The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-22
ART MATTERS.
Harvey Young.

Mr.. Harvey Young is the name of an exceedingly
clever young artist who gained his first valuable
experience in California and who has his studio az
AZ East Fourteenth street. He is yet in the first
years OF early manhood, but has done work Of
sufficient merit to justify the hope that he Will ere
q very long interval Of time shall have passed
occupy prominent place among American
painters The most ambitious OF his works Is
cascade Lake." which presents one of the most
characteristic views among the Sierra Nevada. An
afternoon fog ID supposed to be clearing away, and
the many projecting peaks are dlmly yelled In
vari-cOlOred mists. The light OF the picture Is
concentrated In the centre. whence 1t so radiates
a. to brighten and enrich the purple sides Of tho
mountains. In the middle distance q cascade
CLEANS and foams. The artist has been peculiarly
successful In his treatment Of those fugaci0us tnI6
and shades which are at once the ambition and the
despair Of every one who attempts to paint q
mountain landscape. While one is studying the
features the scene changes, and the lineaments Of
the mist run into one another ere the most facile
brush can transfer them to canvas. The picture 10
torty-eght inches by sixty, and Is to be mentioned
as Mr.. Youngs strongest and most praisew0rthy
effort. "a .r..l..,. -
Three. other works demand specification. One Is
mount Hood" Oregon Territory. The huge noun
tain. bonneted with ermine. uprears Itself in the
background, while tender ntercessiOn OF blue mist
soltens the light which is gathered upon u. some
the verge has been reached where our nationality
ceases to be exclusively civilized. The limpdlty
OF the water In the foreground Is admirably pre-
served. Another picture Is ''Tne Blue Canyon Of
the Sierra Nevada" = locality which every Call
fornian traveller with eye to the giganticay pic
turesque will remember. The heavens are filled
with surging clouds, which are loaned with light,
purple gray. The stream known as the American
River gides through the scene, and line
sufficiently straight and emphatic Indicates the
This picture is very nearly as large as cascade
SHASTA Butes', is the last Of the very interest,"
ing batch Of pictures BY Mr.. Young to which we
shall this morning ask attention. It represents .
famous mountain at the head OF Sacramento Val
ley rearing itself far above range Of barren foot
hills. clOudlessy blue Ornament stretches above
ana the horizon Is enveioped in soft, pink mist,
treated with decacy which we suspect to be ono
Of Mr.. Young's inherent characteristics the prin-
cipal picture to which we have referred, cascade
Lake, Is already purchased and Will probably be-
on It's route to Virginia City.
Hase1tine's Gallery.
At Mr.. Haseltine's gallery on East Fourteenth
street. near University place, may be seen a NUNS
Der OF nne pictures to some OF which public atten-
ton has not yet been called. Among these may be
mentioned "view OF VENICE" by Haseltine, the
artist now in Rome, work by Richter, one by
Bakalowicz and one by Zamacois. 1t would be In
teresting to know precisely how many views Of
Venice have been painted by artists at home and
abroad. An exhibition weuld be less complete
without one than with some sheep by Verboeck-
hoven. 1t is just to Mr.. Haseltine to acknowledge
that he is less conventional and unoriginal than
are nine artists out of ten. The water which he
paints has the advantage OF being something
more than q mass OF blue paint, with q
sort OF curvilinear water In 1t, meant tn
answer to the rhythm OF the waves The picture
has been In the city for only short time. Baka-
l0wicz has characteristic elaboration called 'rno
Per,n in which one small monkey and two large
ladies figure. The monkey is being pronered some
grapes by one OF the women, whose rich blue dress
sets on the equally rich white one Of her COM
panion. The scene by Richter might be taken to
represent an episode in the Petit Trianon. Three
ladies and gentleman, attired IN the costumes OF
the time of Louis the Sixteenth, occupy richly
furnished and tapestried apartment which opens
upon gardens which might be those Of Versailles. A
sort or dolce far nterste, made voluptuous and
courly, is indicated in the attitudes and express
sien OF the group. The small picture by ZamacoiH
is exquisitely finished. 1t represents cavalier
tasting wine, glass containing which he holds up
with the air OF c0nnOfsselr, while he smacks his
lps with the CRITICAL gusto OF quite used to the
business. There ere many other good pictures In
the Hasetine Gallery, but those we have specined
are among the newest.