New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-03

bERhssil3EE HILLS, MASS, Aug. 81.
Society OF the Berkshire Hills is
largely represented among the fifty
two artists who have 145 paintings
and pieces of sculpture on view at the
fourteenth annual Stoekbridge exhibit
ton, which opened this afternoon at
the Casino with the vanishing day re-
ception. Mrs. Frederic Crowuinshie1d.
widow of the noted landscape and
mural painter, presided at the tea
tables.
Two galleries are filed In the
larger room are the oils and most Of
the sculpture, while water colors are
in the smaller gallery. The large por-
trait by Miss Lydia Field Emmett of
Mrs. EIlery Sedgwick, of Boston. at
tracts attention among the oils. Mrs.
Sedgwick is wearing beautiful black
velvet evening gown and her son, in
linen suit, is standing beside her chair.
Mrs. Henry Fairfield James and Mrs,
Walter L. Clark are the subjects
chosen by Mr.. Clark for his portrait
exhibits. Mrs. James is in gown of
dark colored chiffon and bulldog is
sitting beside her. A lovely portrait
is that Of Miss Hester A. Emmett.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. C. Temple
Emmett, of New York, by Mr.. Wilfrid
o. de Glenn, of London and New York.
Miss Constance Curtis, niece of Mrs.
George William Curtis, is showing
"The Amber Necklace" an exquisite
portrait study. Another study much
admired to-day was by Mrs. Royal
Robbins, of Boston. The two attrac-
tive children of Mr.. and Mrs. John C.
Johansen are presented by Mrs. johann
sen Clean MacLane) at ease in q gar
den of flowers. The picture is entitled
Summer" Ellen Emmett Rand, of
Hamlet Hill Farm, Salisbury, Conn,
IS showing portrait study called
minnie Carroll" Mrs. Herman is ex
liibiting "The Hammock" with little
girl enjoying the wealth of flowers sur
rounding her. "The Boboli Gardens"
also is over her name.
Conspicuous among the portraits is
Miss Mary Foote'S "Juanita," Stock
bridge Indian princess, while an Indian
boy is named Rain Mountain" Mr..
Edward L. Morse's Devotion" is an
old man with wrinkled face, long hair,
in whose profile is observed serene,
contented expression.
Red peoples, blue delphinium and
hollyhocks are conspicuous in Mrs
Banyer Clarkson's Garden Border" at
her villa in the birmingham Valley.
Mr.. Francis Days "The Wishing Age"
is fascinating study of two young
girls. The Twin Bridges" and the
Hawks Nest Beach" are two interest
ing scenes from Old Lyme, Conn, by
Mr.. Clark G. Voorhees,, while Mr.. Wal
ter Nettleton's Stockbridge scenes at
tract attention, as do the Landscapes of
Mr. Fl. Bolton Jones, MIR. w Merritt
Post, Mr. Walter L, Palmer, Mr.. Robert
Strong Woodward and Mr.. Charles
Allen Hubert.
Exhibitors for the first time at
Stockbridge are Mr. Fl. B. Brainerd and
Mr.. Edward Greacen. Among others
represented are the Misses Mary
Nickolena MacCord, Olive P. Black,
Margaret S. Zimmele, Helen Cecil
Wheeler, Katherine Almond Hull
bert and Jane de Glenn, Mr..
Henry w. Parton, Mr. Charles William
MacCord, Mr.. Fred R. Detwiller, Mr..
George Lawrence Nelson, Mr.. William
L. Carrigan, Mr.. Oscar Anderson and
Mr.. Russell Cowles.
In sculpture is Mr.. Daniel Chester
French's Berkshire Field Stone" a
piece of rough white marble, from
which is fashioned the face of beau
tiful woman with long tresses and
closed eyes. A bust of Edgar Allan
Poe also is shown by Mr.. French
Two bronze lions for book ends are
the finished product from the studio
of Miss Frances Bryant. Goodwin, of
Roslyn, L. l., while Miss Emily Win
throp shows remarkable skill in her
bronze design of woman with spear
entitled Amazon Dance"
Mrs. Richard C. Dixey, of Boston
end Lenox, was advised by her oculist
to abandon painting for the present,
and she is now making pottery for q
diversion. Her exhibits are four vases
in blue, green and purple colors, while
ripe lemen growing on its green
branch makes a decorative ornament
David" and Jeanne dare" are two
bronze figures by Mr.. Paolo s. Abbate,
of New York and Pittsfeld.
The smaller gallery of water colors
is brilliant in bright, fresh hugs, which
are the work of Americas best known
artists. Miss Marie O. Kobbe adds
much to the charm of this room by her
portrait drawings of little Miss Doro-
thea Garrett, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Garrett jr., Of New Brighton,
s. L.; her niece, Susan Metcaf Kobbe;
Miss Cameron, of st. Louis; Mrs.
Moore, formerly Miss Suydam, of New
York, and the little daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. S. Parkman Shaw jr, of Bos-
ton.
Rosina Emmet Sherwoed's four water
colors Of Southern scenes are "a
Portal, Charleston" "Pringle House,
Charleston Gate and "The Pulaski
Monument at Savannah, Ca" Mr.. Her