The New York herald., 1870-11-23

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coolies ss laborcrs in various parts Of the
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N.tisaL Academy Of Design--The Winter
wasa sn Exhibition. III tao3 sa
A private view OF the paintings, drawings
and few pieces OF sculp,sree which compose
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tho National Academy OF Design was ofereu
ON Monday evening. Tse galleries Of the
Academy were less crowded than they usually
have been on similar occasions although the
cultivated and wealthy classes of our metro
poiitan society were sufficiently well repre-
sented to indicate the real interest which New
Workers take in art. Several nolabilities
from remote parts of the country and from
Europe were also among the spectators.
Throughout the evening there was plenty of
enlivening music, but it consisted chiefly Of
familiar Offenbachanalian strains, which were
not peculiarly appropriate to such a "high art
so.emnity" as the opening OF National
Academy exhibition might be presumed to be.
II would be maaifestly unjust to decide with
out qualification upon the merits or dcmerits
of two hundred and fifty works after hasty
glance at them by gaslight 1t is right, more
over, to remember that the object of the via
tercxhibition is to display somewhat mis-
cellaneous collection and not the fruits Of the
summer studies of the academicians and
other artists. These fruits, we may hope, are
now ripening for the next spring exhibition.
The very best season Of the year for our land
scapists to study nature in Is the Incompatible
autumn, which is the glory Of our climate.
This years autumnal attractions have de-
tanned most Of the landscapists in their favorite
haunts in the mountains and forests, on the
prairies, near the lakes and rivers and on the
sea shore even beyond their customary time
for returning to town. Many Of them have
but just returned, with their portfolios full of
studies, to be worked up during winter for the
spring exhibition.
Although Gray, the President of the Aca
deny and Richards, It's Secretary and Bier
stadt, William Hart, James NJ Hart, Coleman,
Inness, Shattuck, Wbittredgc, Durand, Hun
tington, Page, Nehlig, May, Winslow Homer,
W. II. Beard lie Clear and other wel-known
American painters have works in the winter
exhibition, and Lauat Thompson almost alone
represents sculpture, yet we miss from the
catalogue many familiar and prominent names.
In fact, the first impression is that the foreign
works exhibited outnumber and outweigh
those of native production. A superb Troyon,
belonging to Mr.. Bierstadt-a Eonguereau;
''Orestes Pursued by the Fures,' belonging
to Mr.. Avery, and very highly priced by its
author; Baron Wapper's huge canvas, ''The
Landing Of the Pilgrims in which only the
name of the old Mayaower can have sug-
gestcd the figure Of child gathering daisies
Oh Plymouth Rock in December Saus' "Land-
ing of Cortez;" Herzog's Entrance 10 Ostend
Har5or;' very pretty Scene in Wheat
Field" by Jules Breton Regnauits ''Athlete
and Wild Horse and many other foreign
pictures, certainly give to the exhibition the
air Of an international rather than that Of q
national exhibition. A number of American
pictures-some painted sslong, long ago, and
enclosed in antiquated frames-have been dis
inferred from private galleries and scattered
along the walls, expressly to ssfill up" On the
whole, it would be altogether unfair TO judge
of The actual condition of American art from
the fourth winter exhibition at the National
Acads my of Design.