New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-12
ART ITEMS.


up for lis Wednesday nights some of the choicest
works Of coempUary art that available for public
view. AT the last weekly reception exhibited
new picture from the easel Of Eastman johnson, and
another from that of DeliSard That Of Mr.. johnson
was ore Of his Characteristic representations of
American low life, treated in his happiest MAIL
ner, delicious in color and fnll Of simple hui
NOR. young negro Of tie TUpsy class, with
huge, stringless banjo in her hands, is trying 10
initiate a master Of that fascinating instrument
Mr.. Delissards picture field view, in the style
of Rosa Bonheur, with two oxen yoked TO rlow
turning furoH but it has more light in II than Rosa
has put INTO any of her pictures. Next Thursday
evening Ralph Waldo Emerson Ia to read an essay ON
| club life at the Atbenaum, and we understand that
new picture by Page the Flight into Egypt recent
| ly received from Rome, will be exhibited
The Athenaum exhibition in Boston is to be
opened Gu tic LIST of june under the direction Of Mr.
Ordway and contributions solicited from artists
everywhere The Boston Athen9um exhibitions are
on IN entirely different principle from those Of our
National Academy. The Atheneum owns consider
able number of fine paintings, both old and new and
the finest collection of sculptures in the country
rsThese are newly arranged once a year, with such
additions as can be borrowed without any reference to
| tie origin Of the works exhibited.
Pages Venus has come back to New-York, after
very successful tour at the South and viii shortly
lie exhibition here again, in company with his other
| Venus which has been in the Athengum at Boston.
There are who regard the Venus Rising from the
Sea as the better picture Of the two. The figures are
very much alike the difference being that stands
| in SHE'LL ard The other on the head OF dolphin.
| The Crayon is republishing from the NewAmercan
Cyclopada under the head Of The Artists Of Ameri
ca: series of biographical sketches of painters,
sculpors and engravers. They fall Of interest,
and afford some curious gimpses at the early lives Of
our artists. Ii is net generally known how large
numter Of themare natives of the New-England States
Eastman johnson, for instance. is generally supposed
| TO lie Soutlcrner but he il native of Maine and
was for many years resident of Boston, from the cir
cumstance Of his father holding official position in the
Navy Department at Washington, he has usually been
sroken of as a native of the District of Columbia. 10
| artist has ever well succeeded in putting upon
| canvas tie true character of the domestic negro
of tie South as Mr. johnson. The ninth volume
of the Cycopedi contains bograph ies Of Hicks, Hays
Healy Augustus and Thomas Hoppin, Miss Iiosiner,
| William Hunt Huntington, Ball Hughes, and Imam.
| IIoay and Miss Hosmer are Bostonians, Hunt is
Vcnnonter, the HoIpins are Rhode Islanders, Hays,
Huntington, and lnlnan New-YOrkcrs Hicks Penn
sylyanan, and Hughes, who lives in Boston, is by
lirth an Englshnian
They have a "Carolina Art Association" in
Charlefton which has over four hundred annual SUBJ
scriters, and IN annual income OF $500. The Arss-
cation have recently appropriated u 800 for the rur-
chase Of pictures.
A new at journal, called TIE Skseb Glib, has
recently leen started in Cincinnati, from which we
gather few facts relating to art and artists out
Wet. Frankonsten, it is stated, is the only artist
in Porkopos who has not stopped 10 painting photo
graphs" Good for Frankensten Welsch, we learn,
" las just completed sunset" lliller il in Alex
andra, Louisiana, and Wilson has as completed
LANDSCAPE and Young has very clever picture in
Peterss window
There il sketch club Ia Cleveland Ohio which,
according 10 The Plain DeaLcr, has achieved de-
cided triumph, which is good thng,we may remark,
without ofense we trust for a sketch club, or any
other club to do. Decided triumpbs particularly in
American art at the West, are pleasant things to
hear Of
Tie Allston Association Of Baltimore il 10 have an
exhibition of pictures during the present month.
Mr. George l.. Brown Las returned TO New-Yorls,
from Boston, where he very well received, aud is
to establish himself permanently in Nichoss Broad
way Studios." lie is now engaged we understand,
on large picture Of tie Bay Of New-York.
Mr. Rossiter has engaged a studio in the Penniman
mansion, Union Square.
THEY haze an Academy of Fine Arts in ST. Louis,
No, which is soon to give an exhibition, and the
painters Of LAT growing city, among whom Boyle,
formerly Of New-Ycrk, is Of the most prominent
are said to be full of ardor.
All over the country there TO be an unusual
deyeoI mcnt Of artistic enthusiasm and artists gener
ally we are glad 10 learn have 10 difficulty in dspos
of their predictions
Mr. c. /. Elliott is at present engaged upon por-
trait Of A. b. Durand the respected President of the
National Academy Ills picture il an order from a
wealthy gentleman residing in Baltimore. We under
stand that it promises to be Of the artists lest
efforts.
-AnEnglish paper, in speaking Of apanting by our
courtryman, Cropsey, rays:
"Ihcy who know the aspect ofnaturei in the Autumn
in England only have notion OF tie glorious gdrb
sic elsewhere puts at that time. In America the
WOODS aIe all ablare.
"Mr. j. +. Cropsey of Kcnsingto one Of tho
best of the American landscape pairers, has uet
completed a large picture, which conveys truhfully
tie aspect OF " Autumn on the Hudson River" aud
this tleefCre il the title lie gives il. The scene de-
pictcd il about sixty miles from NewIork City, and
in he reglLorhood Of West Point. The sun, on the
descent las flooded the river with Light the horizon
In the foreground either side and elsewhere, are
trees of e eat richness, showing tlo Indian summer
the sugar maple, bemock, sce; oak and BIRCH On the
left is pool of among the stems; and near it
party Of sporsmen, who have been shooting blue jays
repose beneath tree. In the middle distance is
seen Cornwall. Tho sky is finely painted, and the
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