International studio (58.1916)

Studio-Talk


“melting snows”

(Philadelphia Art Club)

BY EDWARD W. REDFIELD

December 12. Thirty-one painters contributed
fifty-eight canvases, a very effective marine by Mr.
William Ritschel hanging in the position of honour
on the main wall of the gallery. The title of this
work, There shall be light, describes it quite well,
for the illumination of the picture of a swirling sea
dashing in sun-tipped waves upon a rock-bound
shore is altogether convincing. Mr. Leopold G.
Seyffert sent a notable example of that supreme
test of a painter’s ability, a study from the nude,
catalogued Reflections, in which the subtle tones of
the flesh and the carefully drawn figure of the
graceful girl are doubled in the mirror in the back-
ground. He also contributed a spirited portrait of
Horatio Connell, a local concert celebrity.
As a painter of American landscape, Mr. E. W.
Redfield has few equals, as one could well see in
two of his works in this exhibition, Melting Snows
and The Foot of the Mountain. Mr. W. Elmer
Schofield stands also well to the fore in this
branch of art, judging from his painting of a sordid
manufacturing village made interesting by the
artistry of his brush. Mr. Wm. H. K. Yarrow
showed a capital character-study of a woman past

middle age, entitled Waiting, and a larger canvas,
The Reflection, a mirror portrait of the artist at
work in his studio. Mr. Emil Carlsen’s contribu-
tion, Woods, Interior, with a scheme of colour in
which the pale greens of the foliage were the
supporting notes, had a decided appeal of a
poetic nature. Mr. Henry B. Snell showed a
number of delightful small pictures of St. Ives.
Mr. Paul King exhibited some good animal
painting with a setting of tender atmospheric
greys, in a work entitled Horse Drinking. Admi-
rable in tonality were Mr. R. B. Farley’s canvases
In the Dunes and River and Sea. Mr. Lazar
Raditz in Anna laughing had a capital bit of
character-painting. There was an excellent,
solidly painted portrait of fohnH. McFadden, Esq.,
former president of the Art Club, by Mr. Henry R.
Rittenberg; of Mrs. Henry B. Pancoast by Mr.
Benedict Osnis; of Mrs. Raditz by Mr. Raditz.
Mr. Birge Harrison presented a picturesque bit of
local scenery in Morning in Philadelphia. Mr.
Alexander Harrison had a good nude figure in
The Model and the Spider, evidently an incident
of studio life. Mr. Parke C. Dougherty’s Misty
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