Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-06-24
Park GALLERY Of Art.

The Commencement Art Exhibition, which
will open at the Park Gallery on the 2sth,
and continue some three or four weeks
promises TO be OF special interest A par
tial list of the contributors has been furnish
cd u, showing most Of the names which
ensured the success of previous exhibitions.
Not few new ones are added, which will
be additions, We are assured. of mark. Mr..
M0rston Ream, who is now completing the
collection in New York, has the taste and
experience which ensure works of the best
names and sort.
Short of the great annual exhibitions of
the Academy and the League in New York,
or the Art Museum in Boston, it is not pos
sible to see such paintings as have been
shown on the walls of our Gallery here in
previous years. We have a clear advantage,
too, in the smallness Of our room, so that
many Indifferent or third-rate pictures are
excluded which are a sort of paddi Dc to
larger collections. This year we shall not
fall below our former mark, which all will
remember was not a low one. Ii looks row
as if VIC might get above it in respect of va
riety. The marbles, too, of which lately the
Gallery has become the fortunate owner
through the generosity of one Of its friends,
will prove an attraction.
As We look over the list We have some
thing of the same pleasant stir of anticipa-
ton as in a theatre, waiting for the curtain
TO 20 up. What will the show be From
the familiar players of past seasons we shall
have something in style like what VIC have
had before, while different in subject. And
herr are new names on the bill to pique
curiosity. Bunner If we do not mis-
take, he will give a touch of the enduring
charm of Venice. And this Sanguinetti
By his name, he should present something
tragical. And yet it may be a quiet pastoral
Gay, Morgan, Lehr, Crane? Win theirs be
figure or landscape We shall see
In some of the more familiar Names there
will be gain to mark over their earlier
works of three or five years ago For some
have now become distinguished who at our
first exhibition were only beginning to be
known. Quartley's marine pictures are
sure to show more acquaintance with the
sea, and more bold and vigorous treatment
OF the sea-sights- SMILES landscapes are
to do it. Miller, in the last pictures we saw
of his, in the Boston exhibition, showed .
complete contrast to his Woodpath and Old
Mill exhibited here. At that time, it was
plain these men had the right stuff in them
But now their works will prove a finer
feeling for nature end better mastery of
their art.
Wyant will bring again his fine play of sun
light spread through and through his pictures;
McEntee, his refined. poetic work, which
is in landscape what Boughton's is in figure;
McCord his brilliant yet soft sunsets the
Harris, their New England pastorals of mead
ow, elms and cattle; Bristol. his broad reach
es of still river and far distances of misty
mountains. Guy, Brown and Wood will
show us their speaking portraits of pretty
children, street-arabs, and barefoot country
boys. Ream will make our mouths water
again with his juicy grapes and peaches.
Will Hopkinson Smith send some more
lichened tree stems from Adirondack woods'
or some of his charming views of the low
lying shores of Harlem River d? Swain Gift
ford will exhibit some of his, which are of
the most picturesque sort of pictures And
we would like another of Daniel Johnson's
beaches, 10 (" - with the one the Gallery
OWE Tlre.uiy.
But the list is Il long one Other contribu-
l'TS are w c'uhtuuiNilr lat,
Magrath, Gall Hubbard, Cropsey, Morgan,
Nicoll, the Morans, Thorn, Bricher, CAST
lear, Wright, Henry. We may expect that
Mr. Rcam will send others-Shrlaw, per-
haps, Chase, Eastman Johnson, Minor, Tiff
fanny, Sartain. But those we have named
are enough in number and quality, to make
certain an exhibition lutte up to those of
former years. If this one, like those others
results in leaving behind its best pictures in
our city, so much the better for art and the
love of it among us.
We understand that the facilities granted
before will be again given to our friends out
side Of Burlington, in Rutland, st. Adams,
Montpelier, etc, TO visit the exhibition. 1t
can hardly fail to repay them visit. and
more than one. we believe. w