The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-25
Grotesque in Bronze, by Herbert Crowley.


the Commercial Tercentenary OF New
York.
From the bulletin OF the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts we learn that Mr.. Man
ships little bronze group called "Phy-
fulness," which was purchased by Mrs.
c. &. Bovey from the sculptor last
spring, will be exhibited in the institute
In the Martin u. <oOn memorial collec-
ton This work ~ one Of those that
Mr.. Manship executed during his resi-
dence In Rome as fellow OF the Amerl-
can Academy.
Helen Farnsworth Mears. some Of
whose sculptures are in the current
exhibition Of the Mcdowell Club. was
born in Wisconsin. Her first commits
sion was for a figure representing that
State, which won her prize or SbOo
in "A competition. In Europe she stud
led with Collin. Merson, Puesch and
Charpentier and for a number OF years
after her return to America she assisted
Mr.. Saint Gaudens in his studio. En-
amples of her work are I'm the Smith
sonian Institution. the Metropolitan Mu-
scum OF Art. Down-r College and the
Milwaukee Public Library. She has
recently completed a heroic figure for
fountain to be erected in a public park
in Eau Claire, wis. This figure will be
placed in basin. forty feet in diameter,
the architects OF which are George Il.
Post 4 Sons.
Robert c. Doran. whose paintings are
prominent in the same exhibition. SAYS
OF himself 81 am a pupil of Kenneth
Hayes Miller. I am probably interested
in mural decoration as much AS any
other form OF painting, but do not ex-
pect to specialize in that branch more
than any other, as to me art Is merely
expression of oneself, no matter what
branch OF art Is chosen. During the
past summer | worked as assistant to
Abbott II. Thayer | love the work OF
the early Italians and OF most of the
great masters down to the modern
Frenchmen. ~ the great modern tri-
umvlrate Van Gogh. Cezanne and Gau
gum. the latter appeals to me most
strongly, though / love them all. OF
our own Americans, Davies, Miller,
Ryder, Blakelock. Martin. Twachtman
and Hunt appeal to me very much"
Two young English etcherS Of prom
Use. James Mcl}cy and William J.. Rob
ins, have joint exhibition in the
Knoedler Galleries which is sure to
meet with appreciation and appreciation.
Mr.. Mickey apparently felt, like many
another etcher. that the moment lie
had earned the right To call himself a
professional he must start off touring
the world in search OF picturesque ma
terial. lie found II in Tetuan. Benachle,
and Benicarlo, but as it also often hap
pens. he did even better at home lie
has tendency to the extreme Of sim
plihcation. such as in No. 81, "'fhe
shower" where the subject is a simple
| haystack with n few sCratchy lines in
| the sky Ia show the breaking clouds.
but simple as II is, The soft wet day is
| all there. In this and some similar i'm
presslons he is at his most original and
best
Two very beautiful and decorative
canvases by CASTOR La Touche have
also recently arrived at Knoedler's, one
Of which, Les Cygnes," We reproduce.
n The Greenwich Village Inn, Just OF
p Washington Square, appears to he an
e art centre as well as AN inn. In the
lie upper galleries az present there Is a dis
e play OF posters and sketches by Noeu1
It Perncssln and st. Claire Breckons, and
Is In the lower room, where the artists OF
e the nelghborhood foregather for food
. and conversation, a number OF drawings
n by Stuart Davis are to be seen. Most
s. Of these drawings are so slight that
~ Mr.. Davis's philosophy OF life cannot
81 be deciphered at present. further than
u that ne seems to be greatly preoccupied
> with large ladies. All OF his sitters are
i remarkable for weight and width. II
- IL Of course possible that these ladies
e are boarders at the inn and in that case
% a loyal emphasis upon the width would
"a be pa-donable TO a frequenter OF the
u institution and would endear him Ia
~ the management. Artists are up to these
II little tricks sometimes.
The October number Of Art In Amer
lea contains an excellent study OF the
y" water colors of Winslow Homer nv
"a Kenyon Cox, n paragraph from which
b" sufiices 10 show his enthusiasm and his
business:
There must he reasons. more or less
valid. for "a preference so wildly felt
felt, at times, by Homer himself-for
"a these water colors over his more elah-
crate works in oil, and one OF these
reasons | have already touched upon
IL II IL Homers extraordinary technical
3. mastery OF the medium. If from tn,
, first he painted better In water colon,
than he was ever able to do In oils, II
Nc may he said that, In the end, he painted
u better In water colors--with more vir,
n tuosity OF hand more sense OF the right
#, use OF the material, more decisive mas.
terry Of it's proper resources than al,
70 most any modern has been able 10 dc
- in oils. One must go back to Ruben,
" or Halls for parallel, In oil painting, Il
20 IIomprs prodiVioua ak IN I'm Wafar color