The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-11
A BRILLIANT PORTRAIT BY GRAFTON
Dr. S. r. Lyons of Reid Memorial Church, Has Portrait
Painted by Well Known Indiana Artist which
Is the Attraction of the Art Association.

to completeness. He is, in short, the
very devil of an artist He is sa-
tanic at times in his magnificent dis
regard of the conventions in the use
! of color.
In forceful contrast to the brilliance
of Mora are the delicate Sater-colors
of Elmer Livingston McRea, faint
washes that are not lacking in warmth
but are as elusive as a mist. His stud
les of children are human and appeal
ing and his sentiment as caressing as
thistledown. picking Poppies,' and
THE Young Niolinist,' are among the
best of his several shown.
Ben Foster, a much over-rated artist.
has two of his usual sunset and moon
light canvases on display, the Last
Gleam,' having vivid sky and bad
reflection of hillside in pool, and
Spring Moonrise," magnetic in feel
ing and painted with delicate realism.
If anybody ever saw Summer
Hotel" that looks anything like the
picture of that name by William Glack-
ems, then he should not hesitate to
arise in the audience and SO avow,
and he would at once be run to East
haven in an ambulance and there con-
fined for the rest of his unnatural life.
This picture has good points but its
long suit is certainly not in it's nomen-
clature nor the peculiar complexion
of it's landscape.
Turn then hastily to one of the chef
d 'oeuvres of the exhibition-the Duv-
eneck portrait. A portrait of the old
school and a lady OF the same man
ner. A high-born madame is this.
with the fineness, the breeding, the
exquisite repose of she of the 'haute
noblesse" The technical finish of an
earlier school of painting is seen in
this picture, the finesse of brush-work,
the insistence on detail But with
resultant that puts the modernist to
the blush The delicate hauteur of
the expression, the silken texture OF
the hair, the compelling depletion of
the small, gloved aristocratic hands,
the attention to chiaroscuro, which
throws the face into high relief-all
goes to make a whole exquisitely sat
isfying. And it is stepped in the mel
low tone of the years.
BlfRG HARRISON SuONS OlIc VI Alo
pretty" landscapes, saccharine in
quality; Johansen is represented by
two uninteresting examples that are
still nice in color; Childe Hassam, a
delightful artist at his best, by two
indifferent pictures; Robert Reid by
one of his pink ladies'" who is yet
opalescent and muralesque, and Alden
Weir by Farm in Winter" painted
in his affected manner.
Alexander sends THE Mother" an
exhibition picture with an unusual
and somewhat anomalous composition,
but with his customary grace of line
and harmony of color.
A delightful picture is that of Serge
ant Kendall-"On Narrow River
beautifully painted, attractive in sub
ject-a child holding to the end of a
boat--brilliant and clear in color,
charming in the pose of the figure,
realistic in the flesh-tones. This art
lists other picture on display, Head
of a Child" is also well painted and
admirably balanced with a rather fan
ciful composition.
Is NJ. Jean McLane, who reads like
a Frenchman but is catalogued as ma
tive to Chicago on our north, related
to Mary McLane of the erratic and
would be wicked dairy and recent re-
juvenation in the Sunday supple
ment? Stranger things have been
known than people in Montana being
of the same blood as those from Chi
cago and, it might be thought from
contemplation of a canvas on display
! here called "The Hilltop" that these
two had points in common. Maybe it
is Mary McLane at play and forget
ting for the moment her terrible and
picturesque ego. Another picture OF
McLane has some children at play on
an alleged beach, the point of concen-
tration in this canvas being in the hair
of one of the small figures which pro-
duces a wonderful effect of reality.
A number of attractive water-colors
by Jane Peterson, of New York. street
scenes and other subjects, fix the at
tention for their line chiefly, washed
over with a flat tint; and certain
Tony Nell. has nice thing in THE
Plaid Dress" the latter being charm
ingly painted and the figure of the
girl well done-the girl of the awk-
ward age, self-conscious, shy but curl
Gus.
The art of Alice Schille who has
several water-colors on exhibit, is
gradually evolving into something
more complex in both treatment and
subject than formerly, although re-
tanning it's compelling quality and pc
culiar individuality-her use of color
being clear and cool and her figures
possessing subtlety.
Further comment is deferred until
later in the week.