The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-31
MINNEAPOLIS ARTIST WINS ]
7RA VELLNG SCHOLARSHIP
John Hubbard Rich Has Been Aaayded the Paige Scholar.
ship Which Pyo0ides for Too Years Of Graduate
Study in Ew1obe-Oue of the Best
Y@ ~"@-~ Art Psises offered.

group of men who, several years ago,
seeded from the Society of American
Artists and whose annual art shows IN
New York and Boston have e. become ION
lean season, several examples OF the
work of Edmund G. Tarbell Of Boston,
a man who has become known as one
of the strongest, perhaps the strongest,
sof the impressionistic wing of American
artists. The absolute sincerity and
rightness of Mr.. Tarbell's painting APP
spealed strongly to the young westerne!r,
altho he had previously decided that his
hetter strike out for himself. Again
in Minneapolis Mr.. Rich saw some Oh
Mr.. Tarbell's pictures.
He determined to enroll himself as
student of the Boston master; for
that reason he entered the school OF the
Museum of Fine Arts three years ago,
where he has been pupil Of Mr.: Tar
bell s ever since He has found that
conditions are very favorable in Boston,
for the man who wants to learn TO
paint. Everything in the school IS
made to bear directly upon, this one
problem. The classes in illustration,
which prove 50 distracting in many art
schools, do not exist. The instruction
in drawing which leads up to the work
in painting, is in the hands OF Phlhp
Hale and Frank w. Benson, both expo
nents of the same point of view, SO
that there is none Of that learning un-
der one master and unlearnlng from an
other which is so Pern1c1ous IN some
institutions. :,
For Mr.. Tarbell' g mastery as pant
er and method as teacher, Mr.. R1c CT! s
admiration is unbounded: The "Glrl
Crocheting,'' has shown Mr.. Tarbell as
one Of the few great painters OF the
world, and as an instructor he keeps
more closely than perhaps. any other
American artist who gives instruction,
to the practices of the thoro-golng
painter. The effort is constantly made
not simply.to secure likeness OF the
surface form of the model, but to place
that form at it's right depth in atmo-
sphere displayed amidst correct rela-
tons of light and shade.
To such point of view Mr.. Rich is
inclined by temperament. He has not
been giving e! his his WHOLE time t? school Hl %
mouth street, near the public library,
where he has PARTED independent,
Iy, exhibiting at the Pennsylvania
academy and the Boston Art club. Sew
eral recent portraits attest good pow
ers of Characterization and feeling for
| the essential facts Of form and envel
ope At the same time Mr.. Rich has
been making his stand as one of the
strongest students of the school, gain
4 ing the first number in three icon
cours,' besides taking the Aver prize
of 800 in 1904, and ranking second IN
one concours. At this springs exhibl
tom held by the Students club, an6
organization among the art and music
students of Boston which holds an an
nual art show, one Of his landscapes re
ceived an honorable MENTION So that
the award of the Paige scholarship was
4 by no means unexpected.
A Mr.. Rich's last two summers were
spent in the Catskills, close by the Rad
1 ,cliffe school near Woodstock
He has not been directly connected will
this summer school, which has attracted
a great many art students from New
York and Boston, but has painted
landscape according to his own devices
Last summer he occupied little shacl
entirely by himself, getting his owl
meals and working vigorously unde
his white umbrella while daylight
lasted. He expects to be at Wood
! probably until about the middle o
September, when he will leave for Eu
rope. = 49,. -.u
is just passing out of his Sstudenth 90"
IS obviously impossible to predict
After the two years of study abroa
will come the necessity Of settling dow
to some life work. Mr. Rich has al
ready shown capacity both for portrait
ure and for landscape painting. H
may follow the example Of another hole
, er of the Paige scholarship, w. P. Her
derson, who went to Chicago to take
, place as teacher in an art school Will
J carrying on his professional activities
/ With the development of the art ace
! denies in western cities there is increas
ing opportunity for well-trained Amer
can artists who find it desirable to hav
the certainty of teacher salary du1
ing, at any rate, the early part Of thei
careers.