New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-26
EINR ARrS.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGS - PIFrIETH
ANNUAL EXHIBITION.

The Corridor contains, this year. great
number OF small pieces many of them alike uninter
estng in subject and uoskiful In execution Yet there
are enough pleasing works here TO save the Corridor nom
tie that usually falls IN ts Io ana IL
may be said Of 1t, OF tho rest Of the exhibition
tnst there are few pictures tho walls that do not
testify In some way either 10 the general Improvement I'D
nur sandars or to the existence OF iycer con1pe-
tion 10 The market Perhaps The o1t Striking work
ON tho north wall Of the Corridor is MI Ohver j. Lays
PORTRAIT Of n Lady" picture which only just misses
OF being peoe work that can thoroughly praise
Tho drawback s. too smooth and lab0rei exccutonh
tIt st,ll r,or apparet tile artists Aurrlia
No 133 West Room. But both these pictures are far
above the cOuiin0n, aud above tho average OF 'ho
Portiits in tho present exhibition We feel inc need OF
models and ~ tradit"o but more or DioirB tneh oi
tradi,ion-in tho art World of our country, when We
see an artist native talent end tile energy OF Mr.
Lay working on year and making 10 little Vital
progress hiss made since he first began TO exhibit
II IL trus he especially unfortunate In the
start: IL took him hon; to recover. nor has he
yet wholly recovered from ne wrong bias he got IN his
early teaching this could not have hurt him much
A. IL did II there had been any c0unterb1l1ncos inHu
ence-Dy artist society any gallery of masterpieces by
which AN artist could be stimulated and educated As IL
is II Is not should be ndurn or tolerant to an
artist like Mr. Lay. but that should respect and praise
him for having reached his present point lighting against
40 many difficulties. what Mr. Lay greatly needs now Is.
o 30 abroad aud stimulate mind by the study Of the
work not only of tho old masters, but of the works OF
the new m,ers We ore sure wOuii greatly profit by
sncb Al opportunity, would come back stronger hnd
without any loss Of Individuality. Mr.. Lays drawing Ia
much better than his color OF color indeed. no s yet
un,,s, nothing but he himself Interesting Problems
and works thon way that tracts ana nxes our
attantou His pcOpls not merely real human beings
h,t human beings VI whom desire to know Simeih
more Mr. Law Is well Oh WAY 10 paint portraits one
, La ylJ 4, own who knows nothing Of the individuals
thew ,eur,-cnt 1t is mistake, however, TO give the
name of noted character In fiction TO painted hea'i'
RI that the mr. lit can 50 ill the idea OF such
oha,aot.r "a 70 satisfy everybody Tho only "AurcliA
o.. kpoy L. inc Aurlia Of Wlhcin Meistor, ami surely
this young girl is not she
amons the works OF ladies exhibited tn the COfTlDf'
,ose by Elizsl.th Greene easily hear the palm though
Helena De Kays "sunlowcrs," No. l. are painted win
or and with healthy enjoy Of the sturdy spleudor
u, that detlroned monarch OF the garden Miss Linda
Narauad's Mabel" TOO though NAT LII tone ana not
Won modelled yet points bcttor things Ia the future
az Mis-. Elizabeth GraoIes two Decorative fahcis W.
ref, the erupe-yne subject The other being. To our
ttinue neither 80 interesting in lis theme nof BIZ soouh
lor Tbrse Decorative Panels getting 20 DIS 80 much
,a fsbion nowadays Though VT have never sen one oi
,b,ao tre d otherwise than pcture that IL seems
-. "a worth while Il, study the limitations al Wen as the
an,,or4untes OF this s.J To- Wo cannot ourselves
onceye of a Decorative Panel that has not uishctEo
charm NJ color; s,ntnent In e:pressioI or dsp'sloh7'
slfuI OF sonber tones. VIII not answer tho pf
,o.e and A., far ~ tan STE thrse pinob vi "iS'
orenr, they do M Aenswar tins requirement. IL j" rno
thai with a variation upon tho dsoodtety thaI ha'
,i, ~ ,ut Of IN, exhibition tho greater part oi Tue ""hH
4 liz, sting srod. Of srt't7 10 "hh" 1I'' ""'"'