International studio (61.1917)

The Introspecthves

Painters, Jacques R. Chesno’s beautiful little
studies showed the unmistakeable influence of
Kopman; and as fine as anything in the exhibi-
tion were the fans of Felix Russmann, whose sense
for delicate meticulous design suggested affinity
with Buck at his best. Van Deering Perrine con-
tributed several of his unique “colour-orchestra-
tions,” Poems of Childhood he calls them, in which
he is successfully realizing himself and which have
been attracting attention for several years. And
Robert Laurent is a young sculptor in wood, who
exhibited earlier in the winter at the Daniel Gal-
leries, who knows the art of Europe, of the Orient
and of primitive peoples, and who evidences a keen
sensibility to design and to the grotesque behind
phenomena in nature.
Among the thirty young painters in the
Knoedler show, a group of two Welshmen and one

Irishman, none long in America, stood out for the
flavour of Augustus John they brought with them;
his concern for decoration in itself, his peculiar
love for line and rhythm and a certain smacking
of the “ auld sod ” and the elements. Their names
are: James Wynne Parry, Evan J. Walters and
Henry Dixon. Markedly decorative and inter-
esting, as well as imaginative was the work of
Robert C. Doran, a prize winner in the last com-
petition given by Friends of the Young Artists.
Although his palette may have been somewhat
monotonous, Richard B. Coolidge gave evidence
of uncommon poetic quality, power to organize
and sense of rhythm. Agnes Pelton, Olive Rush
and Tora Wilberforce come to mind for extreme
delicacy of feeling. And William Zorach succeeds
in conveying on canvas what he expresses in his
statement.

Exhibited, at the Knoedler Galleries,
DECORATION BY AGNES PELTON


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