The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-07
INTERESTS

The annual exhibition of. the New
York Academy of Design opened last
Saturday. Among the Judges were
Douglas. Volk. The Thomas B. Clarke
prize OF $500 was awarded to Childe
Hassam for. his s'Lorelei,'' nude
! stream; the 8rst Hallgarten prize y Of f
$3O0. for the best oil painting painted
in this country by an American under
55 years Of age, to F. Luis Mora; sec
ond Hallgarten. prize, 5000, to Gustave
Wiegand; third Hallgarten prize, 800,
M. Peterson; Inness gold medal for best
South Wind;' Thomas B. Proctor prize,
5000, to Thomas Eakins for his portrait
Of Professor Miller. -.
Among other interesting canvases are
Louis Loeb's portrait Of Eleanor Rob-
son, as "Merely Mary Ann,' showing
her drawing on her gloves to cover her
Chase, Robert Vonnoh, Frederick W.
Freer. Robert Henri, Frank Benson, Irv-
ing Wiles, John w. Alexander, Amanda
Brewster Sewall and Carroll Beckwith:
and landscapes by J. Alden Weir. G.. c.
Curran, Potthast, Prellwitz and others.
To Americans the most interesting
Studio is that on Helen Hyde s
acknowledgements done in Japanese
manner. Chromoxlyographs are moth
ing more imposing than colored wood
cuts, and Miss Hyde's work is ordinari-
ly spoken of as Japanese prints, aItho
she is an American; but in technique,
process and subject they are wholly
Japanese, and in spirit they are thoro-
ly sympathetic and discriminating.
They are muchs more faithful to the
spirit and traditions Of the great Jap
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modern Japanese.
| Miss Hyde did her first oriental
studies in San Francisco Chinatown,
being drawn to this by her fascination
for Japanese color prints These she
would copy for hours in watercolors in
her childhood. She soon exhausted the
possibilities of the Chinese quarter and
went to Japan. Her first studio was
in an old abandoned temple in hippo,
where she received instruction from a
. famous master of the court schools,
working with her paper spread fat on
the floor. In this studio Miss Hyde
achieved her first success in her "Jap-
anese Madonna piece Of splendid
technique and sentiment. Later in
Toxic Miss Hyde wrested from the
native artists the art-exhibition prize
for the best and most distinctive color
print on Japanese paper. During her
studies In Japan, says the Stud1O
writer, "Miss Hyde has developed a
wonderfully intuitive grasp Of the Jap
anese personality; not an easy thing to
do when one considers how totally un-
like in every way the people Of Japan
are to Europeans. Much Of the success
of this artists work is doubtless due to
this innate understanding of these fas:
cinating people with whom she has lived
for several years in such close relation
ship. -
Mural work by women painters is
quite unusual and this has directed
special attention to the work being done
|. by Violet Oakley for the new state
house at Harrisburg. The decorations
are almost completed and the panels
fifteen in number, will fill space six
feet high and nearly two hundred feet
{ in length. They represent episodes in
: the life Of William Penn, and begin
with the; period when the English
authorities refused to permit the Bible
to be printed. The next scene is the
introduction Of the Bible into England
followed by picture of Penn listening
, Ito George Fox, his adventures at Ok
ford, the grant Of land in America by