Studio: international art (59.1913)

American Pictures in the Paris Salons

In the New Salon of the Societe Nationale the
proverbial headache is less likely to affect one.
The arrangements are simpler and the catalogue
has larger print, but in both salons there is room
for improvement in that line ; the numbers seem to
have been allowed to run wild. However, numbers
are needless to indicate art, and no one looking for
the work of F. C. Frieseke will miss his six excellent
contributions, especially notable being his Avant
de paraitre and Sur la Plage, in which he is at his
best. In the same room one finds six canvases by
Myron Barlow, in all of which he portrays his
delight in the inner and less known lives of the
French peasant and working woman. Last year
Mr. Barlow was elected a Societaire, and his work
fully justifies his election. Gari Melchers, whose
Maternity is excellently hung, must be counted
amongst the most distinguished of the American
artists showing in the exhibition.

The work of Edward Cucuel is less characteristi-
cally American, its strong, vigorous colouring and
vitality being more reminiscent of modern German

painting, but that in no way detracts from the
excellence of his three canvases. Six interior
studies by Walter Gay occupy an excellent position.
As a painter of interiors annually exhibiting in the
salon Mr. Gay has no equal. IIpadrone, Le Soir, and
Le Peignoir Rose, by Charles W. Hawthorne, one of
last year’s new associates, add a new dignity to the
Societe Nationale. This year Miss Elizabeth Nourse
is well in evidence with six oils and six pastels.

Amongst other varied but notable canvases in
the New Salon are three portraits by Miss Cecilia
Beaux; a personally painted decorative land-
scape, Dans les Dunes, by Roy H. Brown; Mr.
George Oberteuffer’s Windsor Castle and Notre
Dame de Paris; John Noble’s charming and
attractive harmony in blue, dull violet and white,
Lancement du Bateau; Dlie Tudy, by Miss
Florence Este ; the interestingly decorative little
canvas in blue, Les lepreux, by V. B. Hale;
Augustus Koopman’s La mer phosphorescente and
four marines, by Alexander Harrison ; and A. G.
Warshawsky’s Vue de Paris. E. A. Taylor.