ALS IK KAN: NOTES: REVIEWS


T HE Ten American Painters are ex-
      hibiting this year at the Montross
Gallery. Perhaps not the best exhibit
the ten American Painters have ever of-
fered the public, but full of interest in
technique and subject. The three can-
vases of Frank W. Bensen are all indi-
vidual, brilliant work. "Against the Sky"
is a delightfully painted portrait in light
tones. Chase shows a portrait, a still life
and a Shinnicock landscape "Flying
Clouds"-a landscape that makes you
jealous of all the time Chase has spent on
portraits; but then an exhibit of his por-
trait work makes you feel the same way
about the landscapes. He seems so per-
fect a master in each expression. Wil-
lard Metcalf's "May Night" and "Par-
tridge Woods" are full of light and life
and freshness, though a trifle too sugges-
tive of the influence of one of the other
Ten. The biggest, not in size, but beauty,
of the Childe Hassams is called "Dawn."
A wonderful light quivers over the water
and rocks; the first breathless moment of
day is there, and also a stiff, uninterest-
ing nude young woman, who is neither
symbolic nor lovely. She just seems to
have butted into the landscape. Has-
sam's "Nasturtiums" are a marvel and
ecstasy of color.
  J. Alden Weir has a charmingly fresh
bit of painting, "Head of a Young Girl,"
also some extremely nice outdoor pic-
tures. Robert Reid's three paintings all
seem mannered in color and technique.
And the canvases of Edward Simmons are
singularly far away from the really big
work one associates with Simmons' name.
Dewing's small "enamelled" interiors are
about the same as usual, thank you.


A MONG the most interesting and sig-
nificant exhibits at the New York
galleries during the past month have
been: Landscapes and marines by Arthur
Hoeber at the Schaus Gallery; a collec-
tion of medals and plaques by Victor
D. Brenner at the Grolier Club; proofs
engraved in mezzotints by Samuel Cous-
ins, R.A., also the Schaus Gallery; the
Society of American Miniature Painters
at Knoedler & Co.; paintings by T. T.
Shannon, A.R.A., at the Knoedler Gal-
lery; paintings by Jules Guerin at Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn; paintings and draw-
ings by the late Walter Appleton Clark
at the Knoedler Gallery; paintings by
Maxime Maufra at the Durand-Ruel Gal-
lery, and a special exhibit of John La
Farge's most remarkable painting, "The
Wolf Charmer," at the Montross Gallery.

T   HE    CRAFTSMAN       published in
      September, 1906, an article called
"Some Queer Laborers." Through a mis-
understanding certain credit and copy-
right notices were omitted from photo-
graphs used for illustrations. Mr. Chas.
F. Holder, the author, was given per-
mission by the photographers to repro-
duce the pictures, and it seems that he
was also asked to give credit in their pub-
lication, but no request for such credit
came to this magazine. If asked for, it
would have been given gladly, as follows,
"Copyright, 1901, James and Pierce."

  UST    before going   to press THE
  CRAFTSMAN received word of the sud-
den death of Paul Harboe, a series of
whose short stories we are using at pres-
ent from month to month. Mr. Harboe,
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