DOI Heft:
No. 171 (June, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0103
Studio-Talk
EMBROIDERED CUSHIONS
DESIGNED BY MARIA ADELBERG AND
MARIA SJOSTROM. EXECUTED BY
HANDARBETETS VANNER, STOCKHOLM
(See Stockholm Studio- Talk)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.—The
season of 1906-1907 marked
a renaissance of art interests
in the Southern States of
America. As was emphasized by Mr.
James B. Townsend, of New York, in
his address at the opening of the art
exhibition recently held here, art in the
United States had its beginning in the
South. Early settlers of gentle birth
brought to the South not only art
treasures, but an inherited love and
knowledge of art, and families of wealthy
Southern planters' even crossed the sea
to have portraits painted by Reynolds,
Romney, or Gainsborough, perhaps, or
sat for portraits to Gilbert, Stuart, Cop-
ley, the Peales, Trumbull, Jarvis, and
later to Sully and other American mas •
ters. The Civil War closed to this part
of America for a time the avenues of
culture, and it was not unnatural that
art should be the last to revive. Mr.
Townsend was in 1901—2 director 01
art at the Charleston Exposition, and
becoming convinced of the development
in the South, organised in 1906 among the principal
Southern cities a co-operative movement which
enables these cities to obtain at minimum cost an
exhibition representative of the best in American
art. Nashville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; New
Orleans, Louisiana; Tampa, St. Augustine, and
Palm Beach, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina ;
and Baltimore, Maryland, are among the cities
which have held or contracted for the exhibition.
Apart from the interest which attached to the'
exhibition as the achievement of the first concerted
effort made by the new South toward art develop-
ment, the merit of the pictures was of the highest.
Taken as a representative collection of American
paintings, it would indicate that the promise of
American art lies in the landscape painter. Many
admirable examples of landscape painting were to
be seen, such as the Autumn Scene, Peekskill, by
George Inness, Sr. (deceased); a Landscape, by
John Twachtman (deceased) ; George Bogert's
Autumn Sunset; November Pastures, a notable
picture by H. W. Ranger ; The Valley, by
Gifford Beal, beautifully painted and possessing
fine atmospheric qualities ; Charles Warren Eaton's
EMBROIDERED CUSHIONS
DESIGNED BY MARIA ADELBERG AND
MARIA SJOSTROM. EXECUTED BY
HANDARBETETS VANNER, STOCKHOLM
(See Stockholm Studio- Talk)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.—The
season of 1906-1907 marked
a renaissance of art interests
in the Southern States of
America. As was emphasized by Mr.
James B. Townsend, of New York, in
his address at the opening of the art
exhibition recently held here, art in the
United States had its beginning in the
South. Early settlers of gentle birth
brought to the South not only art
treasures, but an inherited love and
knowledge of art, and families of wealthy
Southern planters' even crossed the sea
to have portraits painted by Reynolds,
Romney, or Gainsborough, perhaps, or
sat for portraits to Gilbert, Stuart, Cop-
ley, the Peales, Trumbull, Jarvis, and
later to Sully and other American mas •
ters. The Civil War closed to this part
of America for a time the avenues of
culture, and it was not unnatural that
art should be the last to revive. Mr.
Townsend was in 1901—2 director 01
art at the Charleston Exposition, and
becoming convinced of the development
in the South, organised in 1906 among the principal
Southern cities a co-operative movement which
enables these cities to obtain at minimum cost an
exhibition representative of the best in American
art. Nashville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; New
Orleans, Louisiana; Tampa, St. Augustine, and
Palm Beach, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina ;
and Baltimore, Maryland, are among the cities
which have held or contracted for the exhibition.
Apart from the interest which attached to the'
exhibition as the achievement of the first concerted
effort made by the new South toward art develop-
ment, the merit of the pictures was of the highest.
Taken as a representative collection of American
paintings, it would indicate that the promise of
American art lies in the landscape painter. Many
admirable examples of landscape painting were to
be seen, such as the Autumn Scene, Peekskill, by
George Inness, Sr. (deceased); a Landscape, by
John Twachtman (deceased) ; George Bogert's
Autumn Sunset; November Pastures, a notable
picture by H. W. Ranger ; The Valley, by
Gifford Beal, beautifully painted and possessing
fine atmospheric qualities ; Charles Warren Eaton's