Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-08-30
Fermer Presidents.
ARTIST COLONY HOLDS
ire ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
Paintings Are Shown at the Old Lyme
Library. q

Old Lyme 10 holding her annual ex-
hibition again regardless Of wars and
rumors OF wars, said the New York
Sunday Times. The attempt 70 raise
money enough for an art gallery was
not fully successful, although a site
has been purchased and stands ready
for the building. The pictures are
shown as on former occasions in the
public library.
BY no means all. the pictures shown
at the Lyme exhibition are local sub
5ects. They range from Fifth avenue,
New York, to Cuenca, Spain. A fair
proportion Of the collection, however,
are at least Of Connecticut origin.
Lucten Abrams, a newcomer to the
coloney. has a picture which he names
Garden in Lyme. II is an old New
England garden seen with the eyes of
modern France, eyes that have rested
studiously. no doubt, on the work of
Cezanne, but the pictorial result has
both energy and freshness.
In the Hop Yard, by Wilson Irvine,
to the curiosity of the public. The
initiated know that the unexpurgated
title should have read The Devils
Hopyard. with reference to a place a
few miles distant from Lyme in the
true wilds of Connecticut.
Several views of New York are in
the exhibition. A sprightly snow scene
by Guy G. Virgins is lacking in at
mosphere in the distance, but with a
remarkably fine foreground. Edmund
Greacen's sketches OF snowy streets
give lively impression of weather.
The figure painters find their account
in working directly from their models
posed out of doors, with the elusive
light and so-cailed shade playing upon
varied textures. Robert Tolman, re-
Gently annexed to the Old Lyme group,
has done something rather unusual.
Everett L. Warmers AN -OId-Fash-
Toned Dooryard presents after the can
did habit of this painter the full face
of a sallow old house front to the
observer, a true Lyme subject
hump-roofed house with lilacs pressing
confidingly against 1t. and green
branches pickering in the quiet sun
light.
Matilde Browne in The Poplars has
used a long. loose brush stroke that
seems to express the character of the
trees as fortunately as she expresses
the character of her cows and sheep
in the sketches shown in the upper
room Of the library. She has the
quickest of eyes for the significant re-
vealing gesture or detail of form.
VIII Howe Foote is unusually viva
cious in The Mil Dam. His Autumn
on the Lieutenant shows his favorite
tree decked out in cloth-of-gold for his
benefit.
There are several cattle pictures. as
usual. William n. Howe drives his
rather sombre herd under a dusly sky.
Carleton Virgins continues to group
his cows according to nature, and per-
sistently facing both ways. Jules Tur-
cas- enlivens his Gray Day In Spring
with felicitous touches of blue. Henry
r. Poore strikes an unfamiliar note in
his huntsmen. bright fecks Of color in
low-toned landscape. There is a nice
effect Of sunlight in Harry Hoffman's
Cuenca, Spain, ana Plat Hubbard, an
other newcomer, strikes q pleasant
note Of color in Montego Bay, jamaica
Edward +. Rock is massive and gray
In his Monhegan.
Two artists are represented by pic
lures under which are placed crossed
palms. In memory. One is Lewis CO.
hen. the other Frederic w. Ramsdell
Both died this spring.