Studio: international art (63.1914/15)

Studio- Talk

"baby" by eulabee dix becker

(Pennsylvania Academy, Exhibition of Miniatures)

showing in the technique the hatching and
stippling of genuine miniature painting. Miss A.
Margaretta Archambault's Frances was also a
very successful example of true method in brush
work. Miss Eulabee l)ix Becker's Baby, while
rather different in handling from the last men-
tioned works, was yet one of the most charming
little pictures shown. One was reminded of the
collection of wax reliefs in the Wallace Collec-
tion by the portrait of Sally Cameron, a medallion
executed in coloured wax by Miss Ethel Frances
Mundy. A Still Life by Miss Helen Winslow
Durkee illustrated the new idea most success-
fully. Miss Elizabeth F. Washington's portrait
of Abdul Baha was an admirable study of
oriental character quite in keeping with the
subject, and Petit Jean, by Miss Anna Hurlburt
Jackson, gave us a real vision of unaffected
childhood. E. C.

find work in genre, nudes,
landscape and marine
painting and sometimes,
even, still-life claiming
equal attention with the
orthodox portrait. As ex-
amples of this diversity
here exhibited may be
mentioned Mr. William J.
Baer's Young Diana, a
well-drawn and coloured
nude, Mr. Cecil Jay's
Dutch genre subject Ma-
ternity, Miss Elsie Dodge
Pattree's Pink Scarf, and a
marine by Mr. Harry L.
Johnson, Moon before
Sundown.

Three contributions by
Mr. Alyn Williams, Presi-
dent of the Royal Society
of Miniature Painters, gave
an international status to
the show, his portrait en-
titled The Cardinal being
quite the feature of the
collection. Mrs. Emily
Drayton Taylor displayed
a capital portrait of Miss
Corinne B. Freeman, very
convincing of the engaging " the morning cup" by laura coombs hills

personality of her sitter and (Pennsylvania Academy, Water- Colour Exhibition)

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