New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-27

intervening valleys absorbing the light from above are
weI given in this picture, but the artist has haroy
done Justice we think to his own excellence ~ tnese
particulars by taking away fom the disianee oy 100
obrugiye foreground. This fills the canvas that the
imagination fails to find space enough 10 the mountains
iii the distance.
Nos. l5i, l57. Both portraits. ByW. NJ. Hunt end
both admirable. The first s the baca.head Of lady,
and as we name no names we may say head OF great
beauty TIE artist has sezed and transferred 1t at the
exact moment of its finest pose and leaves the fpeca'
tor, while admIing this, longing that such head
w3uld turn and show the face II carries ON the front
side Of it. But the portrait less excellent,
one could hardly fail to admire the bodness that has
broken away from tradition and ventures to believe
that there may be portrait without the face.
Passing by others, some Of which We may return 10
by and by, and some which would demand notice
did we mean to stop before all that good we enter
the second apartment and perhaps the best OF all Inc
bet perhaps, Notwithstanding ils May portraits Tor
many Of these are of much interest. Among them are
several by S. l.. waldo, some of which will command
attention as te portraits of Of generation that
has passed AWAY and all IS the worhs Of an artist Oh
that period. Beside these heads by some OF our
best roftrai. painters Gray, Stone, Huntington, BAKER
ard others Huntington however contributes Lere some
thno beside porrlaits l67 and l73 are landscapes ny
him, oorpanen-rieces; the first, Sbawangunk Noun
ton, Scenery. the second, Saco River Scenery. we
nresume them TO be compositions, ard ae snch they
are admirable. The peculiar hue, However, which
pervades bis portraits and renders them 20 effective IL,
we say it with AL difference out Of place IN landscape
We Inow il in ribbons and slks, in furniture, IN hang
ies but we do not recognize it, except as subdued
color used by nature with a sparlng hand when she
paints cloud snd sky rock and river, tree and meadow,
and one that never so perYades and Ills whoIe
scene as these Of Mr.. huntington. One who supposed
he never painted anything but the human figure would
recognize thcee pictures lis by this peculiar shade,
which ifimproperly used, becomes a mere mannerIsm
Audyet there is very much 70 praise and admire IN
both these paintings in the real feeling for nature the
effective management of material, one only wishing
for dash here and there of color that should change
tie prevailing complexion.
No. u.s. A Gentleman, II. p. Gray. The visitor
will hardly pass by this admirable head without pans-
ing raueing 10 mark the striking difference between
good painting and bad, in the contrast between tins
work and other portraits IT, which seem 10 have
been placed there almost % foil to Graya. Jaxtapc-
stion also give. an opportunity here of studying other
portraits strikingy unlike in tone and landing and
vet all good No 10. A Portrait by w. IL. Furness,
is capital picture, though different in its way from
No I75 little further ON GRE Nos l79 and 1906 two
children by Stone; and No. l90, young lady by
Baker on the other eide all admirable and oil true
to the time Of lfe to the tenderness Of complexion,
and to the character of the fesh-tnts of different
ages, az the same points are in the head by Gray.
No 99a H!sssss%iisg Ore of those homely scenes in
which Eastman johnson Sees with the eyes Of genius,
tie tue poetry tie real decacy Of sentiment that I'M
deries all e even the coarses and with the 0ueh Of
genius reveals this real tense 10 those from whom
otherwise it might be hidden. The Huskng IS
what its name implies. Half dozen persons, more or
less are in an od-ashioned and well-hed barn. most
of them engaged in stripping the husk from the ripe,
yellow corn. BY the side Of an old man sits little
girl and opposite TO them, but at some distance are
Young man and young wonan perhaps in an inciPient
stage Of tenderness certainly in that pleasant frame Of
gentle mental excitement into which the youth of DIFF
ferent sexes are wont to be thrown by proprquy aud
conversation. The maiden negects her huskng while
she listens with doy7ncas eyes to the pleasant tones Of
the Young man. who has evidently just come in from
cunning and thrown himself down upon the corn-heap
by her side Thus infancy and age the pratng child
and tie sober old man. and youth, and possibly love-
what ia the next best thing TO ove-lirtationar be-
fore us in the two groups; while between the two
middle-aqed man walks sturdy Gleng under the bur-
den Of his well.fed baskethe representative Of the
care and thrift and necessities Of daily life One who
was ever in a barn on an Autumn day. though he may
not remember to have 70 much as all ths-per-
haps only because bis eyes were dull-w recognize
here at least the subdued light coming in only at the
great open DOORS and the rough exterior Of all things
in which johnson is so faithful and which add go much
to the merit of his work.
No. 225. A Twilight in the Catskills S. r. Clifford.
The briancy Of this picture almost fills the room, and
we doubt if any enters il without his eyes being
attracted nvountary TO this spot 1t is full not only
of the deepest color but an arful contrast makes each
more vivid and striking. The western sky lie all aglow
with the radiance which the sinking bad left in his
fiery track its lingering light marking in sharp outline
the distant mountains, behind which it has sunk; and
while in the foreground the utting points of rock and
bilock catch touch Of flame from the reflection Of the
western light the intervening valleys sinking into
the deep shadow of the coming darkness though Lit up
nevertheless to a sort Of darkness visible" by an
atmosphere 80 full of warmth and brilliancy. Such
picture will add much to the reputation of the artist
No. 227 Marine Sunset. M. j. Heade. Do all our
marine painters paint from recollection of which
they study only occasionally or imperfecyl The rich
hue Of the sky in this Sunset of Mr. Heade is picture
by itself and only needed foreground that should do
il DO BARN. Now, it may be possible for the eye to
lock upon such western sky an expanse of heav
ing waters and catch no sight of any crimson reflection
in tie thin cress of the tossing waves but doubt.
Whoever had the good fortune 10 zee the western
horizon on Sunday evening last, the repetition of
this glowing color of Mr. Heade picure and whoever
saw il, as we happened to do, over sheet Of waller
not even very roughly moved by the March "nor'-
wester' Of that evening, may have marked how the