Studio: international art (57.1913)

Art School Notes

refinement and robust realism, by virtue of which
it possesses an indefinable charm. Both the
paintings reproduced figured in one of the recent
exhibitions of the “ Manes ” Society—a society of
young Czech artists founded in 1877 for the
purpose of releasing Bohemian painting from the
shackles of the rigid academic manner then para-
mount. Hofmann is also a member of the Vienna
Secession, at whose exhibitions his rustic Madonnas
are a prominent feature. H. Sch.

PHILADELPHIA.—Mr. Charles Morris
Young’s recent exhibition of more than
sixty canvases at the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts was one of the most
significant evidences of the progress of the art of
landscape painting in America. Seeking his subject
from his immediate surroundings, he has treated it
with a sincerity of purpose subjective in a way and
yet with a truly artistic “ facture ” that is wonderfully
satisfactoryand perfectly comprehensible to both the

critic and the plain man. One could almost fancy
a course of education in art beginning with the
study of some of these works. Subtle atmospheric
effects, the blaze of colour that inflames the land-
scape of Pennsylvania in October, the grey “ en-
veloppe,” relieved here and there with patches of
pallid snow, of a winter scene, the gay sunshine of
a midsummer’s day, have been rendered here with
a fidelity that carries conviction of the truth ably
translated by a master hand. E. C.

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

CDON.—On August 12 the tablet, of which
an illustration is given on page 86, was
unveiled in Blythburgh Church, Suffolk,
as a memorial to the late Keeper of the
Royal Academy, Mr. Ernest Crofts, R.A., who had a
residence in this place. A large number of past
and present students of the Academy Schools sub-
scribed towards this tribute to the memory of the

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“ THE SNOWSTORM ”
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FROM THF- OJJ, PAINTING BY CHARLES MORRIS YOUNG