New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-09
FINE ARTS-THE DRAMA.
FINE ARTS.



PICTURES Ar TIE CENTURY.
The montbly meeting at the Century Asso-
citation on Saturday night AS animated and enjoy
able a. usual and the customary contingent OF notice
able peopo were present The show Of PICTURES though
not numerous was one OF the best In recent years
scarcely a single work was displayed WHICH """ no'
some distinguished character and merit OF us own MI
Robbins contributed the most ambitious WORK nc "a' "
vet produced a " Morning in jamaica" which shows
steady hard work and gratifying progress. IL IL Din
antly and almost crude In color but has 80 inucn
life and sentiment In 1t that is technical sh0tc0mnRS
may be easily overlooked. Mr.. Tiffany mas TWO
pictures showing the creditabe industry winch
has filed his Summer ono Of them, Tine scribe
represents aged bending over an open volume IN
a room filed with bricabrac disposed with marvellous
skill and effectiveness The other ia Connecticut
wheatiold gentle and harmonious a rural piece as
any one would wish Mr. Tiffany seems 70 rejoice
his youthful strength and every time he changes
his field or his he achieves success. There
another departure In an exquisite llttle Work Oh
Mr.. McEntee-"The Entrance TO the Highlands OF the
Hudson" People who agined that he could DO moth
ing but paint late Autumn woods would be surprised 10
see this charming and courageous handling oil aim SKY
and water, which a full OF poetry and skill The OLD
familiar master 10 again seen in Winter piece Of the
kind we all know.
Mr. Church has . large and important picture which
nc calls "a syrian 3eaCoast 1t represents no scene IN
nature but shows OF genius would group their
hills and their ruins IL history would give them tbe
chance 1t is noble and imposing compostion-One OF
the most imaginative and elevated works which Mr.
Church has produced. There is fine genre piece OF Mr.
Eastman Johnson, New England peddler showing his
wares TO a pretty and singularly well-pOsed girl Mr.
g. r. Clifford exhibited small but beautiful picture-a
fine stretch OF plain bordered by snowy mountains,
bahed in that golden light OF which the sun and MI.
Clifford possess the Mr.. Wbtredge Is also well
represented this month delightful wood interior In
the Catsk SO perfectly TRANQUILITY handled that gnor
ance thinks any one ought to do a. much, ana
only the artists know what labor aud what
science hsye produced the result, Nj WQ stone has
two excellent portraits. Very remarkable picture by
Mr. Richards exhibitions cold, desolae scene on
a wooded sea-shore gnared trunks of trees bare and
gaunt fill the foreground and give point of departure
for a distance most delicatey and grayey elaborated
A few crows hopping about under tue trees Inc
sky and somber, but the right there IL riit OF
pad brightness through which the chilly hight OF even
ing pours and sheds bleak radiance over the waves
We have never picture OF Mr. Richards when
tells its story with sustained and powerful energy
But the picture which excited the most attention our
the evening was by Mr. Eugene Benson, aud may fairly
be said to have caused universal SURPRISE IL
represents party OF reyelers IN spa
clous corridor, returning from masquerade
one OF their number has opened o door leading TO
passage at the end of which sinister inquire Is seen
bending a subject dissecting table The faces
OF the maskers mingled emotions OF horror ana
curiosity Their attitudes their dress, the colorng OF
the group all exhibit 6rmness and certainty OF touch
such as no one remarked Mr. Benson BEFORE a1d
such by few artists here or abroad the
black haired the right, who has taken Off her
mask and leans forward to the horrible sight, IS
good enough to make the reputation OF any young
artist. The picture forms epoch in Mr.. Bensoo's
oil hon
graduation.
BROOKLYN ART ACCOMMODATING or THE WIN
TER EXHIBITION.
The opening night of the Brooklyn Art AS
ISOLATION is always pleasant OCCASION The clerk
OF the Weather seldom smiles upon these festivities, but
makes Of difference 10 the Brooklyn people,
who turn crowds every time and will be sociable
what winds may blow or how disobiging Old
Probabilities be. Last night the assembly seemed
larger than and If such statement will not be
reckoned extravagant by those who remember other
years, We should say there many
pretty women in those handsome rooms
in any former year. The theater too. was
crowded. aud the circle of promenader kept mp the old
those unheard melodies which the band plays
sweetly il the fault OF the band IS t the faul;
Of the house. that not note be heard outside the
gallery doors Of what the hddles and bassoons are
scraping and banging wthnf To "a squeezed spectator
in the boxes it is sight not without its melancholy side
this pantomme OF the leader and his and the
slow round of the walking couples in the waste par
quette going solemen silence but though it
every year. science can't explain it, We enjoy more
and chst of the picture galleries where can
only these beauties, but hear them as well.
We wish could say with good conscience that the
pictures improve with every year, but cannot, and
this year the collection to but Indifferent
In such crowd pictures cannot be we'll but,
then crowd itself is index and marks the notable
pictures II such there be, by swarming in their neigh
borhOOd. and there swarming last evening. 1t
is pity, too to give such prominence to pictures in
which only uneducated people can anything TO like,
as must be the case with poor Mr.. Won Schcndels
" AnnunciatiOn" aud Mr.. Rossiter's malicious COM
meutary on social life at Mt. Vernon. We venture
TO suggest that the exhibition OF these pictures
is not compliment 20 the society that
invited TO these receptions As for the rest by
means wish to be understood saying that there
not good pictures in the present exhibition only
the exhibition "a whole is striking and there
pictures that make it imperative for everybody to
over Brooklyn aud them. But what good pictures
there are readers shall know and there are, for a
wonder, two statues that are worth word.
THE DRAMA.
NIBIo's GARDEN
In the spectacle burlesque Of "The Children