DOI issue:
Nr. 340 (September 1925)
DOI article:Hamilton, Francis: Artists' homes as they paint them
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0420
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"LIVING ROOM, STOCKBRIDGe" Courtesy of Grand Central Art Galleries BY JOHN C. JOHANSEN
Luxury, an air of splendor, is nowhere to be
remarked in these pictures. The temperament of
a Van Dyke or an Alma Tadema is quite unknown
among American painters, the nearest approach
to that gorgeous type familiar to our native art
world having been the late William M. Chase
whose famous Tenth Street studio was as gor-
geous as his parties were socially splendid. But
that is outside the scope of this article, concerned
only with artists' homes and not their workshops.
Appearance of luxury is a valuable asset to por-
trait painters' studios. Such an artist must be on
the top wave of prosperity in the way of sitters
before he can omit a background of this kind.
Telling luxury is the atmosphere of two rooms
in the country and city homes of John C. Johansen
as pictured in the "Living Room, Stockbridge"
and the "Drawing Room, Town House" by his
clever brush and with his colorful palette. From
floor to ceiling, from window to wall, the Stock-
bridge interior is not only a delight in its easeful
domesticity but also from its draperies at window
and.door, the window-seat with its paneling, table,
reading lamp and handsome restful chairs. Deco-
rative effect has, obviously, been more sought
after than correct hanging in the placing of the
picture above the lamp. When so happy a note
has been achieved, however, why cavil at one
small defect such as this? The drawing room in
the Johansen town house, on Ninth Street, New
York, is a rarely handsome and luxurious apart-
ment for a painter's home. And yet, even here
and in spite of great portieres and the paneled and
pilastered wall beyond with its clustered electric
lights, the true domestic feeling is not absent.
The group at the pianoforte suggests the same
kind of intellectual delight noted in "Girls Read-
ing" by Tarbell. If our painters mix brains with
their colors they also practice the same great
virtue in the making of their homes as these
pictures of them so humanly and charmingly
reveal.
jour Iwenty
september i 9 2 j
"LIVING ROOM, STOCKBRIDGe" Courtesy of Grand Central Art Galleries BY JOHN C. JOHANSEN
Luxury, an air of splendor, is nowhere to be
remarked in these pictures. The temperament of
a Van Dyke or an Alma Tadema is quite unknown
among American painters, the nearest approach
to that gorgeous type familiar to our native art
world having been the late William M. Chase
whose famous Tenth Street studio was as gor-
geous as his parties were socially splendid. But
that is outside the scope of this article, concerned
only with artists' homes and not their workshops.
Appearance of luxury is a valuable asset to por-
trait painters' studios. Such an artist must be on
the top wave of prosperity in the way of sitters
before he can omit a background of this kind.
Telling luxury is the atmosphere of two rooms
in the country and city homes of John C. Johansen
as pictured in the "Living Room, Stockbridge"
and the "Drawing Room, Town House" by his
clever brush and with his colorful palette. From
floor to ceiling, from window to wall, the Stock-
bridge interior is not only a delight in its easeful
domesticity but also from its draperies at window
and.door, the window-seat with its paneling, table,
reading lamp and handsome restful chairs. Deco-
rative effect has, obviously, been more sought
after than correct hanging in the placing of the
picture above the lamp. When so happy a note
has been achieved, however, why cavil at one
small defect such as this? The drawing room in
the Johansen town house, on Ninth Street, New
York, is a rarely handsome and luxurious apart-
ment for a painter's home. And yet, even here
and in spite of great portieres and the paneled and
pilastered wall beyond with its clustered electric
lights, the true domestic feeling is not absent.
The group at the pianoforte suggests the same
kind of intellectual delight noted in "Girls Read-
ing" by Tarbell. If our painters mix brains with
their colors they also practice the same great
virtue in the making of their homes as these
pictures of them so humanly and charmingly
reveal.
jour Iwenty
september i 9 2 j