The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-02-13
COL. OYER
SPEAKS AT
ART CLUB
At "Ladies' Afternoon" the Topic
Was 1.-The American Landscape
for the American Painter"

The fact that Colonel III. Anthony Dyer
was the guest OF honor and speaker at
the Ladies' Afternoon" at the Provi-
denee Art club yesterday, was, OF course,
the reason for an attendance which COM
pletely filled the gallery OF the club. the
stairways and overfowed into the rooms
below
Ii seemed eminently fitting that Mr..
Dyer should have been chosen TO enter
tain the members of the club on this
particular occasion. time when the
artistic environment OF the club was pc
culiarly his own since, on every side, the
walls were covered with the beautiful evil
dences Of his art.
Mr.. Dyer's theme was, THE American
Landscape for the American Painter"
and, like his pictures, his treatment of
his subject was full OF sentiment, poetry
and charm. Moreover, the talk was de-
livered I'm Mr. Dyers easy conversational
style, absolutely without effort and de-
void OF any attempt at lofty flights of
rhetoric, and thus he held the delightful
attention OF his hearers, who followed
him closely. step by step, and seemed dis
appointed when the talk was ended.
The lecture was I'm substance a plea
for a revival of purely American art. Mr..
Dyer believed that foreign art. land
scapes of scenes I'm foreign countries were
all very beautiful and should be cult
waited and apprecia ted, but" he said,
before you cover your walls with foreign
scenes leave some space for the American
artist and the Incompatible scenes In
your own country.
1--WE must be perfectly true to the
American painter" he declared.
The speaker enlarged most eloquently
also on the beauty and the possibilities
OF the American landscape I'm the hands
Of the American artist and In dwelling
upon what he believed should be done TO
encourage the American artist he ex-
planned the reasons why an American
artist should be pre-eminently the painter
OF portraits of American people.
In this connection he referred TO the
work OF Cecilia Beaux, that foremost
American portrait painter, notably her
portrait OF Miss Sarah e. Doyle, which
is now on exhibition at the School OF De-
sign and which has been so generally
criticised by some most favorably and by
others unfavorably
Miss Doyle's portrait" he declared.
lis one of the best works of art ever
brought into this city 1t is wonderful
and treated with elements OF grandeur
Mr.. Dyer emphasized also the rare quail
ity of spirituality which Is so marvelously
brought out in the portrait, where the
soul OF Miss Doyle seems revealed. III,
he continued. some elements are lacking
which Miss Doyle's old pupils miss In
the artist has represented Miss Doyle I'm
her later years. and 1t Is a wonderfu.
portrait of her as she is today crowned
with the weight of more than three score
Dyer Dyer gave Charming word picture OF
an an ideal AMERICAN landscapeauairt rt,s, old
dream. rich i'm sentiment. poetry and the
picturesque. with one OF the quaintest old
harbors In all the world, and an old mill
the landscape. and the old graveyard,
where old Nantuckets sons and daugh-
ters sleep their long sleep All THIS.
Mr.. Dyer believed. was az rich In mate
rial for the American artist as any por-
tion of the old world.
At the conclusion OF the lecture n beau
tiful pink tea was served in the sketch
room. Mrs. Benjamin Jackson and Mrs.
Daniel Jackson presiding at the function.
assisted by Mrs Mrs waiter Armlnssspn srs po.,
beautifully decorated with pink carna-
tions. tiny lamps with pink shades. pink
ca ndela bra and silver.
Among those present at the tea were
the following:
Mrs. H. Anthony Dyer. Mrs. IT, Martin
Brown. Miss Marian Brown. Mrs. Ar
thur Watson. Mrs. William w. Douglass.
Mrs. Gertrude Child Barrows. Mrs. Ben
jamin b. Weeden. Mrs Frank H. Mar
tin. Mrs. Alonzo Williams Mrs. j. II.
Tower. Mrs. Samuel NJ. Nicholson. Mrs.
II. j. Horton. Mrs. Arthur u. T.isle. Mrs.
Albert r. Greene. Mrs. Anna Brown Car
penter. East Greenwich Mrs James T..
Sullivan. Mrs. Michael +. Dooley, Mrs.
Edward L. Johnson. Mrs. Henry q.
Thresher. Mrs. Alonzo Flint. Miss Caro-
line Harrington, Mrs. William q. Thurber.
Mrs. Theodore w. Foster. Miss NJ Helen
Potter. Mrs. Dexter II. Potter. Mrs Her
bert T.. Maine, Mrs. James NJ. II. Taylor.
Mrs. Newton Il. Arnold, Miss Harr1ette
Rice. the Misses Sherman. the Misses
Vaughan. Miss Maria Snow, Mrs. Sidney
r. Burleigh, Mrs Albert Fenner.