Studio: international art (64.1915)

Studio- Talk

Friends of American Art. Ninety-one pictures at
prices aggregating 178,210 dollars were sold in the
four preceding exhibitions, thirty-five of these for
the permanent collection in this gallery.

The painting of animals seems to be a lost art
in America at present, judging from its absence
in leading shows, but portraits and landscapes
abounded. Mr. Sargent’s portrait of Miss Ada
Rehan, painted some time ago and now lent by
Mrs. G. M. Within, was far the most distinguished
canvas shown; Mrs. Paul Reinhardt by Mr.
Wilhelm Funk, Dr. William Oxley Thompson by
Mr. Ceorge Bellows, Miss C. by Mr. William M.
Chase, Self Portrait by Mr. F. K. Thompson,
H. O. Tanner by Mr. Thomas Eakins, Captain
Dan Stevens, Lighthouse Keeper, by Mr. Randall
Davey, Portrait of a Lady by Mr. George de
Forest Brush (lent by Dr. Walter B. James), and
the Portrait of the late W. M. R. French, Director

of the Art Institute of Chicago, by Mr. Louis Betts,
were characteristic works of these well-known
men. Mr. Gari Melchers contributed his figure-
subject, Maternity, already noted in this magazine
in the review of the last annual show of the
Pennsylvania Academy, as was also Mr. Robert
Flenri’s Himself and Herself aX that time. Odalesque,
a nude by the last-named painter, brushed with a
free touch admirable to behold, yet lacked certain
qualities of modelling and nuances of fresh tints
that otherwise would have made it a masterpiece.
Mr. Edmund C. Tarbell was represented by a
carefully executed interior entitled My Family,
interesting in sentiment as well as technique.
Delightfully poetic in conception, Mr. Elliot
Dangerfield’s Genius of the Canyon, lent by Mrs.
Chauncey J. Blair, embodied much of the highly
coloured imagery of the Orient. Sleep, by Mr.
F. C. Frieseke, bore evidence of the work of a
skilled craftsman applied to the drawing and