Studio: international art (55.1912)

Studio-Talk

POSTER FOR A WHOLESALE OUTFITTER

BY CARL MOOS

they always are at the Academy. The Jennie Sesnan
medal was awarded to Mr. William L. Metcalf for
his picture entitled Spring Fields. Mr. Edward
W. Redfield exhibited three of his forceful plein-
air canvases. Mr. Charles Morris Young’s Red
Mill was convincing and clever. The Mary Smith
prize was awarded to Miss Elizabeth Sparhawk
Jones for her picture of a Parisian flower shop
entitled Spring. Mr. Colin Campbell Cooper’s
Bowling Green, New York, was another of his
most successful presentations of the busy streets and
lofty buildings of the commercial district.

The display of sculpture was disposed with
excellent judgment about the central rotunda and
corridors, and really deserves a separate article of
appreciation, but mention should be made here of
the beautiful little figurines in terra-cotta by Mrs.
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, and Mr. Albert Laessle’s
bronze Turkey. A portrait bust in bronze of the late
George C. Thomas, Esq., by Mr. Chas. Grafly, was
quite the best in the collection. Mr. Andrew
O’Connor Senior’s marble Eve should also be
noted for its graceful pose and careful rendering of
anatomical detail. The two larger galleries were
used for the exhibition of two decorative fountains
by Miss Janet Scudder. E. C.

MUNICH.—In Munich, as elsewhere,
the art of the pictorial poster plays an
important part, and must be con-
sidered as an essential product of
contemporary artistic development. Such pictorial
advertisements have been designed on occasion by
some of the most popular and fashionable artists in
the realms of painting and decorative art, and have
been the means of enabling certain original painters
to give expression to their talent. As far as one
can generalise, the poster-art of Munich is sane,
sober, and concise in effect. It differs from similar
work in France, which more often makes appeal
to our sentiment, to our emotions, rather than to
our reason. As you pass along the streets of
Munich some fine posters will catch your eye;
they will not arouse emotion, will not sadden you
or delight you, but you will be captivated perhaps,
interested certainly, for the impression received, no
matter how excellent be the drawing, is simply and
purely descriptive.

The German poster-artist does a great, one might
almost say an enormous, amount of work. An im-
peccable craftsman, he thoroughly comprehends his
metier, and as artist he engages in aesthetic problems.
Like his confreres in France he works in a style

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