Studio: international art (81.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

" ELEANOR, JOAN AND ANNA"
BY GEORGE BELLOWS

{Pennsylvania Academy, Carol
Beck Gold Medal)

Arts offered to the public this year a
collection of works by contemporary
artists that had been selected with
discriminating care by the jury and
hung on the walls with a fine sense of
harmonious juxtaposition. Pictures of
delicate tonal and chromatic quality were
grouped together in one of the galleries
apart from those of vivid colouring and
" bravura " brush work, to the advantage
of both. In this group were three de-
lightfully atmospheric landscapes by the
late J. Francis Murphy; a self portrait of
Robert Vonnoh and another by him of
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, the sculptress;
December Sun by Mr. Leonard Ochtman,

and a fine marine by Mr. Emil Carlsen,
Stormy Sea. 00000
Mr. John Singer Sargent's portrait of
Carolus Duran lent by the Knocdlers,
was in the honour place in gallery F, and
his portrait of Mrs. Kate A. Moore was
near by—neither of them recent produc-
tions, but superb examples of the master
and should be acquired for the permanent
collection. Mr. Robert Susan, one of
our younger painters, made his mark as
a delineator of character in both sexes in
his works, The Golden Screen, a portrait of
a handsome girl in black velvet bearing an
orange fan, and The Connoisseur, a por-
trait of a man in top hat and frock

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