Studio: international art (43.1908)

Studio-Talk

ment are portraits of Ex-President Grover Cleve-
land, by W. M. Paxton ; of Walt Whitman, by
Thomas Eakins; of Paul D. Mills, Esq., by
Adolf Borie ; of William F. Read, Esq., by Joseph
de Camp ; and of T. De Witt Cuyler, by Julian
Story.

The largest and perhaps the most ambitious
work in the whole exhibition is a Last Supper, by
Robert MacCameron, and entirely successful it is
in the treatment of such a well-tried and familiar
subject. The conception is striking and dramatic,
the moment chosen being that of the consecration
of the cup. Hugo Ballin’s The Bath commands
attention as a piece of beautiful colouring and
elegant composition. Especially good and true
to nature are W. Elmer Schofield’s Old Mills
on the Somme and Winter in Picardy, as is
also Mr. B. W. Redfield’s A Fallen Tree.
Some superb marine subjects by Fred. J. Waugh
are the feature of the exhibition : one, entitled

Coast near St. Ives, Cornwall, deserving particular
notice.

The Rose, by Thos. P. Anschutz, the title suggested
by the colour scheme of the picture, shows a very
attractive and skilfully painted study of a charming
young woman, full of human interest and very
realistic. Blue and Gold, a figure subject by Hugh
H. Breckenridge, also is interesting from the point
of view of the colourist. Mr. Wm. M. Paxton’s
nude figure, entitled Glow of Gold and Gleam of
Pearl, while not impeccable in drawing of the
arms, has a graceful pose and glows indeed with
fine flesh tints. Narcissa, by W. Sergeant Kendall,
a nude notable for good drawing, is also fine in
way of a study of the characteristics of a child.
The Visit, by Richard P. Miller, one of the largest
canvases shown, is charming in sentiment and
masterly in execution. Manuel Barthold’s Girls
of FPolland, another large work, is quite in line
with the best class of genre painting of the Euro-