New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-30
FINE ARTS.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN
.FoRTY-EIGuTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
ITASrt Nosias.1


produced some remarkable work, some bits OF reansm
hoh have never been surpassed this side the water
Hat realism il means not an end, ana the artist VINO
rests in e. instead OF pushing on TO the attannent OF
roetry 10 giving the soul OF nature instead OF the
mere limbs and outward fourshes, will find himself go-
inc hack v ard aud not forward Mr. Hope must by this
time have accumulated such Of notes and obser-
yaons IN the Of His long devotion to the practice
his art that ought to be painting pictures instead
OF studies Meanwhile It may fairly be admitted thai
many Of his studies, especially his earlier ones are
worth than the finished pictures of artists we could
name.
We wish mildly 10 protest against the exhibition OF
such ra0nstrosities as Mr.. Brickes Discovery OF
America, by Columbus" No. as. One Rn'ze was
enough for boundless continent ike ours pu'
pubic has shuied OF sight all the performances
Of that artist II could get control Of IL will avail out III
tie we be pesered with imitators VINO nave no'
Eveu his modcum Of native talent and acquired SKILL
This ahomnable piece Of Bowery seenepahunR is an
illustration everything bad in art There lgnorauc
there is pretense why waste
words on such q performance Whyf Because the
National Academy OF Design has given II the place Vi
honor in its principal room, aud by Implication oilers IL
A a model for imitation aud an object worthy oil
study 10 the young men and women VINO throns lts
classes, and TO the public that has yet lingering d'h
m ITS Judgment and responsibility. Mr.. Jervis Nc
Rntees November" No. 22s is beautiful picture by
tar the finest landscape these walls which is not say
ha a. much as IL ought be- We might give this pic
Iurc ms an illustration Of what we mean when we speak
Of painting the soul Of nature" OF pushing on from
realism to the attainment OF poetry" The lover OF de-
k the microscopic science, find no food on this
canvas rich only light and in the charm 81 skyey
influences. in the power to bear us back into days OF
youthful dreams In the of subjects like this
McEntee seems 10 us far beyond any other American
sainter of landscape. and there are few living artists
who stand side 10y side with him. Ills range
g limited. but he has the igrace to know 1t,
anH he has lnuu aCO
danger Of monotOny which once feared, and aI-
pareny not without reason, would prove his stone OF
stumbling Mrs. II. A Loops Portrait" No. 25l' is a
good solid piece of work. and does the artist much
Iredit Here is steady Improvement to be noted, im-
provement in drawing and color and growing mastery
over of expression There no better head
an this in the exhibition; II gives promise Of excellence
n neutrality-suspicious. OF the sober, steady sort
which is at all times welcome, and Just now much
seeded Mr. ]. f. CrOpsey's AVERY Mill, England" No.
232 II 50 like familiar way, that see nothing
10 change in the opinion we formerly expressed OF MS
work We should have been glad TO welcome growth,
increased power OF observing increased skill in the art
sf painting some sense Of harmony, some pereep-
ton Of proportion and Of perspective. But
Il seems are not to look Tor these
things, and must content ourselves perforce
with linear pOrraure Such work as this cannot be
said to have any relation to Art than statistics
have History, than report Of the Central Park
Commission has 10 landscape gardening
In MIR. J. T. Peee's Music hath Charms "
there is genuine power Of facial expression
aud skin in telling a story that only need more
6uisbed workmanship 10 have resulted in an ex-
.eIept picture Few artists have these qualities
10 start with as Mr.. Peee has, and when man has
them n must be well worth while for him to bend him
SELF with a will to mastering the art OF painting ms
so there ~ little doubt Mr. Peele might gain, but at
present his work is very careless. 1t may be worth
while for consider that his picture would be far
more agreeable 10 contemplate If the room in when
these people are sitting were not 80 sloVenyi poor
reope NAV be clean and orderly, and If they cannot
have elegance about them, they can at Ieast
command that luxury of neatness," which Bazae
says atoues for the Of it, Here is not only disorder
but worse the is piggery and the furniture is so
III made that shelf OF the rude sdeboard ought DOT
20 hold erOckery it carries. III Mr. Peele Would look
At Ed Freres cottage interiors, at those OF our own
PAINTERS Eastman johnson and Perry, he would see
bat an increase Of pleasure careful painting OF even
common objects give. In the Kensett EXhibltlon
there was painting by Wikie Kitchen Interior as II
was called we believe, but it in reality little more
than shelf with Of pots and pans brass sauce
pan, and brass candestick, but they were painted
with the hand Of master and true artists enjoyment
of surfaces II such things are to he painted at ALL they
arc worth doing Nilke and Tener always did them
as our own WILKES and Teniers, who spell their names
johnson and Perry, always paint them. MT Henry
RaeoB might be artist TO be proud OIL IL ne thouRht
ii worth while, but he evidently does not thinK
n ,yorth while His Home from Paris" No. 213, Is not
without merit but It is provOkingly careless IN execu-
aiop not single thing in il being painted as 1t should
be There is considerable Grade eharacterdrawing too
Miss Ophelia scowling admrngly at the last elegant
absurdity in bOnnets and the child who has forgotten
everybody in her toys As for the returned prodiga
with her aectaton her heartless grlmaces and general
eattness" ts pity for the peace of this household
that she did not stay Paris She pretends to pity her
widowed young sister, but her mind is on her panier
be young brother who draws back his foot from the
III han ba NCh "A
sent him well suggested and there is enough mate
ria in the whole picture TO have amounted to something
in the hands Of an artist who loved his well enough
10 put hard LABOR and honest endeavor into 1t.
Can il he possible thatsuch sapdssh this pays
We should Iikeste know what Mr.. Comstock means by
calling No 25s Resumption OF Study after Interval
81 a Quarter Of a Century" There never went min
ates Study this awkward daub, and the maker OF
twill permit to tell him 80, frankly II Mr. Comstock
nd study IS years ago which doubt he has found
hat way to Resumption has not by any means been
TO resume" The Academy ought not 10 give such
lings as this place its walls; 1t is bad example,
and peoples time st least II it do no other HARM
50 with Gns OF Summer" by Daniel Wagner No. 25l-
what raw, uDcutvated sense such piece OF work be
trays aud not suspicion Of rawness attach
Ia an academy that can put IL the wall Of
It's pnucipal room Z A few years ago such q dish
of Strawberries this might have passed
muster with the back country subscribers
IN AN agricultural magazine. If copied in chrome
ytbograpby and distributed as prize. But
there - no place America BOW we hope and believe
whore the majority such subscribers would not de
cline the gift They might know Dothiug about art but
they would know good deal TOO much abont
.,aw.erres These berries not ripe, TO begin with
and the cream the little Jug Is not mcei but even
upripe fruit may be well painted aud gray IS wanted
IN eotnplete chord of color i-kept cream IN two
l.oa .fuI VUpafer