DOI Heft:
Nr. 168 (March 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20774#0181
Studio-Talk
“the old elms”
Club. Of the one hundred and ninety-nine pictures
selected by the jury, a very large proportion were
the work of local artists. This is a gratifying fact
to note, as it has been found necessary in most of
the previous exhibitions, in order to keep up the
standard of excellence, to draw extensively on the
offerings of outside talent. This year, however,
the jury found that much of their most interesting
material was right at hand, consequently the
assemblage of good pictures by painters resident in
this city bears evidence of a distinct advance on
the lines of aesthetic achievement. As usual with
most picture shows in America, the greater number
of works were examples of landscape painting, a
form, or, perhaps one might say, a phase of art
apparently growing out of national conditions and
temperament. Also must be noted, not only in
this exhibition, but in general, an absence of the
rank colour and crude daubing too often dignified
by the name of impressionism. Portraits were few
but creditable, a great relief from the tiresome and
aggressively personal note of many recent exhibi-
tions. Special mention must be made of an
BY ED. W. REDFIELD
excellent portrait of the Hon. John R. Read,,
ex-President of the Art Club, painted by Mr. John
Lambert, and acquired by the Club; another, by
Mr. Carrol S. Tyson, junr., entitled My Father,
careful and conscientious in treatment and quite
convincing. Pomona, by Mr. Frank W. Benson,
to whom was awarded the gold medal of the
Art Club, an allegorical subject of a handsome
young woman bearing in her arms masses of
rich fruits, seems quite worthy of the honour,
and makes an effective point d’appui, with its
fine melange of colour, in the decorative scheme
of the surrounding pictures. Another highly
attractive work near this demands attention, The
Mother and Child of Mr. Hugo Ballin, a large
canvas beautifully glowing with the warm tones of
the flesh, besides being delightfully sentimental in
subject and masterful in treatment. Miss Mary
Cassatt was represented by a study of flesh tones,
quite characteristic, entitled Apres le Bain, very
successful in technique, if not altogether suggestive
of much sentiment. The desert of the Far West,
swept by wind and raked by ever-moving cloud-
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“the old elms”
Club. Of the one hundred and ninety-nine pictures
selected by the jury, a very large proportion were
the work of local artists. This is a gratifying fact
to note, as it has been found necessary in most of
the previous exhibitions, in order to keep up the
standard of excellence, to draw extensively on the
offerings of outside talent. This year, however,
the jury found that much of their most interesting
material was right at hand, consequently the
assemblage of good pictures by painters resident in
this city bears evidence of a distinct advance on
the lines of aesthetic achievement. As usual with
most picture shows in America, the greater number
of works were examples of landscape painting, a
form, or, perhaps one might say, a phase of art
apparently growing out of national conditions and
temperament. Also must be noted, not only in
this exhibition, but in general, an absence of the
rank colour and crude daubing too often dignified
by the name of impressionism. Portraits were few
but creditable, a great relief from the tiresome and
aggressively personal note of many recent exhibi-
tions. Special mention must be made of an
BY ED. W. REDFIELD
excellent portrait of the Hon. John R. Read,,
ex-President of the Art Club, painted by Mr. John
Lambert, and acquired by the Club; another, by
Mr. Carrol S. Tyson, junr., entitled My Father,
careful and conscientious in treatment and quite
convincing. Pomona, by Mr. Frank W. Benson,
to whom was awarded the gold medal of the
Art Club, an allegorical subject of a handsome
young woman bearing in her arms masses of
rich fruits, seems quite worthy of the honour,
and makes an effective point d’appui, with its
fine melange of colour, in the decorative scheme
of the surrounding pictures. Another highly
attractive work near this demands attention, The
Mother and Child of Mr. Hugo Ballin, a large
canvas beautifully glowing with the warm tones of
the flesh, besides being delightfully sentimental in
subject and masterful in treatment. Miss Mary
Cassatt was represented by a study of flesh tones,
quite characteristic, entitled Apres le Bain, very
successful in technique, if not altogether suggestive
of much sentiment. The desert of the Far West,
swept by wind and raked by ever-moving cloud-
159