Studio: international art (64.1915)

Studio- Talk

“by the wine jar” (wood) by sekino seiitn

( Taisho Exhibition, Tokyo)

colouring of the nude. Mr. John W. Alexander
sent a beautifully composed figure of a girl entitled
June, refined in treatment and effectively illumin-
ated. Morning Light by Mr. Child e Hassam very
creditably exemplified his work as a colourist.
Mr. Abbott H. Thayer was represented by a highly
decorative Winged Figure, lent by Smith College,
of Massachusetts.

Mr. L. G. Seyffert’s group of Spanish Peasants,
one of the largest canvases shown, was a capital
work in the way of character painting, and should
be acquired for some important permanent collec-
tion. One of the most noteworthy figure-subjects
was Miss Gertrude Lambert’s Black and Green.
An excellent piece of work by one of the younger
men but badly hung in a dark corner was Mr,
Joseph Sachs’s In Street Costume. Miss Mary
Cassatt showed two canvases, Woman Reading
ln a Garden and Woman with a Fan, the latter
painted in 1880, and very different from her present
method but none the less convincing. Mr. William
Cotton’s portrait of Miss Dvorak should be noted
as a good example of a full-length figure. Mr.
Charles W. Hawthorne’s picture of Provincetown
Fishermen was one of the most interesting com-

positions, and Mr. Robert Vonnoh’s Memories
displayed most ably the skill of the painter.

Many good examples of American landscape
painting were on view, such as Mr. Ben Foster’s
October Morning, The Quarry by Mr. Daniel
Garber, Early Spring., Central Park by Mr.
Willard Metcalf, The Old Fountain by Mr. Walter
Farndon, The Tide Pool by Mr. Wm. Ritschel,
New York by Mr. Jonas Lie, a night effect,
Mr. Dewitt Parshall’s Hermit Canyon, and Mr.
Ernest Lawson’s Hills at Innwood. E. C.

TOKYO.—The Taisho Exhibition was
proud of its Fine Art Palace, which
contained the work of the contemporary
artists of Japan. The exhibits there
were considered worthy of commemorating the

“nanyendo” (wood), by takamura koun
( Taisho Exhibition, Tokyo)

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