DOI Heft:
Nr. 231 (May 1916)
DOI Artikel:Springtime at the academy
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43461#0304
Springtime at the Academy
THE STROLLERS BY ARTHUR CRISP
new stuff, what about the old?” The challenge
should go rewarded for it is a fine piece of work
and would grace any collection of modern paint-
ings.
Frieseke’s Hammock is a joyous affair, blues,
greens and reflected lights pointing the moral of
splendid analysis. Another plein-air canvas of
great merit is by Howard Giles, the figure being
excellently surrounded and a living part of the
landscape. Jonas Lie was represented by a fine
luminous subject depicting afternoon lights on a
frozen river. The ice quality has been superbly
observed. Childe Hassam rendered afternoon
sunshine in an autumnal landscape with his usual
cleverness which, however, does not include his
figure work which continues to be the nigger in
the Hassam woodpile.
Howard Russell Butler showed a surging sea
bursting grandly upon the rocks, a dramatic if
somewhat spotty achievement. Ritschel’s Cali-
fornian picture is a riot of action and colour,
shewing a deep study of ocean’s moods. Like
old port it will improve with keeping, for it needs
a little of the kindly mellowing influence of time.
Pictures calling for special notice in other gal-
leries were a couple by Roy Brown, richly deco-
rative, very simple in pattern and of good tonal
quality. One, unfortunately, was badly hung.
Max Bohm showed one of his large decorations
with a new old-world feeling in it. Two women
and a child walking perilously near the edge of
a cliff dropping abruptly to the sea beneath.
Whilst admiring the picture one cannot help
fearing that the child, seemingly some eighteen
inches from the danger point, will disappear from
view. Lester Boronda had two good pictures, both
skied, one a moonlight, the other a figure piece.
A very amusing burlesque on serious work was
offered in George Bellow’s The Sawdust Trail.
The lemon-coloured ladies in different stages of
religious fervour being propped up or ambulanced
out by male enthusiasts helped to make up a
very entertaining canvas full of clever painting
and observation. William B. Closson showed
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THE STROLLERS BY ARTHUR CRISP
new stuff, what about the old?” The challenge
should go rewarded for it is a fine piece of work
and would grace any collection of modern paint-
ings.
Frieseke’s Hammock is a joyous affair, blues,
greens and reflected lights pointing the moral of
splendid analysis. Another plein-air canvas of
great merit is by Howard Giles, the figure being
excellently surrounded and a living part of the
landscape. Jonas Lie was represented by a fine
luminous subject depicting afternoon lights on a
frozen river. The ice quality has been superbly
observed. Childe Hassam rendered afternoon
sunshine in an autumnal landscape with his usual
cleverness which, however, does not include his
figure work which continues to be the nigger in
the Hassam woodpile.
Howard Russell Butler showed a surging sea
bursting grandly upon the rocks, a dramatic if
somewhat spotty achievement. Ritschel’s Cali-
fornian picture is a riot of action and colour,
shewing a deep study of ocean’s moods. Like
old port it will improve with keeping, for it needs
a little of the kindly mellowing influence of time.
Pictures calling for special notice in other gal-
leries were a couple by Roy Brown, richly deco-
rative, very simple in pattern and of good tonal
quality. One, unfortunately, was badly hung.
Max Bohm showed one of his large decorations
with a new old-world feeling in it. Two women
and a child walking perilously near the edge of
a cliff dropping abruptly to the sea beneath.
Whilst admiring the picture one cannot help
fearing that the child, seemingly some eighteen
inches from the danger point, will disappear from
view. Lester Boronda had two good pictures, both
skied, one a moonlight, the other a figure piece.
A very amusing burlesque on serious work was
offered in George Bellow’s The Sawdust Trail.
The lemon-coloured ladies in different stages of
religious fervour being propped up or ambulanced
out by male enthusiasts helped to make up a
very entertaining canvas full of clever painting
and observation. William B. Closson showed
xc