The New York herald., 1874-09-16
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Great improvement in the Art Gal
lery as Compared with 1873.
THE FOREIGN AND NATIVE ARTISTS
Pictures Representing the American, English,
French, German and Italian Schools.

1874 Is superior to that OF lS73-it could not well
be otherwise. Last year circumstances were par
tIcularly un1avorable. There barely three
months between breaking ground and opening the
doors, and consequently the art department had
to suffer from haste and incompeteness even more
than the other departments. In the first place
the management was incompetent. In the second
place any thing was taken that had frame upon
it; chromos tnat even a religious weekly would
dsdain to iolst Off upon its subscribers the trash
that had been lying in local studios with its face to
the wall, like King HeZekiah; the unstable stock
OF print shops; even the distorted drawings OF
public school children. Then, to make assurance
of failure doubly sure, they hung up Armitage's
'MemOrial Picture the immense ana absurd ad.
vertising piacard OF the London graphic. lit only
to- be relegated TO variety show as a
drop curtain and able to kill every picture within
sight. Even without any Of these special disad-
vantages it would have been particularly difficult
to have organized a first class art department
from our local studios and galleries. The great
nre OF 1871 lett us not one good collection and
swept the artist colony out of existence. Most or
the Chicago painters quilted the city disheartened
and the collectors between the rebuilding Of their
destroyed property and the effects OF last years.
panic, have been unable even partly to replace
their burned treasures. This year. however,
character. The gallery was enlarged so as to coh-
tain three rooms and vestibue, occupying in all
an area OF 12o by rs feet and alrording a hanging
surface OF about $4,000 square feet. The gallery
was made freproof and an elaborate
system OF lighting, both for day and
night provided. Mr.. II. w. Derby, OF
New York, was engaged as director and invested
with absolute power as to the selection and dis
position OF pictures. In the discharge OF his deli
cate duties he has naturally earned some unfavor-
able comment from those who were desirous OF
perpetuatng last years system of disorder, but
this was only to be expected He has firmly re-
jected all that was OF an inferior quality and even
declined to find place for some works which could
not very well be hung without doing nIustlce to
adjacent pieces and the general effect Among
one Of the rejected pictures is what local critic
calls a sbold and vivid work. have not seen 1t
only heard about II. 1t is described as parbOlled
Indian drawing a bow at venture, under
an autumn-tinted maple over a suDset-inged
stream.
The courtesy with which Eastern artists and COL
lectors have opened their studios and galleries to
Mr.. Derby speaks volumes Tor their confidence In
him and their good Will toward Chicago and West
ern art. The result has been the collection OF a
gallery OF pictures never equaed in the West
the collection being superior to as well as nearly
twice large as that exhibited at Cincinnati last
year-and rarely equaed in the United States.
There about $50 pictures, valued at $500, 600,
and representing all the marked excelencies and
characteristics OF the American, English, French,
German and Italian schools. Among
THE FOREIGN ARTISTS
contributing are the following:-
PARIS
FIR. TrayOn (deceased), Nj. Guillemin, M. NOter
man, U. L. BOuuOoune, Comte UaliX, w. Amberg
Aug. Toulmouche, Nj. GerOme, Kuwassey; mis-, +
GAMBIA L. A. Saln, Jules Goupil, Theodore Frere
A. Savlni, Rosa Bonheur, l.. MouchAr, Leon Olevie
Lasalle-Gabaillot,, Cham" George Deyy, 4.
Pscrus, % N. Kuwassey. pere; NJ Caplobiancne.' j. J.
Coomans, E. Rafael, p Leyendecker. Z. Con-
t Merle A. Sagdn ssauyay Se
Dubue, NJ. Lambinet, Georges Washington, TIL.
weoer, P. Humier, NJ. BakalowIcz, Alfred Wahl-
SecE aSSp aSsss
M. Levy, NJ. Rota, Nj. Schlosser, A. Hue, NJ. Boyle,
N. peloffe:, NJ eide N. seeldrayer, NJ. Blanchard,
MUNICH.
Il. Oornichen, Carl Hubnsr, Gabriel Max, Robert
Beysenas Benke w
W. Plelffer, Edward Hildebrand, Jansen.
DUSSELDORF.
joseph Butler, Retner-Dahlen, Van OSS, p. r. Cn-
terbergen. II. Herzog, Carl Becker, san Famine,
B. Nordenberg, X. !. Lltschauer v. de V. Bon ield,
Sunderland, H. Hornemann, J. w. Preyer, A. Sell
CERT, G. Schloesser Jacobsen.
Meserus, Tn. Gerard, De Bylandt. P. Van schen-
del, Cogin, Robbie, Van SeverdOuck, Tschaggeny
(deceasedj, c. J. Grips, De vos.
ROME.
F. Ricci, o. Borriana. G.. Ferrara, Cipriana San
Llardo, spiridion. .Romako, Ducro, Novono, An
der0tt.
LONDON.
Cowen, Willis, F. Locker. Atkinson, II. Wild, S.
+. FolinGsby, George Cooke, Rolle.
BERLIN.
Steinhardt. Otto Weber. Hildebrandt, G. Engel-
hardt, T. Hagen.
Leon Eccossura, Zamacois (deceased).
THE AMERICAN PAINTERS
not local, represented by works are:-
M. F. H. De Haas, A. Eldred, I. LeClear, c. P.
Bristol G.. N. Cass, +. Du B0s, George Inness,
Thomas I ,, Hili s. ;. Guy, "; Holberton, W. Whit
raage Wa% NJ BrSwn L. Sonnag M
II. McCord j. U. Ncolls, +. ROndel, David Johnson,
J. Hamilton W. Ii. Wilcox. Julie II. Beers, A. ".
J. Hays, Arthur Parton, A: I. Bricher Edward
Gay, G. Miller. P. De Luce, Edward Moran, G. W.
Knapp Harvey yu Young, A, D. snattuck,. Albert
W. Z. Norton, A. Bierstadt, George Hetzs, A. F.
Gsoer, s @ Ientze 10 deceasede, as r. w. Wood E. L.
Henry, j. G. Brown, J. Ii. Beard NJ. Vain, Eugene
Benson Jervis McEntee, J. F. Kensett ldeceased)
J. II. Doph, W. ). hasetine George Wyman A.
schuessle, A. MlRnot, 7. +; Rosster, F. A; Silva
Paul Weber, A. Herzog g. W. pettlt. F. A: kother-
mel, Mine Ramsay, J. r. Woodwe. c. w. NlchOl-
son, = Snlly tdeceased), T. Buchanan Read
(deceased), J. b. Brevoort, q. =. A. Healy.
THE CHICAGO ARTISTS
in whom Eastern readers may take an interest
are:-
II. @. Ford, II. A. Elkins, John Phillips, II. c.
Tryon, d. Y. Bigelow, Mrs. A. Fassett, Eva j. Ham,
mond and Annie g. Shaw.
With some 500 pictures, contributed by $50 art
lists. almost every one OF whom has produced at
least one notable work, making his name more or
less familiar, any attempt at description or criti.
cism is necessarily made at a disadvantage. Many
OF the works, too, are well Snown; not few have
been placed before the popular eye through the
medium OF chromo-lthography or engraving /;
still many more, particularly in the landscapes
and marines, while having their excelences OF
conception or treatment, really do not differ In
what to the general reader or spectator would be
appreciabe degree from the better class OF pic
lures found In the galleries Of the average col