An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition: Explanations of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, With a Guide for Study in the Art GalleryCheney, Sheldon
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An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition: Explanations of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, With a Guide for Study in the Art Gallery
Cheney, Sheldon
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Gallery 85. On walls A and B are five canvases by Horatio Walker that
are worthy of attention. But finer are Charles W. Hawthorne's four
paintings on walls B and D. Their bigness of conception, sincerity and
soundness of technique mark a coming master. Wall C is given up to a
display by Charles Walter Stetson, which shows, more strongly than any
other in the American section, that tendency to the decorative and the
idyllic which is to be noted as so strong in recent painting. On wall D
are three works of George deForest Brush, a man who has been but little
influenced by the more radical tendencies. "The Potter" is interesting
for the painstaking and minute finish of varying surface textures.
Gallery 66-Central Hall. Although the important places here are given
to sculpture, there are a few very interesting paintings: some
representative landscapes, and at the ends decorative panels by
Alexander Harrison and by Howard Cushing.
Gallery 80 is notable for the work of painters who have followed rather
closely the old academic traditions: for the smooth and polished
canvases of W. M. Paxton and Philip Leslie Hale. There are also seven
landscapes by Willard L. Metcalf, fresh attractive work of the
"plein-air" school.
Gallery 67 is rich in fine landscapes, and contains the best of the
exhibition's marines. Here are the only works of Charles H. Davis, a
notable follower of the poetic Inness School, and of Leonard Ochtman and
Ben Foster, who stand well to the fore among the more vigorous
landscapists. Also worthy of attention are the landscapes of Braun,
Borg, White, Wendt, J. F. Carlson, Rosen and Browne. The marines
represent well a department of painting in which Americans have long
excelled; on wall A are four by Paul Dougherty, on B and C three by
Frederick J. Waugh, and on D one by Emil Carlsen. Of the other paintings
the most interesting is the idyllic bit by Hugo Ballin on wall C,
representative of the decorative tendency.
Gallery 68 contains as its most important exhibit three portraits by J.
C. Johansen, on wall B, all typical of the brilliant fluency of this
remarkable painter. Among the landscapes here the most important are the
two Schofields on wall D, typical of the best and sanest phase of
Impressionism in America. Very important too are the canvases by Daniel
Garber on wall C.
Gallery 69 contains a mixed collection, with such different good things
as Lawton Parker's polished figure studies (wall B) and J. Francis
Murphy's poetic landscape (wall C). On wall C is a painting by John W.
Alexander, one of the leaders in American art, which is typical of his
method of subordinating subject interest to line arrangement and color
composition.
Gallery 70-Portrait Room. On wall C are three portraits by Irving R.
Wiles, and on D two by Julian Story-both names long well-known in
American art. But the surprising thing is that several of the canvases
by less known men stand up with, or even surpass, these.
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