International studio (58.1916)

Pennsylvania, hi


THE BROOK: AUTUMN

BY CHARLES ROSEN

about the only nude
on exhibition. The
unclad lady is losing
her appeal in Phila-
delphia, it seems.
Amongst the
younger character
seekers of the type
of Du Bois, Luks,
Myers, Sloan and
Theresa Bernstein
must be reckoned
Elizabeth Eyre
with a couple of
entertaining paint-
ings entitled Wal-
dorf Grill and The
Upper Box. The
latter is especially
commendable,
painted in a low
key, the figures sil-
houetted from a

Jonas Lie searches for luminosity and attains
it in a high degree. Hayley Lever uses the sea
as dancing partner to his boats, and a very
rhythmic dance they perform together. Charles
H. Woodbury is another strong marine painter
well represented at all important exhibitions.
A very luscious painting stands to the credit
of George Oberteuffer, representing a harbour
scene in Trouville with a white cafe and the
channel boat as main ingredients. The picture
is delightfully naive and spontaneous, full of light
and action, handled in the simplest manner with
no sleight-of-hand tricks of technique. It is an
A B C of outdoor painting and a reproach to
the laboured material to be seen in thousands of
canvases which perform their monotonous pil-
grimage to the different shrines of art through-
out the country.
Still-life subjects abound. A large canvas by
Jonas Lie repeats his recent triumph at Brook-
lyn with a similar composition of flowers admir-
ably conceived and executed. Hugh H. Breck-
enridge has made royal use of purple as apologist
of the humble eggplant, which now takes an
honoured place amongst other edibles dear to
art, ranging from onions to Columbia salmon.
The same artist also shows a well-constructed
nude in prismatic hues, memorable as being

EDWARD T. STOTESBURY,'ESQ. BY AURELIUS RENZETTI


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