Studio: international art (55.1912)

Studio-Talk

of the Odet has that subtle envelope so difficult to
attain yet so indispensable in a really great picture.

A general glance over the whole large collection
of work shown in the One Hundred and Seventh
Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts yielded evidence of a wise toler-
ance of the diverse forms of aesthetic expression
that to-day divide painters and sculptors into
groups more or less differing from each other but
at the same time working for the attainment of
the same end. Some of the rampant radicals
have given heed to sober second thought and re-
appeared with contributions that were quite sane
and yet none the less interesting as examples of
their craft. Perhaps the most noticeable fact about
this exhibition was the attention given by the
majority of the exhibitors to the schemes of colour
in their canvases, the other qualities generally con-
sidered as necessary in a
work of art, such as good
drawing, tone, light and
shade being often con
spicuous by their absence,
or, at any rate, slighted as
bearing no importance to
the painter’s object. One
of the galleries was used
exclusively for a group of
some of the most remark-
able efforts in that direction
ever seen at the Academy
—a number of them by Mr.

Henry Golden Dearth posi-
tively blazing with vibrant
colour. Judging from the
perfectly comprehensible
work previously shown by
the same artist, it would be
difficult to say whether he
is a convert to the fancies
of the paroxystes, or is
simply doing this pour
epater les bourgeois.

are represented. Another portrait by the same
artist, that of Francis I. Amory, Esq., was
awarded the Carol H. Beck gold medal. Mr.
Hugh H. Brecxenriage's portrait of Dr. James
Tyson, lent by the University of Pennsylvania, was
painted with thoroughly masterful technique, and
was ‘decidedly the most creditable example of
the artist’s work ever seen on the Academy’s walls,
and certainly added tremendously to his reputation.
Mr. Robert *W. Vonnoh’s portrait of Dr. Talcoff
Williams was a good piece of character painting,
and Mr. Lazar Raditz’s portrait of Dr.’ Sami. G.
Dixon_was also in quite a different way a master-
piece. Mr. Frank B. A. Linton’s portraits of Dr.
Wm. H. Greene, and of Wm. L. Austin, Esq.,
deserve the highest praise as most successful
delineations of the character of the subjects. Mr.
Richard E. Miller’s portrait of A. B. Frost, the
well-known American illustrator, quite out of the

Many of the most im-
portant contributions were
portraits, the post of honour
in the largest gallery being
given to Mr. Joseph de
Camp’s group of Three
Friends, in which three
generations of the family
of Isaac H. Clothier, Esq.,
238

“milkmaid, Holland’

(Philadelphia Water-Colour Exhibition)

BY PROF. HANS BARTELS