Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-17
MYSTIC ART EXHIBITION
 FEATURES ALTMAN PRIZE
Fourth Annual Show Centres About Picture by Charles H. Davis, Which Won This Seasons N. A. Honors- Other Splendid Contributions.

| won | ms season s iss @As fiOhOTS- Other Splendid Contributions. l Wednesday, Aug 15. the Mystic Art Association opened it's fourth annual exhibition of oil paintings, with the | announcement that one-ha1f of it's 1 Cross, one-Quarter to the Mystic Vil- lage Nurse Fund and one-quarter to 1 the Village Improvement Society. | Mystic has long been center for 1 landscape and marine painters. and justly so. since the country that sur rounds this picturesque village is more than usually rich with motive ] of every description. Whether it be woods or pastureland, sweeping flats i or rolling hills, fishing village scenes or open sea. here the painter finds what he loves: and it was in order | to unite all these interests and crys- 1 ta1ize this enthusiasm that the Mys- 1 tic Art Association was founded in August 1914, with Charles H. Davis, | N. A., as it's principal promoter. 1 The association has given three ex- | ceIIent and increasingly strong ex- i hibitions; last years of veritable aca- demic quality, although only thirty | three canvases were hung.
 Altman Prize Canvas. This year on entering the main gal | Iery the visitors attention is at once held by a large canvas by Charles H. | Davis, N. A. It is given the place of l honor. and deservedly sos it is a really splendid picture. Such an one as is very seldom produced Its ti- tle is The Call of the West Wind. Green fields and glorious oaks are in sharp relief against a blue sky swept with clouds. It is strong picture; one that thrills, exhilirates and makes vigor of nature. This canvas was awarded the one thousand dollar Alt man prize at this years National Academy Exhibition.
 Remarkable Snow Subject.
 Another remarkable canvas is The Road to Center Hill by Edward W. Redf1eld It is a snow subject, but nique is remarkable, as it also is in a smaller canvas called At the Foot of the Mountains. by the same artist This picture shows no sky. Just a brook, winding between banks of snow and earth. with the Ieafess bushes and branches of the past summer overhanging, with this seemingly meager motive the artist gives the beholder a very strong impression.
 A Ranger Picture.
 The exhibition is strengthened by a canvas of the late Henry w. Ranger, | Y. 4. MT. Ranger spent his sum mers for many years at Noank, and 1 was a staunch friend of The Mystic 1 Art Association Across the Fields l is a very strong example of his work. |
 TWO Notable Portraits.
 There is a powerful and brilliant | portrait by Robert Henri, N. A. call 1 ed Mexican Gypsy Girl, in sharp but | most pleasing contrast to The Wild | Rose by Charles Hawthorne, N. A, l also portrait of young girl but l most subtle in handling and In color. l Foth are fine pictures. each of an en- l tIreIy different school
 Tn Marked Contrast
 There is an extremely sensitive and | Ina agiuative canvas by Charles H. Da- l Wis, Y. A the title, quotation from l q ~oem by Francis Thomson, And l @7HJhW2rd dreams the sea In di- l rect contrast to this is the daring re- 1 ali~m of Summer Morning, powerful 1 incoming waves dashing against the l rocks of a rough coast. by Paul Douehertv N
 Arthur B. Davies Harmonic Too is the height Of fancifu1 and imagina- tive creation. Deerfeld River and i Valley by Gardner Symonds, N A. is most realistic, and yet both are very strong canvasses.
 Wherever one turns one sees can vases of the highest standard. There is large figure of a girl in a gar den by Frederick C. F'rieseIe. N A.. slowing with color and fresh out dooriness, The Morning Sun.
 c. Albert Thompson's Work
 c. Albert Thompson is well repre- sented by three canvases. The Road to the Village. a large snow subject, is an exceptionally real picture of an 1 open country under deep snow, but ] in a cheerful mood, as blue sky and l water, and sunIit snow and cottages all combine to this effect The Old Homestead and Fishing Boats. Mys- tic, by the same artist are both bril- liant and pleasing pictures of typical New England subjects.
 Two Noted Artists Represented
 Childe Hassam, N. A., and Daniel 1arber, N. A.. both have very fine examples Of their work in this ex- aibition- Their technique, their ex- use of color, and their points of view. both so different and yet so full of suggestion and of light, will be enjoyed as always.
 J. Alden Weir's Canvas.
 In the Woods. by J. Alden Weir, N. A., is a remarkably subtle piece of painting. The composition. the know1- sdge and the thing as a whole show he master, as one familiar with the work of this artist would expect
 Portrait by Mrs. Davis.
 4 portrait, Katherine, by Frances }. Davis, is a most pleasing picture. l t is a splendid piece of work and l ,rist.
 Pictures by Peter Marcus. Peter Marcus Midsummer Clouds / s a, spirited canvas showing vigorousI
 
 An Upland Farm are both charac- eristic pictures, strong and colorful, l with a real sense of outdoors in them. l l William L. Lathrop, N. A., is rep esented by 8 really delightful can -as, A1exsanken Glen. The Brook by [ Charles Rosen, A. N. A., and Island / 9arbor by Lester Boronda, are two { ,ood examples, and in them is again hown the wide range that exists in echnique even among pictures that re of the best.
 A Bio Subject. April Weather, Blue Ridge Noun I aims, by Roy R, Bates. is a pleasing picture of big subject and a sweep z ng sky. The observer hardly real ' zes that the canvas is @ compara- ' lveIy small one. T J. Eliot Esnneking and George Koch. H re represented by very credisable r anvases. T
 Debtors to William Macbeth. Many of the canvases were sent I fhp NTaeh0fh l \