International studio (60.1916/1917)

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ITALIAN FISHING BOATS, GLOUCESTER

BY HAYLEY LEVER

HILADELPHIA ART CLUB
EXHIBITION, 1916
A very liberal view of what consti-
tutes the art of painting must have
guided the jury of selection of the Nineteenth An-
nual Exhibition of Water Colours, Pastels and
Black and Whites at the Art Club of Phila-
delphia, recently drawn to a close. The col-
lection of works shown was not as large as
usual, one hundred and forty-four altogether,
but was fairly representative of the different
methods of expression of the artistic tem-
perament, including much that is absolutely
modern in facture and also an appreciable quan-
tity holding to the precedent of yesterday. The
effect of the whole show might have been im-
proved by a little more attention to grouping of
the works bearing some relation to each other
either by the same artist or several working on
the same lines. This was, perhaps, counterbal-
anced by the avoidance of skyed pictures and

happy spacing of each contribution, affording a
neutral background offsetting the artist’s work,
to its great advantage, the limited number of
works accepted enabling the hanging committee
to give all a fair chance of being studied sepa-
rately. Ten portraits in charcoal by Mr. Leopold
Seyffert, of musical artists, well known in the
concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra, were hung
in a group in the place of honour at one end of
the gallery, while by contrast Mr. Birge Harri-
son’s picture entitled Sunburst at Sea occupied a
similar place at the other end. Mr. Hayley Lever
was represented by two aquarelles Marblehead,
Mass.,anA Italian Fishing Boats, Gloucester, that
were capital renditions of the essentials of such
scenes and not photographic copies of nature.
Miss Alice Schille also showed some works in the
same medium that have delightful chromatic in-
terest, as in her Sun and Sails and Bad Weather
Coming, and Mrs. Clara N. Madeira in her Re-
flections of fishing boats attains success in a
slightly different way of handling colour. Miss


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