, 1875-06-27
Pictures Of Home Artists in the Acad-
emy Gallery.
What Murphy, Gookins, Earle, Volk,
ETC., Have Been Doing,
Hints to the Academicians Concerning
Picture Sales.
Ths Good Work Done by the Art School
at st. Mary's.
Michael Angeles House..-The
Blue Grotto.
THE HOME ARTISTS.

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The HOME ARTISTS
! THEIR P1c7aaks At THE 4c4oea1:
1ne NJ" 1oreisn p'ctn1es At tne noaoe"1
o'espo"eteu 'oe Pfoooeuons OF ou1 own a1':s's -
III s1e' oiuaanes' ano ''npo pof9al1ee' .uat 'n0
eto"oe'' .ue 1a'te1 ou' oi ho1'ce 1atosesneA apo
tho mosh'ns saceeeo'ng Inc receEi'on. 1ne 81
hlbltlon atill continues, and 1t Ia proper tha
sorne memorandum should be made Of tbs con
siderable number OF pictures ty Chicago artist
.vh;,1, h.,o o,o, +ha n.,]. ~ tho os}larv a,
"A'eu n"us upo1 ~ue , "ena ~ e -: a. w.
| oonsEtb1e 1oe noss important o1Sp1Ay o1 LII
| Rort which hns thus far been made this yea1
Before proceeding to these pictures it is WORT
Wills ~ ro.;ca a a,na,, carr.n ,ondsc.na whic!
arrived late and is unca,alogued. and whicl,
heavily and rather oddly framed. hangs jnst be
meath Browns Gave OF the Winds" The aub
iect il .iuply a lady and gentleman in a bos
+or-;ad ovar . auftiv.rr,nn;no atranno hv . honi
o1Aoa .'eI. ~, n;t +. ' 49, ~.
| "au' 10" 1rees, ana q OH VI sAS' 1ho nooo
| dicate Carl Roupp, Of Dusseldorf, a. til,
| author, ths same artist who painted "Com,ns
! nh.,.., ~. D.. s ~ 1o.,. ,,,.,,rl
g.. e "!o' "a ~ fe'11
| OF Iae com1ng otorm ~ inc ent
Of tbs gallery. Special note ia made Of this pic
| ture because It much surpasses the others O,
the rame artist. and ia in fact. for breadth apt
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s. 4oa n1.s w. ~ G m,s: re:
oest olss OF fanascape IN INC ooaeeuon' Io's
! steol" are rerbaps tbs most desirable pictures
| IN tha a1hibition tn hang in a moderata-sized
/ .-.~t. L.,.e
toom Al p.'.A.e 10. nonso. s:.ss ,, .,oat;,.
In REMOVING sne PICTURES OF 3 ioca! conece1oo'
it Is always unfair to measure them by the sa1ne
collection from well-known artista. The policy
is-and it is the proper polloy-to make the
terms Of admission extremely liberal, and some
OF tbs ii lists confessedly little more than be-
ginners The consequence IL that local e1hib-
Ilons contain pictures thht possess litt]e or no
artlstic merit, and which, in one sepse have no
proper place in any exhibition Of art but ad-
rnithng the policy Of encouraging young azt1a.s
by allowing them to exhibit and sell
their pictures under tho patronage Of
the Academy, tho question with all
this clsss Of pictures Ii not 80 much
whether thev compare favorab1y With the mas
tera. Is whether they show marks Of promise
and OF honest work.
hcatiou OF our Artists but comment il m&de in
such order - they happen to OCCUR.
LIZ. J. F. MURPHY
exhibits half-a-dozou small lAndscapeA1 very
quiet and unobtrusive in character, but regarded
BY the artists "a possessing good dea! OF merit.
The " Old Mill "'{No. 110) ia especially low in
tone aud doea not get light enbugh whore it is
hung, nor probably would any light make the
sky, that most difficult part Of oil painting, any,
thine but opaque. There is. however, nature in
them ia tue "Gtorm Breaking Up" (No. 23),
which coarers an e1eallant impression Of at.no-
sphere, that ia, Of what tbs weather il, half
cloudy, half aunsbiny, along the winding coun-
try road and grassy hilis. Whether it is safe for
an artiAt A. Young &a Murphy 10 generxliZe n
much u be does would bs questioned BY eoms
au: horitiea. His Capera style is not unlike that
Of Gsorge 1nnesa, DID Of whoae pictures hAnga
naar tbs entrance (No. 81
D. P. n1oa1oH
aud among tho best OF tbe houe pictures 7Nos.
I. Il. ~. These pictures taar evidence II trees.
and rocks, and dctall generally, o: faithful study
Of Nature hr- E'kluH il unrePresented, OF 80
nearly 50 that an sst'ss OF bis reputation bad
better bs altogs5her absent.
puts his name to seVeta' pictures OF widely d'f-
fereot chatactor-t"o OF three tnlry p'ctu1es, two
or three LANDSCAPES, and two OF three genre ple-
lures: In bis Fairy Wedding tNo. ~, which
there Is m excessive use OF extreme black, per-
aars some Liability to what Mr. huskan dsaonai~
nates one OF she abuses OF the recent English
school, 1.-THE trick OF rubbing half tue canvas
over with black or brown that the rest may como
out hsndsomeE, OF that the spectator may be
properly, but at the salne time economically, pre-
} iared tor .ts melancholy OF sublime character"
Better ia William HUNS rule, Remember. ouly
ono point OF black and one point OF wnite in
each 31cture-" In Gookins picture Of mountain
scenery tnare ia unusually good perspective and
expression Of loVeliness lu this valley, and
It the color la high, wa pra,rie-dwelerB must ask
the foreign tourists whether 1t il natural or not
Tho ''Vis't from Flower F:iries (No. 1867. ex-
hiolted in the artists studio on the upper floor
Of the Academy, g.ves 40 opportunity IN the
ing into plses with ropes and mechanical appli-
ances, for groat'r masses Of color than the other