New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-04-17
sorREE AT THE ACADEMY OF DESIGN
Porty.arst Annual Exhibitor.

The April shower that set in, last evening, just
obont nch kent the word OF the old proyerb and brought
out May flowers enough to I'll the Academy to OVERCOMING
Faces so fair hardly needed the somewhat lavish oetes Tor
foil but the toetes had their revenge as one took in at
glance the pretty spectacle the corridor and staircase where
faces are lost but where silks and ace and flowers unite with
the architecture to make picture do not easily forget
The excellent and everything passed on pleasantly
We eocd have wished the rooms larger ana TIE eofuo
wider; but suppose increase of room would simply
lead to invitations and the difficulty Of the crowd would
remain comparatively the same
As for the pictures could only get impression The
crush Of people and the insufficient light makes impossible
TO see any picture we'll The well filed and we find
number Of new names. There is singular absence OF
names we have become accustomed consider necessary
TO an exhibition We about to mention some OF the ao
epees bnt we will wait until we can find light and for
careful study Meanwhile let over the pictures that
seen over Youthful heads and ivory shoulders obscnred y
porenous chenons and atterng fans seemed to promise
many pleasant half Of study when the time ioF study
shall come Mr. William Hunts crayon studies and the
finished Nfe.size oil from one of them, although re-
calling strongly certain French work, yet show CROWN
They are far stronger and healthier and less aheeted
than BIS pictures in the last Academy he has, at engp
something to say, and is rapidly learning to say ~
Mr. Eastman johnson sends three plcures-perhars more
bat these are enough. One of them the Family Prayer
shows bic power portrait in the South Room we take
TO be By Furnss Philadelphia IL mates with Mayors
Melancholy Hunts Mother and Child, and huntins'Ohs
Cuban VorDauok QuaraiD Of interesting pictures MI.
Law has pained striking portrait of Mr. C. {. Coleman TIE
orts. and we hope that shall find that Coleman himself
with Griswod and yedder not entirely unreprosensd
although we could find nothing last night Mr. Weirss PIC
nre Of the Foundry Of which have heard so
much during past year promises 10 be serious and manly
work at which it proves shall not be surprised MI
Whttredges large picture warmly spoken oil by those
who had Lad the opportunity Of seeing it by daylight
seemed to be the only landscape Of any petension con
tribued BY the better known among the academicans
Among tie ladies' fOuDd little picture by MISS
Oakley carefully drawn. usual, and II not many
steps In advance Of last years work, certainly IN DC
degree etsriOrated. As for the nauras MI Moore MI
Farrer the father and they have deserted in body
so that there seems double deiecon OF which indeed 70
nor whispers something. Mr. Newman sends two drawings
in and would learn have sent sthers had not
health prevented Shall be thought TO say too much II
we venture our opinion that Miss MeDonaas two eonrbu
ous-L.r pencil drawing Of cat. and her ler color land
scapeamost amends by their excellence for the ab
scnce Of these gentlemen This does not mean that we can
spare them their absence is nexpcabe and at this time
hurtful, but so IL that Of others
One great record with satisfaction The
Hanging Committee has wecded with unsparng hand
vulgar and ridiculous pictures such have Of late been
allowed to enter to the surprise and dpeasure Of educated
people Perhaps this will account Tor the entire absence OF
lev from tie catalogue, but the public greatly the
gurer Enough for tonight. The exhibition marks we
think decidedly than any recent one the change hh
taking Mace in our ideas and in modes OF study lie
was inevitable and has seemed to u.s. had been
too lorg delayed Now that 1t has begun let us nope that
Will prove not merely change bat progress