The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-21
PAINT AND CLAY CLUB.
SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
 OPENS TO-DAY.

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 The seventh annual exhibition of the Paint and Clay club, which is thrown open to the public to-day after the opening reception of last night, bids fair to prove one of the most success ful ever attempted in this city. The standard of works shown seems rather higher than ever before, and the club furthermore has this year obtained for the nucleus of it's collection several pie lures of an excellence that is not often seen in publi exhibitions in New Ha- ven.
 Interest will no doubt center on the portrait study of Thomas Carlyle by the late J. McNeill Whistler. This painting is generously loaned, with others, by MT. Burton Mansfield, whose private collection is the most ilnpor- tant and valuable of any now in New Haven. This little oil, sketch was painted by Whistler in preparation for his great portrait of Carlyle, so well known by reproduction and now per- manently exhibited in Glasgow. New Haveners should seize the unusual op- portunity of studying this unpreten- tious but remarkable canvas of the most distinguished and most discussed of all recent artists, who with his world fame had the additional merit of being an American. The sketch is cas- fly recognizable as the beginning of the larger portrait. Though it has nothing of the careful and impressive finish of the completed masterpiece, it lacks nothing in perfect understanding and appreciation of the testy old Sage of Chelsea. Artists will enjoy the ner- vous skill with which Whistler in the hasty sketch, achieved the essentials of I character, color and tone which, with the infinite are of many sittings, made the completed picture one of the nota- l ble portraits of modern times.
 Of almost equal interest is the "Girl's i Head" by John Singer Sargent. also i loaned by MT Mansfield. finished masterpiece this, and by Whistler's greatest rival in late portraiture. It is So SAAieAil GllGClul plGluIG Ol d ueIh southern beauty richly painted in soft olive browns and reds, and sets a stan- dard of beauty in oil portraiture that . the exhibition around it will sustain | with difficulty.
 Other pictures loaned by MT. Mans field are: Autumn" by John La large, a charming little landscape | whose decorative richness of yellows and browns reminds one of Diaz of the | School of Barbizon; Summer Morn- ing" by Henry w. Ranger, with li- quid brilliancy of sky and sea and be- calmed ships and Mountain Fast nesses,' by Charles H. Davis, where cloud-swept green hills are cleft by slight waterfall trickling down it's ra- vine.
 Professor John F. Weir exhibits his portrait of M. Paul Sabatier in His Study at Assist" left to the Art school } by the late MT. Hoppin and a picture already well-known. MT. Weir also shows three landscapes, "Red | House" on wind blown knoll, typical of all American outdoors; one of Ven- ice; and best of all, the Monastery and Church of San Francisco at Asst si which with it's clock tower and out lying town forms a composition in at- mospheric reds and blues of certain decorative beauty.
 The oils sent by Professor John H. | Niemeyer, two portraits of "Mr. Birge" and Violet" and two landscapes of I Mont St. Michel and of the Seine at ! Paris, are marked by his usual certain [ ty and delicacy of touch and refined I simplicity of manner The portrait of | MT. Blrge is particularly striking,
 Among the younger men Mir c. AL | bert Thompson seems to hold his place [ of pronence. His portrait of Donald | G. Mitchell, loaned by Mrs. J. Mason i Hoppin, and four landscapes, are all | excellent. The landscapes,-a noe turne, two microscopes of snow-cov- cred meadows and wooded hills in the | distance, and spring scene in yellows | and greens, of which the latter is easi- ! ly one of the notable pictures of the [ exhibition all show a growing inclina- | tion to greater delicacy and more flow- | ing touch with no loss of his former | skill as colorist. The exhibition, as usual, is prolific of good landscape. Mir. Joline B. Smith must take a first | place with three charming oils of | sweetest harmony, of which the most | charming is a woman washing at a | brookside 'In Brittany" MT. Downes l shows two darkling but sun-filtered l wood roads, and of two landscapes by MT. George H. Langzettel, Early Au- tumn" is type of American out door realism Two water-sketches by | Mrs. Mary Thompson Birge, three pie lures from Brittany by Miss Adelaide | Deming, and a sombre sea-shore by | Will Hutchins will also receive their l share of attention.
 Max Defiant shows two sketch land- scapes and @ remarkable study of "A | Barnacle," an old fisherman on his na- tive shore, a pictuF full of the best of modern impressionism and open air painting.
 Tn portraiture we find a delightful study of child by Alice H. Wetmore, -rather a study of the feeting play of light coming brilliant through open windows; an adequate portrait of a man by Violet Miller: Elizabeth R. Fin1ey's Yellow Scarf" already ex- hibted in the Academy; a sketch of a child by Frank c. Boardman; and two portrait groups, mother and child, by Mrs. Elsie R. Chase.
 Further interest will be found in oils by Miss Williams, H. Wintrhop Peirce Clara M. Norton, MT Jakobson, E. D. Bradstreet and H. M. Luquiens. Of late years the Paint and Clay club has