New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-05-21

shall some day no doubt get real picture from him.
At present-being In no haste to paint pictures until
he feels lie has q right to do so-he puts all his heart
and strength into his preparatory studies. He draws
with great deicacy and with all the truth he can at
tain TO by earnest effort and his color is decidedly
improving. lie has escaped at last trlumphantly
from his worst foe emerald green. and he Ia learn
ing to look at things in their relations, and 80 is on
the road to composition as well as color We feel
that his work lacks strength somewhat but we
would rather miss that than delicacy and Mr.. New
mans improvement has been so sure as well as so
rapid that we are content to wait, trusting that he
will be strong if he can, and that II he can't he Will
not think it necessary to cease being deiicate we
would rather have weakness than spasms
Miss Mcdonald has been very unfortunate In her
subjects this year. She once drew a cat admirably,
and that was good reason for never drawing
another. She has however. tried to repeat herself,
and has rushed upon destruction. The present cat
is almost rs bad as the copy which an eminent Acade
micion so nobly made of her first successful achieve
ment. We trust Miss Mcdonald will accept tho
omen and never more repeat herself or anybody else
In No 1O6, STnIIzIA REGINA, it would seem as II
This lady had gone out of her way to choose some
thing ugly to paint. Probably the Lord mnde the
SuIITzIA But VIC don't like to think So III Ire did.
noyEyer that is no reason for anybodys painting It,.
and we beg Miss Mcdonald to believe that faithful,
honest labor. such as she puts into everything sue
pants OF draws, is much too rare good thing to be
wasted on he ugly things in nature.
Dr1. CHARLES C.. Ward sends two small studies that
look rs if he were paustalng and trying 10 Work IN
the right way-that is, with constant reference 70
nature. Miss Thayers NEw-HAMPsHIRE MAY
FLOWERS No129 are extremely pretty and show areal
enjoyment Of the beauty of her subject. She should
now paint a few flowers as they grow, with BACK
ground of rock the root of a tree; she VIII hnd
that her work will give more pleasure to herself and
to others when she shows things in their relations
and not isolated as these Spring beauties are. III
MIR. Robert Brandegee has failed in his STUDY
OF LAUREL we dare say it has not been
for lick of study In truth, if he had searched the
woods through ne could not have found O subject
more difficult than the one he has selected Perhaps
| there are hundred blossoms in this pancle. Well
every one is as difficult problem i'll linear perspec-
tive as a man would wish to be bothered with Yet.
! If every problem of these hundred is not correctly
resolved, the failure will tell. Mr. Brandegee hassiul-
ply shrked the labor and tried to give tho effect
Tho result is by 10 means satisfactory. might have
been predicted Miss NJ. A. Browne Chaney's
PANsfEs are no more like PANsIts than they
are like dozen other flowers might namo. III
she really could get pansies with better colors she
should not have tried 10 paint them, and tho forms
are rs bad as the colOTo Now pansies are beautl-
full i'm form very beautiful and the color Of them is
perpetual delight TO the eyes. Miss CLANCY misses
both form and color most eegiOu5ly aud asks us to
admit that she has painted pansiee.
We close with Mr. Linton, whose RErIQUfR and
WINTER FRUITS show that, like our own Durand
and many another lac enpayeS much better than Inc
paints