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

representing human character or inc pay VI
expression in the human face he has not ono "lhI
His La GuANA is specimen OF tho best ne can 90 IN
these matters and we hope that his largo picture IN
the South Room No. 34s is a specimen OF the worst
that he can do.
EAsTwIcH SKATING PARK, PHnADELPmA, Ivy Mr..
W. +. Winner. looks for all the world like an old
fashion plate Ii is, indeed painted several years
we remember seeing it, and wondering at It, In one OF
the PHILADELPHIA exhibitions 1t was painted. we
believe TO commemorate Ithe graceful skating OF
fair lady of that city. We dare say 1t was very
peasant TO her and to her friends to sec TINS picture
Int il is hardly an effort the artist should he PROUD
of and really not worth the expense OF boxing IL ana
sending here all the way from Philadelphia we
have too many bad pictures of our own 70 teel the
need Of any contributions from abI02d young
artist Mr. Henry MOsler. scg0s us two pictures
from his home in Cincinnati One s in tho Corridor.
No So AFTER TUE BNrrLE; the other is in the South
Room, No. ais, THE LOST CAUSE. OF these No. 65
Is bv far the better, for it is natural and
unaffected. A soldier is writing letter 10
his family, on drum-hcad by the hght
of tallow-dip. This is all there is OF IT, ana MI
Mosler has done very well with it, We should guess
JnaT ne mas sUuu,l ~ot.,.n ToI"oo.s pictures ana
been pleased with them; but while no Is learning OF
that excellent painter to look at Nature ~ sho s and
to keep his preudices whether natural to him or
learned in the background, that he can really see
what is before him. while he is learning too to enjoy
with johnson homely scenes and incidents, and to
find in them full scope for all he has to tell OF TRUTH
and duty, and heroism, we hope no VIII not
think that johnson can teach him anything ABOUT
color We don t know who among us can, for that
matter but we may safely recommend him and all
other students to the great teacher Nature If he
will wisely determine to call no man master, but
to try earnestly whenever he paints-and. II he
means TO be all artist no ought to lot no
day pass without panting-to Get at Natures
color, he will in the end find himself developing an
individual system, which will contain the truth OF
Nature as it appears to him. Almost ali our mon
are busy to-day in copying either themselves or
somebody else: it is labOr-saving process but we
are glad to know that it begins TO be found poor
pay" Our artists open their eyes and cypress their
establishment and disgust at the high prices foreign
artists receive for their work and Mt the steady de-
mand there is for their pictures They either cannot
see or will not see that these prices and this demand
are simply the natural results that reward years OF
study and toll and devotion to their task on tho part
of these artists. But our men the greater number
of them-take no such view of their profession. To
use the words of the genial critic whose puifs are
famous but who is incapable of tart. Art il del
icate personal vocation with which the public has
no concern and which is not amenable to criticism.
This theory has long been the accepted one among
our artists at large and they and are to-day reap
ing the fruits of IT.
Just what Mr.. Frank H. Smith meant to accom-
plish when he painted THE STAIRCASE, No. So we do
not know if it he worth asking We are not sure
that anything is gained by looking at the picture
an architectural designand yet if the lady be meant
for anything more than of the sy6gures that usu
ally fail to give animation to architects Elevations
and Perspectives il becomes painful TO reflect that
she will succeed, by reason of Mr. Smiths not
knowing how to draw, in getting step further in
her ascent But. without troubling ourselves as TO
Mr.. Smiths motives for wasting bis time and ours,
let us hasten to express our pleasure In Mr. Lamb
dns very pretty and apparently well painted pic
tuTe that hangs too far above the line to DO dis
tinctly. No. IS, COLBY LOCKS, an affected name
for O very unaffected head. Why, when Mr. Lamb
din can paint well and sweetly as this, will he
paint such pictures as The ANXIOUS MOTHER and
THE PRUNER, and, indeed, we may as well say IN
word, as all the pictures of his that we have seen
of late.
Mr. HuntingtOns DUCM PALACE, VENICE, No.
90, is much the best thing we have seen from his
hand for long time. 1t is indeed, cOarsely painted,
but that is Mr. HuntingtOns way; are used to IL,
and must put up with it, but we are glad when he
gives us only few square inches instead of good
many square feet. HIS portraits this year are no
credit to the President of the Academy
Nos. 6l g. and 60 are hung high that it is impos
sible to see them As nearly as We can Judge, the
public would not suffer if they could go still higher
break the sky-lght and exhale.
Mr.. McEntee's pictures this year-if it be true
that he is off for EuyOpemake sorry leave-taking
This RUIN of his is a mere piece OF sentimental
ity, the suggestion of it borrowed from his much
more meaning picture Of a few years since-VR-
GINA IN 1863. We have not our catalogue at hand
TO make sure Of the title, but it was picture very
easily remembered Ii is Blr. McEntee's foible when
he has done one thing that has succeeded to keep
repeating it as long he finds the public will stand
it. As he is now going abroad, We shall hope
we have seen the last of his Autumnal Land
scapes in No 413. The RUIN brings brood that
would probably have stretched out to tho crack of
doom to an untimey end and now We hope that
Mr.. McEntee will see so much, and get his head so
full Of ideas and impressions that every picture he
paints will he a new one, and it will be his own
faut if it he not good one as we'll For Mr.. Mem
tee has the stuff in him 10 make q really clever
painter of; lie has already painted few excellent
landscapes, and he may paint as many more as he
will
Mr. Oliver J. Lays THE FISHERS WIPE shows,
both in conception and execution, much earnestness
paints interests us, but always repealed by
his dreadful his atrocious systemfor it looks like
system--of color He paints with mud, tar. bitumen,
asphalt raw earths and the surface Of his pictures
reeks with oil. We can't imagine him enjoying the
sunshine caring to look at the blue sky, at
or peaches, or the cheeks Of children. We should
say he paints coal mine, having first put out his
safety lamp This would account for his getting the
sky in the present picture an invisible green. 1t
sounds like compliment TO say that the face of the
woman IL the only good thing in this picture, but If