Studio: international art (76.1919)

Studio- Talk

'portrait of mrs. s." {Pennsylvania Academy) by Leopold seyffert

position of honour and called Marseillaise. The
Walter Lippincott Prize of three hundred dollars
went to Mr. Colin Campbell Cooper's picture
Slimmer, the Beck Gold Medal for the best
portrait to Mr. Leslie P. Thompson's Portrait of
a Girl, the Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal for the
best landscape to Mr. Charles H. Davis's Over
the Hills, the Mary Smith Prize for the best
painting by a local woman to Mrs. Juliet White
Gross for her On the Hill, and the George D.
Widener Memorial Medal for the best sculptures
to a group of mother and babe by Mr. J. M.
Lawson, entitled Belgium, 1914.

One notes, en passant, that the Stotesbury
Prize and the Temple Gold Medal have been
awarded for some years past to artists of the

faculty of the Academy schools. The pub-
lished conditions under which these, or any of
the prizes, are awarded do not state that there
shall be preference of any kind except merit of
the work considered, and, while the ability of
the men so honoured is generally acknowledged,
there are others equally eligible. This, however,
is only one phase of the local art movement that
is subject to criticism from well-known pro-
fessionals of international reputation like the
artists Joseph Pennell and John McLure Hamil-
ton, and the architect Charles K. Burns, who
figured in Mr. Wayman Adams's group of Con-
spirators, seen in the recent exhibition.

As psychologic studies of these three charac-
ters, Mr. Adams's canvas was quite the cleverest

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