, 1875-09-12
shattuck, Brown, LIE Clear, Sellstedt,
Casifear, Bellows, Etc.
Their Peculiar Characteristics
---Brief Personal Sketches. =
Method Of Painting Water-Color Por-
traits--Portrait Breast-Pins.
Notes from Chicago Studios.
THE EXPOSITION ART-CALLERY.

1nencing With 4. D. Shattuck IN. ~, VINO ha
the first group OF pictures on the south wall q
the northeast room, ten in number. This arts
ia native Of New Hampshire, began his artist
studies under portrait painter in Boston abon
| 1851, continued his studies at the Academy i
New York, and opened studio there somewher
about twenty years ago. He is now . little owe
20. A simultaneous exhibition of the wo1gs o
Shattuck, Colman, and McEntee aorne years ag
caused them to be compared with each other
The last-named artiet has group in one OF th'
| east roo1as, and q comparison Of the artists q
the preaent time shows a strong difference be
! tween them. McEutee paints in great variety
| with strong Characterization OF his subject 81
| pressing the weather or the season with grea
distincrness; ahattuck represents the plact
rather than the sentiment and is distinguished
| for excellence in details, foreground for in
| stance, in which the present large picture il
] strong. Autumn landscapes. especially in White
| Mountain scenery, are his iavorite subjects, 0,
| which (No. ~ "White Hills in October" is q
| fine example, The sheep (Nos. 45. II. and SO,
are the most pleasing OF the small pictures.
Grace, pastoral effect and likeness to Nature. are
to be looked for in 6hattuck.
The groups Of the eastern range Of galleries
Exposition. Four pictures Of
]. G. BROWN (s ~,
two landscapes and two Of the genre pictures,
for which he is best knoTn, make up his group.
Nos. LIS and 118 are wood interiors, looking up
and down a ravine, bright and painstaking. It
would appear that wood interiors are not easy to
make into effective pictures. II We 60 through
the galleries and examine such pictures as We
q = ~ ~ -
group, and Hetzel's Shade Creek" (1o. 713),
for instance, both careful studies and good
paintings, We shall get some notion OF the diff
cultiea- 4 few figures, boy with gun or
some children with bright clothea would add to
the interest OF tho pictures, but would take off
all the attention from the principal aim of the
artist, the representation Of natural objects and
the expression OF secusion.
It is by the fgure-plctures like "Yes or No -
(No. 116) and Walk In" (No. IT'D that Brown
has reached his reputation. though this group
on the whols falls below fair representation Of
him. little picture of bootblack, ''Dull
Times" (No- 422), in the corridor. and a little
sun-lit girl in the southwest room "Sunlght
and Shadow {No. 731) J, are fully as good e1-
amplcB OF Browns usual production as those in
the group. and there is a water-co1or also, Of
children at watering-trough, Putting His
hs +sken ;nto acconnt Ths snneh;na atfacta NJ
tha twn last nc1uras and aiso Of thu pirIs f;gnre
in "Walk In," are favor1tes Of the artist.
faithfulness and high finish, such az are exhib-
we:1.nrad hnt mt tn sn,r,ted vorno cnntiaman
and 1adv who have reached critical To;nt in
- Yes or No." appear to be among the chef
aims Of the artist Brown is New York artist
Of English birth, now getting we'll into middle
s1h s1,fieets r4>A '~''@ e0'3~0
i,et tn via;tor xho dor. not 1,ta these st.n IN
the LETT. soasa oi lie door, aud examine
Nohodv ia ~ to- 1nnds ahnnt thssa.;t ia vea ~
INV M thst anea3;tv too oftan ~. lst+ar
'Th.sa 1overs :. Tha Gonrra ~ Tive foce. ~,
11o1 haVe difrerent time 1nd.r tt,e ahada II rha
hay-nnv frnm Rrown,s oentle fo1E Thia nsnis
piainlv farmer brown is nrohabiy hoonEee1,.
er in hank. The drawinq ~ tbe cirt;e f3eu1s
fha averted- netutant eYnressinn ara adm;rshJe |
Thera in a rad ~ar If corn at t,a;r faat xh;ch
warrauts the suspicion that the rustic
lover has found It and presumed On a iib- |
oblieod to ernlain. Homer IL one # thu
r;s;no vonn, artists whom Jorrea ioots - 70
.nro ns at the tlamkga e1norancad frnm Tentza
Thaso air nictnres show ,ia hand nerfactJv |
he rtyle made fa1nili.r to the visitors nf the
Eaw Ynrk 1rater.cnlor e1h;hitjona hv rha napaa /
~ h;6 statci, hooks alxavu snr;tad and riCnr
ma Az Homer ia marfad man and MT A ron
,lar favor;te sona of h;a ouajities ara worth
,o;nt;ro an First ha fir.wa wa,i "a v,f1
"a clasr from a carefnl insnact;nn ~ tha
,re.nnt nictnTes v,tbont refarence to thar co1nr
rhe admirable ontIine and nose Of rhe f3enrea
nrh Al the t,r] will, tha miIk-nnil in M Ida il
Merit ~ Honor raralv fhorch occaa;onal}v 1aa !
n mr. .n1ino nxhih;,;on ~ Tafar"cn1ora1 gant1 !
no. Tie artist ia plainly a1rivine nj ntber nh-
ects than to maka nratr1 nictures~a
act inexnicable to nersons not narticn-
srlv conyersaut With artist life. There