International studio (60.1916/1917)

In the Galleries

Galleries of Lewis &" Simmons
JAMES STUART, DUKE OF RICHMOND AND LENOX
BY VAN DYCK


an advanced age; he had little success during
his youth but for about ten years he has been
recognized as one of the great modern artists of
France. His knowledge of the technique of lithog-
raphy must have been very thorough for he had
entire command over his medium. The most
delicate lines are contrasted against heavy dark
masses. He used, as perhaps no other lithog-
rapher, all the gamut of tones from silvery greys
to rich intense blacks. With this technical skill
he was able to give form to the visions of his
imagination and to make them live. He was one
of those rare, sensitive artists like William Blake
and our own Albert P. Ryder. This sensitiveness
is what has given Odilon Redon a unique position
among modern romanticists. Bryson Burroughs’
paintings make an interesting contrast to the
Redon lithographs, for Burroughs is a classicist
by temperament. His work is essentially orderly,
well planned, with charm which is not the less

real because it is in a measure intellectual. Dur-
ing February Mr. Field will show illustrations to
Shakespeare—the Hamlet lithographs of Dela-
croix and the Othello etchings of Chasseriau.
There will also be shown paintings by ultra-
modernists.
George Inness has never been so much on view
as of late, with a splendid show at the Ainslie
Galleries, Dudensing and the Reinhardt Galler-
ies, all of which display excellent examples.
On view at the Arlington Galleries, also, is a
superb Inness done when he was a young man,
but presaging his future greatness. At these gal-
leries, too, there has been an exhibition of the
water-colour portraitist, Elinor M. Barnard, who
understands this baffling medium very thoroughly
and who also knows how to obtain a likeness with-
out straining it unduly. Sanguine drawings of
children’s heads by Dorothy Swinburne McNamee
reappear at the Goupil Galleries and show inter-
esting development of talents that are not allowed
to rust or rest.
Mr. Raymond Wyer, who conducts a bureau of
advice upon paintings for this magazine, has been
giving gallery talks at the Detroit Museum' to
study clubs, business men, teachers and pupils,
art students and others. His experience in form-
ing collections of ancient and modern paintings
give authority to his talks and it is to be hoped

Galleries of Lewis & Simmons
QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA BY VAN DYCK


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