Studio: international art (60.1914)

Studio-Talk

“THE DRAG”

fully poetic landscape painted by Mr. W. C. Emerson
in gouache and entitled Enchantment should be
especially mentioned. Mr. Colin Campbell Cooper’s
Court of the Cathedral, Lisieux, Mr. Taber Sears’s
Gateway to York Cathedral, Mr. Hugh H.
Breckenridge’s group of six landscapes, Mr. Andrew
T. Schwarz’s October, Mr. Geo. Elmer Brown’s
The Mill Wheel, Miss Clara M. Madeira’s Bird
House, Mr. George Walter Dawson’s Yellow
Harrison Boses, are all works that stood out as
excellent, each in a different way adding to the
interest of the whole collection.

The American illustrators were well represented,
many of them being in the competition for the
Beck Prize. Mrs. Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliot,
Miss Jessie Wilcox Smith, Mrs. Charlotte Harding
Brown, Mr. Thornton Oakley, and Mr. Jules Guerin
exhibited works that had been reproduced for the
purpose of publication. Mr. Joseph Pennell ex-
hibited a number of works in black and white,
noticeable among them being a series of views of
well-known localities in Washington hitherto un-
discovered by artists.

Mr. John Singer Sargent was represented by a
capital portrait drawing, name not given, and
among three drawings by Miss Cecilia Beaux was
a very spirited portrait of Dr. Hadley of Yale. Miss
Violet Oakley showed a series of studies in red
chalk for the medallions of a stained-glass window,
illustrating Dante’s Divine Comedy, for the house
of Robert J. Collier, also a number of other studies
in colour and in chalk, made in preparation for the
decoration of the State Capitol of Pennsylvania.

E. C.

MONTREAL.—Arrangements have been
made for a series of excellent exhibi-
tions at the new gallery of the Art
Association of Montreal this season.
In November, the work of Mr. Frederick Lessore,
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BY GEORGE HALLOWELL

a young English sculptor of more than usual ability
and power, was shown, the examples comprising
forty-eight portraits and figure-subjects in marble
and terra-cotta, and a number of drawings. Among
the portraits, the busts of Lord Strathcona, Lord
Mount Stephen, Sir William Van Horne and
Matthew Maris have attracted chief attention, by
reason perhaps of the personalities of the originals ;
nevertheless, the artist’s chief distinction is his
quite unusual powers of characterisation, and his
remarkable rendering of textures. Mr. Lessore
has been commissioned by the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company to undertake a large standing
figure of Lord Mount Stephen, which will in

“THE LORD MOUNT STEPHEN1”

BUST BY FREDERICK LESSORE

(Philadelphia Water- Colour Exhibition)