New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-02
NATIONAL ACADEMY or DESIGN.
FIFTY-sEvENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION.

FIFTY SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
There must he something radically wrong
with the Academy If 1t cannot produce from within or
draw to itself from without material for exhibitions
interesting the educated public than those has
been holding of late years Every year II is more DIM
cult TO find these walls pictures That
can please a reasonable taste, bat do not
remember an exhibition barren OF interest
rs the present one out of these $50 pictures and
sculpturest specimens OF the sc1lpors arr are as
usual fewit really difficult TO find enough that are
sufficiently above medOcrity TO make 1t worth WINE 10
describe them We that this is hard saying
but it will be found worthy Of acceptaon by whoever
will take dspassonate view Of the facts. The hanging
is perhaps ponsble for the bad first impression made
on visitor; but unfortunately. the first impression
does away the more see OF the collection
the less like il, and when we have made all
possible allowance. forced TO the conclusion
that never were there few good pictures
az this year in All Academy exhibition. There
would seem at first blush to be many more pic
lures than usual. but this is not the case the GAIA
logue showing only eighty-seven more numbers IMAM
that of last year. The crowded appearance IL
partly owing the unsltul hanging and partly to the
fact that there more large caTvases than usual
On mounting the stairs seem Ia he served with Gos-
se before coming to the solids for the staircase wall
hung with a fruit and flower pieces. One OF these
by Mr. Will II. Low, a Country Bouquet a. 20. o93
looks as if it might be found artlessly pr~y could
Mrs Julia Dlon's June" No. 7O2-roses
OVERLOOKING the basket in which they were gathered
from some generous gardenwoud be altogether to our
mind if it were not that these flowers had grown too
much in moonlight and too little in the sun Iuey
arc too palid-a defect IN MIS-. Ouons howcrs-out the
drawing. delightfully."- light and free, leaves nothing 10 pc
desired.
Miss Fanny Powell Lloyd's " Fruit-piccc" No G97, ia
painted with some yigor the lemons rather diapha
nous and grapes very aPpetizng. The
glass IS ugly adjunct. and so "A the coarse
eariheu jar ON of which the dates are tumblng, but
one Academy has accustomed Us 10
sad want OF taste in such compositions
h. c. Leaytts Fruit" No. COG. has excellent painting
in OF a strong and rather FIBRE but great deal
Of reality good study of form. A. stood looking
at this picture hobbedehoy schoOboy, who sId down
handrail Of the staircase to that point and called TO
his sisters above 10 gimme the book" made practical
criticism Mr.. Leavts rigbt-hand orango-the peel
cut halfway down in quarters aud drawn away from
the fn-by pretending 10 slap the projecting segment
OF peel az if to make it roll the picture. While
hasten TO acGuit Mr.. Leaytt OF any desire 10
push the realism in his painting across the
border line that divides true realism
from imitation. we yet think bis work comes danger
Gus y line. What really troubles in the pie
its Of tone; the things stare at and assert
themselves too much; still wouli not have them
annlate themselves, not daring 10 say their souls
their own, Ike Mr. Buuces Venetian Watcrncons,"
much like stin Dea'h-neyer did lugub1i-
GUS a feast. Thus must have looked the tables
OF Hamets uDcle-fathcr ana auntnOther set out With
the funeral baked meats. This artists studio INTERIOR
No. $50. is however more INV ing. though We suspect
hn to be another victim of the Mankacsy madness that
l. tarring 80 many oil young artists with the
brush Al all events, if Mr. Thomson has not .tudcd
with Munkacsy, then by his glOwerng lie would seem
Ne do not remember when in an exhibition there has
been much eating and drinking though 1t l. true ts
is chiefly confined To the corridor We do not speak of
Mn George Hans Peach and Grap,s," No. 66l-thcre
is no use trying to eat them any more ID lere Is III
ny smell his flowers. Mr. ila l. at mis- BEST when
he paints and rut aud lie Is such predslvus
favorite with many people, Oh account Oh thcSc
performances that we shall only mint he takes
lights convincing us thar peacLes apt grapes are
round ne i0rgets NOW soil t,s are, and that
from theirs. Mr.. Hall paints human beings in the
oltinist spirit and We heard Lately good criticism
Hairs i.eal heads pulled at her mothers gown with,
" NJ ANNA he paints faces Just hkG peaches!
ADVERTISEMENT rur q downtown restaurant the sailors
quarter with its coarse proiusion Of gross food.
and than goes to many sign OF the better
class What gun between such picture as TINS and
tue NOllon sui Life IN the Woe collection. There
is as much absolute ruth in Nolons picture in this
lab0r1Ous ana CONSCIENTIOUS WORK ol ME- Delkcrr, DLt
the NOOn appeals to The eye Win It's rich beauty and TO
table Porphyro set, for Madeline Bar Mt De.kers pc
ture aQpells only TO the stomach, aud 10 the rough
work a d. y stomach AZ that.
| We nave no objection to Mr. Benoni Twins show
! ing us how they boil HOLSTERS AT NeW-BcdiOrd
I u
| certainly has DONE may, FOR aught We know De
able All get from No $50 is me bare fact that
IN New-Bedfurd HOLSTERS when boiled red ana that
thcy are taken out OF the boiling water not with the bare
| hand a pair Of longs. This is well and
congratulate NcH-BCdIOId having found the way
taut facts abroad, Mr. Irwin has forgotten that all
art has to do with such subjects ls 10 make them
| beautiful III some way Interesting to the
If not To TIE fancy or the Imagination.
There picture il The Centennial Exhibition at Phi.
adciBhia Edmond LeDel, " A Butchers tie
NasieN ee in which the Nay cd Of ox-lrOnt
view looking the nave-Was the central object. ana
the artist had tr aed 1t III such large and sIHpuOus
fashion II might have been flower piece 10y Melting
Tue al painters fancy Tor painting yrdOms
was dOIb partly OWING aside from the market de-
Inand scenes, 10 their artistic the
OF scarlet turner IN Slave ship Ills
oil the picture with shts that glow aud sparkle
like Al icWe.s unlocked. In the richardson Mr.
CoteT's gallery TOO GOOD 10 he ITde tie vegetables
orange and lemons the grecngIOcer's stand 81
not tna defend the usuIpauOn; and who OF has
never lOngcd passing one OF our NCWl Olk nslnar
keis 10 De d painter fCr that occasion only he
trouble with painteIs-ahd not ours alone Dy any
that they take Tor the part I-OfiacI
uidea sub, and treat them In fashion to bring
poetic side. Dr. johnson said that GOd,nths style
could Il story about brOOmstck Interesting
Persian talcld IL IL the artists business HES
prose into poetry, Nelasquez made watcrar heroic
and NOllOl in our own day can
"Give 10 barTows, trays and pans
Grace aud gInIuor Of IOIlancc."
Surely when the art the boiler has helped
poem about lobster boiling, instead mere page oi
statistics.
OBITUARY.