New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-25
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS
TIE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.
NOTES OF FUTURE EXrnBTroNs-SEw PICTURES
HERE AND ELSEWHERE

continuance OF the increase III iDo huinDeI OF e4s
hibitions. There will be the usual opening at thu
Museum in the middle of October, and on November
the autumn exhibition will be opened at the Academy.
| In November also, the exhibition Of Salon and other
representative pictures will be held at the American
Art Gallery TO say nothing Of an exhibition Of sketches
and studies 10 be held in the gallery early in
the season The Salmagundi Club has engaged tho
| Academy for December, and in January the galleries
will be occupied by the loan exhibition of the Society
! of Decorative Art In February the Water
Color Exhibition, and then the two oil exhibitions of the
wear Meantime features of interest promised By
! the American Art Association throughout the season.
with particularly strong exhibition early in tho
spring There will Of course, be changes in this partial
| list and many additions for account nov bc
taken of special exhibitions which have become more
prevalent here of late It is than likely that
picture sales of importance may take place In the
autumn and altogether the coming year promises great
! activity in the local field OF art.
The Inness exhibition at the American Art Gallery
closed Yesterday Tho following sales arc given:
L" Short Cut Wachung Station" $1,000; "Oaks in
! Autumn" 81 800; "GIow of Sunset" 81 300; Sun
set in the Woods" 81 $50; Evening Hour" 500;
! {" MidGpld $3.50; and Study from Nature" $50.
s s7% 35''' amount ''
| : Work has been already begun at this gallery upon
! tho extensions which have been described in TIE
TRIBUNE. The three new galleries which are 20 DO
added will it ia expected be in readiness before tho
| opcninC of the season in the autumn \ small
collection of American pictures will shortly be placed
on view here a summer exhibition
The failure of tho attempt to from Congress
reduction of the dirty on works of art has naturally ex
| cited considerable comment. IL would seem that a
large majority of tho artists in this city favor lower
duty than 30 per cent although opinions differ widely
when the question of substitute or of no duty at all Is
raised But there to be general agreement tat
the recent action of Congress was 10 say the least UNI
fortunate The dealers of course are opposed to the
nresent Lrh duty bat one of them said recently that 1t
meant little loss to him personally as compared u the
loss inflicted upon art lovers at large For, he OK
blamed as he imported only very expensive pictures,
his patrons were necessarily people Of great wealth,
and to SUCH anxious obtain " the best the addition
of the duty to the price was not serious matter.
The efforts to-resuscatc THE Studio" appear to
have failed "An Artist writes to suggest that ono
of our large publishing houses should take the
ND and furnish m0uthpece for artists IL To be
feared that our large publishing houses are too
much occupied with enterprises from which they cE-
pect prOht
AtMr Avery's art rooms there an interesting little
| water color sketch by Decamps after his well known
oil painting The Suicide" which is in the Walters
gallery at Baltimore Possibly this watercolor was
study for the painting. bal it seems more likely that tho
water color followed the painting. Another work
in this gallery is characteristic painting OF sheep oy
| Braitb.
ante-bellum days remaining to provoke ytuperative
protests against Mr.. IlOyenden's painting Of John
Brown 1.-THE Baltimore Sun of May 81 published
letter from an angry individual who asserts that he
an eyewitness of all the on the day OF execution
and that Brown did not kiss a negro child. He states
that Captain Avis the taer has declared that no such
episode occurred and protests against degrading art
to the purpose of pandering to diseased sentimental
it, some what prevalent further north Of rs" The
much disturbed writer also remarks John Brown
was convicted of atrocious crime lilo deserved
what he got, aud got what he deserved"
In Mr. Greeley's American Conflict" vol l., pages
Dos and 800 an account of John Browns execution IL
quoted from an eyewitness" la describing Browns
appearance at the door of the Jail this witness said
black woman with little child in her arms stood by
the door. IIe stopped moment, and STOPPING kissed
the child affcctlonately" The witness whom Mr..
Greeley quoted was a correspondent of The TRIBUNE,
and his lotter with other letters giving full de-
scripon all the the day of the execution.
| occupied nearly page of Tar TRIBUNE of December
D. 1859. At the time the thorOughness and accuracy
of THE TRIRUNE's reports from Charlestown the
subject OF general remark. Most ejudiced persons
will accept those reports III preference to the assertion
! Of a person at that time member of the Richmond
Howftler," Mr Hoyendcn was allowed to choose his
subject fer himself As has been said, he talked with
Captain Avis and others present the day OF the
cuti0n. and aimed Ia historical accuracy
down to rel slippers worn by Brown aud also NEIL
toned in The 1RIBUNE's reports.
"The Art Amateur for June presents page of
| sketches OF ooUlc bi Tue i)dTNc DIpuLc3 owned IN
America" 1t Is largely due TO the efforts of Mr. Wal
tcr of Baltimore that the Corcoran Gallery Wash.
ngton fortunately possesses 1870 examples of Baryo
which the artist himself considered to form the most
inportant collection in existence" As was stated in
articles upon the Walters collection Which appeared in
| The TRIBUNE not long since, Mr. Walters owns the
only copy of the Tiger Hunt in India" modelled for
the Due d'OrcanS well az number of other bronzcs
by this artist and thirteen of his water coors 1t is
stated that at a recent sale in the Hotel Drouot of
seyeniy-eght of Barycs models owned by NJ. .Braucr
Mr. Walters purchased ten. the models consisting of
bronzcS worked and chiseled by Barge cut into
the requisite sections for casting and simply keyed
together The works Of Barge, like those of Mlle and
other masters have become recognized as standards a.
artistic excellence in France and their growth in favor
is illustrated by long list of prices in The Art ANA
! teur" showing the amounts paid by NJ. Brauer in
1876 and obtained at the recent sale. At the latter
the prices in many instances four and five tines
those of the former The rare good fortune of obtain
ing so adequate representation of Baryc's work for
the Washington aud Baltimore collections is therefore
evident All competent authorities are agreed that this
century has produced sculptor who can bear con-
parisOn with Barge in that great artists peculiar prov
| incc. And the attempt in the June " Century TO
alt a native animal sculptor, whose work the editor.
forced to protest has value porrature and as
/ record" becomes simply ridiculous. especially when
accompanied by an rnort to dePrecate Barge and il
calculated 10 bring additional ridicdle upon native per-
| formanCos and opinions in matters of art.
sketch of the monument to Rousseau and Mllet
unveiled on Easter Monday in ha forest of Fonaine
blcau heads the Notebook of The Art Amateur"
1t Is accompanied by personal letters of Milet
written IN his times OF hardship, and the story of
Rousseaus purchase of one of Mlets pictures Is gveD
a. something new. although the tale Is to be- found
! IN the American edition Of Senser's Life of Met."
Much interest attaches to fac-simile reproduction Of
some verses by Theodore Rousseau furnished In
| ncction with this subject.
Illustrated articles upon recent local exhibitions and
upon the Salon aud other Pasian display, occupy that
portion of this magazine devoted to Gallery and
Studio" and It NAV be said that the reysws of home
exhibitions In this department, both in the present and
IN r.c.nt numbers been characterized rather by