New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-20
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN.
Forficth Annual Exhibition.
Second Article.
Place aux danes !

| Place aux danes!
1t may, possibly, offend some good women TO
see themselves set apart for special criticism; they
would prefer TO have their work measured by the same
scale rs tine mems Tho Academy has not given MS
separate ROOM" they viii say; why do you give rs
| a separate column
Ten years ago tits would have bNen inst rcbuke ten
years hence 1t will DO just agsn but today II Is not
Just Ten years ago there were few women In America
drawing or painting whose woJs was Tqrle notice az
oil; ten years hence there will be so many. and sach
clever able ones that their excellence viii be thing
Of course; there will be little TO distinguish their work
from that Of the men, bat today is exceptional and
shows such progress and such promise that We think
VIC can best emphasize tie expression Of our pleasure
in It. our hope COX it, by speaking Of 1t in this way
| 1.-THE Scrap Book no Ye. Miss J. OAKLEY.
There is not an artist whose exhibited picturcs this
year show such decided improvement over bis former
work as Miss Oakley has shown IN this little picture
over all that she has hitherto DONE 1t has been con-
surprise, well peasure 10 rs ever since the
exhibition opened and glad to thai It's merts
are largely recognized. Indeed it could not we'll be
otherwise II 70 pretty subject naturally aid pre.;iy
conceived and the execution is at once SO clever and SC
unaffected that TIE picture is ons.ly understood by
everybody.
The subjcc, is simple enough A li,;le grl-Ergrsh
all down to her tidy cunning sancas-s sitting Ia
an old.fashoned chair with hgh carved back cutting
and ming prints TO paste into her scrapbook HeI
chair in front Of another odashicued piece OF furn
ture chest Of drawers with slender carved legs. and
brass handles and TEMPLATES TO tie drawers and on IT.
top there are variety Of knck.knsoks; small easel
books Mirror with some peacock feathers and otael
matters.
Miss Oakley has shown good sense. aud Just spprs
citation Of wbst she do, by not essaying anything
more difficult than this simple nursery On one
OCCASION and only one We remember. she showed
herself moro ambitions. and painted subject that con
tanned great many figures and demanded more skill
than she then possessed IL ovinced ability. however.
and proved that she patient. painstsk.ng, and q
nice observer This present picture confirms all that
We then predicted for her. in another place.
The painting OF the accessoIics in this little picture.
the furniture the books the easel is very careful and
realistic. Unless 1t be in NJ. G. C.. Coleman's. or
Krauss work. the goblets Of water tho ground
dish and some OF the other things on Mr. Farrers
| Breakfast-table" we DO not know anything on the
walls Of the sort that Is 50 good II certainly Is better
than Mr. Leuzes cabinet and "brc abrac" In No. 800.
although not pretentious. Mr.. LeuEos accessories
look made up although perhaps. they are not but.
then everything he paints looks made mp. Miss Oak
leys on tho contrary has evidently been carefully
sudiousy painted from the things themselves and the
result shows good deal Of skin Of hand and accurate
observation 1t viii repay looking at, again and again
You look at Ieutzes smile at the quaint fancy glance
at the dexterous handling. and never look ct II again
Mr. Leutzes Young girl Is failure. merely smartly
painted, and with nothing in her face but then. she
failure because this artist never can put anything
worth looking at. loving honoring. or even heartily
laughing at in human fsce all that he does, OF do.
in this respect. is superficial and theatrical He paints
tableaux not pictures Miss Oakeys little girl on the
other hand, is not quite failure, but we cant care
much for her. As it u.s. evidently. not portrait. and
u.s. if It wcre faitsry would DO the child no good we
win record that she is well behaved. insipid neat
little irrcproschable doll Of thing, who. no donbt
wants to be an angel No child that had any charsc-
ter would ever sit quietly tina. tail chair tall a. to
make foostool necessary, and cut ont pictures by the
hour But then there children just lkc her, ard
the ouly fault we can find with Miss Oakley is that the
people she paints generally Of the good but nsipd
sort who cannot interest bad at all. However.
If she enjoys such people hope she Will by all means
paint them because she do it well and the contem.
pletion Of their neekness inofensivehess and good
breeding only be improving to tie spectator.
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| &J-M.ss KosE.
| No. 81 Is somewhat weak and tho wreath hangs
askew beside that there reason for It's hang.
ing there at all bat No 293 is much stronger. just
at present Miss Rose Is willing slave 20 Mr. La Fargo
whose livery she without sng attempt at conceal
ment indeed In No. "a she not only initiates his style
but she fohes hs sabject. However there is harm
in this for No. 293 shows that before long. she will
make an effectusl declaration of Independence.
Miss Rose evidently accepts what we take TO be Mr..
La Tsrges theory, that drawing s Of TO Importance
whatever. brit that color is everything. SO We have
this apron al Of flowers in which II ia difficult to iden-
tiff single one but which make fine rich show Of
splendid hues tremendously arranged and grouped
naturally and skifnly enough. There is do1bt that
Miss Rose has stroug feeling for rich. bright snmptn
ous color But u be q coorist means more than this
II won't DO 10 restrc. the title 10 thoss who only oare
for such barmonies ss those There delicate color "a
well &c powerful and great colorist, coorist with
ont the great" enjoys and can give as both We re-
commended an artist last yerr WHO showed fonlness
for brick and clay ooors to look for year al oanges
flowers aud coils OF golden hair; wo recommend Miss
Oakley Row to look long at such flowers as hese Of Mis-
ose-to hoap her table with them to study them and
paint tbem siss Rose the other hand needs to look
at delicate hnes. Let her 90 10 tho fsh.market and
study the fresh shad for which miraculous connections
of mother Of pearl getting rather late the mackere
will answer. however, and even the bass lot her buy