An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition: Explanations of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, With a Guide for Study in the Art Gallery — John Shaqi
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 71 is notable chiefly for some good landscapes.
Gallery 72 contains little to hold the attention, unless it is the group
of canvases by Walter McEwen, who shows adherence to the older
traditions, not only in smoothness of technique, but in sentimentalism
and general prettiness.
Gallery 73 is given up chiefly to Alson Clark's over-sketchy and
intemperately colored Panama pictures. The most interesting thing here
is Ernest Lawson's "Beginning of Winter," on wall B, a representative
work by one of the most successful American followers of Impressionism.
Gallery 74 is a room of good landscapes, with a few outstanding canvases
like Will S. Robinson's "Group of White Birches" on wall C.
A new start should be made here by passing through rooms 70 and 71 to
43, from which the numerical order can be followed back to room 51,
adjoining the central hall.
Galleries 43 and 44 have a range from many mediocre to a few really good
things, lacking anything that demands special attention.
Gallery 45 is a room rich in comparative values. Note the delicacy of
treatment and of color in William Sartain's three landscapes, on wall A,
and in Birge Harrison's atmospheric paintings on wall D. Compare these
with the heavily painted and richly colored canvases by Walter Griffin
on wall C, and then with the more straightforward, vigorous work of
Charles Morris Young on wall B. Harrison, Griffin and Young, at least,
are of the distinctly modern school; but note how individually each has
utilized his inheritance of vibrating color and light. On wall A are two
fine figure studies by Robert Reid, an innovator and a really great
painter, though he did not show it when he painted the panels for the
Fine Arts rotunda.
Gallery 46. There is much poor material here; but on walls B and C are
some paintings by Frank Vincent Dumond that are interesting for their
fresh coloring and their solving of light problems.
Gallery 47 contains evidences of progress in varied lines, from E. L.
Blumenschein's big Indian pictures, and Cohn Campbell Cooper's studies
of American cities, to the experiment in painting flesh against a richly
varied background, by Richard Miller, a gifted American who has long
lived in Paris.
Gallery 48 contains much promising work of various tendencies, but no
outstanding features.
Gallery 49 contains, on wall A, a splendid collection of the work of
Dwight W. Tryon, one of the older school of landscapists, who helped to
break the way for the moderns and has kept up with them to a great
extent. With the exception of one canvas, the pictures on walls B and D
are by J. Alden Weir, another roadbreaker, and an experimenter with new
effects of light and atmosphere. In such canvases as "June" and "White
Oak" one finds some of the best that American art has built on the
theories of Monet.
Gallery 50 contains some good landscapes, but nothing that demands
special attention aside from Sergeant Kendall's refined figure studies.
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