New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-22

that a ,s i,cnoss,bc 10 get the 10 portraits; and tins
WAS "a true when he wac in ms primo as IT is now when
lac no longer paints well w T. Richards WAS nrst iecog
nzed IN Kcw-YorE. and sells there nearly al tlas nc
paipts II pictures are to be sold Of auction they must
bo scut 70 York and might go on giving instances
70 move that art leads harder life nero lH" se uoCe III
either Of our other Two Atlantic capitals
Ar fbls rnOY1iug have been pCturehunting In Phla-
drlpla but She result Of my explorations has not been
cxblarating First went 60 tho Artists Fund Society,"
an institution founded in 1875, II man may believe inc
cataloguccoycrs But it is very small of lis age Yet
little a. it H. It has all the usual organs There 1871
President vicoIrcsdcnt, Corresponding Secretary
a Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and Librarian
Then there are two officers more, w*h no particular
duties but with sort OF general order TO look on WHO
the others work. and Board Of Control to sec thatth
two who look and the six who are looked at behave as
they should And then, beside there arc associate MEM
bcrs and life members which latter, as quito consist
ent with the morund appearance Of the whole affair."
are very few in number. L should THINK that
members with life in them would feel very
uncomfortable in these apartments and WouIa
10 puzzled TO know how they camo there ana
what they were expected to do. But, "a have said,
there arc not many of cm and from appearance they
probably leave a tho duties TO be done by tbCdcad mem
bers Inoticc from time to time, communications in the
newspapers and other journals which seem to indicate
that artists arc not pleased with tho iranknes
with Which their works are treated by the critics him of
YOm own columns. among others. In truth, l. myseH,
have often been dissatisfied with what he has written
and il he would come TO PHILADELPHIA and pay daily
visits for a week to this Artists Fund Society and to the
Academy, think may venture TO assure him that he
would look with very different eyes upon whnt the altSts
IN New-York doing. The difference in favor OF our
is quite surprising and though two such painters VS.
VIM. T. Richards and Furniss-I am almost inclined 10 IN
clude HamtOn-would 60 far e. redeem the CITY from
reproach on artistic grounds the show Of pictures seems
a Notk or lvlO
own exhibitions unsatisfactory he thought them at
home. How much poorer, then, how inefaby Shabby
must this display TO visitor from France or Eli
gland?
confess TO being somevh disappointed in Hamilton
after seeing large finished pictures four of which are
in the Gallery Of the Society Hero are the Lorenzo
and Jcssica' Old Ifonsidcs, Niagara Falls and the
whirlpool Rapds-Niagara." Compared with his
sketches wmch-with the exception OF his tight be-
tween tie Serap, ana the Guericro"-wcrc all that |
saw last Summer, and of which expressed my warm nd
miration, at that tme-they TO me less powerful
and less fu but, only less true there is less truth
should say that like many another man, he has power
enough small study, but not enough for large can
vas do not like his Niagara Falls" in this gallery II
is not impressive But then, think the subject ITSELF
mean the particular view he has taken must be uinter-
cstng in nature. The picture should include more or
less It should either show more. and be rich, full'
Overwhelming a task for giant or 1t
should have been content with lcss, and been willing to
rest satisfied with suggesting the sublime contamination
This mere section Of descending water Is not Niagara.
Niagara tho whole, frankly in full face or 1t IS the
glory anticipated or remembered The first Of these no
man that lives paint. man has ever lived that
could have painted The second Church has done in
his Rapids above Falls" and has done noby The
third Hamilton has essayed IN this whirlpool Rapids OF
his and the result is powerful and manly piece of
water painting which perhaps, only fails to satisfy us
entirely because il is subject too difficult TO be thor
ougy mastered 1t is the best Of his pictures in this Exhi
bon and answers better the mprcSsOnlef onmy mind
last Summer by the original sketch than most Of his pie
lures do But he certainly, painter with poetic mind,
and lover OF nature, do know any among all
our who paints water with energy and truth
than he wish he would choose hafdozcn OF his best
pictures end send them to New York to the Fall Exbi
ton OF tho Academy. 1t would do him good, to get out
of this secluslOn. and place himself for judgment in
more cosmopolitan theatcr
IwiSh could find something more TO praise in this
poor gallery, but, for the life of me. cannot Moran is
counted clever painter, here, and he il in the
that De Haas ard Bierstadt clever He has learned
few tricks aud conventions knows chow TO do it," and
takes the with a few superficial touches; but. he
without inspirations Of any sort, to all his
notions at second hand, and suggests hafadozen other
artists AS the rest there is not name that is new,
that seems to chance of becoming old. /, OF
except W. T. Richards who has here one or two
of his lately painted coast scenes but, tAcD he is not
name, aud he were, these hardly good enough
TO have made him remembered Like everything of his.
however they are painted with cOors mixed with con-
J science as well as brains &C.