International studio . rait ofMiss Marjorie Curtis, so much praised at the.\cademy display, also an artificially lighted por-trait of Mrs. Wilfred Biickland, and Howard Gard-ner Cushing a full-length portrait of his wife witha suggestion of Japanese line and color. An alto-gether novel and cleverly conceived conceit was byGeorge Luks, entitled Russell and Jack Burke,Halloween, igii. The hobgoblin eff^ect of thebright-eyed childrens faces caught from the glowof the pumpkin lantern and the predominance oforange color throughout made it a quaintly gro-tesque and entertaining performance. One of t
International studio . rait ofMiss Marjorie Curtis, so much praised at the.\cademy display, also an artificially lighted por-trait of Mrs. Wilfred Biickland, and Howard Gard-ner Cushing a full-length portrait of his wife witha suggestion of Japanese line and color. An alto-gether novel and cleverly conceived conceit was byGeorge Luks, entitled Russell and Jack Burke,Halloween, igii. The hobgoblin eff^ect of thebright-eyed childrens faces caught from the glowof the pumpkin lantern and the predominance oforange color throughout made it a quaintly gro-tesque and entertaining performance. One of the distinctive aims and principles of thenew society would appear to be the endeavor toexpress in modern portraiture more natural pic-torial interest and to eliminate as much as possiblethe tiresomely conventional and perfunctory por-trait which is so marked a feature of our currentexhibitions. One of the pictures emphasizing thiswas Earl Stetson Crawfords inspiring and finely Natioual Associatioii of Portrait Painters. PORTRAIT III MORTIMER DELANO, ESQ. liV KARL STETSONCRAWFORD executed portrait of Mortimer Delano in the uni-form of a naval officer of 1812. John W. Alexan-der dominated the center of the larger room with avariation on his well-known theme, that of ayoung woman subject seated against the light of acurtained window. Cecilia Beaux sent the headof a young woman standard bearer, William Cot-ton the Little Princess de B., his Hallgarten prizepicture, and S. Montgomcrj Roosevelt an in-tensely vital likeness of Mon. Louis Gillot. Thefull-length standing portrait of Clijjord ProvostGrayson, Esq., by Robert W. Vonnoh, has lent dis-tinction to every gallery in which it has been notedthis season. Robert MacCameron and HenrySalem Hubbell, representing the younger school ofAmerican art, showed in the former case a portrait LXIV of the Eiul of Clarendon, in which the carefullystudied values were somewhat lost sight of in thecuriously mottled effect of the flesh painting.
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