New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-20
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THE SALMAGUNDI CLUB. -
xu,prrIoS OF DRAWINGS IN BLACK AND WHITE
FOURTH SEASON.

,,rIoy OF DRAWINGS IN BLACK AND WHILE
FOURTH SEASON.
Tho exhibition OF the Salmagundi Club "a
ame and why couldn't st. Botolph's have
sVO1 "a wellD is now become one of the settled at
e h'ss ~ our New-Yotk Winter season. IL fills
- of its own, and in short time, II
tsen on prosper1ng and the present skill
-, management continue, the other societies.
'a academy the Water-Coor Society, and the Society
u, Artists will find it TO their interest to give
" - attempt TO show works in blacK-and-white, but
the field clear to be titled by this youngest of
me brotherhoods
The Exhibition this year Is opened in the handsome
r,-,z Gallery, or 1t ought now 10 be known,
.ss .Amerioan Art Gallery" in the KurtZ Build
.as twenty ihird-st, Madison Square The walls OF
.s,. handsome weN-ghted loom are entirely covered
"a, the drawings sent In by members OF the club ana
-, others and the result is exhibition OF 10 little
,,srcst and variety The impression made by this
olec,lon as q whole, is that an army OF chiefs amang
80 tatin' notes of everyday life and dOings the
o,wspapcr word "newsy" applies distinctly, not
oolv TO the subjects. but to the way in which
they are treated and there is hardly bakers dozen OF
drawings on these walls that be reproached with
s,y,s adherence to Academic rules They are, for by
ta the greater part records OF actual impressions OF
ngsrhe artist has really enjoyed set down In what
aver way was most native TO him or which seemed to
him a, the time the best mode of Thus there
Is nothing monOtoD0us, nor cut-anddried mere DuV
happy nyentiveness and independence that the pup
lie Is sure to enjoy There are so many names repre-
sen,ng separate works that the absence of cata-
ocue and so soon after the opening do not feel JUS
tilted in attempting give account OF tho exhibition
today There is plenty of work here that asks for
careful examination, and good feature OF
the display is the general evenness or II;
the committee on admissions has respected the
public and respected ITSELF so that the critics work Is
harder than II is in many cases where he can sweep
goody portion OF the show into the wasepaper basket
and give his time to the study OF lew feasoh"oe
works
To-day, then we note in passing some interest
ing drawings by Mr.. f. Murphy. an artist whose WORK
suggests foreign study, and reminds us also
of that OF Mr.. Wyant. but 1t has marked
character OF its and shows delleate
poetic feeling Mr.. Byn, who seems recovering from
his BodiuiF5rtuny fever has yignete cdpricio with
japanese juggler spinning tops on a swcrdedge for
subject which u managed with amusing sklil the eX-
preston OF the Jap's face is well hat on MI W. u
Macy has some clever sketches whose only fault X that
they are too much like the French EHdeS OF Hubert
AVID the rest. whose amazingly clever work imposed
itself on as far nature until we IOund
that whereas nature has n thousand manners,
the makers Of these French studies had only There
are two drawings here by Mr. Vedder; OF them a
sort of Medusa head. has almost too much color for
black and-whse exhibition But the drawing OF the
Young Fawn. made, we believe. FOR the engraving IN
serbner's Monthly. could have i'll been missed. The
visitor who las been interested in the growth OF
American wood engraving as illustrated in our maya
zines especially in scribners will find the originals
of many Of the best the illustrations in that perod-
cal iu the present exhibition. Here too, are several
drawings shown side by side with engravngs that nave
been made from them but which have not yet been
published. There two or three drawings by MT.
Charles Miller Sepia, good drawings tribe too warm
ana strong in the tint to be altogether agreeable
an effective drawing by Z. NJ. Bannister-if
we read the Alright; Mr. Francis Lathrops strong
portrait OF Edison engraved in facsimile IN ocrbners
valuable and telling work; large drawing by Mr..
Shelton of the snautes in the upper part OF our
island much effective here than in the engraving
some effective drawings by ShIraw; an impressive
little piece by BOles Of sheepdrivng In some wild part
Of our Western country and dramatic but hieiike
scene IN police court, Illustration, probably, Tor
some story. These few OF the notes we
have made OF the exhibition in the short time allowed
Tor these preliminary studies but the reader Will see
that there suggestion OF much quiet pleasure 10 be
had from longer acquaintance with the contents OF the
gallery. The exhibition will remain open during the
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