New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-06
PAINTERS AND THEIR WORK.
NOTES IN GALLERIES AND sTrypros

loan collection OF oil paintings viii be exhibited instead
Of waercolors first intended The plan of the Art
Committee TO present collection OF fresh water
colors, and With this in view the aid Of the American
Water Society was obtained But the discovery was
made that owing the number OF artists still out
OF town 1t would be impossible to gather collection Of
watercolors which would be entirely satisfactory Later
IN the the Art Committee may offer such exh
/ bton
The exhibition of the sa,magundi Club, which VIII
open next month, at the Academy OF Design promises
be OF great interest both in the character OF the work
| and the number OF artists represented
| oh december the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts
VIII make its semiannual appeal for public rccognition
by opening an exhibition of oil paintings The Christi
mas card will reappear the American Art Gallery on
November To- and the failure OF the plan for
awarding prizes in the exhibition by system OF sufl
rage will be watched with considerable curiosity.
Some pictures of unusual merit have been brought
out at two of the galleries in the of the
week Mr. Cotier has displayed some of his recent ac.
QUESTIONS although his pictures are fully arranged
for exhibition At the end OF the gallery hangs a large
Mother and Child by Neuhuyst. Underneath this is
remarkable painting by Burners, artist almost
known in this country The subject is simple one. but
rendered in wonderfully felike and impressive
ner Two children sitting in the marsh grass, tho
border OF the sea, which hangs slight mist One
little girl dressed In peasant costume Is knitting and
watching chubby infant which ia struggling reach
her from the tiny cart in which it
Is confined The figures OF the children stand out
clearly against the neutral shades OF shore and
one can almost fancy them living beings In the
background few white sails CLEAN through the hsze
The signature OF the picture is unfortunate. great
black Blumers sprawls across the bottom for nearly
foot like a charcoal drawing on fence.
In OF the gallery Is admirable Corot the
subject being nymphs bathing in river oyerhung by
OF rich foliage. The character and tones Of this
composition in the the wonderful
~ o1,,fir Tho
by. Two ANAL paintings by Diaz compel attention one
has been in this gallery before. II is OF glade in
the forest OF FOnainebeau, with the light breaking full
upon the massive trunk OF the in the foreground,
and then softenng the eye wanders into the
OF the forest The other painting is excellent figure
pcture-a composition presumably representing Venus
and Cupid. By Mauve, OF the modern Holland school
OF painters there view In the lowlands apparently
the The central figures are two peasants,
driving horse and and the other guiding flock Of
sheep. picture likely to attract larger Of
popular regard is that by A. Mancin, of Spanish
senoIita OF the usual brunette type OF beauty
in profile, hand coquettishly waving
fan. On the in the middle OF the gallery are lis
played several small pictures OF interest There are two
paintings by A. VOon one Ia waterside scene with
wharves and shipping seen in peculiar murky light
and the other is bod sketch of boys head little fell
low whose rosy cheeks and bright eyes appear under
broad hat loOped up at the side By L. Laouche there
is an interesting little painting OF sloop stranded high
and dry on the shore with horseman beside IT, pecu-
liar sketch by j. Swan shows four wild bOars smiling in
Qmrngy at a champagne bottle and newspaper left In
the snow in the pine woods by departed hunters.
small landscape by Coro views upon the shore
and two figure pictures are also among the smaller
paintings
The feature Of Avery's Gallery is tue appearance OF
two MiIles, which win be welcomed by all art lovers,
who Of the opportunities afforded here
for studying really excellent examples OF this master
no suhfI 10 az
peasant girl who is drawing water, will at compel
admiration. Her arms extended upward her hands
graspng the rope in the stone well above her head,
which IL slightly thrown back. while the inclination OF
the body gives the impression OF the easy effort re-
CURED. The other painting, lies Glaneuses" has in
the foreground the figures Of cleaners, bent
almost to the ground and the third half rising. More
| remote is the loaded cart, from which sheaves OF
golden Grain are being pitched up on the stacks. A
| MIlets is a rich vivid fowerpece by Diaz. A land
scape by Dupre figure picture by Diaz sunset scene
unnterestng. BY Riestahl there Is large painting
the subject OF which is the grace before meat IN monxs
Mukacsy, bright carefully painted interior BY Do
mIneo and cattle piece byJ H. L. Deliaas complete tho
Al Rnoediers Gallery there will be placed exhibit
| ISL There is one by Jean Aubert, +" Lesoart
We,ingue" by p J. Clays, and A. Pasans "Marketday
at COnsantinople." Two paintings OF purely decora-
tive order by Dagnan Bouveret and Brazik have been
recently added 70 this gallery Application aa has been
collection Of so-caed 'monotypesn the wors OF z: a:
stated to be very simple one. The picture Is drawn on
blank copper plate IN printers ink and an IMPRESSIONS
taken upon mostened paper ordinary roller press
As the name signifies only one impression can be taken.
Mr. BickDe, Boston artist has done similar WORK. ana
there have been several notices OF the process IN Boston
napers But the impression is erroneous that this Is
either new method confined to Boston artists WM
SnaSe s some Of Which have been exhibited Tho
saagnId Club Mr. Chase covers se oa3S psar
gets the effects OF light which he desres ei,ne ~
then taken ON an ordinary press Mr. SndSg nai ps
duced striking effects by the use OF h eooSed Win
process don't see how any can 90 any etching
Without having this suggested to him II must occur to
done for il is a very simple and easy thing requiring
bat little tine, To get your drawing anu aAe our III
nresson should regard the artistic value OF edch work
chiefly as preliminary aid 10 etching An artlst coud
get sketch Of his subject =, N pS etc6ns iOr 'e
Al head which Mr. Chase drew with his finger on tho
m @ RembrSndtesque effects are OF especial in
teres Judging from tue lack OF knoMlcdSe Oh theso
monotypcs" eyinced by one or two welkn0wn Gea!cfs
in encrdyngs NewYork artists behind their Boston
brethren in securing for them eomlnercal teeokls9n
each which seems notwithstanding the fact t6at they
are "mOnotypes" tn he an cxorbtant pric c9bsldsr-
ing the ease and CELEBRITY with which skilled arst Win
an ordinary press can draw such picture anu S'' '
But IhS monotypes form very incoDsderable part
OF the attractions OF Mr. Chases studio AS tGe resns
of his recent stay in Madrid he has brought DaeA
scene which is study of luminous sunlight sKetch OF
dancing girl and some large copies OF NelasIe1 Mr.
cunning of the coorist the yellow OF brass arinere u
ndiyd1aized against the slightly differing shade OF
yellow curtain oil painting on the wall Is disun-
guished from water color, and hangn9s. pictures ana
| The pretty young sitting on very handsome
Iiyan ali blend together ingenOusly into pleasingy
decoratve eject ON the contrary, Mr. Chases recently
finished portrait Of Peter Cooper cannot be said TO ee
decorative but il il face strongly ndiydual2cd IN tne
sense of it being impossible 10 lind another lac IT, Mr.
Cooper sits in an CHAIR his hands pacidy folded
his fringe OF snowy whiskers and white hair setting on
his striking face in highly realistic manner Ex-Pres
dent Hayes, in the portrai' which Mr. Chase mas Wen
| under way stands bolt upright dressed IN BLACK, ms
Tir nj slightly extended forward and partly opened
as II enforcing a point In conversational argument
There is background Of red curtains which throws the
| figure well out. -. -. -. a. .o.,t, .,
Several outodoor studies of interest are the result OF