Studio: international art (76.1919)

Studio- Talk

'winter afternoon" ' (Pennsylvania Academy) by fred wagner

effort in the exhibition. His full length of The
Critic on the adjoining wall also showed his
insight of the real personality, and had even
better illumination and quality of rich, warm
colouring. There was a very distinguished por-
trait of The late Frank Duveneck, by Miss Dixie
Selden ; by Mr. Adolphe Borie there was a serious
work in a portrait of Dr. Horace Howard Furness,
Jr. ; of Major R. Tait McKenzie, in khaki, of
the British Army Medical Service, by Mr. Albert
Rosenthal; of Edward T. Stotesbury, Esq., by
R. L. Partington ; of Mrs. R., by Mr. Lazar
Raditz ; of Mrs. S., reflecting modern Spanish
influences, by Mr. Leopold Seyffert ; of Judge
Alexander Simpson and Mrs. Simpson, by Mr.
John McLure Hamilton ; and of Miss Pearson,
by Mr. Wm. W. Churchill.

Mr. Childe Hassam exhibited one of the best
figure-pieces in the collection entitled Tanagra ;
Mr. Philip L. Hale a large academic canvas of
Cain as a fine painting of the nude ; Mr. Oscar
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Gross depicted Jewish types very well in At the
Ghetto ; a charming group of tennis girls in
The Ring showed Mr. Robert Vonnoh's matured
skill as a painter of figures in the open air ; Mr.
Robert S. Susan, one of the younger men,
exhibited a fine full-length Girl in White; ex-
quisite finish, rarely observed in modern art,
gave to Mr. William M. Paxton's Daguerrotype
the quality found in the paintings of the old
masters of Holland, and there was much of
the same feeling in Miss Gertrude Fiske's
Study in Black and White.

Mention should be made of Mr. Frank Ben-
son's Interior as showing most effective lighting
of a well-drawn figure. The nude was repre-
sented by Mr. Carl Nordell in The East Window
and by Mr. Leopold Seyffert in The Silver Screen,
both good works with nondescript titles. Mr.
Frederick Waugh's Transport under Convoy and
Mr. Paul Dougherty's Heavy Sea were capital
examples of marine painting by masters of the