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Nr. 237 (November, 1916)
DOI Artikel:In the galleries
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In the Galleries
STATUETTES BY FREDERICK W. ALLEN AT THE GUILD OF BOSTON ARTISTS
TN THE GALLERIES
1 Once more an art season commences and
from all sides one hears optimistic forecasts,
but it is premature to hazard any opinion
so early, as the season is yet in its fledgling state,
many of the galleries still showing their summer
exhibition or else watchfully waiting until New
Yorkers have returned to town.
The recent demise of Mr. Cushing has given the
occasion for a comprehensive display of his work
at the Knoedler galleries. All honour to the dec-
orative sense so marked in all the canvases, but
in spite of the pleasure that they afford it is im-
possible to deny a certain feeling of dryness and
lack of vitality which stand between them and
great art. No one, however, could escape the
charm of his still-lives where the tactile values
have been so admirably enforced and the monot-
onous feeling of just a table and jar, or any similar
combination, has been so wonderfully obviated
by the introduction of a spray of orchid or other
blossom in just the right tone and just the right
place. Full of delicate fancy and pleasant colour
is the series of aquarium decorations, not quite
completed.
A very rich repast rewarded last month the
visitor to the Montross gallery, where the bal-
ance was evenly maintained between very new
art where the subject is guesswork or non-existent
and the work of men who feel it necessary to
paint objects that are recognizable as such. Gif-
ford Beal with Circus Day, his brother Reynolds
Beal with a very decorative reminiscence of Cape
Cod and a strongly characterized Bagpiper by
Randall Davey, much in advance of his former
Portuguese studies, not forgetting a clear-skinned,
Henner-haired smiling lass by George Bellows,
entitled Suzanne, are all memorable canvases.
Du Bois had some cleverly cynical studies of
men and women of unusual type; his ladies a
little wooden at times; and George Alfred Wil-
liams, Claggett Wilson, George F. Of were well
represented. Leon Kroll, too, had a stunning
canvas entitled Two Rivers, though in point of
composition he knew at the start how impossible
it is to centre a town and flank it on each side
by a river, without the picture appearing
“ choppy.” It is almost a triptych in arrangement.
The galleries of Mr. Daniel look very inviting
quite apart from the choice things he is showing
where quality is the keynote of acceptance. With
his excellent rooms we ought to see many good
exhibitions between now and June.
Jo Davidson’s bust of the President (on page
xxxi) on exhibition at the Reinhardt galleries, is the
only occasion that sittings have been given to a
sculptor by Mr. Wilson. Besides being an excel-
lent portrait, it is rendered with equal breadth
and simplicity. It is the portrait of our President
as his admirers conceive him to be and techni-
cally it is a very fine work.
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STATUETTES BY FREDERICK W. ALLEN AT THE GUILD OF BOSTON ARTISTS
TN THE GALLERIES
1 Once more an art season commences and
from all sides one hears optimistic forecasts,
but it is premature to hazard any opinion
so early, as the season is yet in its fledgling state,
many of the galleries still showing their summer
exhibition or else watchfully waiting until New
Yorkers have returned to town.
The recent demise of Mr. Cushing has given the
occasion for a comprehensive display of his work
at the Knoedler galleries. All honour to the dec-
orative sense so marked in all the canvases, but
in spite of the pleasure that they afford it is im-
possible to deny a certain feeling of dryness and
lack of vitality which stand between them and
great art. No one, however, could escape the
charm of his still-lives where the tactile values
have been so admirably enforced and the monot-
onous feeling of just a table and jar, or any similar
combination, has been so wonderfully obviated
by the introduction of a spray of orchid or other
blossom in just the right tone and just the right
place. Full of delicate fancy and pleasant colour
is the series of aquarium decorations, not quite
completed.
A very rich repast rewarded last month the
visitor to the Montross gallery, where the bal-
ance was evenly maintained between very new
art where the subject is guesswork or non-existent
and the work of men who feel it necessary to
paint objects that are recognizable as such. Gif-
ford Beal with Circus Day, his brother Reynolds
Beal with a very decorative reminiscence of Cape
Cod and a strongly characterized Bagpiper by
Randall Davey, much in advance of his former
Portuguese studies, not forgetting a clear-skinned,
Henner-haired smiling lass by George Bellows,
entitled Suzanne, are all memorable canvases.
Du Bois had some cleverly cynical studies of
men and women of unusual type; his ladies a
little wooden at times; and George Alfred Wil-
liams, Claggett Wilson, George F. Of were well
represented. Leon Kroll, too, had a stunning
canvas entitled Two Rivers, though in point of
composition he knew at the start how impossible
it is to centre a town and flank it on each side
by a river, without the picture appearing
“ choppy.” It is almost a triptych in arrangement.
The galleries of Mr. Daniel look very inviting
quite apart from the choice things he is showing
where quality is the keynote of acceptance. With
his excellent rooms we ought to see many good
exhibitions between now and June.
Jo Davidson’s bust of the President (on page
xxxi) on exhibition at the Reinhardt galleries, is the
only occasion that sittings have been given to a
sculptor by Mr. Wilson. Besides being an excel-
lent portrait, it is rendered with equal breadth
and simplicity. It is the portrait of our President
as his admirers conceive him to be and techni-
cally it is a very fine work.
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