New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-27
FINE ARTS.
THIRD WINTER EXHIBITION AT THE ACADEMY.
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spaces on the walls of the gallery DE Haas has moon
light scene and spirited picture Of the yacht Dauntless
of Dover England; both characteristic DE Haas paints
live with great truth but his clouds are never
wholly satisfactory They look hung up by way or
drapery to the scene, with a view to securing tho
most desirable effect. Liberties to be taken
here and there with the laws Of light when they
do not fall as they ought TO- Our landscape art
lists think too much Of making pretty pictures.
Summer Clouds Over the Genesee Meadows" by
Samuel Coman, is delicious piece of warm, moist
coloring dreamy, SOFT hazy; but Is 1t smooth
Mr. Nichols deuges the ruin Of Kenilworth with red
evening glow that many yard off, but that adds
nothing that rather from the pensve beauty OF
graceful walls which Alright in their setting
of exuberant green The heart that really loves nature
her charms In false lights bnt Will be
satisfied to describe her in her everyday costume What
is good enough for the eye OF Heaven ought 10
be good enough for the eyeglasses OF fashionable ladies'
and gentlemen But absolute truthfuness is unpopular
The artists about honest and earnest as other
folks that is as honest and the public allows
them be- We expect from them, because, nving
in the world Of beauty il as II they might ma IN
the revelation Of beauty consolation for the uDappe-
cative regards OF society There exceptions hcEn'
always but Of most Of these landscapes there
is little to say beyond thisthat they painted.
because their authors painters by profes
sion. literary men write essays because II Is
their business, or as preachers write sermons
because the day Sunday. II is well enough there
Is "a
the arrangement of backgrounds and fairgrounds
certain decacy of landings certain trick OF color;
but IL is only and then that the hearts love glows
in the canvass and warns the beholders heart And
nothing satisfies but this.
The remarks on the landscapes in the South room
hold of the landscapes in the North ROOM with
one or two exceptonsa soft Landscape by s. ColmaD
little picture called Twilight" by VIM. Hart,
Chords small study of Mount Mansfield the view OF
the lake from the "chin," Brickers scene on tho
Mississlpp-they do justice to their authors They
probably TO the gallery TO III space and for
this reason we make no criticism them for IL must
the artists something to send them such as they
were and they will perhaps not be rewarded by the
pleasure Of selling them. The best are but distant sug
gestons of what the men do IL they try, and tho
worst are-wen, no matter IL is not easy TO decide
whether the death OF Abel" by vedder, is or is not
landscape 1t may represent the earth before the Flood,
but since the Deuge nature has worked plan,
IL this was the old one Green iser favorite hue now.
Inexplicable hlocks OF brown sand, brown heritage.
brown fruits and vegetables brown affairs made Of
brown sand bags, and brown body lying on the
brown ground whole, unrelieved by bush tree.
recall country have seen read Of There Is no
drawing no coloring The fruits and vegetables could
not have grown that soil; the man could hardly have
fallen he lies, consistently with the blood on the altar
The artist clearly did not mean TO paint Datnre; no
meant to paint solitude. desolaton, and curse. His
picture for the inner eye Of the imagination But We
submit that the imagination asks assistance from tho
outward senses, assistance than he has given.
OF the composition pictures much cannot be said in
praise Huntingtons Fair Student" and Popes Girl
at the OPERA" like others in the collection provoke the
question, why they paintedi Or why we're they
painted they are II they ee painted the ques-
would, perhaps be impairment. but being painted
ill., seek the motive in the artists mind and 10
does not disclose itself. Thomas Hicks has pleasant
little picture called The Home Guard" satire on the
handsome soldiers who looked after the pretty
when they should have been at the front This warrior,
in full costume holding sken OF worsted which
sweet girl is winding of upon spool. Everything in
sympathy with the artists OF the
youths conduct The girl is looking away from the eava-
Hers eager gaze her mother directs Disappearing eyes
her spectaces into the furniture saWry tho
very perspective OF the beays its sense OF the OBJ
quity Of the proceeding by being perversey askow It
is an old picture. done in times when things were
out Of Joint Irwin Kittens" is poor SO is Little Cher
ry," so is " The Two Pets" We marked " The Only
Friend mertorous piece Of art though not agreea
BILE; and nd consulting the catalogue that II was
painted by Venetian.
What now Of the portratsl There several one by
Huntington, placid, friendly face, sufused with that
bengnant expression which rradates the
OF the Quakers, and which IL requires little skin to
deneate The artist falls into the easy persuasion that
he need not 90 beneath the surface and SO probably
leaves something OF the character. The study OF
head by Felix Perret is eke, and consequently inter-
estng. The drawing seems at fault somewhere about
the shoulders, but the cOuntenance arrests attention
yedder's portrait Of Jane Jackson which has drawn
many eyes past exhibitions stands out from the wall
like real person, the embodiment of patience in
1t wonderful picture OF type Of countenance that
passing away. We ask for nothing and nothing
better in this kind. Painful 1t is in its ugness bus
cOnsopg its peace this old black face rugged and
beaten, with skin OF leather, crumped up in deep
burrows hard head bound about with the coarse ur
ban and forward by the pressure OF years and ill.,
trinity. The man who painted that has genius.
To frnOn MIA ~ N
traits Of Miss Ferris and Of Dr. James Kennedy both 10y
the hand creates sudden revusion Of feeling that
is disagreeabe. How they here Did the artist
send them, the owners II is hard TO believe that
either did The OF flowers the table
which young lady stands is delicatey done, showing
that Mr. Whehorne has touch Of sentiment in his
positions elsewhere discover artistic quality
The fault may be In the subjects but artists commonly
have voice deciding how their sitters shall place
themselves and what coOrs they shall wear and here
attitude aud dress alike dscouraging. IL the owners
OF the pictures are happy in their they have
pleasure contemplating the nkenesses OF their loved
The eve turns from works these to study OF
robins. by J. G: Ferguson, Of pansies by Horton,
and game, and finds welcome repose They are all
delcaely and simply executed, with an eye TO fidelity
unlnteresting by the very few appreciated the artists
could not been thinking OF an admriDg public when
but they are all the carefully iendery painted
on this account aud all the more do the artists deserve
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teDtlon he passes out OF the building lie surprised
finished large landscapes the whole collection. az
Evening Twilight" by G: A. sommer. and a Moon
trait OF Nemi." holds the eye 10y certain quality %
truhfulness 1t has. well by ITS conscientious nsh
beautifully executed. A crayon head. hy julius
schedonn Is strong and hne. Mrs Greatorex exhibits