DOI Heft:
No. 217 (April, 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0266
Studio- Talk
PHILADELPHIA.—The Gold Medal of Portraiture and landscape, as in most mani-
Honour of the Pennsylvania Academy testations of art in America, seem to be the
of the Fine Arts at the opening of the favourite media of expression. Mr. Edmund C.
106th annual exhibition was awarded Tarbell's portrait of Dr. Dwight had the most
to Mr. Willard L. Metcalf for eminent services prominent place in the gallery of honour. Mr.
in the cause of Art; the Temple Gold Medal Joseph de Camp showed skilfully-wrought por-
ta Mr. Richard E. Miller for his picture entitled traits of Dr. James Tyson and Dr. Louis Starr,
The Chinese Statuette; the Walter Lippincott both leading men in the medical profession.
Prize to Mr. Daniel Garber for his landscape Mr. Julian Story was represented by a portrait
The River Bank; the Jennie Sesnan Gold of Charles Curtis Harrison, Esq., impressive in
Medal to Mr. Joseph T. Pearson, jun., for his the purple barred gown of the Provost of the
Landscape; the Carol H. Beck Gold Medal to University of Pennsylvania. An excellent piece
Mr. Edmund C. Tarbell for his Portrait of of work, translating with the painter's brush
Timothy Dwight, D.D., LL.D., presented to with truthful effect a winsome personality, was
Yale University by the Class of 1891 ; and the the Mrs. Coles by Mr. Wilbur Dean Hamilton.
Mary Smith Prize to Miss Alice Kent Stoddard Mr. Hugh H. Breckinridge's portrait of William
for her Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Sparhawk Potter, Esq., formerly Minister to Italy from the
Jones. There were in the exhibition 375 oil United States, is simple and dignified as a diplo-
paintings and 148 pieces of sculpture, repre- mat should be. Mr. Irving R. Wiles's portrait
senting the work of 303 artists, and the work of Sidney Clark, jun., showing his sitter in
was, as a whole, serious, sane, and intelligible, tennis costume, presented an interesting novelty
both to the layman and the critic. besides a piece of bold and effective handling.
' THE RIVER FRONT '
244
BY FRED WAGNER
PHILADELPHIA.—The Gold Medal of Portraiture and landscape, as in most mani-
Honour of the Pennsylvania Academy testations of art in America, seem to be the
of the Fine Arts at the opening of the favourite media of expression. Mr. Edmund C.
106th annual exhibition was awarded Tarbell's portrait of Dr. Dwight had the most
to Mr. Willard L. Metcalf for eminent services prominent place in the gallery of honour. Mr.
in the cause of Art; the Temple Gold Medal Joseph de Camp showed skilfully-wrought por-
ta Mr. Richard E. Miller for his picture entitled traits of Dr. James Tyson and Dr. Louis Starr,
The Chinese Statuette; the Walter Lippincott both leading men in the medical profession.
Prize to Mr. Daniel Garber for his landscape Mr. Julian Story was represented by a portrait
The River Bank; the Jennie Sesnan Gold of Charles Curtis Harrison, Esq., impressive in
Medal to Mr. Joseph T. Pearson, jun., for his the purple barred gown of the Provost of the
Landscape; the Carol H. Beck Gold Medal to University of Pennsylvania. An excellent piece
Mr. Edmund C. Tarbell for his Portrait of of work, translating with the painter's brush
Timothy Dwight, D.D., LL.D., presented to with truthful effect a winsome personality, was
Yale University by the Class of 1891 ; and the the Mrs. Coles by Mr. Wilbur Dean Hamilton.
Mary Smith Prize to Miss Alice Kent Stoddard Mr. Hugh H. Breckinridge's portrait of William
for her Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Sparhawk Potter, Esq., formerly Minister to Italy from the
Jones. There were in the exhibition 375 oil United States, is simple and dignified as a diplo-
paintings and 148 pieces of sculpture, repre- mat should be. Mr. Irving R. Wiles's portrait
senting the work of 303 artists, and the work of Sidney Clark, jun., showing his sitter in
was, as a whole, serious, sane, and intelligible, tennis costume, presented an interesting novelty
both to the layman and the critic. besides a piece of bold and effective handling.
' THE RIVER FRONT '
244
BY FRED WAGNER