New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-13

GA rufs 90 much knowledge ana conso"n'o ' thin,
mo, Ito result must, are sure Dc soa'r,"n
dm,raho one Of these days. But at present. to ,i
urcssion they make s that too httio po'to 5 .c
loo little oc e0ra e. hls study "hd 700 nuv t, m
c,,iGe work Wo have n serious quarrel WIN y, ~
~ Who's p,ctn!cs we have never yet spoken ~, '"
Ia Foryc whose work In some respects cou'u 10 L.;
worse than it is and yet he painted smo thnt me-
M (;oup's Gallery now'-in - way UNI . r
ias II ie had uied Apclles's trick ana thrV"h
lis sponge a. ire canSas ssd hut ye the perume
Twenty minutes perhaps. wont To Una, W"ls VI 80,
Fargc-a summers. surely. To this of lnch,rus-a ,
yet the patient toins fuihfn mans Wo'h ,orS op
one charm OF expression which makes the Pofgr "oi
pr.eious These heotTores aud vioets ., hvn .
are true in FORM true IN color true ~ "h''' h ".
crowtl.; and yet. they to grow merely IN one
denco Ia the botanical laws OF tb'H batu'o--o f'''
weed N these gardcn'bcds can
II - plo, aud plan
h What Il viii do when st L. mon
There IN too little spon'onety in them for nat
we did uot think that Mr. Ieutzo could do anything
"A hod a. the Paradise aud the Peri, IN tins collie
ton Paradise then according to the lh'est ptchi-
cence has all the Wild nNriance OF Gorlneh hger'
boor garden IN the owory where such nghtinRaes M
to sing do 81 from impenetrab,c hicket con
Stating OF three TN cactus plants painted green, on
which = pcri-a badly formed yonng indX III copper,
coior,d tights aud nothing elscis executing dance
with more satisfaction Ia Greencugls Washington VINO
ats in the upper cr than to horsel seeing tDa cactus
lcaves even when not made et TN nave 700 many sur
points make them good for dancing on oofio"H'!'
Il ibis picture II II is not buslesquc. what IL u mayf
Kenseu, clifford, Hubbard and Dnrand ace oil repre-
senied here by important pictures Ia 9oShg a, Ml'
uur,ud's Gatelil Glove reminded that the
scloul 10 which hc belongs have charged mlstaAchly
IL struo bat with good deal oiemphss that men oil ne
school paint trees .o miles on v'tl n inc i.ul
ness with which they paint trees Ia 'ho lnueai"' 'Oio
ground There any trnth in THIS charge nor
did those who made il bring single "xbinp" 20
prove IT, but here have picture-and II Is only
i;ypc of the school TO which Mr. Durand bcongs-in
witch the foreground rocks and trees are painted ~
indisuctly as the rocks mile or more away ID ms
more ycuia error than The other Inc least ma, ,e
artist could have done would have been 20 make his fof
gouud rocks true lar ~ he chose To carry the W"h
80 that we might ri, least have known them "a DC SOM
ro.k So it IL know by long noquaintnAn With hi-
syic OF painting that these irregular hotches oi o""i
ac the accepted symbols Of rock aud we let hem pass
just In by lautine pictures We know "hai IA ii pam
l int ~ much the other, and for W more OF rather
Nc prefer tho Byzantine for that Is simple, pure neon
pelcucy a'owed this Is simple pure incoiape''h'J
cl1akiny itself under the reverend name OF Art.
However inclined may be- ~ times IL think thnt
Ken-stt Hubbard, Clifford. and even Church might do
higher work than they do 1t only needs To see tIem r.
tie, hang In this collection eide by aide With Cole ana
Doughty. aud puTnnd. 20 recognize their merit. lutl
certainly mark great advance N the study Of ShuT"
and lead us 10 hope oI better worn stu IRON ihc men
~ whom they gradually giving place. 10 those
who have been In the habit u hearing Coles nam.
quoted ~ synonymous with greatness We f'."nN'u -
n Al least i've minutes careful study u the Niagara
in Mr Walters. collection In one respect ~ viii not
be easy io approach this work Cole has shown Il
wonderful ability IN putting into 80 small cany 80
everything that Niagara IL not And yet oui ~ Tue
studies ~ This man. who never painted i~lg'
d rock flower with the least approach 10 truth no"
much less o!oud a trcc, mountain line, came
Church, man capable II better things than h. ha-
done or seems willing do. and much Of the influence
'tha, t0 ihus FAR moved our landscape painters
Such collection NJ thi- Is valuable not Only ioF ne
works bat or the knowl.de opens 90 us OF ths inh
cuccs that have been 81 work forming aud shaping our
ticc 4 several attractive pictures had marked &
SPEAK of but enough f0r 10 da!.