New-York tribune., 1877-10-13


along the sea-shore few dctachments have already re-
turned and there Is a little stir again in the studio build
ngs These ayant courers mostly the figure painters,
and they are dropping into town now oy every trdih.
The landscape painters st nger to get a ghmpse Oh
Annmn tnts and will not all set their faces homeward
for a month yet. After that, every Di's'
from the North will bring them back thick "a leaves
and cyclone or two more like that OF Thursday VIII Ell
fecually put end to their love OF country air Tor
this year and send them home masse. Tho wanderers
return with brown faces. packed portfolios anu SOUS
ull Of work. II true tnat illness has not been die
among them, and some very energetic Drushes nave
been suffered lie stlessy by ordinarily proliDc eases
all Summer But tho majority have a good account 10
give of their vacation, and somo bring back lot OF
hearty happy sketches OF life and such as are
not often scen and which promise to form the basis o
excellent pictures the coming Winter
j. c. Brown spent the Summer among the fishermen OF
Grand Menan. a big island oil the northeast coast OF
Mane devoted to maritime pursuits IL Is one OF those
fishing stations all the way along the New
England coast where still survives the old type OF
American mariner half fisherman, haf sailor. fearless
as petrol and honest child, with trace OF Puritan
ancestry still visible the integrity and simplicity or
his character, who wOnld never strike tOpsa "hie
mast was left fly IT FROM" and who in those days
while hc manned the American merchant marine, made
It the best in the whole world Tho island abonnds IN
the picturesqueoOkng characters to De found at all
these stations and Mr. Brown has had the goO1 luck 10
catch sentiment underlying their simple HVea'
and bring 1t out IN forclblc way on his can
vas lie has about twenty sketches OF these people
and the island. Pail for the Snore, Boys" repre-
seuts one OF the island boats packed fuIl OF
fisherman pulling in a doublebinked crew for the
land after the days work Is and ready for good
time. Every face Is portrait and type OF the BLUM
New-England mariner "Clemiug Fish" is picture
of one the along shore scenes which every rambler on
the northern coast viii recognize 1t brings out more
- 1nHt4
grl looking tinidy over the cliffs at Grand Menan at
stranded merchantmen forms the subject or another
sketch stiI others are called" Coming Home" Throw
ing the et,""The Coming Squaii Gathering Eggs on
the ClIfs,"" uoi,tng the Sail" and SO on The artist
evidently felt like work and loved his subj ana relish
was never more Eeeniy IN his vigorous pictures 81
boys NewYork than in these sketches Of the
children Of fisheries OF Maine. The finished prodnet
% Summers study will be looed for with interest at
the clubs and exhibitions the coming Winter.
Mr. satterIte reappears town, with figure studies
made at the quaint Old village Of East Hampton At the
eastern end Long Island. In region where there are
houses said be 200 years old and where the antiquity
OF the population s con uua suggested By the queer
old piece, of furniture aad Otor relics that can be seen
there, Is surprising that NcN-Aork artist has
found something worthy Of painting pictures about
which takes back to the days OF his grand1tAcr-a
time one cannot look back to often, either for pleas
ure or instruction satterlee has several sketches
Introducing girls in the hgn-waistod dresses OF that
early period in OF them the maiden being seated nt
spnuet aud containing other "reminiscences Of the old
days. The colored tents and payions OF the Summer
visitors OF Is77 the beach form the theme Of other
sketches modern subjects
Mr. A. Cary Smith has been painting this summer from
yacht Off andy Hook. He says that artists are begin
ming to tat the skies about New-Iork city are
better worth painting and produce better effect in the
landscape than Is generally known. The smoke arising
from the city dnuses haze in the air on the sun
NEST day The atmospheric currents that play about
NewYork peculiar, and the number OF days during
the season when effects IN the SKY worth utz
ing greater than at most otner places along the coast
THIS and the charms of yachting have kept Mr. smith
near the city for the season, aud he mas accumulated
great budget Of sketches OF nautical scenes in and of the
lower bay as the result OF it, great many popular
yachts and Of ncd mt in the summers races figure
IN these pictures which he has inrer's work before
him To finish Two or three OF them are rapidly near
ing completion at this time.
Win-low Homer is back from the Adirondacks finish
ing two pictures Of Life in that region ono OF camp
lire nc night In the woods and the other Of tramp to
ST. Marcy The former brings ont not only pretty
GOOD thing ia the way of bark hat In which the artists
party biyouacked-a structure hardly 10 Doe n the
New-York woods elsewhere than in the Adirondack re-
gion-but also popularity in camp-hres whrn every
boy and man who has ever roycd the woods much has
seen in his campfire, but perhaps never before ON
canvas. la stacking branches and logs for a rousug
fire. one occasionally comes across rare chunk Of moss
covered wood which, when thrown into the fire, fills the
flames IL with sparks Wlcn fly up In long bright.
waving lines and lend the lire most fancifu charm.
Not every campfire has those comotIke sparks. Il is
ONLY when messy branches are thrown in that they
appear. Mr. Homer /. trying 10 paint eamore o th'
sort. The " Iru To h1rey introduces Oid fhe..s one
of the Wtil-hnOWn guides Oi the region.
Mr. Lawrtc is home ana hard at work His portrait Of
General John REYNOLDS Of the First Army Corps, Is
completed ana will he sent very 10 West Point by
the officers OF corps for whom 70 painted, TO be
hung there among the other portraits which decorate
wallis OF the mIltir! academy.
Professor Grey has lis ea.e two or three pretty
character pictures, OF the style which proving
popular among pcturcbuyors ono is street scene in
Grlmcrcy little brown bare-iootcd street girl
tuning her violin, preparatory to soliciting pennies from
the windows of that aristocratc precinct The other is
called Loves First Labor dark-haired girl leaning
over embroidery faL,e, in which pair Of slippers Is
in process of decoration with worstd Professor Grey
arcs paint girls with dark hair, and certainly makes
u rich, warm picture Of them
In Mr. Thomas Hicks's studio two large portraits
are in an advanced condition, and VIII be
done. one is nearly ulllencth picture OF John Jay,
and the other the portrait OF charming woman.
dressed for the pa her FUR cloak thrown back for a
moment over the chair in which she il sitting Mr..
Hicks comes back from summers lounge Newport
and Trenton Falls with sketches Of life and scenery at
both places. Putting the Tea-kette" is the subject
of of them. II introduces Old couple, living at
Trenton Falls, sitting by the fireplace in the farmhouse
kitchen the old engaged in the occupation described
in the title, and his swectfaced companion lean |
ing back in the rochng-chair and looking at him
pensyely In this artists portfolio there are also some
good bs of rocks and vstas IN the woods and at New
port and tarce surf pictures. Very little IL any
thing was brought back finished state from Newport
and perhaps as sketches as would have been
under ordinary the usual incentives TO ar
stic work at having been interfcred with
this year in the death OF the wife of Colonel Hggnson
This event proved blow to thc Town and Country Club
ffnt,s Ina the work