The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-20
NEW PAINTERS IN
MACDOWELL SHOW
Examples Are Interesting, Es-
pecially TO Younger
Artists.
ALL or THEM PROMISING

The current art exhibition in the GAL
lery Of the Mcdowell Club In West Fifty
NTH street Ia made IN Of works by
group of young artists. each Of whom
looks at nature for himself or herself
and paints with enough directness and
honesty to awaken the sympathy OF the
chance visitor.
II no one OF the group strikes the hui
man note with sufficient force to war.
rant the assumption that he has become
a master painter. az least all of them
may he said 20 exhibit sufficient talent TO
Justify their choice Of profession In
other words. careers may he possible TO
any Of these artists and the exhibition Is
hopeful and interesting.
The contributing artists are Oscar
Fehrcr. Bror !. .. Nordfeldt. Power
O'Malley. Bertrand Rasmussen. Bertha
Sanders. n. Vance Swope, srrie, s. Vim
cent and Charles Lennox Wright.
OF the groups Mr. Fehrer must he al.
lowed TO be at present the most effective.
He shows string OF portraits of young
women. seated outdoors. that all have the
same characteristics and by which HE
present stature may be gagged. His Is
the work Of an mprsssionst that has
been affected nv cubisn1. No allows II to
control only his backgrounds. however
and not 10 the extent Of abandoning the
conventions OF realism. His Is an abridged
realism. His use of color is excellent
frank. free. sometimes daring. aud slwavs
individual. He shows himself still stu.
dent in the awkwa rdness with which he
poses his models hands. He is not able
as yet to forget tho model In front ~ him
for the sake OF the idea involved.
The happy medium in art is difficult
20 manage. and Mr. Rasmussen in trying
| to find essential truths instead of obvious
ones, swings almost too far away from
the model. Nevertheless this artist dra va
| well. colors we'll and knows generally
what he is about His "Absinthe Drink
er' has 4 great deal Of life and his
| woman With Rcd Hair" has the quality
/ OF strNngenesS
! Charles Lennon Wright is a marine
! OF the sea. H. knows more about the
sea than he IL as yet able to express. n
( another hand than his. 20 hint at only
one discrepancy. could apply the hgn
/ lchts to his waves, they would have more
! chance. Of success
There is tpuch OF fp. ling or a touch
of fancy IN every one OF Power OMsllel :
I landscapes and that they don't quite
come of may he blamed upon the ar.
lists extreme faithfulness % every item
! ar circumstance in the scene. one must
not only know nature but play with ma
ture before one can develop aNlandsca pe
theme into a poem.
Bror Nordfeldt. who went from chi.
cago TO Paris. was forced recently to bea
a haSty retreat from the Quarter Latin.
and seems strangely reluctant 20 return
to Chicago. evidently picked NJ some in.
tcrestins ,riends during his short stay =,
France. Ho shows them In some up "a
date portraits, in which the shadows are
frankly OF emerald green. Floyd Del
and VALERIE de Mari" are young men OF
wit and talent, and Mr. ne Mari, In par.
tioular. must have been the lfe Of the
cafe In which Mr. Nordfeldt made his ac-
quain;ance. The portraits are not how,
ever. profound and carcfroe and have
startling green shadows to their cheeks
they tell MS little of those romantic per,
sonages tho Messrs. Dell and De Mari.
The exhibition as whole, II may h
judged, IL one that makes its chief sppea
to the younger element in Nv York.
great and growing colony OF artists