Studio: international art (73.1918)

Studio- Talk

PHILADELPHIA.—Current events of beauty was present in Mr. Louis Betts' por-
the war seem to have had but little trait of Miss Margaret Prendergast, in Mr.
effect upon the work of American Albert Rosenthal's portrait of Mrs. H. Bryan
artists, judging from the work on view Owsley, and in Mr. Irving R. Wiles' picturesque
in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Annual figure of Mme. Gerville-Reache as " Carmen."
Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Mr. Leopold Seyffert was awarded the Carol
the Fine Arts from February 3 until March 24 H. Beck Gold Medal for his portrait of Fritz
last. Associated with the artistic temperament Kreisler, the violinist. The One in Yellow was
one often finds a feeling of detachment from the the title of a beautiful figure of a girl by Mr.
affairs of common life that probably accounts Wm. A. Paxton, well supporting his reputation
for this apparent indifference. as a draughtsman. Another very clever work

- was by Mr. De Witt Lockman's The Blue and

Apart from this the show was a moderately Gold Kimono (Walter Lippincott prize).

good one. There were a number of good por------

traits of prominent people by distinguished To Mr. George Luks was awarded the Temple
artists, foremost among them being that of Pre- Gold Medal for his colourful picture of Houston
sident Woodrow Wilson, by Mr. John S. Sargent, Street, New York, a scene in the slums of that
which was commissioned
by the Directors of the
National Gallery of Ireland
in exercise of the option
devolving upon them under
the will of the late Sir
Hugh Lane, and has re-
cently been on exhibition
at the Metropolitan Mu-
seum in New York. Then
there was a portrait of
Mr. Joseph Pennell, by
Mr. Wayman Adams, fine
in distinctive character, as
also was his portrait of
John McLure Hamilton.
There was another portrait
by Mr. Sargent, that of
John D. Rockefeller, with,
the visage of a shrewd,
calculating business man,
and poor shrunken body.

Mr. McLure Hamilton,
who was awarded the
Academy's Gold Medal of
Honour " for eminent ser-
vices in the cause of Art
and to the Academy," sent
a portrait of Judge Brezy,
a prominent local official,
and Mr. Lazar Raditz a
capital portrait of Dr. I.
Minis Hays, of the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society. "miss margaret prendergast" by luis betts
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