Studio: international art (58.1913)

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Exhibition, which closed on March 30. The Walter that the Academy has not failed to keep up the

Lippincott Prize was awarded to Mr. Emil Carlsen standard of excellence that has been the rule for

for his painting entitled Summer Clouds, the Jennie some years past. One noticed, however, the

Sesnan Gold Medal to Mr. George Bellows for his absence of any new note in the way of artistic

picture entitled Men of the Docks, the Mary Smith expression, and few radical departures from the

Prize to Miss Alice Kent Stoddard for her picture normal procedure of the painter's craft; the frantic

with the title Paper Dolls, and the Carol H. Beck excesses of anarchistic innovators were not in

Gold Medal to Mr. J. Alden Weir for his portrait evidence. The display of portraits, very numerous,

catalogued as The Black Hat. The George D. by the way, illustrated this in the desire on the

Widener Gold Medal, awarded this year for the part of the artists to be sincere in the method of the

first time 'as a memorial to a director of the translation with canvas and brush of the character

Academy who was lost in the Titanic disaster, went of the sitter, rather than make a too palpable

to Mr. Charles Grafly for his portrait in bronze of the effort to attract attention to the unusual way in

late Thomas Pollock Anshutz, painter and for a which it might be done. Some new names of

number of years instructor in the Academy's younger men appeared principally in the list of

schools. portrait painters ; for example, that of Mr. Leopold

Gould Seyffert, whose Leopold Kokowski, the

There appeared in the exhibition four hundred talented leader of the Philadelphia Orchestra, was

and eighty oil paintings and one hundred and a most admirable work,
ninety-three exhibits of sculpture. Four hundred

and ten artists were represented. A general view Miss Cecilia Beaux's portrait of Clement B.
of this year's collection conveyed the impression Newbold, Esq., vice-President of the Academy,

'the morning sun" (Pennsylvania Academy) by elmer w. schofield

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