The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-09
AN EVENT AT OLD LYME.
THE UNUSUALLY INTERESTING
 ARTISTS EXHIBITION.
Held in the "Phoebe Grimm Memorial Library"-Thirty-on Pictures and Many Sketches shown

Held in the "Phoebe Griffin Memorial
 Library"-Thirty-on Pictures and
 Many Sketches shown
 Old Lyme, Sept s.-The quaint town of Old Lyme probably held one of the greatest attractions this season in all New England, for it's many visitors as well as residents, during the five days of the excellent exhibition given in the Phoebe Griffin Memorial Library, by all the well known artists summering here. Much has already been written of the picturesque village street, with it's rows of tall elms. and the low con- fortable houses, setting back in their beautifully kept gardens and lawns. There is always something new and in- teresting at any hour of the day, and I that the artists find 1t SO, needs no fur l ther comment, for the town is dotted over with artists and art students from early March until Christmas.
 1 The success of the exhibition, which opened Thursday, August 81. is due largely to the ladies in charge of the library, for their untiring energy has impressed every one, and the artists have responded nobly to the demand made to show their summers work. Tn all there are thirty-one pictures and nus merous sketches
 Will Howe Foote is represented with a portrait of a girl holding nsboWl of pond lilies. The face and hands are well drawn. but the coloring is hard and lacks refinement. Several of his smaller pictures are noteworthy. Wal ter Grif1n's Morning shows pleas- l ing landscape in rather pale and mono- tonous color, and number of good pastels. Childe Hassem sends two in- 1 teresting pictures, old Lyme shove I ing a glimpse of the village and church, 1 good in color and composition. The other has a fine effect of light through l the trees in Early June Z by the edge of the river a nude figure faintly seen in the middle distance.
 I William H. HoWe's cows, resting on < the sand, the cattle are well drawn. a I good cloud effect but the painting is linpressively hard. iFleeting shadows shows a hill with small cattle grazing in the late afternoon. William Met calf, who has a class here. is represent ed with The Kalmia.'' q mass of lau~ rel in full bloom, with a glimpse of the l river. The picture is redolent of light and air, and Is most pleasing. His sPrima Jerra" Is monstrously green, l but impressively delicate. Robert Mis- bet, one of the younger men, has a .i noon-light; one feels t1.A moon too. small, but there is poetic sentiment ifl the picture, and 1t is worthy of notice l Henry R. Poore, who is head of the Art school in Mystic, is well represents ed. His salt hay gathering on the marshes has a mellow light, but the Eoxen are too insignificant, the color brown and monstrous Storm Clouds,l 5l is better and strong in conUoption Ed I ward F, Roots work is not so well known in the New York art world, be- cause he has for many years made his l home abroad, but he comes to us iH rare and wonderful color. so brilliant one has really to study it intently ta find the truth and poetry in his work, It is we'll worth the study. Land scape, by him, is remarkable for its strength, and for the brilliant atmos~ phere felt, through his work, perhaps there is trife too much pigment in this our example but his .'Mill Race lis of equal interest. Clarke Voorhees, Tn the Quarry is Interestingly deli cate, the early spring is well portrayed and the effect of atmosphere is calm and pleasing.
 Carleton Wiggins has never beeN l better represented than in this exhibis . tion, with From Hill to Hill.e a pics X ture painted in Lyme not far from his new summer home. A stretch of grey lpasture over which sheep are slowly
 vending their way. The Foreground in
 shadow and in the middle distance 2
 brilliant cloud effect lighting up as well the far away blue hills. Perhaps the
 charm of this picture lies most in the sky where one feels the soft delicacy oi
 the sea-shell.
 His cattle subject Is strongly and
 beautifully treated; the cows are han. ~ldIed in masterIy way and one cannot
 but wonder which MT. Wiggins excells
 in, his sheep or cattle.
 Guy c. Wiggins sends two picturesl l"Quarry Hill,' a strong theme artisti-
 cally handled, and August Afternoon,
 a delightful sketch of Connecticut dis-
 tance pervaded by a golden lights
 Though the youngest artist represented |. one feels he already ranks with men of.
 older years and understanding. Of the
 others, Allen B. Talcott, Henry White.
 Jules Turcas and Lewis B. Cohen, many lpleasant things may be said of theiE lpictures, though they lack originality and are not really representative of these men.
 MAY GRAFTON. Old Lyme, Conn, Sept. ?, 1905.