International studio (60.1916/1917)

America's First Lithograph

Felicie Waldo Howell exhibited a number of
paintings in gouache, such as Prince Street, Alex-
andria, Va., and Reflections, that were admirable
in tonal quality and touched with a confidence
born of knowledge, as did Miss Jane Peterson
working in the same medium, as seen in her Street
in Edgartown. Miss Arrah Lee Gaul’s contribu-
tions included aquarelles of some old world nooks,
especially Street Scene, Lavello, that were extreme-
ly good in colour and Miss Emma Mendenhall
was equally felicitous in her picture entitled The
Evening Bulletin. Mr. Chas. W. Hudson showed
some of his inimitable paintings of Pine Trees,
Colin Campbell Cooper some views of San Diego
Exposition, Henry R. Rittenberg, Leon Kroll and
Baruch Feldman contributed well-drawn and
coloured nudes. Eugene Castello.
AMERICA’S FIRST LITHOGRAPH
BY H. MERIAN ALLEN
One visiting that venerable and
historic group of buildings in Inde-
pendence Square, Philadelphia, comes into de-
lightful contact with Youth in Old Age, for he
finds that they and their contents are alive with
glowing anticipations of to-day’s achievements.
As an instance, in the rooms of the ancient
American Philosophical Society, in the minute
book, there is a note, under date of May 7,1819,
stating that the first lithographic stone in the
United States “was loaned to Dr. Brown and
Mr. Otis for the purpose of making experiments
in the arts of Lithographing and Engraving.”
But there is no other record concerning this
stone, and, as far as is known, it was never re-
turned to the Society. In any event, it is not
there now.
Further research discloses the century-old
Philadelphia magazine Analectic, for July of
1819, in which appears an account of this missing
link in the evolution of the lithograph. The
print, as here reproduced, is first given there and
an article tells that “from beginning to end” the
design and execution of this somewhat bucolic
and wholly placid scene were the work of a city
artist, B. Otis, assisted by an Alabama scientist,
Dr. Samuel Brown, and upon a stone brought
from Munich.
After this first attempt these two pioneers,
recognizing the disadvantage of going across the
sea for material and feeling sure that limestone


NUDE

BY BARUCH FELDMAN


LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
A CHARCOAL

BY LEOPOLD G.
SEYFFERT

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