The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-08
ANNEXATION OF ILL USTRA1IVB AR1

A Notice of the scribner Contributions.
 The splendid collection of drawings now being exhibited at the Yalt Art school is most interesting eXposition of contemporary Illustrative art The exhibition is made up chiefly of work in black and white done for the Gen. tury, scribner's, McClure's, etc. There is an excellent series from Golfers Weekly new magazine that is putting forth much that is meritorious and commendatory. The exhibition as whole is one of the most important col lections that has been seen at the Art school and should be visited by all who take an interest in these matters The present notice, on account Of the size of the exhibition, will concern itself solely with the work done for Scrib- ners.
 This firm, which has done more to establish a high standard in magazine art than any other in the country, has sent very nearly a hundred drawings, and there is very little among them that is not of particular merit. Among the names are those of Albert Lynch, Will H. Low, Kaemmerer, Pyle Smed- ley and Carleton, all men of established reputation, and among the new men who are being talked about are Walter Appleton Clark, Maxf1eld Parish Hen- ry McCarter and Albert Herter.
 Of these new fellows probably the most talked about is Walter Appleton yyto Loe al sively for the Scribner publications. His advent is looked upon as the event of the year among the illustra- tors. His series of drawings for an ar ticle on Seaside Pleasure Grounds in Cities" caused quite a sensation. The work is very modern in spirit, the drawing is free, with very little regard for detail, and the composition shows Japanese influence. Clark shows with al decided originality, and is certainly a figure to be reckoned with hence forth
 Japanese virus is evidently working in Henry McCarter's veins. He is an American who first went to Paris and next saw some Japanese prints, and he has never recovered. His work is un- doubtedly faddish, but he has great talent. He is represented here by se- ries of eight colored drawings done for poem of B. S. Martins entitled "The Sea Is His" They are strongly decora- tive and undeniably clever Still, he has done better work before in an ar ticle that many remember on bathing places in France and for Gertrude Halls translations of Verlaine.
 Maxfield Parrish made a great stir two years ago when he first loomed large on the artistic horizon, and he has not diminished in stature yet. He shows only two decorations for one of Kenneth Grahame's stories. It is difTi- cult to imagine happier conjunction than that of these two men, There is as much delicacy and humorous charm about Maxfield Parrish's drawing as in Kenneth Grahame's prose. which, is saying great deal. The set of four drawings by the Misses Genevieve and Maude Cowles are good decorations, i which show strongly the influence of l Boutet de Monvel. The Misses Cowles ! are old students of the Art school and i their work is an interesting instance of l collaboration because one sister does ] the landscape work and the borders. 1 while the other puts in the figures 1 There is a certain amount of stiffness in the composition that is probably the result of this method of work.
 l Of the older men there is little new to ] tell. B. West Clindenst has q number l of wash drawings for Thomas Nelson l Pages Red Rock" They are absolute
 ly without distinction or style, but that 1 is not saying that they are bad draw | ings, because they are much better 1 done than the same kind of thing ten
 years ago.
 Gilbert Gaul has series of Mexican
 scenes that are better as studies of l Indian life than as drawings. w. T. ] Smedley seems to have gotten into a
 rut, and he neither improves nor dete- riorates. He draws Americans that are true types, and there is a steady de- ] mand for his work, but there is little
 more to say. There is vigorous bit by
 the late Theodore Robinson that must
 not be overlooked. Howard Pyle's one
 contribution shows that lie is doing the l same nice work and that his imagina- tion Is as fertile as ever W. R. Leigh ! and F. c. Yohn exhibit kind of work
 that is interesting more because of the
 promise of future development showr
 than for anything accomplished yet. Albert Herter's cover designs show a
 nice decorative talent and nice sense
 of color, but there is no especial dis
 tinction about them. Will H. Lows i cover is surely not one of his great suc-
 cesses, but the process of reproduction 1 shown is interesting and instructive
 There will be a second notice of the remainder of the exhibition.