New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-02-12
FINE RTS.
THE wAVER-COLOR EXHIBITION.

The places of honor in the North Room are
divided this year between Mr. Louis Inlnv. hr. samuel
ColInan, Mr. Edwin A. Abbey, Mr. }. {. Acou, Mr.. A. T.
Bric.r. and Mr.. L. klllingworth Johnson. All these
artists Americans excepting Mr. johnson who an
Eneli-hman very fayorabb known in his own country
and secure beforehand Of welcome here in virtue OF his
beautiful drawing former exhibition Of this Society,
"lhe Rival Florists Each OF these artists has large
drawing in the d. exhibition. representing 'airy the
best qualities OF his STYLE and MI these important pieces
are wei hung In good lch' the line. NorN.ll il
place, We thinks u. SrGdge 10 any ono OF them
II occurs 10 IA rs worth thinking about however.
whether IL altogether iudoIs 20 collect all ihe Lead
Ing works in an cxibltion OF this Lind into rOOlD.
We suggest that 1t would have been facr 10 the artists
and pcasautcrt the visitors 10 have divided these SIX
drawings mp among Tie three rooms. 80 aT as P'rof'
are concerned. they would have been ey'p' ana earn
drawing would have studahe with lcs distraction.
and hc crowd that III, tie galleries IN tie al, roonS mob
50 crowded into one not TOO spacious room
NJ. Louis Tfany's drawing what woui Lave
been thought here ten years 40 OF drawing
OF this size .-takcs new subject, and shows the artist
IN an unaccusonied He'll one u tho booths or s'ec''
sta u common in switzerland, end IN many oIhcf
parts OF Europe. has hroUa il wide red shueth'
and IL mi trcss T. hatga.,as with ptr, aser over
bit OF earhonw are. III, go ig' larger than any
We remember in oi''s drawings - M lfny, ana 10
tell truth, they - ur, rrris, much success IN this
direction. HoNeIcs, th' ''.r -ood as nest figures IT.
troduccd by aud,cuo, ..:r. and painters OF aren't
teciura subjects @. h"r i rae subjects into thef
pictures, and in mi. Gr .nc ~ TNny has pa.' Pre-
cm!ncntly biicA bra inject. The two women arc
only introduced - g;'a ;h, ha,Or ~ human interest
to the display Of hardware end hlheylashcry. All tpE
artay Of pots suh l.- Is painted Ni:h co,sideieoo
skill and while every object "a we'll made out thrv
are nearly all sufficiently suborlliaicd ana Aepe
In helr places The only exception 10 the eohfetod su"
obstreperous copper kettle the right, which i 50 VAIN
OF being painted rs well NOlon or Nhrr' co't h3Vo
done it-almos rs well ostado ~ sc that VIII hoo
let us look long ut anything else in The picture There j.
such thing being too goodtoo good for ones COM
pany at any rate-and this is the fault Of Nr IEhn
otherwise admirable copper kettle II would II seem. 20
US have been wiser 10 have put the same energy anu
skill that went 10 the making OF ths kettle INTO TIC w"
old women. The kettle need have lost nothing OF us
proper glory ard we shoud have felt ouT huDnny
SO snubbed a II nj present IA tho persona OF our SWISS
sisters The breadth and freedom OF the drawing arc 10
b. praised and also the hearty warmth ana chcluhes'
~ M still we think Mr. Tiffany viii IND oe,t,r su.y'cS
some dav II ws can't have human beings We 'i''iA
architecture better worth while than pots ana p'ns
Nc somueI Colmau shows not only In his largest
drawing No az, The Mosque of-wo were a'out 10
Give the name from tho catalogue but MISTAKES III spsls
inc nroner names In these official documents are 80 eom'
ror that IN ceses where have no better giice We
not TO run the risk Of repeating ounder In no.
az ,ben-The Mosque Of Somebody or other In Algeria