Studio: international art (84.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

"MADAME VIARDOT"
BY MAURICE MOLARSKY

(Corcoran Gallery, Washington)

297 oil paintings, of which 123 came from
abroad. In all 621 works were submitted.
About fifty of the artists whose works were
accepted had never before exhibited in a
Carnegie Institute International Show.
This is the only exhibition held in America
where the works of foreign artists are
displayed side by side with American pro-
ductions, the only other one of similar
importance being the Biennial at Venice.

The jury of selection and award on this
occasion was composed of Mrs. Laura
Knight of London, M. Lucien Simon of
Paris, Mr. C. C. Curran of New York, and
Mr. Charles H. Woodbury of Boston. The
Gold Medal, carrying with it an award of

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$500 was secured by Mr. George W.
Bellows of New York, for his painting
Eleanor, Jean and Anna, a work that was
awarded the Carol Beck Gold Medal at the
Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition of 1921,
and was reproduced as an illustration in a
review of that show in The Studio of April
of the same year. The second prize, a
Silver Medal and $500, was awarded to M.
Emile Rene Menard, for his painting,
Women Bathing in the Greve, and the third
award, a Bronze Medal and $500, to M.
Henri Lebasque, for his work, The Banks of
the Seine, Andelys. Honourable Mentions
were awarded to three American painters,
Mr. Charles Reiffel, for his painting,