DOI Heft:
No. 239 (February 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0099
Studio- Talk
" clou " of the exhibition was without doubt Mr.
John Singer Sargent's group of six paintings, five of
which were portraits. Those of Mr. Joseph
Pulitzer, Mrs. Pulitzer and of Mrs. Arthur Hunne-
well, lent by their owners, were perhaps the best
examples of the master's consummate skill. Miss
Cecilia Beaux's portrait of the Hon. Sereno E.
Payne, lent by the Ways and Means Committee of
Congress, bore every evidence of being a faithful
translation to canvas of the personality of a typical
American representative of the people. Mr. Joseph
de Camp's portrait of Frank Duveneck the well-
known painter, lent by the Cincinnati Art Museum,
revealed all the qualities of a superior work of art.
Mr. Hugh H. Breckinridge's portrait of Dr. Edgar
F. Smith, provost of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, lent by that institution, was a most creditable
performance absolutely sincere in purpose and true
to the actualities. A very remarkable work was Miss
Annie Traquair Lang's portrait of William M. Chase,
the most prominent figure in the American art
world, virile in treatment, conscientious in the
noting of essentials and withal painted with the
dash and "brio" that command instant atten-
tion. Mr. Chase himself was represented by
portraits of his wife and daughter, painted with the
finished technique for which he is so well known,
and also by a study of Fish absolutely startling
as a bit of realism. Mr. Frank W. Benson's portrait
of his daughter was by far the most effective work
in the way of light and shade in the show.
Mr. Walter MacEwen's oval entitled The Magic
Mir?-or, graceful in conception, impeccable in
drawing and delicate in illumination, should be
mentioned as a picture attractive alike to laymen
and artists. Mr. John W. Alexander's canvas
entitled The Gossip, a charming figure of a young
woman taking tea, painted in a characteristic
manner on an absorbent ground, was one of the
gems of the exhibition. Mr. Leopold Gould
Seiffert showed two capital studies of the fisher folk
"wilderness"
76
( Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington)
by daniel garber
" clou " of the exhibition was without doubt Mr.
John Singer Sargent's group of six paintings, five of
which were portraits. Those of Mr. Joseph
Pulitzer, Mrs. Pulitzer and of Mrs. Arthur Hunne-
well, lent by their owners, were perhaps the best
examples of the master's consummate skill. Miss
Cecilia Beaux's portrait of the Hon. Sereno E.
Payne, lent by the Ways and Means Committee of
Congress, bore every evidence of being a faithful
translation to canvas of the personality of a typical
American representative of the people. Mr. Joseph
de Camp's portrait of Frank Duveneck the well-
known painter, lent by the Cincinnati Art Museum,
revealed all the qualities of a superior work of art.
Mr. Hugh H. Breckinridge's portrait of Dr. Edgar
F. Smith, provost of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, lent by that institution, was a most creditable
performance absolutely sincere in purpose and true
to the actualities. A very remarkable work was Miss
Annie Traquair Lang's portrait of William M. Chase,
the most prominent figure in the American art
world, virile in treatment, conscientious in the
noting of essentials and withal painted with the
dash and "brio" that command instant atten-
tion. Mr. Chase himself was represented by
portraits of his wife and daughter, painted with the
finished technique for which he is so well known,
and also by a study of Fish absolutely startling
as a bit of realism. Mr. Frank W. Benson's portrait
of his daughter was by far the most effective work
in the way of light and shade in the show.
Mr. Walter MacEwen's oval entitled The Magic
Mir?-or, graceful in conception, impeccable in
drawing and delicate in illumination, should be
mentioned as a picture attractive alike to laymen
and artists. Mr. John W. Alexander's canvas
entitled The Gossip, a charming figure of a young
woman taking tea, painted in a characteristic
manner on an absorbent ground, was one of the
gems of the exhibition. Mr. Leopold Gould
Seiffert showed two capital studies of the fisher folk
"wilderness"
76
( Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington)
by daniel garber