Studio: international art (78.1919)

STUDIO-TALK

“ MIGRATIVE COOT.” WATER-
COLOUR BY FRANK W. BENSON

fine example was a design in rose and gold,
Daughter of the Kaliph. Miss Mary Cas-
satt sent three charming pastels, and a
group by Mr. Childe Hassam, styled by
him ** The Rockport Quarry Series/'vibrat-
ing with light and harmonious in colour,
may be described as the last word in modern
art. Pure aquarelle was the medium of a
group of impressionistic sketches of Cali-
fornian beach scenes and Spanish Missions
by Miss Alice Schille, and excellent gouache
drawings were shown by Miss Jane Peter-
son, Miss Felicie Waldo Howell, Miss
Catherine Wharton Morris, and Mr. Wil-
mot E. Heitland. Mr. Roy Brown's water-
colour, Grey Fronts, an atmospheric sym-
phony, was awarded the “ Isidor Prize " at
the Salmagundi Club's show. There was
a very good little view of Old New York
by Mr. William Jean Beauley, deserving of
a better place on the walls, and a group of
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admirable water-colours of the California
coast by Mr. Paul Dougherty. The water-
colour drawings of American birds, made
for reproduction by Mr. Carroll Tyson,
jun., are works of art as well as accurate
studies in ornithology. Dr. M. W. Zim-
merman showed a group of works strongly
suggestive of Japanese influence. 0 0

Works in black and white occupied a
great deal of space in the exhibition, and
quite justly, for they were representative of
the best in American illustration. There
was a fine group of lithographs by Mr.
Joseph Pennell, authorized by the Govern-
ment Railway Direction, of scenes along
some of our great lines of communication.
Mr. Thornton Oakley exhibited an equally
good group of lithographs of shipbuilding
activities at Hog Island, near Philadelphia ;
Mr. F. Walter Taylor some effective crayon
drawings of docks'and shipping, and Mr.