New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-05-26
THE ACADEMY PICTURES.
THE FIFTY-sECOND EXHIBITION.


ufterances IN critical quarters among us-that the
Americans who have been studying in Munich, IN Paris,
AMI in Spain, betray III Their pictures sent 20 the
Academy tins year the dominating influence Of their
masters-may be admitted perfectly welroundcd with
ont in the least diminishing their claim interest
casting doubt upon their future. I'm truth % seems
a little strange that any who knows sometLng
OF the history OF and artists should wonder 40
that history repeats itself here IN America has been
repeating itself In on other countries since IL began %
have a history. scholar" and mitdtor' have Away,
been terms less convertible nor has originality
often been attained tl late, whore 90 has been attained
at all By far the greater part Of the art that delights
the world is rather modification or variation OF pre-
cedent type. than something created and some OF
the greatest artists who ever lived, Raphael among them.
never 10 the end OF their career lost all trace Of their
masters influence But, leaving European examples
aside, our American experience mas been the same since
Copey and West, Leslie and stuart led IF the line of oar
native artists, each OF them iu turn beginning by imtat-
INK a. well as be- could the model set before him,
or the work Of the master who taught him
his rudimcnts And make the matter still
palmer. u IL be necessary 10 DO go. We have
on the walls ~ this present exhibition aud IN every coll
lection Of pictures by American artists the traces Of each
mans artistic geneaogy writ large ~ leave individual
eases MANY of as recall when. instead of Munich
and Paris. the cry ID -ed0rf; and no doubt the
fault finder. Of twenty Yeas accused the young .ci
lows who study NJ a. that mild Rhcnish dorp of
sending home pictures which. snppo.ng they painted
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oXclaimcd-ho-c critics OF twenty years ago" where
shall We find an American artr surely when do get
ir % must prove composite creation and D1-~e iof,
no. less than Venice aud Florcu'e England Bavaria, ana
France, viii have had hand Jog the making OF il.
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