New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-23
THE BROOKLYN ART ASSOCIATION
THE OPENING OF THE SPRING EXHIBITION LAST
ENENING.

THE OPENING OF THE SPRING EXHIBITION LAST
EVENING.
The large rooms of the Brooklyn Art Asso-
citation were thrown open last evening for the thirty
sixth exhibition Of paintings under the auspices Of the
association. BY 10 o'clock the rooms were densely
crowded, and hundreds Of people poured into the
Academy of Music adjoining to listen TO the music of
te band stationed there, and to promenade after the
fashion which prevails Oh the opening night OF the
BROOKLYN exhibition Of converting the occasion into
semi.soclal affair Many OF the NcwYork artists
present.
The exhibition this year comprises IGl pictures, and Is
remarkable more for its variety and decorative charac.
fer than for the size OF the pictures There very
large and conspicuous such catch the eye
the moment OF entering . and distract attention
from other pictures, but the collection Is on the
whole fairly balanced TO size and interest and is OF
the sort which tcmpts close inspection OF all the pic
tnTes Most of the wellknown brushes IN the community
~ artists AZ this mort are represented especially Among
the landscape painters NJ T. H. DE Haas has four pie
he waves boiling tumultuousy over the ship and The
spray blown from every crest by the violence Of the
ucture s. r. Clifford has an Indian Summer landscape
ana q picture Of Lenders tower on the BospnOrus
George Inness has five landscapes, " Lowery
Day 4 Scene near Rome" etc. Robert G. Minor has
several. one large entitled q" The RainSwolen
River" il filed with great deal Of elaborate work on
The thick bushes and which crowd the banks of
little stream swollen into boiling torrent by
a "' Characteristic scene OF Lake Placid. in the
Adirondack, and by " Autumn" DOlph ana Thaycr
have large cattle pieces, and Samuel Coiman TWO glow
ing scenes from European cities, one Dutch Canal"
and the other a in Venice. The variety OF tone
and style of treatment in landscapes is great and
though there intentional groupings TO enable the
visitor To take In at glance for instance hafdOzen
wIdey-different modes Of painting sky as has been
seen in the Academy OF Design, the hanging has been
done in 10 emphasize the diile of
syle very asrpcably one OF Louis Tiffanys pictures
is n companion OF that seen III the recent ex-
mbiton nj Kurzs IL Is called Mower as the other
was and will studied with equal Interest Charles H.
Miller Gilbert Gaul, John a. Parker, Van Elten, j. c.
Nicoll and many other men of reputation have
more nctures in the collection Mr.. Bierstadt, L. g.
Church, aud Winslow Homer appear to have none.
There are a number OF figure pictures also. including
two Inv i q; Brown, by Beard and large by &
r. but the best OF this class has been loaned
and s nv Kaemmerer IL II the well known picture called
.,The Marriage Procession" Haltadozen other pictures
Inv foreign artists have been loaned for the occasion but
they do not form marked feature OF the exhibition.
The collection Is the whole. very fair representa-
ton of the STYLES the more active artists OF Brooklyn
and New York, both among the men and the ladies' aud
IL somewhat better than the past exhibitions Of the as
ISOLATION, IL is well worth o visit