DOI issue:
No. 281 (August 1916)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21262#0207
Studio- Talk
BUST OF FRANK DUVENECK BY CHARLES GRAFLV
(Pennsylvania Academy)
that he penetrated the far-off realm of dream and
fancy, not, as many others have done, through the
gates of the imagination, but through his very real
studies of camels, monkeys, elephants, and other
beasts. In 1891 he took part in a pilgrimage to
the Promised Land, and in the course of seven
expeditions he visited successively Algiers, Bou-
Sada, Gardaia, Tunis, and Kairouan. His last
picture, left unfinished, was a view of Gardaia in
Southern Algeria, a region of which he was very
fond, and where he was feted by his friends the
natives. This canvas with its strong contrasts of
sunlight and shadow may be regarded as the
synthesis of his aspirations. A faithful and con-
scientious observer, he perhaps analysed rather
than felt what he observed, but his work in any
case testifies eloquently to his ardent attachment
to the lands of sunshine. By his death, moreover,
we have lost not only an artist but a writer of no
mean power, as his letters from Algeria to Dutch
journals show. F. Gos.
PHILADELPHIA—As a manifestation
of increasing interest in the plastic arts
in America, the display of sculpture in
the i nth Annual Exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Academy was most convincing, not
only through the large number of works exposed
—over two hundred—but also through their ori-
ginality of conception evolved from the modern
point of view of life and its suggestions to the
artist. Classic traditions seemed to have been
almost completely ignored, yet there appeared
no lack of that ideality which is an essential
element of a really serious work of sculpture.
A carefully modelled nude figure in bronze entitled
Spirit of the Woods, by Mr. Edward McCartan,
was awarded the Widener Memorial Gold Medal.
A group by Miss Coleman Ladd, entitled Peace
Victorious, showed some fine qualities, and very
satisfactory both as to conception and technique
was Mr. Chester Beach's marble group Cloud
Forms. Portrait-busts abounded, many of them
showing distinctive character, such as Mr. Charles
Grafly's portrait of Frank Duveneck, the well-known
BUST OF EDWARD T. STOTESBURY ESQ.
BY AURELIUS RENZETTI
(Pennsylvania Academy)
187
BUST OF FRANK DUVENECK BY CHARLES GRAFLV
(Pennsylvania Academy)
that he penetrated the far-off realm of dream and
fancy, not, as many others have done, through the
gates of the imagination, but through his very real
studies of camels, monkeys, elephants, and other
beasts. In 1891 he took part in a pilgrimage to
the Promised Land, and in the course of seven
expeditions he visited successively Algiers, Bou-
Sada, Gardaia, Tunis, and Kairouan. His last
picture, left unfinished, was a view of Gardaia in
Southern Algeria, a region of which he was very
fond, and where he was feted by his friends the
natives. This canvas with its strong contrasts of
sunlight and shadow may be regarded as the
synthesis of his aspirations. A faithful and con-
scientious observer, he perhaps analysed rather
than felt what he observed, but his work in any
case testifies eloquently to his ardent attachment
to the lands of sunshine. By his death, moreover,
we have lost not only an artist but a writer of no
mean power, as his letters from Algeria to Dutch
journals show. F. Gos.
PHILADELPHIA—As a manifestation
of increasing interest in the plastic arts
in America, the display of sculpture in
the i nth Annual Exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Academy was most convincing, not
only through the large number of works exposed
—over two hundred—but also through their ori-
ginality of conception evolved from the modern
point of view of life and its suggestions to the
artist. Classic traditions seemed to have been
almost completely ignored, yet there appeared
no lack of that ideality which is an essential
element of a really serious work of sculpture.
A carefully modelled nude figure in bronze entitled
Spirit of the Woods, by Mr. Edward McCartan,
was awarded the Widener Memorial Gold Medal.
A group by Miss Coleman Ladd, entitled Peace
Victorious, showed some fine qualities, and very
satisfactory both as to conception and technique
was Mr. Chester Beach's marble group Cloud
Forms. Portrait-busts abounded, many of them
showing distinctive character, such as Mr. Charles
Grafly's portrait of Frank Duveneck, the well-known
BUST OF EDWARD T. STOTESBURY ESQ.
BY AURELIUS RENZETTI
(Pennsylvania Academy)
187