The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-04-28
FIFTH ANNUAL EXHIBIT
OF THE NEW HAVEN PAINT AND
CLAY CLUB

At the Y. NJ. C. A. BuIIding-somes of
the Numerous Fine Features of the
DIspIay-Largest Ever Held by the
CIub-Exbibit Now Open. +.
The fifth annual exhibition of the
New Haven Paint and Clay club is held
this year in the Y. NJ. C. A. building
where three rooms on the third floor
have been transformed into picture gal
leries which answer the purposes of the
club better than any place it has yet
found. The average excellence of the
exhibits this year is most encouraging
to the artists and art-lovers of New
Haven, and it really begins to look as
if this exhibition might be a permanent
feature of the spring season and grow,
from the small beginning of four years
ago, to something OF which not only
New Haven, but Connecticut may be
proud. Among the oil paintings the
landscape by ]. Fl. Twachtman, loaned
by Burton Mansfield, is one of the most
prominent. 1t is a homely subject, so
simple as to be scarcely subject at all
in the usual sense of the word, the art
list having been absorbed in giving the
effect of atmosphere, the very feeling
of damp air on a grey day when nature
is in one of her ouietest moods. 1t is
a picture that many people would pass
by without more than a glance, but
one feels sure that it would be good
to live with and that nothing short of
intimacy would bring out its full
charms. "October's Silver and Gold'' is
the descriptive title of a landscape by
Childe Hassam which is as slight in
composition as it well could be and de-
ponds on much the same qualities as
Twachtmans for its success. 1t is a lit
tie more brilliant but not so satisfac-
tory. G. A. Thompson has several twi-
light landscapes and an early meonrise
in which truth to nature and a poetic
Interpretation of her phases are equally
discernable. In .Idyll" he has intro
duced a figure in harmony with a
charming woodland background and his
portrait of young lady in a grey and
black gown is one of the most success
full portraits he has painted "Septe1n-
Der Afternoon" by John f. Weir, is a
fresh and juicy landscape Of distinctly
New England characteristics of which
the. cloud filled sky is one of the hap
piest portions. The group Of land
scapes by Frank c. Boardman shows a
delicate and most individual talent
striking anew note. His noctures sug-
gest thought of Whistler but the three
river paintings suggest no one and are
very interesting to artists and con-
noisseurs who find great charm in their
elusive and suggestive qualities. In
.sThe Bath" Elsie r. Chase, has not
been afraid to tackle a familiar nur-
sery scene not at all easy of pictorial
solution. 1t has many excellent points
of color, composition and feeling for
textures. Charles Noel Flagg's por-
trait Of Judge Nathaniel Shipnan is a
work full of authority and a fine pres
ence, agreeable in color and Interests
ing in technic. The hands are espec-
tally admirable in Characterization.
John II. Niemeyer's portrait of a lady
is also very agreeable in color, low in
tone and simple and dignified in treat
nnent. 1.-THE Last CLEAN by Birge
Harrison, loaned by Mrs. Daniel c..
Eaton, shows the low rays of a golden
afterglow across a village street buried
in snow and lighting the edges of the
trees. Mrs. e. E. Salisbury has loaned
the club a Lyme landscape by Clark
VOORHEES,, a. woods in autumnaof very
mellow color and solidly painted.
ssWatching the Tempest by WinsIow
Homer, loaned by Burton Mansfield. is
a water color, strong and fine, full of
dramatic interest but with none of the
art sacrificed to the story it tells. Mr..
Mansfield has also loaned a study of
turkeys by Horatio Walker, a thorough
" delightful picture full Of beauty and
truth. Among the many good things it
is dificult to know what to mention
! but Mrs. Schwab's group of water
tcolors, Miss. Hadley and Miss Allis'
work in water color and the miniatures
by Miss Edith Dean Weir, Miss Mill
dreda c. Jordan and MISS Grace Daggett
should certainly be noticed. There are
one hundred and eighty-three numbers
in the catalogue, showing that the ex-
hibition is the largest ever held by the
club.
FIRST TEA AT THE EXHIBITION
GALLERIES.. \
Miss Elsie Farnam will have charge
of the first Paint and Clay club tea to
be given in the exhibition galleries of
the club in the x. M. C. A. building
this afternoon. Assisting Miss Farnam
will be Mrs. John F. weir, Mrs. A. j.
Dubois, Mrs. Newberry, Miss Dana,
Mrs. Eugene Bristol, Miss May Dana,
Miss Tyler, Miss Fitch, Miss Ethel
Snyth, Miss Bigelow, Miss Leila