Studio: international art (70.1917)

Studio-Talk

“ Gallery G,” was given over exclusively to a
group of eighteen of Mr. John Singer Sargent’s
works, most of them family portraits lent by
the owners. A landscape entitled Mountain
Torrents was lent by Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears,
and a very fine nude Egyptian Girl added to
the interest of the group.

The late Wm. M. Chase’s portrait of the Hon.
William A. Clark, the donor of the prizes, drew
much attention from the visitors, a note of
mourning on the frame recalling the recent
death of the painter. A Portrait Group by
Miss M. Jean McLane embodied familiar senti-
ment as well as distinction in colour and design.
One seemed to be introduced to a charming
interior by Mr. Edmund C. Tarbell in viewing
his portraits of Nell and Elinor lent by C. W.
Wheeler, Esq. Mr. Frank W. Benson’s Mother
and Child, Mr. Frank Duveneck’s early portrait
of John W. Alexander, lent by the Art Museum
of Cincinnati, Miss Marie de Ford Keller’s
portrait of Miss Emily Dobema, Mr. Kenyon

Cox’s portrait of Emil Carlsen, Mr. Herman G.
Herkomer’s portrait of Sir Hubert Herkomer,
R.A., a portrait of Miss Barbara Brown by
Miss Lydia Field Emmett, and that of Rollin D.
Salisbury by Mr. Ralph Clarkson, lent by the
University of Chicago, all contributed to the
significance of the collection.

One of the best nudes in the exhibition was
by Mr. Childe Hassam and was entitled Against
the Light. Mr. Leopold Seyffert also showed
some very skilful painting of the flesh in his
nude figure called Resting, reflected in the back-
ground of the picture. Miss Mary Cassatt
charmed with beautiful contrasts of comple-
mentary col ur in the lavenders and pale greens
of the figure subject, Femme a sa toilette.
Mr. Richard Miller was also very successful in
the colour-scheme of The Mandarin Coat, and
Mr. Gari Melchers gave a very brilliant and
vibrant effect to a church full of gaily costumed
people in a large canvas entitled Easter Sunday.
A wonderfully powerful note of realism was