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Nav YORK. March 16. 1860.

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Nav YoEK. March 1G. 1860.
In my liss letter to the CoNaEEcfAL ADVERTISER
I sIsetched some Of our prominent literary men.
Let us gtuce this week at few Of the artists Of
New York, and their various habitats.
They are n grczstrious company, and generally
collect themselves in suites of studios unIer the
same root. Poets food i love and praise -
and that Of painters, too, i largely Of the same
nature. by thus associating their labors their
studios become centres of attraction ut once to
those who really love Art, and TO those who
praise it in order that they may seem to love it.
The principal aFt-ceutrc in New York Is the
Studio BGiIding in Tenth street. lt Is n spa
eious and comiDrtabIe edifce, containing picture
gallery and Offices upon the ground aOor, and
three upper ssgrics devoted tD studiDs, nearly
thirty in number. Here many of our best-known
artists have tHcir headquarters = r. Clifford,
McEutce, Church, and Launt Thompson, are
among the inmates Of the Studio Building Tor the
greater part of the time; at present, however,
they are all absent in Europe. America seems
20 be the only country in which men of culture
do NOT feel anxious 20 live at home. Our best
intelligence goes % Europe every spring, and
oftcn--as in the case or Powers, Story, and Miss
Hosner, the sculTtCrs who have lived 80 long in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. itself abroad. Europe, how
ever, makes return by sending large number
OF Irish legislators and Statesmen 70 manage the
governments of New York and other American
cities.
ireland sends Va no artists; Germany, how
ever, having no public men TO spare, sends a few
printers instead to the Studio Bailding. Leutze,
Ettely deceased, was a German. 30 are Wust,
Kuntzc. and several others among But the
Art OF New York il pre,Iouinantly American
There are other Studio Buildings in this city
Dodworth's, the University studios, the Broad
WY studios, and many others where knots Of
two or three friendly artists are gathered One
OF the most interesting Of these j. the building
on Broadway near Thirty-Fust street, where T..
p. Cranch. 4. ;. Clifford. T. T.. Farrer. and Mr..
Euutze have their studios. Nfr. Cunch, ~ tire
senior member Of this artistic group, and n one
OF the be-t-SuJgu artists OF America, deserves
more than q passing notice. lie IL now ffty-six
years OF age; he has n straight auI slender
figure, and regular features, and his head Is
crowned with flowing gray eurls- lie looks at
once the painter, poet, and gentleman; and
there Is something in tie expression OF his face
that reminds one of his brother poet, tie late V.
known by his writings than BY lis pictorial skill.
His verses commencing
~T1ausbt Is d-,pcr than m sr.-ych.
Feeling deeper tala all thought
have found their way into almost every collection
OF poetry in America. lie has now in prepara-
ton volume Of poems, Of which / have read
portions. and which promise to be Of more than
usual interest even % tic iastidious lover Of
poetry.
But Nlr. Crlnch's main strength il devoted 10
the pursuit OF biz chosen art OF painting. From
early youth be has been an Art student Going
TO Italy soon after his marriage 70 niece of
John Quincy Adams, be made great number Of
sketches during somewhat extended residence
there,-sketches which have served as the basis
Of many beautiful works IN later years lie
went 70 Paris and lived there for many wears,
pursuing course Of art-=tudics and forming that
romantic and finished style Of painting in which
he has since become eminent. But Italy re-
manned the stronger influence in the young artists
Development. His pictures Of Venice,-its Won
dcriul architecture, It's scenery, it, picturesque
Costumes and street.-the, it, tortuous canals, It's
gondoas, and It's infinitely varied marine craft,
with their strange rigging and colorcd sails.-all
the complex beauty Of this beautiful old city, in
which lovely color and quaint form are bestowed
as bountfully a. the tiuts Of It's sunrisings and
the splend1r Of it, skies,-these have been rem
dered by Jlr. Cranch with fidelity and poetic
sense that seems to leave nothing 70 be desired;
and which might even seem 70 diminish the desire
OF the traveller 70 visit that bright city of the
sen, since its loyeIiness has been transcribed 20
Completely
Venice has, indeed, become a sort Of an artistic
fpec'aIty with Nr. Cranch, by reason Of an arbi-
'rary aud indoient public taste; which, recogniz-
inS that aa artist has done some one thing thor