New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-17
ART TTEMS.

The artists q New-York labor undera disadvant-
so. that no other clsss Of laborers who depend upon
tnble patronage has 10 contend with. They have no
recognized mesns of Offering their works for sale after
they are completed They cannot advertise their pic
lures "a merchants DO their goods Is there any Ex
change where they meet and display their sample
cnnxgses and cartoons, The Annual Exhibition of the
Academy lasts but short time, and but limited num-
her Of works can be placed in it. There are few pri-
waite picture dealers who sometimes act middemen,
or brokers' for the artists but in general they must de-
Perd upon chance customers whom accident directs to
their studios for purchasers and these most
when tbey arc most needed. Artists who have made
reputation and struggled successfully out of their chry
sails condition find ready sale for their pictures but
how Is the public to know anything of the young ge-
MUS who is putting his frcsh feelings upon in
sky parorl For the sake Of these youngmen to whom
recognition and recompense are 80 necessary and
grateful 10 stimulate them TO continued exeion per-
Inansrt exhibition room is greatly needed in New
York and Is 10 be hoped that steps may be taken
for The establishment Of in convenient location
There il an exhibition in the Studio Building in
Testh street which always open, bat Is for the use
Of the OCCUPANTS Of the building and not for ou.sers
On the fourth floor of DcdwOrths Hall, in Broadway,
there ia snail room which has been appropriated for
the free exhibition Of pictures from the easels of artists
in that hne and there had the pleasure Of becsm
ing acquainted with the works of young artists Of
whose talents we had not before seen any indications
Let the srt-Oving public who have good lEngs and
stout legs to climb to the top Of four flights Of stairs,
take occasional peep into this little Exhibition room,
and they wiz see something there to reward them for
their trouble.
In the DodwoEth Exhibition room may be sean one
of the most rare Of all the various phases Of nature
which ouD lRndscapiss attempt TO represent, fine
Coast A young srtiss named Warren has
small picture representing stormy coast, with fa-
rous sea ng upon II, wreck in the distance, and
party Of hfs-bOsss men launching their boat into the
ss1 The painting is small one, but il Is flu Of Wig
erous drawing truthful colOring and genuine feeling.
Thee young men who have not enjoyed the disad-
vantage Of European study the artists to whom wa
mHs look for freshness of thought and American scnt
mert It may be comforting TO those who have long
ngs for Iahsn scenery 10 remember that Church, who
Is better known IN Europe than any of landscape
painters has never crossed the Atlantic. he has sent
hs picturos England bu; no has wisely remained at
hoIns himself.
--Another Of the Dodworth artists whose charming
iy-resh gmpses of forests and hiIsides will de-
light the lover Of nature Is Williamson, who exhibited
two pctIFes of great merit az the last Reception"
Fs ro0m IA crowded with sketches snd studies, indi
cafng close study of nature, and thorough knowl-
cdgeof the resources IF his nr NJ Williamson has
painted some large pictures, views in the Western
vida such as none but an American artist could paint;
but liz intense love of nature is most forciby exhibited
in his studies Of native forest trees greens, and
wild flowers. He has a large number of studies made
IL the open air in Ulster County, of the most pic
turesqus counties in the State and the least visited
BY artistic.
Ono of the most striking il not the most encour-
aging proofs that we have had of the prosperous con-
don Of the decorative artists in this eountrys the
erection Of the novel and pcturesque-ookng building
ON TIE corner % Thirteenth street and Broadway,
which il intended for the decorative art factory OF Mr.
Gibson whose chief business has been the making of
stained glass windows altar ornaments, and other
eecleeiasliea decorations. Plain whitewsshed walls
were uniformly seen in all our churches but few
wears ago, and painted windows and altar ornaments
were unknown. But pictures and stained windows are
now the rule and the demand for such things gives en-
ployment 10 an immense number of artists, both for
egn and native One OF our best painters Of certain
genre subjects Delissard here few years zinc
as a workman in ths establishment of decorative
painter Artists who fail to make career as historical
painters may safely count upon at least making re-
spectacle living decorators
--ApIopos Of decorative painters, the whitewasiers
have been ct work in the Governors room, in the City
Hall oblterating the stains that were caused on the
walls Of that stately apartment by the Gable eelebra-
ton fire in 1885, but hope that tho walls are to be
ysnted as they were before, for whiiewash IL killing
to pictures and our Governors and Mayors viii LOOK
more dismal and dngy than in their gilt frames, if
they are hung upon uncOlored plaster Before the pie
turos are hung mp in the Governors room, the assist
ance OF advice Of some competent artist should be N
.Soked thatthey may be properly arranged. IL may
not be generally known that the City now owns q
greater number of pictures than it has room 70 exhibit
and Us z new Governor and new Mayor are adaed TO
our civic atreasures every two years, VIII not be
long before the City will have to hire place TO hang
the public pictures in unless now City Hall shall be
erected.