Studio: international art (57.1913)

Studio-Talk

Some interesting portrait
studies in chalk monotone
by Miss Cecilia Beaux gave
evidence of careful search
for the individuality of the
subject. Breton fisherfolk
and their cottage interiors
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“LA BONNE

MENAGERE”

(Philadelphia Water-Color Club)

BV ELIZABETH NOURSE

marked progress in the attainment of the more
serious qualities of art work.

Of the easel pictures not necessarily meant for
reproduction, and painted in any medium other
than oil, Mr. H. C. Merrill’s Street of Cafes com-
manded attention as having most of the essentials
of a genuine work of art, frankly attractive to the
layman and lacking the sensational eccentricity
that so frequently mystifies him. Mr. Everett L.
Warner’s Broadway Tabernacle at Night, which was
awarded the Isidor prize at the Salmagundi Club,
was another highly successful effort to render the
poetic charm that commonplace streets and build-
ings assume under certain conditions of lighting
and atmosphere. Mr. Albert H Sonn’s Ponte
Vecchio, Verona, showed that he is a colourist of the
first order. Mr. Gaston le
Mains exhibited Clair de
Lime and Le Manoir
Abandonne, works stimu-
lating the imagination, and
both of them fine examples
of finished craftsmanship.

Mr. Walter Gay contributed
a number of works of very
high degree of excellence,
especially notable among
them being his views of
the interior of the Chateau
du Breau. Two of the
works of the late Thomas
P. Anshutz were shown,

Becky Sharp and A Bird,
life-size figure subjects, and
probably the last work of
this talented painter, who
died but a few months back.

Mr. John McLure Hamil-
ton’s portrait of Mrs.

Edward Hornor Coates
showed the clever execu-
tion of an artist sure of his
method, and was withal an
excellent likeness of his
sitter.

formed the materiel of a group of Miss Elizabeth
Nourse’s works, very successful as human docu-
ments descriptive of the hard life of these sun-tanned
toilers of the sea. Miss Alice Schille was repre-
sented by a number of well-painted examples: among
them should be mentioned a landscape, Broken
Clouds, and A Pig Market, particularly vibrating
with colour and true in values. Miss Lucy S.
Conant’s group of water-colours of Alpine scenery
were very convincing and showed close study of
mountain features and atmosphere. Mr. Henry B.
Snell’s Lighthouse was a capital bit of his work
and absolutely realistic in effect. A group of Mr.
Fred Wagner’s water-colours and pastels of near-by
localities showed in a most conclusive -way that it
is not necessary for the artist to go far afield for his
subjects. Mr. George Walter Dawson’s group of