Studio: international art (58.1913)

Studio-Talk

looked like a piece of direct painting, combined by Mr. Henry R. Rittenberg, who also contributed
with consummate artistry. Mr. Lazar Raditz's portraits of Justice Robert von Moschzisker and of
portrait of Dr. Herbert M. Howe, a director of the Dr. Edward Martin. Miss Mary Curtis Richardson
Academy, was also a well-brushed piece of work, was represented by a boldly-painted Portrait of a
Mr. Julian Story's portrait of Alba B. Johnson was Young Man. Mr. Hugh H. Breckenridge ex-
one of the most significant examples of the painter's hibited three canvases, Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith,
art in the gallery. Mr. Robt. H. Vonnoh's por- Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, John
trait of Dr. W. W. Keen, President of the American Shrigky, lent by the Williamson Free School of
Philosophical Society, lent for this exhibition, Mechanical Trades, and Eugene Ellison, lent by
represented him in the scarlet academic gown of a the Insurance Company of North America. Mr.
doctor of laws, and was especially successful in the Robert David Gauley's Portrait of a Lady in Black
rendering of the character of alertness that dis- should be particularly noted as a finished work
tinguishes the well-known surgeon. Mr. Joseph of art. Mr. Albert Rosenthal contributed a
de Camp's portrait of Frank Duveneck, artist, lent number of works ; among them the portrait of
by the Cincinnati Art Association, had been a Sadikichi Hartmann and of Edward Biddle, Esq.,
notable feature of the Corcoran Gallery Exhibition were the most creditable. Mr. Adolphe Borie
of this year and was absolutely convincing, leaving showed a portrait of Thomas McKean, Esq., and
little to be desired. Mr. John McLure Hamilton's Mr. Carrols Tyson, Jr., that of James Potter, Esq.,
portrait of Edward Hornor Coates, Esq., tenth both of them well-known club men, portrayed by

President of the Academy, seemed almost alive, so skilful artists.__

cleverly and apparently with so little effort were

the essential elements of the subject's personality Faultless drawing of the nude, careful study of

brought out. Captain J Franklin McFadden, in light and shade, composition and perspective made

the uniform of the First Troop, Philadelphia City Mr. William W. Churchill's picture entitled The

Cavalry, was the subject of a well-handled portrait Sculptor a veritable chef d'ceuvre. In Mr. Walter

: men of the docks " (Pennsylvania Academy) by George bellows

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