Studio: international art (90.1925)

NEW YORK

Society. The last survivor of those whose
names are recorded in the catalogue of
the One Hundredth Annual Exhibition,
Thomas C. Cummings, N.A., died Sep-
tember 25th, 1894. The Society of Amer-
ican Artists seceded from the Academy
in 1877, but was reunited with the parent
organisation in 1906. The exhibition
held last April upheld very creditably
the traditional conservative policy of the
Council of officers and directors, headed
by Mr. Edwin K. Blashfield, N.A.
Honours awarded to exhibitors were :
First Altman Prize to Mr. Hobart Nichols,
N.A., for his landscape Across the
Valley ; Second Altman Prize to Mr.
Ernest L. Blumenschein, N.A., for a
picture of the Sangre de Christo Mountains;
Thomas B. Clarke Prize to Miss Gertrude
Fiske, A.N.A., for a group of figures
entitled Sunday Afternoon; First Hau-
garten Prize to Mr. Clarence R. Johnson

"THE RAVINE." BY CHARLES
S. CHAPMAN, A.N.A. (Nat.
Acad, of Design, 100th Exhn.)

for a Pennsylvania landscape, Lumberville
Lock; Second, for a marine subject,
Mid Ocean, by Mr. Stanley W. Wood-
ward ; Third to Mr. Jerry Farnsworth's
figure, Helen, 000^

Winter in America was well suggested
in Mr. Carl Lawless's Sledding Party
and Mr. G. A. Travers's Winter Morning.
Mr. Frank V. Du Mond, N.A., sent a
very interesting composition, Building a
Nation, effectively handled by an experi-
enced painter. The Ravine, by Mr.
Charles S. Chapman, A.N.A., a beauti-
fully coloured work, was one of the
notable canvases in the Vanderbilt Gal-
lery, a a 0 0 0 0

Figure painters exhibiting important
works were Mr. John Ward Dunsmore,
sending The Geographer; Miss Ellen
Emmet Rand, a reminder of past days
in The 'Sixties; another, The Costume,
by Mr. Irving R. Wiles, A.N.A. ; Before

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