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Town; The Church of Petite Andely; A Sunny Afternoon on the Aventine.

Mr. Kellner’s still life compositions have caused much favorable comment and it is here that his skill as a colorist is most in evidence. Add to this his feeling for harmony, and it is no matter for wonder that we find, constantly recurring, the phrase, “The best still life of the show.” Of his works in this field we may mention “The Fish”, exhibited at the Grand Palaise, Paris; “A Study of Plums”; and “A Silver Cup.’

(Courtesy of Music Magazine.)

Kellner: Chicago Women’s Symphony Orchestra, Ethel Leginska, Conducting.

But it is by his work in portraiture that Mr. Kellner has gained popularity in the Middle West. His portrait of the boy violinist, Nickos Cambourakis, first brought him to the attention of the public. Watching the little Greek violinist as he came to have his accompaniment played by the artist’s wife, Mr. Kellner was struck with the pictorial possibilities of the boy in his white suit standing before the grand piano. The result is a powerful and appealing study, which strikes an individual note, both in pose of the subject and in the treatment of the background.

“Senorita”, a three-fourths portrait of Miss Beatrice Brook in Spanish costume, is a striking canvas. Again strength and firmness of modelling and purity of color are the salient characteristics. “Mme. R.” is a painting of a French woman who sits, in a relaxed position, in a typical French interior, fondling a cat. The picture was highly praised by the Vanderpoel Art Association of Chicago and is now in that association’s permanent cotlection.

We reproduce in this issue one of Mr. Kellner’s more recent paintings, illustrative of a new phase in Mr.