DOI issue:
Nr. 229 (March 1916)
DOI article:In the galleries
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43461#0112
In the Galleries
Francisco exhibition, that which crowned the
Column of Progress is especially notable; it is
entitled The A dventurous Bowman, and is the work
of H. A. MacNeil. The medal of honour in
sculpture was awarded to Herbert Adams, who
exhibited twenty-five examples of his work,
distinguished in their classic restraint and beauty
of expression. In painting, the medal of honour
went to a Dante window by Violet Oakley, the
symbolism of which was sufficiently obscure to
warrant the hanging, on the frame of the design,
of an analysis of the motifs employed by the
artist. Walter Pater held that all art tended to
approximate the condition of music. He prob-
ably would not have been shocked to find that
painters do not despise the methods of composers
of programme music. Other designs by the
same artist evidence a decorative handling of
masses and a thorough mastery of rich and
mellow colour. Kenyon Cox exhibited some
small sketches and a large reproduction of a
mural in the Senate Chamber of the Capitol of
Wisconsin entitled The Marriage of the Atlantic
and the Pacific, in which the well-known quali-
ties of his art are readily apparent; one might
have wished, despite the beauty of design inher-
ent in this work, that Mr. Cox had chosen a less
formal method of treatment. Distinctive for the
artist’s appreciation of the beauty of modern
science are the designs by W. B. Van Ingen for
a series of murals intended for the Administra-
tion Building at Panama, and having as their
subject the building of the canal. Mr. Van
Ingen chose to represent actual phases of that
titanic task; the results, as he exhibited them,
are both decorative, and expressive of a very
modern beauty quite remote from that com-
monplace academicism which bears little relation
to contemporary life. Equally unconventional
in their treatment are some leaded glass motifs
for the grill-room of the new Yale Club by Harry
Knox Smith, which are symbolical of collegiate
CARIBBEAN FISHERMEN BY CLIFFORD W. ASHLEY
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Francisco exhibition, that which crowned the
Column of Progress is especially notable; it is
entitled The A dventurous Bowman, and is the work
of H. A. MacNeil. The medal of honour in
sculpture was awarded to Herbert Adams, who
exhibited twenty-five examples of his work,
distinguished in their classic restraint and beauty
of expression. In painting, the medal of honour
went to a Dante window by Violet Oakley, the
symbolism of which was sufficiently obscure to
warrant the hanging, on the frame of the design,
of an analysis of the motifs employed by the
artist. Walter Pater held that all art tended to
approximate the condition of music. He prob-
ably would not have been shocked to find that
painters do not despise the methods of composers
of programme music. Other designs by the
same artist evidence a decorative handling of
masses and a thorough mastery of rich and
mellow colour. Kenyon Cox exhibited some
small sketches and a large reproduction of a
mural in the Senate Chamber of the Capitol of
Wisconsin entitled The Marriage of the Atlantic
and the Pacific, in which the well-known quali-
ties of his art are readily apparent; one might
have wished, despite the beauty of design inher-
ent in this work, that Mr. Cox had chosen a less
formal method of treatment. Distinctive for the
artist’s appreciation of the beauty of modern
science are the designs by W. B. Van Ingen for
a series of murals intended for the Administra-
tion Building at Panama, and having as their
subject the building of the canal. Mr. Van
Ingen chose to represent actual phases of that
titanic task; the results, as he exhibited them,
are both decorative, and expressive of a very
modern beauty quite remote from that com-
monplace academicism which bears little relation
to contemporary life. Equally unconventional
in their treatment are some leaded glass motifs
for the grill-room of the new Yale Club by Harry
Knox Smith, which are symbolical of collegiate
CARIBBEAN FISHERMEN BY CLIFFORD W. ASHLEY
XXXII