New-York tribune., 1882-02-15

hoien 10 deserve any snal est medal there awarded
To-day French periodicals copy sketches. eugrave
our paintings and drawings and in the warmth Of their
newborn zeal for occasionally spell
recty. Late German dictionaries Of art give artists
an equal place with their and whenever Ger
man critics find one Of MS who has never srayed from
the Academic nurses side bowed the knee to the
Baai of Poetry. they hail him a brother and write
biography Of him IN their poor apology for Art
Journal Even the English are beginning to relcnt and
We hear OF etchers hOnorcd a the Etching Club and
Of painters given places the Grosvenor. while
creaky old Art Journals Suddenly awake to the neces
sity of setting mp American departments lhy gossip
chiefly and enterprsing Ones with intentions Of
the best do the harm Of cronicng small beer
loudly a. if ii prime October. For part.
think the snuh3ug used to get from these outsiders
much healthier than the indiscrimnating molly
coddlng TO which We are now being subjected
There is something in the matter however that helps
TO explain ii philOsOphcay. This approval from over
does that foreigners beginning 10 like
American ways of painng, but that Americans are
beginning to paint like Europeans, and Europeans ac-
cept the compliment implied in imitation since the
"new men back from Munich and from the Paris
Of CarOlus Duran Bastien lie Page Met Corot and the
rest the change of style which has invaded orr American
studios is written plain that he who runs may read
Murphy and Blum, Lungren and Mente Bruce crave
TwachtmaDn, shields, Bolton Jones-these are
and all Europeans, NOT Americans. Iha'
In TO say, their way OF looking at N"IH''
their sentiment their technique are oil learned from
European masters Of low or high degree II the ua"
ings by these men. and dozen others should be sent
over to England they would we are sure, be admired
and bought but they would be admired ana D'ght h"'
because their Anercanism but because OF their frank
and very clever acceptance Of modes of panCnE III Mgh
fashion in Europe to-day. Our own public IL coming
rapidly 10 of the mind with the public over seas
and az for younger artists here AT home they are all
10 man enthlsas c in their zeal for The new doctrines
curious illustration Of the change of feeling is shown
in ihe simple fGct that of the five drawings when MI
John Henry Hin .ent 10 the exhibition this year. every
one was rejected that Of the men, who, alh hS
father the late John W Hill. did more 10 create love
for watercoor in Ills country than any one else wh0ean
be ramed II absolutely refused representation on these
walls Mr.. John Henry Hills work was welcomed to all
exhibitions In former ycars-he Is sill IN vigorous me-
ON the sunny side Of hfy,-and always
when it was seen, it recognized even
bv those who did like II. being something that
must be reckoncd with. II may he added that Mr HiIs
work Is much admired by Mr. Rukin. from whom he ha7
received several husiasc letters in ore Of the te7t
of which he begs the artist to send Lin everything lie
does.
Now We have not the slchc,t intention Of attrhItins
10 personal feeling 10 jealousy, TO fear Of
rival. or any such nonsense, this treat
ment Of u respectable artist. Nothing OF the
Sort we sincerely believe, uaed any member OF either
committee No it is simply that they al ou of sym
patlV with WOrk mai seems 10 tNtl out o ' "-4 ''
fashioned and they believe they feel We have no
donb they do the pulse OF the world correctly and know
very wen the public viii no more for this work
than they 10 themselves. And a7 for Mr. Eusins opn-
ion if they he lad expressed any, where VIII an
artist Of the new faith be found who would he Influenced
bv that opnon2 No the rejection Of Mr fill drawings
ia only symptom Of the change that taking place in
the mind of the studios, and which is met by similar
change In the mind Of the public For The first time IN
America within the last few year- our artists are paint
ing artistic pictures; poetry is at east IN bud and the
day Of scientific drauch smanship and Of mamuns as
substitutes for painting has let hope. passed -Tay
for ever.
And vet il seems little odd that committee Of which
Nh Henry Farrcr is member. should have rejected Mr..
Hi SO absolutely For Mr. Farrer certainly younger
brother of Mt H's school, and his drawings, not only
those in this exhibition. but all that ne has shown
are nearly pure product Of that school Ills drawing.
No. o. Gone hath the Spring with all it, flowers. and
gone the Summers pomp and -how!" is work entirely
OF the natuI1ric school, is outside OF the artistic
treatment and independent OF it. 1t is an attempt 10
steep scientific, or at least a literal
representation of a scene III nature sentimental
atmosphere The combination is supposed to be helped
by the poetic title Of drawing have quoted from
the catalogue but if the drawing he looked at without
this aid to reflection will be that there is really no
particular poetic expression in it-hat all we hnd Is
carefully studied assemblae OF natural forms, pal ted
with literal realism. and with great decacy and refine
rneut The same may said OF M Farrcr- ects,
of which there eieh, specimens here. They are
everything that is correct in drawing and cement
and there il any observation IN hem II II seen
70 he true but can anyone honest say that they
pictorial; that they make an artistic impressions that
they give one the sense Of poeryi No would, per
hans expect to find in Mr. Francis A.
.iya's work any Of these qualities. and indeed
that centemaus drawings are as rule
for all their painstakng, sadly lacking in interest
for apv pecator who practical lover OF shipping
for Qf itr-
haunt= This year. however Mr. -ilva has succeeded in
appeanc 10 another audience and his bt Of beach in No
364 At ~cabrigh" Is very cleverly and lightly Touched
H. while in No 147, "At Long Branch" the fleet OF
yachts on the horizon like flock OF seacl!s il worth al
the rest of the shipping in the exhibition When we
eopare this bit of marine with Mr. Henry Farrcrs piece
we are conscious of sense Of life and motion in Mr.
silvas drawing that miss III Mr. Farrcrs All that
Mr. Farrer Offers Is certain carefully executed draw
ngs Of water and shipping, with now and then moon
from which color and motion have been left ont with
persistence that has at last 70 be Wesrsome "lhc
Tow No 276 is suggestive of Turner'S "Od Icmeraire'
in its composition. but the composition in Mr. Farrers
drawing Is hurt by the almost equal division into
halves by chimney stack and its perpendicular re-
ectO in the still water. IN the Turner beside that the
vessel and the massed at one sde they are also
removed into the distance, SO that The IMPRESSION
is more clearly given OF the vessels being II motion
TO move and II" room elIneT & nor % VI dr o B
4;, IS as n sJv of comnositiOn apart from the sen
uent which the title throws around lt-Or certainly
without title the subject could not move us Sir
Farrer has honestly painted nothing nut tu- ard Nc
does not pretend that II II anything better.
A tug-boat the rivers brim
A simple tugbOat is to him,
And il is nothing more.
But now these things being why does VI. Farrer
consent "a Of committee 10 REJECT the entire OF an
artists work aims in particular lower than
ms own and in respect different from hiH uwn and
VINO certainly proved by the abor0us work Of years
that be love the color OF grass ard trees II sky and
water he tries to make his pictures mirror tLAt
cOlOri
ia no ed