New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-13
More than 100 Of Our Artists
Have Pictures Well Placed
in This Years Salon.
TRIUMPH FOR G. MELCHERS
Works of Frederic G. Friseke.
of New York; of Charles
Hawthorne and Walter
Cay Greatly Admired.
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Paris. April 12-The twenty third an
nual Salon of the Societe Rationale des
Beaux-Arts. of which Alfred Roll is
president and which will be opened
tomorrow in the west wing of the
Grand Palais des Champs Elysees, con-
tains 2124 paintings. drawings. works
Of sculpture and examples of decorative
art. The hanging committee, composed
Of NM. Aman. Jean Georges Picard and
Dauphin, is impressed with the solid
and brilliant qualities of the American
contingent of artists, and nave placed
American works this year in positions
Of unusual prominence
a place of honor is accorded TO Gary
Mechers's picture, Maternity" in del
icate tones of mauve, greens and
browns The luminous, opalesque com
positions of female figures by Frederic
c. Friseke and the soft refinement of
the open air Angelus-like forms of
Picardy peasants by Myron Barlow
make a sort Of American chapel of
Room 1.
Walter Gays exquisite interiors, re-
plete with the destinations OF eigh-
tenth century furniture and up
holstery, and notably the portraits. so
10 speak. Of pair of old pewter candle
sticks on the marble mantel, are greatly
admired. Strongly designed groups OF
fishermen and peasants by Charles
Hawthorne, some delightfully."- radiant
atmosphere effects by Elizabeth Nourse
and a characteristic Visit TO a Mu
scum" by Eleanor Norcross are also
prominent, as are some Japanese like
views in subdued grays OF the island
Of Tudy by Florence Este. and excel
lent works by Cameron Burnside, Ed
ward Cucvel, Emma Chadwick. Marion
Tooker and Roy Brown, all of them
being distinctly credltable to American
art.
Alexander Harrison remains faithfnl
10 his poetic portraiture of ocean
waves. and Jules Stewards portrait or
Miss Spofford has distinction in line
and composition.
Three portraits of ladies by Cecilia
Beaux Mother and Child" Lady
with Lapdog" and Lady with Fan,
are perfect in drawing and convey I'M
pressions of absolute mundane corre'-
ton but the classic frigidity of the
expression and GOODNESS of the trea--
ment Of reflected light rays when
compared with the nervous energy OF
the best French portraits make one
wish that Cecilia BeauX would put
some vigorous dashes Of humanity on
her palette. More than 100 out OF the
1900 paintings are American.
The dominating works of the French
painters are a superb ceiling. Tue
Triumph Of the Republic" for the Petit
palais. by Alfred Roll; "Repose OF
Keepers" by Lhermitte. and Lesson
in Anatomy" a cupid dissecting a dead
faun in the presence of a fashionaoie
group of ladies slipping afternoon tea
in a rose garden, by Castor La Touche'
Sculpture comprises two characters
tic marble busts of ladies, by ROulh' =
heroic funeral monument, to commemo-
rate the young Duke dues (killed III
the Congo in 1899, by Saint MarceauH'
who presents four huge negroes pad
ding q pirogue with a boylike fgnre
Of d'Uzes erect, with French flag i'll
the bow of the craft. There is a line
heroic bust of Chopin, ~ Aronson.
who also exhibits bronze bust OF
General Botha; a wax figure OF man
plaving ninepins, by Henri Nernhes;
graceful bust of the Infanta Eulaila'
BY Rechberg. and a fine bass-relief por-
trait in brown granite OF Jean dEs-
tournelles de Constant, by Jose dc
Charmoy.
Among the American exhibitors are
Myron Barlow, Of Detroit; Roy II.
Brown. of Decatur H.; Cameron Burn
side NJ Atlanta. Ga. the Misses OecIiia
Beaux, of New York City; Constance
BIgelov Of New York; Minerva j.
Chapman. Of Altman, n. Y; Mrs. MARI
eta Leslie Cotton: the Misses Eliza-
beth s. Cramer. Of Lake Forest, ii|'
Helena Dunlap, OF Nhi''',
Florence Este. Of Cincinnati; Frederic
c. Friseke. Of New York; Ethei r.
Folsom. Of New York; Miss Anne
Goldthwaite, G. NJ. GIBSON "ai'o,
Gay Of bingham. Mass; Euwaru
Grenet. Alexander Harrison, OF fhi'"-
delphia; James r. Hopkins. OF Cihcih-
natl; Charles W. Hawthorne, OF Ne"
York; Hughitt Halliday, Vanbar kaio'
Hale. David Karfunkle, Of BROOKLYN
Augustus Koopman, of New forN'
Samuel ]. Kennedy. Harry Lachinan
George II. Leonard, OF Boston, "is'
! Ethel Mars, of Springfield. H.; bo-
ward Mcdowell. of New YORK ""'
Melchers, Of Detroit; Miss ,Eieano'
Norcross. Of Fitchburg. Mass JON"
Noble, of wichita, Kan; George opei
ieuner, OF Philadelphia; Miss Jane re
terson. Of Elgin, Ill; Ernst 7. hosch
Mrs. Lucy Lee Robbins, Of New forh'
julius Rolshoven, of Detroit; MISE
Grace Raylin, of Chicago; Edwin oco'',
Buffalo; william Henry singer VI
Pittsburgh; Julius l.. Stewart, or rni'-