New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-07
FINE ARTS.
An AMERICAN ARTIsTs WORK.
FxHBTION or OIL PAINTINGS AND wArER COLO



EXHIBITION or OIL PAINTINGS AND WATER CoLoHS |
Ely J. ROLLS TIToN. OF EOMr.
There is now on exhibition at the American
Art Gallery. Madi-ou--quare collection OF nineteen
OH paint nrs ard 100 watorcoor drawings by an Amer-
can artist long resident ~ Rome Mr. j. Koliu I""h'
Although b. has been for seventeen years scieeced
exile from the country of his birth Mr. Ton las ncy r.
We bee,c ceased 10 le m American his feeling ana
though IL Is long since be has visited bis country
men IN their own land. lie has, from tie hrst.
sought their suaces and appealed TO their iuismen
ON h. works as they have been successfully produced
BE seeks them again today, and himself comes Oh
and u the light of city that. since ne saw H. has
been made an over new. shows these pic vi oh
sci Us back unchanged nto the long past Of at least
.buy years; for. IN ths ev,r-shi ting Kaleidoscope OF
lie An Amcr-as what century Of TIME Is thirty years.
For ia fact this is the American painting OF thirty
years ago, lac painting Of Cole and Du-
rand and Cropsev, and the men whose
wors-respcctable. but unimaguative and duh
laid the uadations on which We built shrine for
a goddess VINO never thought worth aer while 10 In
uab il; At home Il has passed by and is forgott>n
pcri,aI- It natural that it, ghost shouid com<1rom
Rome-the land Of chosts-to Welt us.
NJ Tlltous suhiects-snd we purpose 70 n'ak only OF
his oi-paintngs exclusively historical Landscape,
each Of these nineteen pictures representing some
famous place or city, There is effort whatever at
! imaginative invention, or even at an magma
tive treatment Of the facts. in any given
case. inert II ibt tNf pfflcuutu any c'i-AotAa"4'
effort composition The artist Las chosen the most
avorabi- ONT Of cew and has proc eded with con
scien Ous care 20 depct the before him with the
faihiuucs< OF educated surveyor II not everything
is put H. anything left out mat essential 70 the
hlstrca Completeness Of the record Whatever may be
artistic results 81 This method at least il
IS clear that one artist is OF himself ne mas def
mite PURPOSE and he goes about IL In straightforward
way. Doubtless II one fortunate as 10 mecs him
in the presence Of lis pictures aud to hear him talk
about them he would be- found dating upon their ac-
curaey upon the fthiuuess with which al the facts are
given that he who never seen the places may be
sure he sees and be who has once seen them
may revisit them again. and live the fair vanished
DAYS. Il than this accuracy went 10 mGkea pic
ture, II the imaginative seeing Of the eye were nothing
and uan himself PLAYED part in the scene DEE surveys.
then Mr Triton would be good, perhaps great artist
For no one who has any OF these places ice has
depicted can deny told the story straight,
thar the reckoning right with all its Iteu ami that
as the artist reads them 10 Truth stands By and
checks them OF with an approving pencil But Ar
/ what has she % say
Is il not plain that II Nj TItol's theory. read on
his cauvases De The true the photographer is an
art ST. and that the power 30 be artist Win brush
and canvas within the easy reach of anyone Who VIII
have NJ doubt there are uiny people who think
these things are so. and there artists enough Who
paint as T. they believed it, but have only 10 ask how
ViL wOr DIVIDE esaJ llsAed lanes treated tAc
/ r1attert 10 settle tire question ia minds
II essentials and poetry OF course one. AZ has
been said 10 wcauess. they only Of rent meth cs
Of expression As the artist paints the landscape TIE
poet sings D., and the man who Insists on trying
10 60 otherwise merely takes up the odds
AGAINST himself there can oe but verdict
rou the result Mr. TIt1n has chosen the side n iu-
lstrious portraitre. and in FIR De has beer OBJ
servant and faithful ne Las done lasting work I'D that
field bur Il a ban-ss field at the best The crop 10
Yields is not aures Dui, ia he moss prosperous season
only far marketable conn., And 10 is NOT 90 raise co-n
tnat artists and poe.- came into this word. Their
garner is the beauty that earth wherever they may
find t. ot 20 draw portraits rresomcly true, hut IL the
humHest Hncaments Of nature
sTo s.e wide plains. fa.r trees and lawny Slope;
~. r,.~o fU. ave. f1e upIr. -nufr flowers.
clear streams smoojh LAKES and overlook towers"
Tie cli,l OF lr. TtOu's pictures here IS Rome from
the Aveuune" II Is work which Pee ha- spcut many
years OF conscientious labor. anu 10 would indeed be-
strange IT, with such q subject and With such oDpu-
Juuties o. long familiarity with the scene there had
uot been produced O work worthy ~ respectful treat
euf for what has been accomplished n IT, The view OF
me citv is ken frum point which shows us th~ Iner
Vim m. b-6,es The dome of IT, Peters Church
WIZ WIZ as ,t -6, r5ff rs rbe paIarDe III with te
ruins Of palaces Of tle C9sags aud o. he Left san
15sli decent one and MI T,Jou brought aI IT. boo
U..1 features INTO noble composition. We shall not
wrong the artist by turning from this picture, CON
iessedly his c1lcl wors ~ the picture in ile
same room 10y Turner. Of CONWAY Caste, aad
asking hr "lai secret u tual -uILtF u"a
made of "a subject he might nave found anywhere-
J., % simple bill II 40 great height steicI OF snlJua
be- water and wooded IoFeEIouhu--t picture luA or
-ubIUity and beauty. one tAat H-.a-e- os much at
twenty feet nj SIX. with Lat ana ar and movement,
while Rome G-ci. ne moi her ~ Nduou-, The most
gpTt0d-y beddt.-uI VI cles' naA-A- L.o.saIu ap-
peas 10 al that Is grande,t houc-t ana most Ve1eri-
bic III oar souls, Is Ia MI ItOu- picture really nothing
morn 4u geographical preston. However 10 finds
us u leaves cold. As there Is no poetry I'D tAc way
The facts are treated NE tr4naiuSeu into them so
there beauty 10 the execution, 10 color III tne
q earthly no light IN the SKY.
LET the reader look al No. II, Lake Averuus with
Vesuvlus and Bay of Naples ~ th- distance" Now
% tho Cold pT H..
writer seeing Mr. rltOu picture a. distance at once
rrcOguz "a the general character or the locality ana
up 90 10 ma eAie tiHg TO see COPY oI turner
picture. ms cad Of this, ne found only carefully exc
cuted OlOgr 4phic Of the actual scene, set down
as in notebook learned and couucd 10y IOte, Gud OF
course II would uugrateiui not 10 u glad 90
see q good Of the real place But the gratitude
w.. t SO mUcu for what Mr IiIOu has 10 tell about
Lake Ayeruus for his showing us what Turner could
do ID throwing enchanting lands ape o vel OF
poetic Interpretation ana suggestion that carries the
[ euchautmcnt mo "A still lOitcr - mere
A.. What need 10 dwell upon Mr. TitOn's Interpretation
OF other scenesg Egypt and spain here IN graudest
neameuts-tAe Pyramids a9d caro- ana the me, tHa'
gfrs through Old. hushcd Egypt ana its sands. IKE
I some grave mighty Thought threading dream and
PartheDou. the AnaD bra ana me theatre at Iaor
nina, III sicily, through the marble columns 81
whose stage the audience ever saw 1Etna Z
cone ana many another scene toward %mclh
me heart OF the world loses from 10 warm
remembrance Let Us Thank the patient artist Tor
nira.auf nOur OF travel not be- too migrate
ulv mindful that guide has been much less poet
/ ] than a scholarly and lea med man OF me world
/ MI TjOn's pictures VIII oe on exhibition Tor several
be SHOWN there
ART NOTES.
The Spaniards have just established an
academy for art students IN Rome aud the Germans
proposing 10 do likewise
Thirty of Sir Walter ScOtts heroes are &c
be realized in satuettes for the purpose Of peoplng the
l. ttr.I,t III man tfrugu IN ms