There is good, simple portraiture in the work of Richard W. Major, clever caricature in Frederick Steiger's "Bachelor Button," and solid work in the pictures by Ernst Neumann and Oscar De Lall. Good portrait studies on a smaller scale are by Miss Alma M. Duncan, Miss Marie Davis and Miss Jeanne Leblanc, and there are attractive sketches by Miss Florence Bryson and Mrs. Myle Banting. From these the portraits range in style and handling all the way to the diagrammatic treatments of Barker Fairlev, Grant Timmerman and John A. Hall.
Portraits are also shown by Miss Mary E. Wood. Frederick B. Taylor, Roger Viau. Aleksander Bercovitch. Katherine Brydone-Jack, Miss Elizabeth Cann, Mrs. Barbara Flood, Eric Harvey, Miss Ida Huddell, Miss Elaine Johnson, Jean Laforest, Miss Constance Napier-Smith and P. H. Surrey.
FIGURE COMPOSITlONS
There are a few interesting figure compositions. Harold Beament shows a good composition of Eskimos and rocks; A. Kingsley's "L'Enterrement" is an amusing group of figures in a village street, and other pictures in this class are Peter Sheppard's "Fishermen", Gordon Pfeiffer's "Lime Kiln" and Kenneth Holmden's "Boys Ftghting." Among the many landscapes, there are fine dffects of color by Fred Haines and F. S. Coburn, who has also an interesting figure study: characteristic landscapes are by Miss Alice Des Clayes, Wilfred Barnes and Miss Berthe Des Clayes. There are good studies of sky, space and weather, in the landscapes of Lorne H. Bouchard, Mrs. Rosanno MacLeay. and L. Fielding Downes, and a happy pattern of shadows on snow in Frank Hennessey's only picture. D. I. McLeod's sketches have warm sunshine, and there is pleasant color in those of James B. Shearer. Good landscape sketches are by Miss Agnes Lefort, who also shows a good study of a nude, Miss Ruth M. Dingle, Roy Greenaway, Mrs. Ida McDougall and Geo. Paginton. Frederick H. Varley shows some studies of curious effects ln the far north.
Other landscapes are shown by F. Erichson-Brown. Marc A. Fortin, J. L Graham, Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison, Mrs. Lillian Hingston, Peter Kieran, Jean Langlois, Miss Gullemette de Lorimier, Miss Francoise Pagnuelo, Joseph Sulyok de Papp, Pierre Petel, Miss Mary Rosamund, Miss Anne Savage and Miss Freda Pemberton Smith.
PICTURES OF QUEBEC
Town and street scenes include somme good pictures of Quebec by Adrien Hebert, a picture of old houses in Quebec by H. Ross Perrigard, and some Montreal pictures by Miss Rita Mount, with others by Jack Beder. Sam Borenstein, Ron Clark, Fleurimond Constantineau, Peggy Earle, Mrs. M. A. Eastlake, and Suzanne M Raymond.
Pictures of the sea and its shores are few; there Is light and freshness in one by Eric Riordon of the New England coast and fine color in one by George Thomson ; Stanley Royle and Miss Elisabeth Nutt show characteristic works and there are good studies of boats by Parker Denovan, Joseph Giunta and Miss Katharine Ide.
Flower pictures are about as abundant as usuel in the exhibitions. Some of the more striking of them are Mrs. Emma Frankenberg’s "Lilac". Mrs. Jean Forbes' decorative arrangement of flowers, Adam Sherriff Scott's "Flower Study" and Miss Ruby Leboutillier's tulips. Others are shown by Mrs Dorothy Beattie, Alice Brunton. Miss Nora Collyer, Herman Helmlick, Sally Hereford, Mrs. Betty Meyer, David Milne, Miss Adelaide Munn, Miss Margaret O'Sullivan and Jean Pierce. Still life pictures include Miss Kefer's cleverly painted "Candlelight". Mrs. Jane Luke's "T’ang camel" and good studies by Paul Andrew and Mrs. Margaret Semple, with others by Miss Phyllis MacPherson, Mrs. Audrey Marler. Miss Alexandra Warren and Miss Dorothy Wilson. Only a few miniatures are shown by Mrs. Monica Grahame and Mrs. Louie K. Raynsford.
OILS AND PASTELS
Exhibitors of oil pictures and pastels, in addition to those already mentioned are LeRoy Zwicker, Miss Barbara F. Wilkes, Mrs. Margaret White, Miss Josette Vaillancourt, Robert Sharps, Albert Rousseau. M. Reinblatt, Mrs. Alison S. Newton, Louis Muhlstock, Miss Kathleen Morris. Charlotte G. Millen, C. M. Mendell, Miss Ethel McNaughton, P. Moreland May, Henri Masson, Miss Morna MacLellan, Robert N. MacLaren. Miss Percival Mackensie, C. Anthony Law, Andre Lapine, Ronald Kerr, Miss Edith Hoyt, H. Hood, Miss Miriam Holland, G. Sumner Frew, W. J. H. Ellwood, Miss Ruth M. Eliot, Mrs. Doran, Miss Isabelle Crooker, Miss Edythe Cox, Alex Colville. Miss Alberta Cleland, Miss Peggy Clarke. Miss Thelma Carter. Edward Callow, Alfred T. G. Bryan, Samuel Breitman. Miss Marion Bond, Hans Berends, Miss Daisy Baig and Miss Françoise Archambault.
VARIED WATER COLORS
Water colors are numerous but among them, as among the other pictures, only few are outstanding,
Some of these are Henry J. Simkins' fine drawing of the City Hall, Hugh D. Robertson's drawings of Nassau. Charles H. Eastlake's sketch of fishing boats, H. Leslie Smith's snow sketches, a big effect of space by Paul Caron, Thurstan Topham's "North Rivet Rapids," a characteristic landscape by Kent de Conde and some good sketches by Mrs. Dorothy Paul Barnhouse. Painter of other water colors are H. Jackson Barker, Miss Madaline Barnes, Herman Blaser, Charles R. Bone, Miss Dorothy Brown, St- George Burgoyne, Miss Kathleen Carswell, John Collins, Miss E. Grace Coombs, E. Joseph Dreany, Mrs. Riordon Forbes, Miss Gladys Fraser, C. G. Houghton, Charles W. Kelsey. H. Garnard Kettle. Albert L. Kieran. Norman Leibovitch. Mrs. Lomer Macaulay, D. H. MacFarlane. Mrs. MacKinnon-Pearson, Israel Malamud, Miss K. D. Malcouronne, Miss Margaret E. Nicholson, A. G. Fleming, Miss Freda Pearson, Mrs. Isobelle Chestnut Reid, Meyer Ryshpan, Adele Savage, Gerard Senecal, Miss Jane Brumm Shaw, Campbell Tinning. and Dorothv Hensell Willis,
BRUSH DRAWINGS
Among the more notable drawings are two simple and successful brush drawings by Alan Wilkinson. two heads by Adèle Savage, portrait study by Constance M. Griffin, and a design for stained glass by C. W. Kelsey. The best of the prints include etchings by I. MacKinnon Pearson. a striking block print by Peter Whalley, an effective color aquatint by Nicholas Hornyansky, lino-prints by Richard Eve and W. H. Cripps and lithographs by Harry Mayerovitch.
Drawings and prints are also shown by Corry M. Brigden, Miss Carol E. Brooks, Howard Callahan, Miss Peggy Clarke, Mrs. Riordon Forbes, Miss Lillan Freedman, Miss Lorna G. Greene. Miss Gladys Hamer, W. A. Hendry, Claude Hill, Willy Hoverman, Miss Simone Hudon, Miss E. May Kelly, V. Elizabeth Kemp, Ian Graham Lindsay, Walter H. Lord, Henri Masson, Miss Gwynett McConkey, Donald Morin, Miss Evelyn Rowat, Frederick B. Taylor, Stuart A. Wilson and W. J. Wood.
SCULPTURE CLASS
The larger and the better part of the small collection of sculpture consists of portrait buste. John Sloan shows a fine head of the late Homer Watson and there are well modelled and effective heads by Herbert M. Miller, Orson Wheeler, Miss Phyllis Felsen and Mrs. Doris M. Judah and a clever miniature bust by Sylvia Daoust, with other works by Miss Phyllis Bronfman, Marcel Choquette, Alonzo Cinq-Mars. Mrs. Agnes Fisher, Emanuel Hahn, Sydenham P. Harvey, Robert Pelletier, Harold S. Pfeiffer and A. B. Zoltvany-Smith.
ARCHITECTURALS
The architectural section. as retiring as usuel, contains some interesting designs and photographs of finished buildings, and a number of good designs, some of them very amusing for Interior decorations.
The exhibitors are Archibald and Illsley, W. George De Belle, Randolph Betts, Richard E. Bolton, le Père Wilfrid Corbeil, Mrs. Laura Price Dare, Fetherstonhaugh and Durnford, Miss Lorna G. Greene, Miss Elizabeth McClelland. Miss Gwynett McConkey, Janet Porteus, Miss Alison Reid, Spence, Mathias and Burge, Grattan D. Thompson, Tourville and Parent, Hugh A. I. Valentine and Wilson and Auld.
H.P.B.
Article de journal probablement paru dans le Montreal Star du 21 mars 1940. Consulté sur : Concordia