New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-30
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS.
THE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.


TOWN.
Tho autumn Academy exhibition closed last
evening Nearly 6OoO admission tickets and $500 cata
,nes have been sold and the sales Of paintings amount
I'm round numbers to $4,000. At last years autumn
exhibition the sales of pictures aggregated Sll'so anu
q 600 trkets with 1900 catalogues were dsposei Oh
This Inhibition WIS open for week longer Than inc one
lust closed and the exhibition OF 1857 at WHO" Wv
sa,cs Of paiutines amounted TO $1s.s5o. contained
nunber of works the pictures sold during
rho last week were Easterly Winds" J. C. Ncol $500;
.. F1eur delis" Infher Knight $3.50; "A MIL f"hd'
Arthur Parton 1913; "The Iiousatonic Valley j. b.
Bristol $500; "a KNITTING Lesson" WI Snyder Szoo'
After the Storm" y. a. silva, S4oo; ine Zoo"
s,s,er."J.B Whitaker. $3.50; "sprng." s schwing'
sGoo :. Flowers Julia Dillon 1915; and The Harvest
Field" p. Moran 1919.
orivate view Of an exhibition Of designs for christ
ma. cards was held scrday at the gallery OF Reeharu
ca Four przes of 81 900, $500, 1900 and 500 are
offered by Messrs. L. Prang & Co. Miss Emmett MISS
Wheeler and Messrs. Weir. Vok. Low. Beckwith bl"sh
field Dieman Freer Weldon, Fredcricks@on Percy an"
Ibomas Moran and others have contributed designs
priyntc view OF Mrvcdders drawings In ILLUSTRATIVE"
Of ,he Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayy am" was held at NO
II East seyeuteenths last evening" Both chhbiuons
will remain open throughout the week.
Circuars are issued for the eighteenth annual
exhibition OF the American Water Color society," WHO"
will be opened the Acadmy on February q ana eoSe
nm saturday evening February - Works never ocof'
nblcy exhibited In this city will be received from the
18th TO the l4ih OF January. aud sts must be scat IN o'
January o. Poricr- employed by the society VIII COZ
lec, AMI return ,rs the exhibition below stS,et
# from artists whose lists have been properly hed up
and sent u but all pictures must he READY ny 'he i-"
Nonresident artists must send their pictures 10 some
agent I'm this city, ~ exhibits In packing boxes viii br
received nj the Academy. The circular mentions ~ con-
senecs attending to such business CRAZY McKeever'
M 7lg sixth-ave, Louis r. Menger 80. 30 Dey-st',
and Thomas A. wiiinur, No. 81 East Thirteenth-st.
The fourth annual <hibtion Of the New York Etching
fYub will he held on the same dates and under the same
conditions as the Water Color exhibition with the follow
ing exceptions: The commission on sales OF etchings VIII
bc twenty per cent, and duplicates are sold they
must he delivered at the Academy to Mr.. George H.
Calf who will again have charge OF the sales
The following committees have been chosen for the
forthcoming exhibition ~ the Salnagnndi Clubs Hanging
Conmttcc-Messrs. Frank Fowler Harry Chase, W. L.
su,rdlev. Walter Clark I. DE Thustrup Catalogue
Committce-G W. II. Richie, A. c. Redwood Hamilton
Hamilton. Reception Conmittec-W H. Shelton, A. Z.
Morgan and J. W. Champney.
There has been encouraging increase In the sales ~
the American Art Galleries Tie total amount Is now
over $1,000 It Is stated that the attendance grows
larger each week the pictures sold during the
last week are Fairy Tales" Constant Maver S22oo;
Warwick Valley" J. +. Cropsey. 800; "rne Mailer
Dull" G.. {. Curran. 500. The inaugural cNhiption WI"
close on Wednesday. December TO-
Two new paintings OF much interest have been added
to this exhibition. AMI hung In Gallery A. Tue iarser
La Cre,usrule-" Twilight" by Mr. Alexander HARRISON
will he dIy conceded TO be the best example OF TINS
artists work which has been In this city. IL re-
piaces his raves of the Shipwrecked, much u tho
advantage OF the painters reputation Ihis il shoro
sccne the view which any one might Obtain In Walking
along beach close 10 the waters edge while the ui
moon rising from the leaves long silvery wake
upon the wafer In the immediate foreground the tie
spreads gently and smoothly upon the sloping sand III
the middle distance little white crested breakers
archng toward the shore, and further back the unoa
ing surface stretches toward the misty horizon
There are no accessories Whatever and the very sim
pcity Of the composition phaszes the love which the
artist felt for his subject The spectator can Walk
across gallery toward the picture with tho feeling OF
one watching the moon rise from the seashore on
beautiful summer evening. The painter mas adhe"
dases bright color the white or the moon
and its reflection which intensity the carrying power
OF the lights but beyond what often seen IN nature
There are hints color in the SAY which by faslight
seems little hard, and in contrast there ara some hne
rraat,ons OF cool shadows the surface Of the water
t may be the water here aud thee lacks trans
psrency instant OF qudty. but this Is not
obvious at drst. Mr.. Harrison bas painted picture
which conveys apparently unstuded phrase the senti-
"a
lover OF nature No OF the Pars- American pictures
Of the year s more simr lie. expressive and poetic by
the side OF Mr. Harrison's La OrepuSc"e Boigereaus
recent personicatOn OF the same theme seems Ike an
example of finely adjusted mechanism
"Tho Sand Dunes" by Mr. George W. Chambers. IS the
second OF the two paintings recently free from the
Custom House. Mr.. Chambers shows some well-pos;d
figures French peasants nsherolk aSains' sandy
hillside partly covered by grs-. with glimpse OF the
sea on the right This portrayal OF figures against
rapidly rising round witha very hgh sky line, has
long been a favorte feature IN the compositions OF
Americans painting In Paris. Exactly what there IA
gained Cor the spectator II is hard to An artist who
is weak In his skies uncertain about his perspective
can dodge these difficulties In TINS way. but
at lessening the interest OF his picture Surh
compositions apt 10 give the observer tue feeling OF
running his head a5ains. wall my LICK dis,a re-
Landscape Aside from this Mr. Chambers nas treated
bis figures ruthuily aud with much freedom, and his
picture exemphdes eredablc workmanship.
An entire rearrangenent was made yesterday at the
gallery Of Kpoedler & Co. OF the pictures which
viii he throughout the holiday OF the
most noteworthy is" Burning Brush" by Mr. ID. Rids
way Knight. Mr. Knights studies OF peasant life In the
vein of Jules Breton have become well known here
through the exhibition OF his works at the Academy and
n the galleries OF various dealers. This picture repre-
SCENTS peasant girls kndlng lire beneath heap Of
brush through which the While smoke rises Other
figures the plain In the background. There Is
less nscuusness ~ b. noted here than In OF Mr.
knights peasant studies, and this picture Is 10 he
ceptel as a favorable example OF he work One OF Van
Marches cattle pieces and fnncifu painting by
Aupart n copluani to the recently shown tha
gallery, also among the new pictures. There IL n
uanting by Fritz August Kaulbtch, Munich artist,
and distant relative o. the distinguished Wilhelm Won
kaulhacb. who died IN 1874.
n was nearly twenty years ago that Mr. Eastman John
con painted his Old Kentucky Home" which was eS-
hIb Ell At the Paris Exposition ~ 1857 ami At the cen
tennai Exhbiticn. and nrsi gave the artist reputation
About the time he painted picture OF young man
aud girl standing heiore pppurns dove cote erars
melted to nunie Asht pasaaies Of billing and puuna Nv
| the example ei the innatra ihia givtiip haa reap
pcaic NJ ST. ANep'a sslietl and affords sh interesting
| nnpnttnniti ~ comparing MI juhnauh's paAt anl
piesrnt manner one ~ Mahtienllls tlph aud iafint
roal satpura aud u marine by NJ w. T. richards ha, .
lately bern placed on view Ia tis galley While the on
4 ainp. ~ tho nalihh artist ifaknp Nipnii, aud
I.uani,n.a lille Aknnh OF Tho hnlNle." sl eIiAIi