Studio: international art (65.1915)

Studio-Talk

“SUNNY SEPTEMBER

(Montreal Art Association)

BY HELEN MCNICOL

Mr. Charles W. Simpson also showed a number of
very pleasing canvases, of which, On the Canal\
was distinguished, in particular by its subtlety of
colour, and a certain vibrant quality.

Among the younger painters who were in evidence
at the Spring exhibition, and whose recent works
indicate increase in power and adequacy of expres-
sion, reference should be made especially to Mr.
Arthur D. Rosaire, Miss Mabel H. May, Mrs. G. F.
Greenwood, and Mr. O. Leduc. The last named,
who is self-taught, is an artist of decided originality ;
and one of his pictures in oil at this exhibition,
representing a fruit-laden branch of an apple tree
in olive tones against a twilight sky, was greatly
admired. Mr. R. S. Hewton, one of the most
promising and talented of the younger men, and
who, by the way, enlisted last winter for active
service with the Second Canadian Contingent,
showed seven landscapes in oil or water colour, all
expressive and individual in character. Another

Montreal artist of rapidly developing powers is
Miss Helen McNicol, of whose work Sunny Sep-
tember is a typical example. H. M. L.

Philadelphia.—The Art Club’s twenty-
first Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings,
held during the latter half of March,
included one hundred and one works
that sustained a creditable average of excellence,
rather surprising in consideration of the fact that
many important canvases have been absorbed by
the Panama-Pacific Exposition, and that, moreover,
this show followed almost immediately another
just closed in the same gallery of the artist
members’ work. The Club’s Gold Medal has been
awarded to Mr. L. G. Seyffert for his portrait of
Miss Josephine Dodge, a charming presentment of
young American womanhood, and Mr. Charles S.
Corson’s landscape entitled August Morning, re-
ceived Honourable Mention. Mr. Childe Hassam
contributed a poetic conception with the title of

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