New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-21
FINE ARTS.
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN.
SPECIAL AUTUMN EXHIBITION.


The members of the Academy of Design
have for some do not pretend to have discov
cred determined to make what is called special
autumn exhibition, and yesterday being vanishing
day an opportunity given to the newspaper men TO
see the pictures that have been collected During the sum-
er all those parts OF the building accessible TO
the general public have been repainted and in the ex
hibition rooms and corridor slight decoration has
been ATTEMPTED the whole resulting in decided air OF
freshness and fall cleaning" which has been obtained
without attention being particularly called to the
ways and means.
1t were to be wished that the pictures on
the walls better worth all this preparation. No
one will pretend however that they do any justice as
collection TO our American art nor that they show any
reason for the exhibitors being at all. II except
Mr. Bridsman's large picture. The Cultivation of
Colza" there is work the galleries Of particular i'm
portance few new names appelr-none that we recall
and the artists whose are familiar to the public
either follow their beaten track lag behind them
selves Thus Mr. Percy Moran, while showing the same
clever but superficial handling that him much
praise last year. carries It TO excess and puts us on
with the hummery. Instead OF using last years
d vantage ground, and working hard 10 mount
higher, lie has allowed himself to be
spoiled by 1t, aud must work ten times harder
20 get back what has lost However ~ there Is no
doubt he has the Of painter him he has only 20
shut himself up In his studio get somewhere cut OF toe
reach of his friends and work out his own salvation
Mr. e. Y. Turner IL another artist who made max last
year and takes pains 10 assure US now that he didn't
it. 1t may be said however. that the whole exh
DitOn-the exceptions TO the statement are fev-has
much the look OF au oldfashoned Artists Fund affair
a pot-boiler on 4 large scale done up IN q
hurry to serve special turn. And
the artists who show - little advantage on
this may, DOUBT, he trusted 10 say better
things for themselves in the spring II is encouraging
Mr.. Robert Blum back from Spain with sucn
vigorous lttle study hangs in the North ROOM and
It's no harm tell that studies Of his we have seen
by chance are full interest and give promise Of good
pictures Differing by wHOe heaven from Mr.. Blum, the
little pictures Mr. Urich show the beginnings or az
wherein the patience Of the old Femngs and OF the
English pre-Ra phaelitcs Is revived, but with much
talent for observation and a hand capable OF
fine work at once delicate and strong. Mr. u
rch's work present exhibition is not equal all put
together to his picture of last year For one thing
he have fOreSwOrD aerial perspective altogether
Mr.. Penfold an artist who has won some favor over
seas has several pictures here Of which the with boy
catching flies for subject to us much superior 10
the rest M George W. Maynard astonishes with a
picture of q whose head seems to have Deen
soened in vinegar cODurOr treat an egg preparatory
TO forcing it into a narrownecked bottle. The
objects this picture are pretuV painted,
but such a figure Of fun as this woman is our
eyes before behed We could not have expected
such n thing from a clever painter ike Mr.. Maynard
Nj schuchardt offers treat TO elderly men about town
n the shape Of an oldfashoncd picture OF a dinner
table group listening to the Jokes OF an afterdinner w.t.
There Is considerable ceyerness in this picture. Mr.
Edwin Blasbheld has hgure-pcce Of some merit,
Modern Rebecca" but the conception Is better than the
painting which is very slight. Mr. Milne Ramsay sends
one or two stlle subjects, the Dried Herring in the
corridor is every way good piece OF work We can
praise also Mr. William II. snyder's Apples" and also
the Apples Of another artist No 365, whose name
will appear no doubt III the catalogue. Mira A y
Henshaw has a cheerful study OF Tulips and IRIS ana
ercjsed on too large a scale, TO the production OF a
miniature piece well worth looking at az curiosity
Nor il without merit as picture but in artistic treat
meut shows a decided advance the artists part