DOI Heft:
No. 262 (January 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0317
Studio-Talk
Snow-Covered Hills by Mr. Fred Wagner, Dead
Goose by Mr. Franz W. Benson, The Beloved Pine
by Miss Lucy Conant, The Water Gates by Mr.
W. A. Hofstetter, Mr. John J. Dull's Winter Land-
scapes may be mentioned as all creditable per-
formances, real works of art, quite free from
egotistic eccentricity. Mrs. Lilian W. Hale's
Floretta in black and white was an engaging
presentment of a handsome woman.
The illustrations were most noteworthy. Mr.
Thornton Oakley's views of India, Mr. N. C.
Wyeth's Opium Smoker, Mr. George Harding's
Australian subjects, Miss Jessie Willcox Smith's
Babes in the Wood, and Mrs. Elenore Abbott's
dainty conceits gave one a fine showing of the
art as practised in Philadelphia. A group of
cleverly executed drawings in pastel by J. McLure
Hamilton—studies of the decolletee female form
for the most part—made one regret that such talent
as was here displayed was not spent on subjects
more worthy of it, such as his dignified portraits
so well known here and abroad. Some beautiful
line drawings from the nude by Mr. Charles Grafly,
reminiscent of Flaxman, gave interest to the show,
and a set of lithographs by Mr. Joseph Pennell ot
the mountain Baa Laam with a number of fine
etchings from the same hand of localities along
the river Meuse, give an adequate dignity to the
showing of art in black and white.
The Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Miniatures
at the Pennsylvania Academy in connection with
the Water-Colour show just noticed contained
one hundred and three works, reflecting credit upon
the artists producing them and upon the hanging
committee for its work in the tasteful furnishing
and decoration of the Georgian room in which
they were exposed. Miniatures seem to be associa-
ted, in most people's minds, with eighteenth-century
environments, so here we had an interior of that
period, with a carved marble mantelpiece, Chippen-
dale furniture and mirrors, and with neutral
grey walls to set off the little gems in colour
hanging there. Formerly, painting of this kind
was in the main limited to portraiture, but now we
"THE WATER GATES "
3'4
(Pennsylvania Academy, Water-Colour Exhibition)
BY W. A. HOFSTETTER
Snow-Covered Hills by Mr. Fred Wagner, Dead
Goose by Mr. Franz W. Benson, The Beloved Pine
by Miss Lucy Conant, The Water Gates by Mr.
W. A. Hofstetter, Mr. John J. Dull's Winter Land-
scapes may be mentioned as all creditable per-
formances, real works of art, quite free from
egotistic eccentricity. Mrs. Lilian W. Hale's
Floretta in black and white was an engaging
presentment of a handsome woman.
The illustrations were most noteworthy. Mr.
Thornton Oakley's views of India, Mr. N. C.
Wyeth's Opium Smoker, Mr. George Harding's
Australian subjects, Miss Jessie Willcox Smith's
Babes in the Wood, and Mrs. Elenore Abbott's
dainty conceits gave one a fine showing of the
art as practised in Philadelphia. A group of
cleverly executed drawings in pastel by J. McLure
Hamilton—studies of the decolletee female form
for the most part—made one regret that such talent
as was here displayed was not spent on subjects
more worthy of it, such as his dignified portraits
so well known here and abroad. Some beautiful
line drawings from the nude by Mr. Charles Grafly,
reminiscent of Flaxman, gave interest to the show,
and a set of lithographs by Mr. Joseph Pennell ot
the mountain Baa Laam with a number of fine
etchings from the same hand of localities along
the river Meuse, give an adequate dignity to the
showing of art in black and white.
The Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Miniatures
at the Pennsylvania Academy in connection with
the Water-Colour show just noticed contained
one hundred and three works, reflecting credit upon
the artists producing them and upon the hanging
committee for its work in the tasteful furnishing
and decoration of the Georgian room in which
they were exposed. Miniatures seem to be associa-
ted, in most people's minds, with eighteenth-century
environments, so here we had an interior of that
period, with a carved marble mantelpiece, Chippen-
dale furniture and mirrors, and with neutral
grey walls to set off the little gems in colour
hanging there. Formerly, painting of this kind
was in the main limited to portraiture, but now we
"THE WATER GATES "
3'4
(Pennsylvania Academy, Water-Colour Exhibition)
BY W. A. HOFSTETTER