Studio: international art (65.1915)

Studio-Talk

Emmett’s picture of a little girl entitled Patricia
received the greatest number of votes, and the
Academy Fellowship prize was awarded to Mr.
Albert Laessle for his bronze figure of a struggling
goat entitled Billy. _

The show was fairly representive, although one
missed seeing the work of some of our well-known
resident artists, who would certainly have added to
the eclat of the exhibition and to the reputation
for fair play on the part of the jury of selection.
The large canvas, monopolising valuable space, so
often a feature of modern picture shows, was here
not veiy much in evidence, if we except perhaps
Mr. Thomas Eakins’s full-length portrait of Mrs.
Talcott Williams, hung in the’place of honour, Mr.
William M. Chase’s portrait of Mrs. Eldridge R.
Johnson, quite in his hap-
piest manner, and Miss
Cecilia Beaux’s Father and
Son, the subject of the
latter work being carefully
painted portraits of John
Frederick Lewis, Esq.,

President of the^ Academy,
and his son. All three
works were fine examples
by our leading portrait-
painters, especially Mr.

Chase’s, in subtleties of
composition and charm of
mellowed colour. Miss
Marie de Ford Keller’s
portrait of Miss Emily
Dohme was one of the most
engaging presentments of
ingenuous girlhood that
one could well imagine, and
another capital rendering
of a kindred theme was
Miss Lydia Field Emmett’s
Patricia mentioned above.

Quite successful in the de-
lineation of character of a
different kind was Mr.

Leopold G. Seyffert in his
portrait of Richard M.

Cadwallader, Esq., as was
Mr. Joseph Sack’s portrait
of Mrs. Henry C. Earn-
shaw. La Donna mi-velata,
a portrait of a partly veiled
lady, by Mr. Philip L. Hale
was one off the most
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graceful conceptions shown. Badly hung in a back
room was a wonderfully good work by Mr. Wayman
Adams, a portrait of Alexatider Ei-nestinojf, sound
in technique and qualities of tone and colour. And
Mr. S. J. Woolfs portrait of Thompson Willing, Esq.,
was most convincing in rendition of the personality
of his sitter. Mr. William Cotton’s portrait of Miss
Dvorak, one of the features of the Corcoran Gallery
show of this year, did not lose interest on being
seen again. A new note was recorded in Mr.
Edwin Booth Grossmann’s portrait of Selior Luis
Baralt.

The sentimental chord was struck in Miss Marie
Danforth Page’s work entitled Her Littlest One, in
Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child, and in Miss
Martha Walter’s English Nurse. Miss Gertrude