Studio: international art (62.1914)

American Art at the Anglo-American Exposition

C. W. Hawthorne exhibits a fine work, Refining Oil,
rich in harmonies of green and blue ; a beautifully
restrained Girl with Rose, and The Fisherman ;
while Horatio Walker is represented by a rather
dramatic canvas Ploughing, First Gleam.

Two rooms contain pictures, most agreeably hung,
by American artists resident in France ; the work of
most of them has been illustrated from time to
time in these pages, notably in the interesting
articles by Mr. E. A. Taylor. Richard Miller con-
tributes two examples, a charmingly sunny The
Green Parasol and Lady with Red Hair, the latter
here illustrated. Another artist who delights to
flood his canvas with sunlight is F. C. Frieseke,
whose large picture The Garden Umbrella is attrac-
tive but hardly as satisfactory as the subtle and
most interesting piece of painting In the Boudoir,
which is reproduced with other examples of his
work elsewhere in this number. A work in
which the problem of figure painting in sunlight is
treated with marked success is Dejeuner by Louis
Ritman. Here, with perhaps some reminiscence
of the work of Miller, the artist has achieved a
composition, happy alike in colour and design, in
which the whole is as it were tremulous with morning
sunlight and the promise of a glorious unclouded
day. George Oberteuffer shows three robust and

characteristic works, one a very clever impression,
) 'achts on the Havre, a boldly treated Notre Dame
de Paris, and a vision of St. Sulpice seen through
the tender green of trees in Springtime in Paris.
Other works which call for notice are those of
Elizabeth Nourse ; E. P. Ullmann, whose clever
studies of Parisian types are marred by a little
unpleasantness of colour; the water-colours of
Frank Boggs, and work in the same medium by Miss
Florence Este ; Walter McEwen's highly finished
works reminiscent somewhat of the Dutch Interior
painters ; a fine Gari Melchers— The Smithy ; the
paintings, a little too brusque and summary in
their statement, by Roy Brown ; the large portrait
of Madame Bohm by Max Bohm, of which a colour
reproduction appeared in this magazine some two
years ago; the amusing mosaic-like Paris Plage
by John Noble ; and a decorative composition An
Idle Morning by T. R. Hopkins.

Four galleries comprise the British-American
Section, and are filled with the productions of
artists whose work is very familiar to us, since they
all reside and exhibit their work in Great Britain ;
indeed many of them have become so closely
identified with the British art-world that one had
quite forgotten in some cases their American origin.
Mr. Sargent, who fills a wall with a dozen of those