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directors of the Car
Institute
have
negie
every reason to pride
themselves on the' re
sults of their efforts.
and
Representative
competent juries have
regularly been chosen
for the Pittsburg exhi
bition, the standard of
admission has been kept
high, and every care
has been taken to keep
out unworthy works.
This year the total num
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PENELOPE
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ART
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EXHIBITION
THE KELP-GATHERERS
By Andre Dauchez
First Prize
A
exhibition.
cases
rarest
scape,
A
has
is, after
all,
portrait
not
for the public
and genre
criticism
care was
not
marine,
of
word
that miore
painting.
here
may
taken
to
arrangement
obtaining
and
harmonious
only
the
be
in the
a portrait,
in the
and except
that
in land
interest
inheres
It
offered.
of
hanging
neglect
resiilts.
to mass
The
the
is to be
pictures.
color
walls
the
of
with
galleries,
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regretted
Choice
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TWILIGHT
By Elmer Schofield
HonorableMention
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the display this year made the work of awarding prizes anything
but an easy task, and it is not surprising, with two hundred and
in kind
candidates for favor, differing more markedly
seventy-two
than in merit, there should be some disagreement as to the justness
One may attribute this disagreement, how
of the jury's decision.
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Is
It can scarcely be
ever, to the personal preferences of the critics.
taken as a reflection on the work of the jury.
The awards were made by an international art jury composed
of Frederick W. Freer, Chicago; Frank W. Benson, Salem, Massa
chusetts; Kenyon Cox, New York; Charles H. Davis, Mystic,
Thomas Eakins,
John I. Enneking,
Philadelphia;
Connecticut;
Boston; Alexander Harrison, Paris; Eugene A. Poole, Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania; Frederic P. Vinton, Boston; Anders L. Zorn, Sweden;
with John Caldwell as president of the jury. These names alone
vouch for integrity of purpose, for an intimate knowledge of artistic
requirements, and for sound critical judgment. The awards, there
fore, it is safe to say, were as satisfactorily made as could reasonably
be expected from anv jury who might be appointed.
It would be impossible within the limits of an article, and unde
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Night,"
Foster's "Misty Moonlight
which won the silver medal and one
thousand dollars,. or Sergeant Ken
dall's "The End of Day," which car
anld five
ried off the bronze medal
hundred dollars, should have taken
second and third rank in competition
just de
with "The Kelp-Gatherers,"
Both are admirable pieces
scribed.
of work and both have the added
charm of home scenes. These pictures
appeal to the average spectator more
than the first-prize winner.
strongly
"The End of Day" especially has a
quality that touches a responsive chord
in the breasts of all beholders; and, be
it said without reflection on the other
contribution
prize pictures, Kendall's
is by far the most
to the exhibition
attractive and popular of the three prize
UNA CALERA
By Cesare Laurenti
winners.
served
as
for the
prototype
By com
canvas.
mon admission the
picture is one of the
best Mr. Foster has
produced.
Mr. Kendall's
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A COURT IN VENICE
By FritzThaulow
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ETCHINGS
GALLERY
OF
RENAN
PORTRAIT
By
Zorn
Anders
Plate
Fotir
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"The End of Day" is not new, having been seen at the last exhibi
tion of the Society of American Artists.
It will be remembered for
its charming rendering of child-life.
It shows a pretty little tot,
apparently tired after its day of play, sitting on its mother's
lap and
making a feint of turning the leaves of a picture-book.
The mother
is in the act of fon
dling the child, and
of
the expression
benignity and ten
the
derness which
artist has succeeded
in depicting on her
is ex
countenance
touch
ceptionally
ing.
It is a picture
whose ennobling
it a
motive
gives
value that no bril
liancy of pigment
or mere cleverness
of technique could
impart.
The three hon
orable-mention pic
tures are all good
and worthy of the
con
distinction
ferred upon them.
on
Hands
"All
the
by
Deck,"'
Scottish artist Rob
is a
ert W. Allan,
picture to command
atten
immediate
PORTRAIT OF GEORGE BURRELL, ESQ.
tion, not less by its
By GeorgeHenry
strength of concep
tion than by the
It shows two
masterly way in which the details are worked out.
On the beach the rising
fishing loggers coming around a headland.
sea is churned into white caps, and the coming squall is further
heralded by a gathering murkiness in the sky. The canvas is instinct
In a
There is action in every brush-stroke.
with life and energy.
word, it is a dramatic incident forcefully told.
inWinter," another of the honorable
Julius Olsson's "Waterfall
mention pictures, lacks the charm of many of the other canvases, but
It is cold, and
is notable for its able rendering of a difficult subject.
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its ice-bound banks. The artist has succeeded in catching the spirit
of winter, and his handling of details is in every way truthful and
masterful.
picture, by W. Elmer
the third honorable-mention
"Twilight,"
Schofield, presents a vista of bare trees, cottages, and sky, all bathed
in a peculiar waning light. The canvas, while little calculated to win
popularity, has the charm of excellent rendering and bespealks much
for
the
future
of
the
artist.
It
is earnest
even
to
solemnity,
and
has
much
a mother
and
child
there
being
in various
dozen
attitudes
or more
and
canvases
conditions.
showing
These
are
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all bits of home life, in the main touching and true, and not a few
of them suggest that they are bona-fide portraits.
Mention has been made of the great number of portraits admitted
to the exhibition.
It is not unlikely that the presence of Anders.
Zorn on the jury may be responsible for this. Last year, it will
be remembered, a number of impressionistic
canvases, some but
a trifle out of normal and others little more than nmere suggestions
of pictures, were submitted in competition for the prizes, owing, it is
supposed, to the fact that Jean F. Raffaelli was on the jury. It is sur
mised, and possibly with sufficient ground, that many portraitists
submitted
their work this year who would not have done so had
Mr. Zorn not been on the jury.
Be it as it may, there are portraits galore on the walls of the
The
of these are exceptional
galleries.
Many
pieces of work.
portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland by Mr. Zorn himself are among
The pose of these pictures is natural and easy, and
the most notable
the face-work is exceptionally good.
Other conspicuous examples
of portraiture are the pictures of Joseph H. Choate and James C.
Carter by John S. Sargent, both lent by the Harvard Club. Neither
of these, however, is up to Mr. Sargent's present-day standard.
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An
especially
charming picture is
that of Mrs. Shan
non, by her hus
band, J. J. Shannon.
The figure, in dig
nified pose, stands
against a dull red
and drab tapestry
The
background.
satin
dove-colored
gown is admiiirably
draped, as is also
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the cloak which
By Pietro Fragiacomo
falls gracefully over
the right arm. The
color scheme is subdued and pleasing, and the picture is in every
way dignified and refined. Wilton Lockwood also contributes the
portrait of a little boy in a white sailor suit sitting in front of a
curtain of warm tone; which is refreshingly free from the ultra-atmos
pheric effects which formerly characterized the work of this artist
almost to the point of man
nerism. Louis Loeb's almost
ghoulish portrait of Zang
will, already familiar to ex
hibition visitors, may also be
as one of the
mentioned
conspicuous portraits at the
exhibition, as may also Miss
Beaux's
portrait of Miss
which was ex
McFadden,
hibited in Philadelphia last
spring, and which scarcely
does justice to the artist's
abilities.
Among landscapists, one
may, single out for special
mention, without the charge
of invidious
reflection,
George H. Bogert, Charles
H. Davis, Walter Clark, and
Mr.
J. H. Thwachtman.
Bogert slhows " From Leidan
to Katwylk" and "Autumn
Afternoon," both painted in
LOVE IN THE HARVEST-FIELD
rich but sober coloring, and
By H. H. Lathangue
IN
T'HE
TWILIGHT
[j] GALLERY
OF
ETCHINGS
By
Joseph
Pennell
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Cotirtesy
Albert
Roullier
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a homely scene
is H. H. Lathangue's "Love in the Harvest-Field,"
depicting a man and a woman returning from work, which has some
thing of the spirit of Jules Breton; and probably the best of the
Italian contributions are those by P. Fragiacomo and G. Ciardi, both
of whom have sent compositions admirable for their light and atmos
phere, and also for their tenderness
and sentiment.
The canvases sent by the thirty
two French artists are as varied
as the diverse tendencies and in
current in
methods
dividualistic
There is a
the Paris of to-day.
sprinkling of the so-called impres
sionists and also of the tonalists.
of Pissarro, Monet,
The work
Maxime
d'Espagnat,
Sisley,
Maufra, Andre Dauchez, Menard,
and several others of the French
contingent is thoroughly character
istic of modern French art, and
worthy of a place in the exhibition.
Of the American paintings, it
may be said that the average in
point of excellence is much higher
A de
than in former exhibitions.
tailed account of the pictures is
since a large
scarcely necessary,
number of them have already been
to the public in former
presented
Suffice it to say, with
exhibitions.
out further particularizing, that in
foreign artists
with
competition
Americans have little to fear. Their
THE STANDARD BEARER OF THE
HARVEST FESTIVAL
work as shown in the Carnegie Art
By AntonioMancini
individual
is essentially
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in conception and in
istic both
treatment, betraying the most careful training, a masterly technique,
and a mental resourcefulness that give the brightest promise for
American art.
After all is said, the one thing that makes the Pittsburg exhibi
is its international character.
tion the most important in America
An American exhibition that draws approximately half of its exhib
itors from the Old World would naturally command much of the best
work of the day, and that work must be seen to be appreciated.
No brief reference to individual pictures or artists could possibly give
To those familiar
an adequate idea of the quality of the display.
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