Studio: international art (80.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

" HIGH STREET, PLYMOUTH "
FROM A DRAWING BY
R. BORLASE SMART, R.B.A.

andJSons, where the descendants of the
resolute voyagers of 1620 will be able to
see, in the sympathetic medium of charcoal
and wash, many of the relics of the
" Mayflower " period which existed till
recently but are now no more, as well as
others still extant which may ere long
follow suit in obedience to the imperious
necessities of the present day. a a

PITTSBURGH—After an interval of
six years the displays of International
art in the galleries of the Carnegie In-
stitute, among the most spacious and
best appointed in America, were resumed
on April 29th last with the opening of
the Nineteenth Annual Exhibition. The
number of works gathered together from
all quarters was 373. England was
represented by 83 canvases, France by
53, and the remaining 167 foreign works
were distributed between Sweden, Den-
mark, Italy, Spain, Norway, Russia,
Belgium, Switzerland and Canada. There

was also shown at the same time in a
gallery apart from the paintings a col-
lection of Rodin bronzes, including a
number of the master's important works.

The gold medal carrying with it a
prize of fifteen hundred dollars was
awarded to Mr. Abbott H. Thayer, of
New Hampshire, for his three-quarter
figure of A Young Woman in Olive Plush ;
to Mr. Algernon Talmage, of London,
was awarded the silver medal and one
thousand dollars for his figure entitled
By the Cornish Sea ; to Mr. Walter Ufer,
of Chicago, was given the bronze medal
and five hundred dollars for his group
of Taos Mexican Indians, Suzanna and her
Sisters ; and honourable mentions to Mr.
Robert Spencer, of New Hope, Pennsyl-
vania, for his White Mill; to Mr. George
J. Coates, of London, for his Spanish
Dancer; to Mr. Frederick Bosley, of
Boston, for Looking at Prints. a 0

One gallery was exclusively given over
to the display of a group of upwards of

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