International studio (60.1916/1917)

In the Galleries


PORTRAIT BUST OF BY FREDERICK W.
REV. ABRAHAM MITRIE RIHBANY ALLEN

An institute, the Bar Harbor Print Room, was
founded a year ago by Mr. A. E. Gallatin and
has made a very successful debut, thanks to his
untiring efforts and the assistance of Mr. Fitzroy
Carrington, Mr. Edward Robinson and others.
This summer was marked by a fine exhibition of
Whistler etchings and lithographs held during
August in the Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Har-
bor, Maine, where the print room is installed.
Until the twenty-second of this month the
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh are on view at
the Carnegie Institute. One of the interesting
features at the Seventh Annual Exhibition of this
Association will be a room devoted to the work
of George W. Sotter. This follows the custom
adopted some years ago, the late Joseph R.
Woodwell, chairman of the Art Committee of the
Carnegie Institute being the first to have the
honour conferred upon him, the others being H.
L. Hildebrandt, New York, L. G. Seyffert, Phila-
delphia, and Christ Walter, Pittsburgh.
Attleboro, Mass., is turning out artists who
are converting promise into performance. We
have in mind C. Arnold Slade, the painter, the
hero of many successful exhibitions, and the

sculptor, Frederick W. Allen, who passed from
the studios of C. B. Hazelton and W. W. Man-
natt to Boston and Bela L. Pratt. After picking
up an armful of prizes he went to Julien and
Colorossi and is now a teacher at the Museum of
Fine Arts School. Allen has done one of the
three reliefs on the Evans Memorial Building of
the Museum in fellowship with Bela Pratt and
Recchia. An excellent female torso was so ad-
mired by the Boston Art Club that they acquired
it. Reproduced here is his strongly modelled
head of Rev. Abraham Mitrie Rihbany.
A group of men under the direction of the
Philadelphia Art Federation are exhibiting in the
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, from Novem-
ber io to December io. Among the painters in
this group are Childe Hassam, ever faithful dis-
ciple of Manet, Hayley Lever, Charles W. Eaton,
Philip L. Hale, Birge Harrison, C. W. Hawthorne,
Robert Henri, Henry Salem Hubbell, Jonas Lie,
Leonard Ochtman, Robert Spencer and J. Alden
Weir.
Since September i, Miss Helen Taylor has
assumed the curatorship of the Montclair Art
Museum, and during October there was a capi-
tal display of paintings by Karl Anderson, Gif-
ford Beal, George Bellows, D. Putnam Brinley,
Clarence K. Chatterton, Randall Davey, Robert
Henri, Leon Kroll, Charles Reiffel, Leopold G.
Seyffert and Allen Tucker. Besides paintings
there was favrile glass turned out by the
Tiffany furnaces from designs by Louis C.
Tiffany and some very attractive tapestries from
the Herter looms.
Museums grow apace. The latest arrival is
the Chester Museum at Chester, Pennsylvania,
the gift of Mr. Alfred 0. Deshong; a marble
structure, Italian renaissance style built by Clar-
ence W. Brazer and containing seven fine gal-
leries.
It has just come to our attention that a great
and beneficial change is developing in the or-
ganization known as the Art Alliance of America.
They have at length discovered that to carry
out with any success the policy to which they
are committed they need new and vigorous
blood, “corpuscles that shout” in the place of
“corpuscles that whisper,” and it may be an-
nounced that the man to wave the banner of the
alliance in future is Mr. W. Frank Purdy of the
Gorham Galleries, whose energy and knowledge
of art are open secrets to all who of late years

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