New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-04-25
Nn,,ono, academy of Design.

The annual and auxiousiy awaited exhibition OF
this Institution opened yesterday with rather more
thun average display of merit, and less than inc
usual striking faults pnraded upon It's walls o"'
visit was necessarily hasty and unsatisfactory DC
Ing only one of many that we intend 10 pay during
the season. but IN It's rapid transit across the blend
ing hu5s and outlines Of thu pictures our eye rested
with delightful thrill Of admiration on seveia'
beauties. tc which we can but barely nlludc
Perhaps one OF the most successful attempts al
the quiet deep and ar;iconr"!sire school OF land
scape painting ever made in this coud'ry Is the sun
sci October view in Orange County, NO. tS,l by }.
F. Cropssv. The sacred stiffness oil evening fes's
broolingly upon the scene-ihc fires oil the nch
sunlight are dampened by the s!ow-StaiAing sha
,ioNs oi evening. and the VERY sky aud air seem
deepening inlo = rich aud golden glow, Miraculous
~ .mbuins eern the sUul Of the behoder This Is
the pnwer OF gems.
We noticed another truthful t-Iike and sterling
picture-No. lO5, The Miser AMI the Beggar Wo-
man-which. although upon 50 homely hiema, Is
elevated by The power OF mind and genius with
which il j. handled. liz. Ole Bulls Yankee Doodle
10 the magnificent and the sublime. The paint
ing of that housemaid-l,er natural and rnde!'
graceful atitude-her benevolent. honest, ANXIOUS
iace-her appealing look--recved on the one hand
bv the rugged toregouud OF the old mans shaggy
eyebrows and iorbiddng and apprelensive eyes, ana
ON the other bv the painfully saiierrns, brave!y
hoping face OF the Brggar-molher and her sleeping
infan-are poem full OF hcar'-moving pa,ho= ten
dcress and nature. There is nothing TO be desired
in this picture We write the artists name with
pridc-F W. Edmonds. n. \.
Nos. 81 and SO are a lovely boy and a sweet virgin
beauty, whose faces are tender remembrance that
will echo in our soul forever. The boy-picture Is
by A. B. Durand y. A-ihc other by Ii. Z. Pratt
No - is faithful and striking portrait OF /. W
We;lev. Esq. we'll known and esteemed among US,
both as a man and on artist, who has row gone TO
reside on the beautiful banks OF the Ohio. This is
by E. Mooney, n. A.. and is as fine a specimen OF
portrait painting rs there is in the rooms.
No. O2-Ons OF those terribly beautiful and SUI
pernaural faces which seem to dart magnetic force
from their thrilling lines to chain the bcholder before
,hcm-a face thai comes back 10 the soul in dreams
and assumes as many capricious and tormentns
shapes and aspects and Titana's vsions-is ahead
of Blanca Visconti, owned by \. Z. Willis and
painted bv q. w. Flage. II. The pcture-thc
owner-the subject-onc knows not which most APP
propria,ey belongs 10 the other. There are the
freshest and roses lips in this picture ever dreamed
OF or died upon since Anacreon.
No. 90 is sweet sad Cinderella face, by }. fla-
gen.
No. 80 is the head of n poetcss-nnl in pretty
considerable OF u rhapsody at that J. d. Blondell.
No. b. Almost unexceptionabIe cross-bnnd green
velvet vest is the most prominent feature in this por-
trait, Painted by Frotlrinsh ham, too who can paint
better things than cut velvet, and was never meant
by Nature for tailor.
No. IA brilliant, saucy, irresistible, Lady Gay
Spankcr head and bust-abmirably drawn and
colored by P. p. Lawson.
No. 1S-A sister and brother, by c. G. Thomp-
son-.vcry touching and beautiful.
No. 236-Exquisitcly vOuptuous. Not in keep
ing with lis designation the catalogue. P.F.
Roihcrmc.
But we have LETT ourselves 10 more roonl--not
even to say more than a passing word of Craword's
two immortal poems in marblc-thc Genius of Nlrth
and the Genius OF Autumn. The first OF these
but we must quit, and wal; for another visit and
fresh column.