DOI issue:
No. 371 (February 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0122
NEW YORK
"THE HURRYING RIVER." BY
ROBERT H. NISBET, A.N.A.
(N. A. D. Winter Exhibition, New York)
sage. Arabs Weighing Potatoes was an ad-
mirable work of oriental significance by Mr.
Douglas Parshall, and there was a richly
vibrant still life Brown and Gold, by Mr.
Dines Carlsen, A.N.A. Good drawing in
perspective and truthful colour gave a de-
lightful measure of realism to A Curve in
the Street by Miss Felicie Waldo Howell,
A.N.A. Drawings, etchings and prints
were displayed in a separate “ Academy
Room," including a number of Spanish
subjects etched by Mr. Ernest D. Roth,
A.N.A., a group of New York scenes by
Mr. Joseph Pennell, N.A., and a number
of pencil drawings by Mr. Chauncey
Ryder, N.A. Sculpture was arranged in all
the galleries on pedestals and brackets ;
among the most interesting pieces were
probably a portrait bust of Daniel Chester
French, N.A., by Mrs. Margaret French
Cresson, and Undine, by Mr. Therry
Fry, A.N.A. Eugene Castello.
104
centred canvases. However this may be, it
does not materially lessen one’s apprecia-
tions of certain individual works such as
admirable portraits, like that of John
Cotton Dana, by Mr. Douglas Volk, N.A.
There were good nudes such as A Model,
by Mr. Leopold Seyffert, A.N.A. A
Tribute to Keats, by Mr. Will H. Low,
N.A., was also a fine work in the same
vein. Among the landscapes of engaging
interest and finished excellence were
Morning, by Mr. W. E. Schofield, N.A.;
Silent Places, by Mr. John F. Carlson,
A.N.A. and The Hurrying River, by Mr.
Robert H. Nisbet, A.N.A. (here given).
Capital flower paintings were White Peonies,
by Mr. C.D. Weldon, N.A., and Peonies, by
Mr. Albert Graves. Mr.Robert Reid, N.A.
sent a figure subject of a young woman
entitled, quite properly, Enigma, of unusual
colouring and fantastic illumination leaving
one to guess the meaning of the artist’s mes-
"THE HURRYING RIVER." BY
ROBERT H. NISBET, A.N.A.
(N. A. D. Winter Exhibition, New York)
sage. Arabs Weighing Potatoes was an ad-
mirable work of oriental significance by Mr.
Douglas Parshall, and there was a richly
vibrant still life Brown and Gold, by Mr.
Dines Carlsen, A.N.A. Good drawing in
perspective and truthful colour gave a de-
lightful measure of realism to A Curve in
the Street by Miss Felicie Waldo Howell,
A.N.A. Drawings, etchings and prints
were displayed in a separate “ Academy
Room," including a number of Spanish
subjects etched by Mr. Ernest D. Roth,
A.N.A., a group of New York scenes by
Mr. Joseph Pennell, N.A., and a number
of pencil drawings by Mr. Chauncey
Ryder, N.A. Sculpture was arranged in all
the galleries on pedestals and brackets ;
among the most interesting pieces were
probably a portrait bust of Daniel Chester
French, N.A., by Mrs. Margaret French
Cresson, and Undine, by Mr. Therry
Fry, A.N.A. Eugene Castello.
104
centred canvases. However this may be, it
does not materially lessen one’s apprecia-
tions of certain individual works such as
admirable portraits, like that of John
Cotton Dana, by Mr. Douglas Volk, N.A.
There were good nudes such as A Model,
by Mr. Leopold Seyffert, A.N.A. A
Tribute to Keats, by Mr. Will H. Low,
N.A., was also a fine work in the same
vein. Among the landscapes of engaging
interest and finished excellence were
Morning, by Mr. W. E. Schofield, N.A.;
Silent Places, by Mr. John F. Carlson,
A.N.A. and The Hurrying River, by Mr.
Robert H. Nisbet, A.N.A. (here given).
Capital flower paintings were White Peonies,
by Mr. C.D. Weldon, N.A., and Peonies, by
Mr. Albert Graves. Mr.Robert Reid, N.A.
sent a figure subject of a young woman
entitled, quite properly, Enigma, of unusual
colouring and fantastic illumination leaving
one to guess the meaning of the artist’s mes-