Studio: international art (84.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

PORTRAIT OF EUGENE CASTELLO
BY MAURICE MOLARSKY

(Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh;
Photo, Coulbourn Brown)

best etching, to Roi Partridge, of Mills
College, California, for his Mills Hall;
the Alson S. Clark III. Prize of $25, for
the best colour etching, donated by Mr.
and Mrs. Alson S. Clark, of Pasadena, to
Alfred Hartley, of St. Ives, Cornwall, for
his aquatint, A Wessex Valley (the print
was also purchased for the Los Angeles
Museum by the same donors) ; and a
prize of $25 for the " best American
Print," given by Wm. Alanson Bryan,
Director of the Los Angeles Museum, and
Mrs. Bryan, to Ernest D. Roth, of New
York City, for his etching Chartres. a

The English section was particularly
strong, 56 artists being represented by

56

156 prints. In etching and lithography'this
contingent stood out pre-eminent. The
American section was weak in these two
mediums, but particularly in lithography.
In block-printing the Americans more than
held their own, despite the fact that the
Gold Medal was awarded to John Piatt,
of Edinburgh. In the United States there
is a group of artists who are making rapid
strides in the medium and have developed
an originality of thought and style all
their own. France sent about the same
type of prints as usual. Their artists seem
to have adopted a " formula " for their
work, and each year we have from them
about the same subjects, treated in the