,' those of sen-
suous emotion, rather than
those of intellect which
always accompany signifi-
cant form. The portrait
is of secondary interest in
the violent appeal of colour
about the chair and in the
hangings.
An invitation to John
Sloan resulted in a Ma-
tisse-Gauguin product, en-
titled Doris and Sally,
which, though amusing,
hardly accorded with its

MRS. LEICESTER LEWIS

BY HELEN-M. TURNER

ITH THE PORTRAITISTS AND
ELSEWHERE
“Here we have no abiding city,”
must apply to any body of exhibitors
who are to-day in New York, to-morrow in
Chicago and next day in Rochester.
The National Association of Portrait Painters
are at present performing these quick changes.
When in New York, however, they should have
fixed quarters, and not be forced to wander about
looking for a desirable pitch. This year’s quarters
in the Vanderbilt Gallery of the Academy was a
great improvement on some previous years, and
might well be made into a permanent fixture until
they shall acquire a temple of portraiture all their
own. The feeling that assails one in this year’s
circuit, is the extraordinary variety of viewpoint
and technique; the lion and the lamb are in ac-
cord. Contrasts of all kinds meet and please or


YOUNG GIRL BY EARL STETSON CRAWFORD


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