The New York herald., 1873-09-22
ART MATTERS.

The American md Foreign Art Agency
Opening OF the season.
On Saturday an informal Introduction may be said
to have been given to the fall and winter art sea-
son by the replenisnment of the American and
Foreign Art Agency, No. 20 West Thirty-fourth
street. Some months ago attention was asked to
the fact that centre Of this kind had been estab-
lished but at an hour when artists and connois-
seurs were leaving the city 1t was not reasonable
to suppose that permanent attention could be fes-
tered upon it. The quarters not large but they
are large enough to accommodate between sixty
and seventy pictures, some of which are OF SUM-
cent merit to excite the envy Of possession
Boughton for instance, has one of his pensive
ideals, in which the sentiment wrought out is ex-
pressed In the title, Ear Away from Present
Things" solitary young woman sits brooding
amid dreary yet tender landscape. Her attitude
and expression are thoughtful dreamy, sentiment
,tal. She is silently drinking the soft and lonely
luxury OF grief-nOurishing one of those sad and
sweet emotions (which she can meier express
yet cannot all conceal" There Is charac-
teristic landscape by Corot, who recently
created so great q Juror and obtained such stu
pendous prices for his pictures in Paris. Mr.. J. G.
Thorn has several pictures, OF which the crown and
summit is his woodland Path.n The simple,
quaint, old-fashoned, picturesque rusticity OF such
themes as this by Thorn is the expression Of q
quality unique In him. He blends human interest
with natural beauty, and depicts with equal truth
the domestic affecttons Of peasant life and the
varying features OF woods and landscapes. These
charming pecultarities come out strongly in his
"WoOdland Path" In one or two OF his other
pain tngs, such as 1.-THE Domestic Raid' and
''Foreign INVASION" the felicity with which ne
has made children his study finds quite as emphatic
illustration.
A very strong enect Of sunlight is seen in
picture by J. @. Brown, representing child
seated upon rock Hooded In rich red shower Of
light Wnslow Homer has ''Waiting for an An
swer," In which country girl, with dropping head
and hat hanging In her hand, Is evidently keeping
In suspense her lover, who stands looking at her,
his hand on the plough and his heart in his nee.
effect which Mr.. Homer is fond OF introducing and
Is not Maud Muller, and having once married in
loftier level Her hat is not torn and hor fce>
are not bare, and she Is raking. not the meadow,
but the heart OF her wooek Tiffany has two OF his
Moorish figures, in the treatment OF which he
has been happy. There Is q landscape which no
one familiar with George Inncss would suspect for
an instant to be by any one else. Il has been
screened from public view Tor several years. and we
are glad TO see n enfiching estimabe collection.
The New Art Agency has made prudent begin
ming, and there seems to be no good reason why it
should not correspond to the interests which have
been vaguely felt. word or two as to its attyac-
tveness as place to visit independent Of any art
Importance attaching to 1t, will not be wasted, II
has been fitted up with neatness, yet with taste
that fringes upon richness, and its locality Ia one
that improves ITSELF