CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FINE ARTS LIBRARY The MEMORIAL ART GALLERY ROCHESTER, NEWYORK CATALOGUE ' OF AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY ADAM KRAMER, KATHLEEN MCENERY, ALICE McCLURE, CLAIRE SHUTTLEWORTH, GWENDOLYN 'LeGALLIENNE AND THE "WESTPORT GROUP" FEBRUARY Nineteen Hundred Twenty THE MEMORIAL ART GALLERY IS OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 10:00 A. M. TO 5!00 P. M.. EXCEPTING ON SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS. WHEN IT IS OPEN FROM 1:S0 TO 5:0() P. M. FREE DATS: WEDNESDAYS, SATUR- DAYS, AND SUNDAYS. OTHER DAYS ADMISSION IS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. MANYOFTHBSE PAINTINGS ARE FOR SALE: FOR PRICES APPLY AT THE DESK OR AT THE OFFICE ' OF THE GALLERY. CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 1924 100 356 306 Fine AH EDWARD ADAM KRAMER Edward Adam Kramer was born in the lower west end of New York City in 1866, the son of a merchant tailor and a mother who loved pictures and owned none. The boy early developed a talent for drawing and was sent to a master in his home city. Later he went to Berlin, where the atmosphere proved to be too vigorous and energetic for one of his imaginative temperament. Munich, with its air of leisurely experimentation and research, was more sympa- thetic; and there he learned the essentials of his art from Wilhelm von Diez. Later he studied at the Julian School in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant as masters. He failed in an effort to paint in the realistic manner prevalent in the 90's, and w^as one day discovered by Constant with a sketch in which he had voiced his own instinctive interpretations, full of lyric and imaginative qualities. The master was struck with the strong note of individuality, and encouraged his pupil to paint things as he felt them to be. Until recently Mr. Kramer was unrecognized and labor- ing in obscurity, unknown to all but a few artists and art connoisseurs. Due to the efforts of George Bellows, Arthur Crisp, Robert Henri, Hamilton Easter Field, George Luks, Jerome Myers, and John Sloan, his work was brought to public notice and placed on exhibition at the Anderson Gal- leries, New York City. There a reception was tendered him, which was marked by the attendance of a large number of patrons of art, determined in this case that there should not be a repetition of the Blakelock tragedy and the charge of neglect of genius against a hard-hearted public. Six months previous to the exhibition in New York City, the Memorial Art Gallery had invited Mr. Kramer, while he was still in the seclusion of his garret studio in the Bronx, to exhibit in Rochester. His reply was characteristic, marked by the same' diffidence and humility with which he was subsequently to meet the acclamations of an appreciative public. The present exhibition is the result of much urging. 1. Quarry Pool 2. Pensoroso 3. Fawns' Trail 4. South Wind 5. Via Crucis 6. Blue Marsh 7. Portrait 8. Gothic Impulse 9. Twilight Mood 10. Marsh Birches 11. Lyric Autumn 12. Melancholy Garden 13. Other Side of the Hill 14. Scherzo 15. The Arch Through the Leaves 16. Apparition 17. "Magnificat 18. Tone Poem 19. Late September 20. Overtones 21. Hesperides 22. The Place of Silent Streams 23. The Subconscious KATHLEEN McENBRY Mn. Francis Cunningham Kathleen McEnery studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn with Robert Henri. Later she went to Paris and spent two years there painting. She has exhibited at the Salon, in the Philadelphia Academy, the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, and at various exhibitions in New York City. 24. Portrait of Francis Cunningham 25. Portrait of Miriam McEnery 26. Portrait of Gwendolyn Le Gallienne 27. Still Life 28. In the Studio 29. The Painter 30. Summer Morning ALICE MCCLURE Alice McClure studied in Buffalo with Edward Dufner, and later in Paris at the Academic Moderne. She was made a member of the Salon d'Automne in 1913, and was on the jury of the Salon in 1914. 31. Still Life 32. Still Life 33. Still Life 34. Portrait of Jean Hengerer 35. Bridge at Chateau Thierry (Since Destroyed) 36. Portrait of Artist 37. Calendulas 38. Peonies 5 GWENDOLYN LeGALLIENNE 39. Ossip Gabrilowitsch 40. Andre Pokh 41. Theodore Spiering 42. Richard Le Gallienne 43. Arthur Alexander 44. Sunset Elegie 45. Clink O'Neill 46. Molly Mulligan 47. Mrs. Ely Buell 48. Study CLAIRE SHUTTLEWORTH Claire Shuttleworth was born in BufEalo. Pupil of Buffalo Art Students' League ; Du Mond and Bridgman ; Merson, Collin, and Leroy in Paris. Awarded Fellowship Prize, Buffalo Society of Artists. 49. Rising Spray 50. A Storm Cloud 51. The Big Drop 52. Looking Across the Upper Canadian Rapids 53. Terrapin Point, Horseshoe Falls 54. Canadian Rapids Above Horseshoe Falls 55. The Rainbow 56. The Rapids 57. The Whirlpool Rapids 58. The End of the Horseshoe 59. Rocky Wall of the Whirlpool Rapids 60. The River and Its Industries 61. Sunny Day, American Rapids 62. Niagara River 63. Niagara, the End of a Rainbow 6 THE WESTPORT GROUP KARX ANDERSON 64. Alms Fields 65. The Purple Scarf 66. Sisters of Mercy 67. Melissa 68. The Serenade 69. The Venetian Candelabra EDWARD F. BOYD 70. The Mill Pond 71. A Quiet Comer 72. Greens-Farms' Road 73. Lees' Pond 74. Hills' Point Road 75. Old Cross-roads House ALFRED H. MAURER 76. Landscape 77. Landscape 78. Landscape 79. Still Life 80. Still Life 81. Still Life ERNEST FUHR 82. Still Life 83. Still Life 84. Still Life . 85. The Quay, Brittany 86. A River's Edge, France 87. Old House, Brittany ARTHUR G. DOVE 88. Landscape in Blue and Red 89. Landscape in Red, Yellow and Ultramarine 90. Arrangement in Yellow, Black,, Red, and White — From teams of horses pulling a heavy load up a hill 91. Arrangement from Horse in Snow — Black, White, and Red Lent by the Daniel Gallery GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS THE object of the Memorial Art Gallery is to further ihe interests of fine art in the city of Rochester by maintaining exhibitions of pictures and statuary, an art library, and a collection of photographs and prints, which shall be a means both of pleasure and' of education for all the citizens of Rochester. In order that a large number of lovers of art may share in making the Gallery useful and enjoyable for all the citizens, provision has been made in the By-La^rs for membership in varir ous classes. f CLASSES OF MEMBERSHIP i. Supporters. Persons vyho shall contribute two hundred and fifty dollars a year toward the maintenance of the Art Gallery. 2. Sustaining Members. Persons who shall' contribute one hundred dollars a year, or more, but less than two hundred a,nd fifty dollars. 3. Contributing Members. 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