Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-08
sorH. ANNUAL EXHIBITION

AT OLD LYME
 The new and handsome art gallery of sthe Lyme Art Association. at Old Lyme was officialiy opened Saturday, the first day of the associations 10th annual ex-I hibition.
 The summer exhibition at Old Lyme has been for. years an event both so- clally and artistically. The whole artist colony and their friends and 3atrors have met around the tea tables on the lawn or. in heSlibrary rooms transfornl- ed for the moment intos an exhibition hall. in joyous discussion Of all that had happened since their last mseting, and in exchanging impressions of the paintings shown It has an immensely added importance this. year, in the open ing of the new gallery. The future home of the association is a monument mark ing the ending of the second Geca1e of allied artistic: endeavor, the success of persistent efforts in one direction, and spur to5saL greater future.
 American painters have always shown predomina ting inclination towards the beautiful in landscapes rather than ether subjects. That. :.tfe Lyme colony runs true to this tendency is saown by the fact that over stwo-thirds of this exhibf- ton depicts the great out doors with much variety of expression for, no two painters see nature alike. To each she | represents a favored aspect altogether l personal which impresses you strongly as you pass from one example to an- other. There are 49 strictly landscapes among the important paln1ngs, all good for the selection by the jury has been sufficiently severe. But you cannot compare Bruce Cranes. Ann Cranes l ". H. Singer.k 'Jr.'s, Robinson's and Guy l Wiggins' works with those of Edward s. i Rock, Henry W. Ranger. aTd George NJ. 1 Bruestle. Though all are strikingy lm- 1 pressive aspects of nature they are ut- i terly unlike in the manner 0. interpre- 1 tation. The robustness of the last men, toned does spot, exclude dehcacy of tore,
 as inustra ted, in Snow, Ice and Foam l by Edward g.. Rock nor beauty of coll
 or as found in Canta Maria de Los An geles by the same artist. Neither does 1 it prevent a solid construction beneath | what one might even call dainty exnres-
 sion as found in. the canvases by Henry | c. White. Charles Ebert. Everett Warn CT, William Chadwick, the Alherts arc
 others. Expression by the vibration ot color rather than the imitation of mat ter as presented by Walter Griffin. 1 Bear Grange No. and to lesser de gree by Will Howe Foote's The Mil Pond and Harry L. Hoffmann's Brool
 in June hold you in a different manner
 as do The Mill Creek by Wilson Irvine
 the solidly painted houses by Bittinse
 and the Cathedral of Rheims by Plat
 Hubbard.
 Il From landscapes pure and simple t
 landscapes with sheep or cattle, scene
 of chase with hounds or birddogs is bu
 a short step, being still out of doors Carleton Wiggins shows two good ras
 torals showing sheep quietly grazing and the president of the association
 William H. Howe, the veteras cattl l palmer, shows two fine canvases. Matil
 ia Browne's painting of calves amoni
 birches Is full of charm and interest Henry R. Poor shows canvas of hunting scene and Percival Rosseau group of setters in a cooling stream re l freshing themselves after tNe nruo4 = the chase.
 The painters of the figure both in an . out of doors are well represented, tn mos. innportant canvas being that 0
 Lawton Parker, Paresse, first shown :