Ernest David Roth, N.A. American. 1879-1964.
The Ledge, Central Park, Spring. c. 1912. Oil on canvas. Oil on canvas. 30 x 36 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Signed, lower right. Original Newcombe Macklin frame.
The Ledge, Central Park, Winter. c. 1912. Oil on canvas. 30 x 36 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Signed, lower right. Original frame.
In the INTERNATIONAL STUDIO VOL. XLVI. No. 183 Copyright, 1912, by John Lane Company MAY, 1912, CHarles De Kay wrote: Of the three hundred paintings in the Eighty-seventh Annual Exhibition by the National Academy of Design, one in fifteen is a wintry scene, with snow on the ground, one in thirty is a figure in the nude. Is this the result of a mistaken forecast of the weather for March and April on the part of the artists, leading them to offer pictures better suited to sultry days than the nipping winds dispensed us? These candid land scapes and soft flesh tones, at any rate, serve to enliven the four galleries not a little and to give the exhibition what it is apt to lack, a special stamp, an individuality when compared with its forerun- ners.
Remarkable how many different notes can be played on a theme like snow, which seems always and inevitably the same! Lewis Herzog is the herald of the early snowfall, as feathery and soft, almost, as John Twachtman used to paint it. Guy C. Wiggins has a city square with lofty buildings and fences covered with colored advertisements seen through a haze of invisible flakes; Mrs. Charlotte B. Coman tries to suggest 'vanishing' snow; Robert Nisbet's Robe of Gold introduces large flakes falling distinct in the foreground; Miss Ann Crane paints a massive bridge in the dim, moist air of a winter's eve; Sheldon Parsons sees the winter woods smothered in ropy snow; Walter Nettleton surprises the snow-wrapped brook with its babble stilled among the Berkshire woods, and Ernest Roth registers more prosaically the appear ance of a ledge of rocks in winter, such as one sees on Manhattan Island."
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