Studio: international art (83.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

“ EASTER SUNDAY.” OIL PAINT-
ING BY GARI MELCHERS

(Pennsylvania Academy)

ing the personality of the distinguished
aviator. Impressionistic in treatment,
excelling in technical quality of design and
colour, Miss Felicie Waldo Howell's
picture of Fifth Avenue, New York, was
one of the most attractive works in the
collection. Truthful noting of wintry
landscape gave the realistic character to
Mr. Victor Higgins's Reflected Light, and
Mr. Jonas Lie's river scene, Idle Hours,
carried with it the impression of careful
study of his subject. a 0 a
Many of the works of sculpture were by
women, and reflected great credit upon
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their ability, as in the fountain figures,
The Big Duck, by Miss Edith Barretto
Parsons, and Boy and Turtle, by Miss
Lillian Lenk, and in An African Rhinoceros
by Miss Katharine W. Lane. There was a
group of horses well posed and modelled
by Mr. J. M. Lore, entitled Prairie Fire ;
a portrait figure of a girl by Albin Polasek,
and a portrait bust of the painter, Henry
B. Snell, N.A., by Mr. Louis Mayer. Miss
Louise Allen exhibited a female mask in
coloured marble, and Mr. John L. Clark
a very good example of wood sculpture,
Bear in a Trap. E. C.