The Philadelphia Architectural Exhibition 
The T-Square Club 
is fortunate in having 
this year a group of 
foreign sketches 
brought home by Mr. 
Birch Burdette Long, 
a recent holder of the 
Chicago Architectural 
Club’s Traveling 
Scholars hi p. Mr. 
Long’s sketches bear 
testimony to the fact 
that he follows no fixed 
habit in his work, but 
rather tries to gain his 
effects by the simplest, 
most direct and fre¬ 
quently surprising 
means. The drawings 
are conventional, ifyou 
will, but his subject is 
usually conventional, 
and he aims at an archi¬ 
tectural translation of 
it. How well he has 
succeeded in this is 
shown by a remarkable 
drawing of Giotto’s 
Campanile, and its sur¬ 
roundings, at Flor¬ 
ence. The color 
scheme is broad and 
free and sets aside the 
disagreeable, hard and 
sharp contrasts of the 
original; yet a close 
examination reveals all 
the architectural detail 
recorded by a delicate 
touch of the pen. The 
effect would be entirely 
lost by any reproduc¬ 
tion in black and white. 
Several Venetian scenes 
are more vigorously 
done, and there are two 
usual points of view in 
Villa d’Este, which combine to happy ends 
the power of line and color when used to¬ 
gether. “Carlton Hall Terrace and Mall” 
and the “ Marina Grande at Capri ” are 
very individual treatments, the former char¬ 
acteristic of Mr. Long’s strictly architectural 
A REST IN THE WOODS 
Designed and drawn by Phineas E. Paist. Shown at the T-Square Club's Exhibition 
sketches from uli¬ 
the garden of the 
work; while “The Museo Capitolino at 
Rome” and “The Olives of Assisi ” delight¬ 
fully express the artist’s recreative mood. 
Mr. C. Wharton Churchman’s drawings 
are equal to any ever returned by a Phila¬ 
delphia traveling scholar. The water-color 
sketches exhibit a sharply marked division 
into two sorts : one in which school teaching 
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