DOI issue:
No.127 (October, 1903)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0096
Studio- Talk
LANDSCAPE (See San Francisco Studio-Talk) BY FRANCIS McCOMAS
PHILADELPHIA. — The Seventy-second of the painters'work. There were 1128 members
Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania in the catalogue, making one of the largest and
Academy of the Fine Arts, an institution most comprehensive exhibitions that has ever
whose shows are always worthy of careful taken place at the Academy. Some work was
consideration, was especially remarkable for the seen that evidently had been accepted for purely
number and excellence of the works in portraiture personal reasons, but the general standard was
shown on the walls of the galleries. The names of quite up to the previous exhibitions,
most of the best-known American painters in that -
branch of Art were to be found in the catalogue. Mr. John Singer Sargent led the list of dis-
Very interesting also was the display of sculpture tinguished exhibitors with the Gold Medal of
arranged attractively on pedestals and screens about Honour of the Academy. The Walter Lippincott
the central corridors of the galleries. The exhibit Prize was awarded to the picture by Mr. Frank
of the American Society of Miniature Painters, W. Benson, entitled Sunlight (see p. 82). The
grouped with the work of many others not con- Temple Gold Medal was awarded to Mr. Edward
nected with it, formed an agreeable contrast with W. Redfield for his picture entitled Winter
the life-size, boldly-handled portraits in the adjoin- Evening. The Jennie Gesnan Gold Medal
ing galleries. Good taste, combined with a broad went to Mr. W. Elmer Schofield for the best
view of what constitutes artistic results, charac- landscape in the exhibition, entitled Breezy -Day,
terised, for the most part, the work of the jury. At Early Autumn. The Mary Smith Prize was
the same time it must be admitted that this was awarded to Miss Jessie Wilcox Smith for a series
neutralised in a measure by injudicious hanging of pictures of child life, entitled A Mother's
of the works passed as eligible, giving a spotty Day.
appearance to the ensemb 'e in many places, and -
certainly net adding to the attractiveness of the Among the many good portraits on the walls
general view, or to the proper exposition of some of the principal gallery, the ones which imme-
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LANDSCAPE (See San Francisco Studio-Talk) BY FRANCIS McCOMAS
PHILADELPHIA. — The Seventy-second of the painters'work. There were 1128 members
Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania in the catalogue, making one of the largest and
Academy of the Fine Arts, an institution most comprehensive exhibitions that has ever
whose shows are always worthy of careful taken place at the Academy. Some work was
consideration, was especially remarkable for the seen that evidently had been accepted for purely
number and excellence of the works in portraiture personal reasons, but the general standard was
shown on the walls of the galleries. The names of quite up to the previous exhibitions,
most of the best-known American painters in that -
branch of Art were to be found in the catalogue. Mr. John Singer Sargent led the list of dis-
Very interesting also was the display of sculpture tinguished exhibitors with the Gold Medal of
arranged attractively on pedestals and screens about Honour of the Academy. The Walter Lippincott
the central corridors of the galleries. The exhibit Prize was awarded to the picture by Mr. Frank
of the American Society of Miniature Painters, W. Benson, entitled Sunlight (see p. 82). The
grouped with the work of many others not con- Temple Gold Medal was awarded to Mr. Edward
nected with it, formed an agreeable contrast with W. Redfield for his picture entitled Winter
the life-size, boldly-handled portraits in the adjoin- Evening. The Jennie Gesnan Gold Medal
ing galleries. Good taste, combined with a broad went to Mr. W. Elmer Schofield for the best
view of what constitutes artistic results, charac- landscape in the exhibition, entitled Breezy -Day,
terised, for the most part, the work of the jury. At Early Autumn. The Mary Smith Prize was
the same time it must be admitted that this was awarded to Miss Jessie Wilcox Smith for a series
neutralised in a measure by injudicious hanging of pictures of child life, entitled A Mother's
of the works passed as eligible, giving a spotty Day.
appearance to the ensemb 'e in many places, and -
certainly net adding to the attractiveness of the Among the many good portraits on the walls
general view, or to the proper exposition of some of the principal gallery, the ones which imme-
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