New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-22
TIE ACADEMY or DESIGN.
OPENING OF rnE WINTER EXHIBITION.

usual Now. the fact Is. such dismal degeneration A
this line OF remark would indicate going on. We
fair average Of mediocrity But every year we
go to the Venetian palace, Twenty third st.. hoping
to ace the dawn Of new art flushing the WALL. aud
every year we find about the round u limitations
feeble and inefficient groupings after something new and
true, mingled with the mertorous pictures Of the
conscientious artists who do nothing very GOOD or very
| bal.
The Exhibition Of which the Private View was gwen
last night, will not mark epoch Ia the history Of
art There ia no sign Of the Coming Man IN Che can
vases that were hung In the staring gasDgbt Thcre
were some good pictures from old friends some de-
tesable ones from old enemies. and
still from new and unknown pencils recently sent fos
| for our aillcton.
IL = bard to say whether the ess apotby of the ruh
lie is the cause the effect OF the ow standard Of mCdt
In the work OF our artists. Last niAt the rooms were
moderately crowded Dy the classes ~ viii IA alone artistic
must look 'oi their patronage and enc0ur gBoB Tco
were plenty OF fOuIishing merchants LAWYER. spe,-
ators, representatives OF the mutiiorm life that n.ksa
this great metropolis tho active ana vivid center Of
the worlds activity In existence Their wives and
daughters were with them-flBe, coar cat, ntelecnt
faces, the carriage and manner o. thorough people Of the
world. We entirely exploded the Old theory that
takes three generations to produce geDlciOks In The
dollhouse air Of our city and century turn
great lady from gr0cers shop IL the cheese trade
lively for year You at any gathering Of
New-Yorl people. like the last evening IN Twenty
thrdst. faces marked with that genuine seal OF an'o-
cratic haucur which In Europe Is 0ndy Imagined 10 be
the heritage Of agssand on inquiry yoa VIII Ind the
family not In the Directory ten years ago To
give to lady what Is called stylc" requires than
unlimited money, taste In DIRE obedience to aJudeous
miner and innate vulgarity Of soul The trnest ladies
abhor "style" gentlemen abhor multitudnous Ola
monds and dyed mustaehes Well were going TO say
this goodly company Of welltO-do Citizens, who cams
out to this Private View Of the results Of tho Summer
o. had Ia
about art. They wandered with dim sense OF duty
through the rooms; they looked at picture once IN
while The ladies said 1t was splendid II IL was big and
cunning, If 1t ttle and their cavaliers did not pro
tend say anything about IT, After this promenade OF
convention over they went out to the corridors and
hung over the bannstcrs, talking microscopic tlk and
staring at ascending and descending public Some:
adventurous descended into the lower regions among
the sculpture and rtcd unab0shed by tho august pres
OF the marble gods, by the dcalhess agony Of TIE
LAGOON by the MANNED loneliness Of Our Lady Of Mo-
By the immortal energy and vre beauty of the Fight
ing Gladiator. You would hear more genuine natural
appreciation and criticism OF art from a room fun Of
French or Italian peasants than you could hear last night
| from the fine flower OF our Metropolitan society.
Where shall we put the blame The artists say; omar.
garas ante pork packers" But tie young Of the
period can reply "when you make pictures well worth
looking at rs the srtic young faces that smile under
these ravishing winehats. then will surceasc flirting
| for n moment. and look at the waln."
Tho representation OF artistic this year Is very i'm
perfect. There are many who lurod by the late
glory OF the Indian Summer TO spend longer time than
usual in the country and who consequently no. pre
pared to exhibit yet. They may send IN their pictures
later, or withhold them altogether for the Spring EAh.
biOn Bierstadt does rot exhibit BIS superb marine
view OF Puget sound which he has packed 10 send 10
| Chicago But he is most inadequately represented by
his picture of tho Emerald Poo" in the White Noun
tans which Is low In tone that IL cannot be Judged
i.y f,,hf al,oa nP ,horfs
has pleasant little bit, which is OF a poem IN
| set and drab than true transcript Of natural
scenery. The landscapes suffered universally by the gas
ghtso will DO mercful until We have seen item by
| day
In portraits the Salon Is stronger In the north room
there portrait of Seward by Leutze which has the
popularity of all of poor Lcutzes work of looking like
good likeness OF first cousin of the original There
two powerful portraits by Page, in the south rccn IN
which the merits and the faults Of this selfwicd and
exaggerated genius arc fully displayed Mr. Hall hasa
charming head OF a lady, Which shows how perfect
type OF Andalusian beauty may sometimes he found IN
the North. There is Cleopatra IN the south which
should rather be classified portrait tan hsioiicaI
picture The artist has taken pretty saucy eiIisace
and dressed II up In Carnival costume. and ca'td u
after the stareyod Sorcercss OF the Nile II il io'
without merit There is q chalky hardness about the
handling OF the face bus tho expression good ana Inc
| drapory is managed with genuine feeling aud iLatAct
TAFT has some game pieces, with Wci.ConeCNel do1
| and vegetation dashed in with o free and 'f
| touch. He has drawn n woodcoct however, n onc u
pieces that cannot less than ee iec'
rom wing TO wing. Mir Satorlco has sketch 10 ci's
sercnadc" In which hitherto uHc!ass1cd ti,cimeh
of ornithoogy sits bare boush and sirgs to pepper
box OF n castle in the starlight The bird would have no
trouble whatever in standing the ground and invading
| tho skylights with bis bcak.
The principal show is. VIC sorry to Say, ioroSn
The larger pictures arc all tie work OF Germans irh'L'
and Bclgians Regnault has violent tlnS IN no I0tu
room where nudo athlete prcterds 10 fnl groat ci'
Guilty I'm holding prancing toyhorsc made Of ginger
| bread. Belgian Wrapper exhibits n "lanonS Oi INC
Pilgrims" not good GRbeIt's, but sin u ce'"
| and honest study OF grouping and ohaac'erA"u ,'
The COyenantng pars0n is dressed title 100 mL'A DA
| the Roy. Morgan Dix, who hangs near lin, ana ''<
children are picking daisies they mover Gd undft Tvs
iron sky Of December. tBo young fellow to the ~"
is looking heavenward with vaguely picturesque inisp
| tions and the whole composition la.As nHi'1 aAo
direction. But it attracts more SaZ,rs tan AI@ VIZ
picture In the room, probably account u the siiI!'
humanity of H.
Bougcrcau has Wild scene Of The madness OF oTNieS
sufficiently correct in drawing. but Iuioy aead' %E"1
| and destitute of originality NgOr Of ,OD,orIVh i'
horror is conventional and unsympathctc Mi Ny ''
sent Paris two rather elaborate Ne, s'.' 'l'!
| Of an Italian peasant woman, 80 hike sv'r"tl e.
that you are suro you have socn II boon ah
"a frUm tho prison life OF Pa.,l' tAe 1T iD'
second is very carefully carcss'd auu a. N''"h -
dapeIics are, as Ito French tay, "l,"..' -' "a" -
degree, but the ,ff,ot whole B. It, H '
Breton has Il charming scene in vh'atLe.j 20 -
OF women and children are gicauins sYt "-'a
grain In % little wagon Tao vL,,t =. nU'."' F"
with IL mastery hand. Tho hitl" psU. -...- 49,
across the canvas as you gaze.
The lack Of catalogues Is n serious di"N ..|
joymcnt OF the Private View. B.t H. I..ii. i'.
hibton Is nothing more serious ll", a D. '''-' "
ing together tho artists ami the nieuus; "n' avg 80