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or 5000. His painting was view


When Newhope artists and New
hope scenes can continually capture
prize at the exhibits, it is evidence
according to the local viewpoint
that the quality of both the scenery
and the reproducer is high.
Robert Spencer also of the New
hope colony, won the Inness medal
as first prize two years ago. He
also won the second Halgarten prize
some years ago. In addition to these
Mr.. Spencer has won many other
The Philadelphia Public Ledger of
Sunday editorializes on Art and, the
Delaware Valley" particularly the
art colony along the river in Bucks
county.
The fact that Charles Rosen, of
New Hope. Pa, which in its way is
a sort of artistic suburb of Philadel-
phia and an open air adjunct to the
Academy of Fine Arts, has just Sc
cured the Inness gold medal and the
$1,000 prize awarded by the National
Academy of Design, is one more in
dication of the supremacy of what
is known as the Delaware Valley
School, in the American landscape
art.
Connoisseurs and collectors had
better take notice, since the work
that the strong men in this famous
group are doing is now commanding
the highest prices ever paid for
current American landscape, and,
one is happy to say, that this is the
case during the life of the painters
all of whom, including Redfield him
self-the leading spirit in the colony
thatstretches along thelovely reaches
fthe Delaware river and canal from
Newhope to Centre Bridge and be-
yond--are still in their prime, while
others who are following them are
doing splendid work and are youth
full in age. but equipped in their
art.
1t is not that recognition has come
to these men, however, and that a
Redfeld, a CARRIER, Rosen, Lath-
rop, Young, a Colt, Won Solen, a
Corson, a Baum, to mention but a
few who are exploiting the Pennsyl-
vania countryside as well as the river
valley, to say nothing of Pearson,
who has annexed the Schuykill Val
ley, can get public attention and
commercial appreciation, but the
more important fact is that they
have idealized and poetized land
scape which possesses those surface
aspects of beauty that are worthy
of the talent of every creative Amer
lean artist.
Here centering about New Hope
and Centre Bridge, there is an atmos-
phere actual and artistic that is
worth all the Brittany pictures which
the American artists of thirty years
ago felt it was necessary to paint to
secure any attention at all, and which
American buyers of pictures insisted
that they must have, although they
were not particular so long as it was
somewhere in France" They were
quite willing to take Barbizon in
with Concarneau and Pont-au-Ven.
But all that is changed now. Take
the current pictures of the Delaware
Valley school out of the great public
art galleries in America and you will
remove their most striking canvases.
The lesson of this ought to be plain
to everyone, and the part that Phila-
deIphia art institutions and artists
have taken in this amazing develop
ment of technique and, what is more
than technique, the revelation OF
character in landscape, is one ir
which we may all take a pardonablt
pride.
Just one thing is needful; thai
some one among the Delaware Valley
painters should have a true feeling
for and should work out the human
aspects of life and labor in our mine
and meads, our farms and factories
For, with few exceptions, this poig
nant human phase of things is miss
ing in their art and is demanded i
American paintings should reach tn
great level of contemporary Frenc
and Belgian art.
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