Studio: international art (67.1916)

Studio-Talk

Portrait of a Young Artist. A fine group of fisher
folk by Mr. Charles W. Hawthorne, entitled The
First Vovage, deserved particular notice.

The official portrait was present in its most
dignified form in Mr. Robert Vonnoh’s Charles
Francis Adams, Esq. Mr. Julian Story sent a very
life-like portrait of Samuel Rea, Esq., President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Mr. H. H.
Breckenridge a portrait of FPon. Rtidolph Blanke?i-
burg, the recently retired Mayor of Philadelphia.
Arthur C. Goodwin, Esq., by Miss Margaret
Richardson, and Mr. C. Spizzirri, by Mr. Cesare
A. Ricciardi, were good studies of character. Pre-
sentments of young American womanhood were
shown in Mr. Leopold Seyffert’s portraits of Mrs.
FPenry S. Paul and Miss Gladys Snelle?iberg, in
Mr. Joseph de Camp’s portrait of Pauline, in Miss
Mary Cassatt’s Woman sitting in a Garden, Mr.
Harry Watrous’s Just a Couple of Girls. Some
excellent still-life painting was seen in a pair of
canvases by Miss Adelaide Chase and very boldly
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touched flower groups by Mrs. Maude Drein
Bryant, entitled Vermillion, Rose and Blue. The
exhibition remained open until March 26th
inclusive. E. C.

MELBOURNE.— Mural decoration is
an art specially adapted to the needs
of a young country—a country wherein
new cities ought to be asking architects,
builders, and artists of their best. In Australia
the meaningless “ beautification ” of walls and
ceilings is giving place to something simpler and
more distinctive, and many artists are sufficiently
optimistic to believe that future developments will
call for a legitimate and wholesome expansion of
their energies. Among the craftworkers who are
doing noteworthy work may be singled out Miss
Bertha Merfield. She is particularly happy in
dealing with typically Australian subjects, and
especially in her treatment of Ti-tree and various
members of the extraordinarily decorative Euca-
lyptus family. She sees the Australian forest and