DOI issue:
No. 183 (February 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0123
NEW YORK
A PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE FINE
ARTS." BY WAYMAN ADAMS
(New York N.A.I). Winter Exhn.
1924)
NEW YORK.—Conservative taste in
the choice of works for exhibition and
in the award of prizes was evident in the
Winter Exhibition of the National
Academy of Design, on view November
15th to December 7th. There never has
been any appreciable departure observed
in the annual offerings at the Academy
from standards that have been its unvary-
ing aim through all the excitement attend-
ing the advent of the radical movements
of the day affecting the practice of the
arts. Mr. Childe Hassam, N.A., seems to
have attained such standards when he was
awarded the liberal Altman Prize of
$1,000 for his picture of Miss Igram, a
pretty girl in a room flooded with sunlight,
a conception of beauty executed with the
well-known ability of this painter. Another
Altman Prize of $500 went to Mr. Robert
K. Ryland's Classic Toilet, a well drawn
figure in Greek costume. One of the
strongest works in the show, a portrait by
Mr, Nicolai Fechin, of The Wood Engraver,
W. G. Watt, took the Proctor Prize. To
Mr. C. W. Hawthorne, N.A., was awarded
the Carnegie Prize of $500 for his rather
pathetic figure of The Captain's Wife.
The Isidor Medal went to Mr. Eugene
F. Savage, A.N.A., for his fine composition
suggestive of mural decoration entitled
Fame and Fortune, a scholarly, well drawn
bit of symbolism. Blossoms of white
relieved by the delicate greens of spring
gave charm to Mr. Emile Walter's picture,
Full Bloom, awarded the J. Francis
Murphy Memorial Prize. A mask of the
Russian danseuse, Anna Pavlova, by Miss
Malvina Hoffman, was awarded the Eliza-
beth. Watrous Gold Medal. The Shaw
Memorial Prize went to Mrs. Lilian
Westcott Hale's Nancy, a figure of a young
girl reading by a window overlooking a
wintry landscape. 0 m a a
Apparently including a self portrait of
the artist at work, Mr. Walter Ufer,A.N A.,
in his canvas, Paint and Indians, has
embodied a most interesting group of
aborigines of the South West in a com-
position of extraordinary realism. Mr.
Wayman Adams, A.N.A., was represented
in the Vanderbilt Gallery by a full-length
portrait of a Photographer of the Fine Arts,
well known in New York art circles.
There was a very engaging personality
suggested in the faultlessly drawn figure
by Mr. Charles C. Curran, N.A., with the
title The Carnelian Necklace. Mountain
scenery of British Columbia was very
well presented in Douglas Firs, by Mr.
Carl Rungius, N.A., and that of American
localities in Kittredge Ledge, by Mr. Roy
Brown, A.N.A. Effective arrangement of
light and shadow was the feature of
Evening Hour, by Mr. John C. Johansen,
NA. Mr. Horatio Walker, N.A., sent a
very convincing landscape with animals in
La Rencontre. The Cider Mill, by Mr.
Bruce Crane, N.A., was a representative
work of one of our veteran landscape
painters. The old line-of-battle ships were
well reproduced in Mr. C. R. Patterson's
canvas, America's Answer—1812. A capital
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A PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE FINE
ARTS." BY WAYMAN ADAMS
(New York N.A.I). Winter Exhn.
1924)
NEW YORK.—Conservative taste in
the choice of works for exhibition and
in the award of prizes was evident in the
Winter Exhibition of the National
Academy of Design, on view November
15th to December 7th. There never has
been any appreciable departure observed
in the annual offerings at the Academy
from standards that have been its unvary-
ing aim through all the excitement attend-
ing the advent of the radical movements
of the day affecting the practice of the
arts. Mr. Childe Hassam, N.A., seems to
have attained such standards when he was
awarded the liberal Altman Prize of
$1,000 for his picture of Miss Igram, a
pretty girl in a room flooded with sunlight,
a conception of beauty executed with the
well-known ability of this painter. Another
Altman Prize of $500 went to Mr. Robert
K. Ryland's Classic Toilet, a well drawn
figure in Greek costume. One of the
strongest works in the show, a portrait by
Mr, Nicolai Fechin, of The Wood Engraver,
W. G. Watt, took the Proctor Prize. To
Mr. C. W. Hawthorne, N.A., was awarded
the Carnegie Prize of $500 for his rather
pathetic figure of The Captain's Wife.
The Isidor Medal went to Mr. Eugene
F. Savage, A.N.A., for his fine composition
suggestive of mural decoration entitled
Fame and Fortune, a scholarly, well drawn
bit of symbolism. Blossoms of white
relieved by the delicate greens of spring
gave charm to Mr. Emile Walter's picture,
Full Bloom, awarded the J. Francis
Murphy Memorial Prize. A mask of the
Russian danseuse, Anna Pavlova, by Miss
Malvina Hoffman, was awarded the Eliza-
beth. Watrous Gold Medal. The Shaw
Memorial Prize went to Mrs. Lilian
Westcott Hale's Nancy, a figure of a young
girl reading by a window overlooking a
wintry landscape. 0 m a a
Apparently including a self portrait of
the artist at work, Mr. Walter Ufer,A.N A.,
in his canvas, Paint and Indians, has
embodied a most interesting group of
aborigines of the South West in a com-
position of extraordinary realism. Mr.
Wayman Adams, A.N.A., was represented
in the Vanderbilt Gallery by a full-length
portrait of a Photographer of the Fine Arts,
well known in New York art circles.
There was a very engaging personality
suggested in the faultlessly drawn figure
by Mr. Charles C. Curran, N.A., with the
title The Carnelian Necklace. Mountain
scenery of British Columbia was very
well presented in Douglas Firs, by Mr.
Carl Rungius, N.A., and that of American
localities in Kittredge Ledge, by Mr. Roy
Brown, A.N.A. Effective arrangement of
light and shadow was the feature of
Evening Hour, by Mr. John C. Johansen,
NA. Mr. Horatio Walker, N.A., sent a
very convincing landscape with animals in
La Rencontre. The Cider Mill, by Mr.
Bruce Crane, N.A., was a representative
work of one of our veteran landscape
painters. The old line-of-battle ships were
well reproduced in Mr. C. R. Patterson's
canvas, America's Answer—1812. A capital
117