New-York tribune., 1876-01-31
FINE ARTS.
NINTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF The wATEI-C0LoR
soCIRTY-PRIvATE VIEW.
Tho rnonoCers of tbe Water Color SOciety de-

NINTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF 1HE WA1EI-COLOa
soCIETY-PRIvATE VIEW.
The managers of the Water-COor Society de-
serve much credit for the energy they show In getting up
their yearly exhibitions one would think that all tho
youth and spirit OF New-York artist-world we're IN
body such contrast ia there between the Industry
and hearty cooperation Of It's members and the inydu
indifference ani divided cOnnsels Of the National Acid
cmy However there to hope that IN this case
in many Others, competton-aud between oil ana wa
there Elay be said to be compeon-will work well
both sides keeps the younger men OF the
Society the keen stretch To win ana anxious
10 reap the fruits Of winning, while dislike 10 seens ihe
honors all carried on by the rival body and aeeIng
that they will them, all the advantages OF age ana
position their side. begin TO make the men OF the
old Society stir and look about them and prepae'"' We
hear for a nrst-rate exhibition in the Spring.
We cordially hope that this may be the case. Mean
WHILE here IA the accomplished fact Of good exhibition
by the waiercOorsts, whose catalogleN are inched
think for the first tme-was ready on the occasion OF
the private view Saturday evening" AMI contains no
less 60j numbers OF which not more than 90 II so
nany are the work OF foreign artists The drawings
exhibited MI the Corridor and tho North East and West
Rooms while the little cOnerroom, usually given up 10
sculpture filed with crayon drawings, etchings
and the works that under the head Of blackand
white.
Mr. Samuel Colman mfr Iouis Tiffany. Mr.. J. C
Ncoll the Secretary OF the Society and MI. James ID
smllie the President with Mr. Edwin A. Abbey. name
present hardly known to tie public but surely des
tined DO better known send the largest and most i-
pUrtant drawings contributed by members OF the Society
II affords good comment the talk We hear about
hard times, and shows how little people can be pre-
vented by croakers from putting their hands In thef
pockets when they see anything worth buying
that oil these drawings, large and i'm
portant works. were bought from the walls
at tho artists prices early In the evening "A soon
that as the rich pctureovers could get sight OF
them 1t true that Of the prices for these PIC
lures wero what would be called large in France or En
gland they prices that Sti thought high ID
America for water-coor drawings, our people MOI
having yet thoroughly dlSested tho fact that water,
colors are, when we'll applied. more durable than Oh
coors and less iacle TO fade As IL s We learned 0u
the evening OF the private yiow that forty h'e o'u
had already been dis posed Of, the sum total Iuo GA
ceedng $4,000. Nearly all tho artists VINO nov
exhibited In former years have pictures on '
walls. and there few new Anef"
names, Mr.. McEntees among 'ho",
sends a smsu but very good landscape, Last OF oc
ber" Mr.. Henry Farrer has "a number OF dra"hss'
OF the best OF thom. The Old Homestead st A"msns
was sold at the artists price, Indeed but for "u0n a.
than II desoryed to bring Mr. winsow Homer
force this year his drawings are not rs coh'p.o
sketchy they the last occasion nj, ara
Mr. Bricher Mr.. r. Swain Clifford, Mr L. W. roI.! u
all generous contributors and Miss Lucy A. fo', t.d,
A. Cranberry. Miss Virginia Cranberry MISS w.