New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-04
xAnoNAL ACADEMY or DESIGN
ANNUAL WINTER EXHIBITION.

As an exhibition of American Art. the con-
which opened its doors last night only be
garded in the light OF faiure-ully two-thrds Of tho
works hung being Of foreign parentage aud those by
far the most mertOrious
BY dnt OF cards sown broadcast the Committee In.
vations managed TO the usual jam of what -
called socety,"-the aFlsOcracy-or rather the Plu-
tocracy of the city OF gossip about LeghbOrs OF
about dress, OF utterly nane and foolish small talk
there was plenty. OF knowledge Of and criticism
on art q corresponding scarcty-painfully conscious
pretty women fuss feathers, rtanon usque ad nause
am cannot be the right spirit TO learn of and be in
struced in what OF all people earth, most stand in
need ola knowledge OF art aSQne al minimum. One
half Of all this promscuous crowd stood with their backs
to pictures nearly the whole evening in deep discus
sion on their neighbours bonnet or beefsteak
But to the Exhibition. The numbers run up to some
$50 Oil, paintings, sculpture, crayon, and ar
chitectural subjects, not including the portraits
water coors prominent In last Winters collection
This altogether wanting, and the want Is TO be rs
gretted as the two previous times have been so highly
fraught with increasing promise Gasght glare and gilt
by means favorable aduncts to anything ike
critical examination Of gallery OF oil paintings Nor 10
the perpetual surgng OF swayng, chatterng crowd OF
wedressed gentle-fok the quletest standpoint from
which to view collection such the in question
We shall therefore for daylight and further
opportunity anything like critical examination Of tho
Winter Gallery Of 1869.
SOUTH (MAIN1 GALLERY.
No. is portrait of a child, harsh, hard tea Doardy.
in fact one Of those frghtui preparations Of OIL varnish
&C. on canvas utterly impossible in any other locus m
qto save in American gallery OF art
No. S. genre picture representing baby kissing .
sky terrier good night carefully wrought out in detail
with aduncts and accessories not sighted but yet stn
unsympathetic and mechanical.
No 49, Marine Moonlight View by De Haas; one OF
the best truest and most effective In the suite
OF rooms; the soop standing the port tack with her
bofsf tho and
broken sky and reflected moonlight a moderately
rough sea are treated with the usual pracced hand OF
this accomplished master. His study OF The Ocean
Yacht Race the victorious yacht coming uplO the Isle OF
Wight. No a. the side OF the gallery, Is also
another chef d6rre.
No. u.s. Peasants driving home herd OF cattle across
the Campagna. by A. Famme shows great skill of mani
festaton careful composition and delicious treatment.
Spite OF its vaisambauce and thorough realization OF
the rendered this admirably painted picture yet
lacks interest-perhaps from the all pervadng yellow
tone OF the horns needs TO be further examined By
daylight.
In medals res and opposite the main entrance, hangs
a gigantic canvas by A. Schreyer No IT, representing
presume flor the catalogues not yet Issued one
Of the late Austrian incidents OF the KONG gratE
campaign, forcbly well painted battle piece Of
the type and caber Of that endless apoheos Of blood
and gore which renders a stroll through the Gallery OF
Battles at Versailles painfully menoOnOus Such pho
lures are unfortunate possessor thereof even moro
unmanageable than the immortal Thompson doorplate
wthaP.
Nos Q and IL" Peace" and " War" by Van Etten ON
the east end and thanking presenment OF Gen Robert
Anderson. represented like L" Robinson Crusoe com
plctely equipped enjoying walk" are mainly
noticeable as being admirable ideas in them
selves which fail in carrying out; the eagles
attacking the lamb in war; aud the sedentary owls In
peace" being small for the crcumiacent canvas
Besides the geological illustration OF the two subjects in
xvfnu nnfu Ina
far eloquent triton OF Sir Edward Landseer'
Among the other most noticeable foreign productions
IN this would cite the powerful Out paihiu
starvation in the Snow" by Tassaert, pretty well
known these galleries by no means exeellng speci
men OF AchenbaGh (at present unnumberedD' NO.
20, a carefully handled interior perspective OF
Council Hall at Venice, by Grierin. one OF those
heavy combinations OF architectural aud pictorial
oppressiveness now. dec 0rdtdS impossible No ~ an
original handling OF the subject AN Italian Peasant
Girl" by sorret; and No. "a. an enormous but well
PAINTED Marine by Gudn, in which the main defect
seems a margin OF unoccuped water IN the middle dis
lance.
l. The American works in this south compose No
IO9 one OF the Jervis McEnees picturesque studies
sylvan, Autumnal desolation with October
every falling leaf, in the wntry. bleak
looking horizon, and distant sky No. ID, a
most carefully manipulated and snguarIy undressing
river view by s. Coman, OF the poorest portraits
duenna mother No 25 by W. r. Wright. might be worse,
and a Scene in the Tropics, by f. f. Church. No. 100.
exhibits all that calculating preraphacso minnts OF
detail combined with translucent atmospheric effect IN
which this eminent painter is mrivaled on this side the
Atlantic The rest OF the numbers In this principal
South Gallery consist mainly Of modiocrties'
NORTH GtLLERY.
On the opposite side Of the staircase, and on tho
south side OF the room. hung collection Of the
works of tho late Mr. Cafery, beComingy draped in
mortal GRAPE dc noriis nd HiSi bOnHm The groups OF
Dead Game-ospeclaly his Ducks-are wonderfully
praseBban his execution and charming touch of fcath
ers being especially noticeable. No. S. by A. Roia OF
Venice. Is by all odds the gem Of the exhibition. An
old woman spinning and holding her distaH. with
a cat nesting and caressing the back of her
neck wonderful In treatment Of detail, In color IN
charoscuro or the contents OF the balance or
this room, OF those OF the East and West gallery.
the scanty exhibit of Architectural and pen-andnk
drawings and of the Interesting gallery Of Sculpture
invaluable In three or four reproductions from the All
tque, we must necessarily in consequence of the late
hour at which the Exhibition closed. defer detailed
notice for future opportunity.
band at the OF the stairs discoursed very excel
lent musc-indccd, OF tho selections notably. ono
OF the Ioder ohue Worte" Of Mendelssohn. in Book
VI. was exgaisitey played Fashion was very fully in
attendance Art and Literature sparngly In the throng
we noticed william Cullen Bryant bearing tho becon-
ing SHOWS Of his many Winters with venerable grace
Bierstadt and his charming wife, Just returned the Rev.
Mr. Field Mr.. Calvert Vaux and Mr.. j. Wrey Mould. tie
wellknown architects of the Central Park MarouE
Spring Gray. Kensett, Richards, BisphaIn. also safs
homo from Europe. and william H. Powell. Daylight
and tho catalogues which will he youchsafed tomorrow
will afford further opportunity OF discussing eollec-
ton foreign talent, singuary, sadly deficient in
productions Of native worth.