New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-13
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS.
The WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.

At the Academy exhibition about seveny.iye pictures
ave sOd for total amount Of sei 900, 10 round
numbers The other sales consist OF 5000 single and 10
season tickets catalogues and 600 copies Of Mr.
KurtEs Academy Notes" Among the pictures sold
which have been mentioned Evening" Robert
C. Minor, $3.50; Flowers" julia Dillon. 5000; :" After
the Fross." J. +. Murphy. S27j; "Chry Santhemums,
2. B. Hcrr'ck, 800; Misty Morning ~ Greenwood
Lake." J. f. Cropsey $3.50 "Uninvited Guests +. l..
Henry $3.50; The spos a Garden" Walter sattcr-
ee $3.50; The Wedding Dress" g. ID. weldor, $1,000;
Near Dordrccht," Harry Chase 1925; Summer Morn
ng Oh Long Island" George II. Smile, $500 Ruth
Hncksback" c. y. Turner $3.50; "Fresh koasted.' j.
Decker 500: "ThsKstskln Winter Jcryis McknLAe,
$500; In The Roaring FOrtes," T. H. Henry, $3.50;
"A Kccne Valley Runway" II. w. Robbins, $500; "A
Quiet Afternoon on the straits OF Belle Ir." W Brad
ford 1850; The Companion Of the January" Geroms
Ferris, $500; Staten Island from the Bay" Edward
Moran, $3.50; "A Crossroad Bridge" g. II. hccord,
$3.50; The Duel Leon Moran, $3.50 la the studio,'
w W Churchil, ir.. 5000; a Wet Day, Brittany"
Clifford p Graysou 5000; Little Pets Louis Contoit,
sll5; Bah, Mine" r. f. Renhart, slO0 The Queen
OF Flowers" Henry W. Paxton, 800; Under tho
Weather" ]. g. Brown, $500; and The LIE Line,'
WnslOw Homer, 500.
The attendance the private view Of DC IEne,s eK-
hbitton yesterday larger than similar occs-
the American Art Gallery. Over $500 nytations
had issued and ny additional requests were re-
ceVed for cards Of admission. Several pictures were
cold al prices Gattering the artist. Among the num-
Der were Short Cut wschung station the "Glow
of Sunset" and the "snn,tt in the Woods
At the close of the first week of last year, Academy
exhibition nearly seventy pictures had been sold for
about S23. 600 ~ the came time il 1882 the sales
900, 000
Among the nun crou> tales of wrath and indignation
which have been since the results Of the hang
ing the Academy disclosed there is none moro
thrilling than the story Of artist who first besought
the Committee allow the withdrawal Of his skcd'
picture and failing rushed 20 the Academy with blood
in his eye and knife in his pocket TO cnt bis canvas
out of its frame. lie arrived breatlloss and de-
ter1nined He departed tranqmllized by the soponho
influences of Academic art. And his picture -tili -
mains in place.
The American Art Union viii give mp IT. present GAL
+ lcres on Fourtcenth-st the close Of th" season.
Neither the sales the attendance have been en-
couragng Indeed IL is understood that ONLY three or
four pictures have been sold since the galleries were
oneoed Their situation. on the fourth -four, has
proved scrous advantage. and the Lish rent ma
been heavy tax Ipou the association. IhrouyhGH
the summer the Art Union will maintain n galleries.
in the city a n, interests will be mainly with the out
oft0wn exhibitions. 1t is stated that an nne cctediy
large number of subscriptions 10 the Union have bean
received and that it, substantial support appears u 10
assured
The day has long since passed when American artists
exhibiting abroad thought Only OF the Salon This
year Mr. Frank Met has sent his portrait Of Lawrence
Barrett 10 the Gro,yenoc Gallery and Mr. J. y Hartley
his bronze bust If the actor "a the ROYAL Academy
Mc..rs Boggs Mosicr and brdgman are represented
in the Nice International Exhibition.
OF late years Long leland -ketchins ground ap-
pears 10 have usurpcd the popularity among artists
formerly enjoyed by the White Mountains. The ma
terial to be found there illustrated in a little portfolio
of reproductions of sketches AZ sag drbor aud Bridge
hamltnn made bv Mr. Walton H. Roberts. Thee
sketches present example, If the shore meadow and
woodland scenes the wiudmi- and bits of old-time
architecture which N one form another reappear
annually pleasant features Gt the various exhibitions
The private view of tho ,hirrth exhibition Of tho
Boston Art Cub was held on Friday, and the exhibit
ton will be opened tho ppbic tomorrow. The co.
lection consists OF watcr-coIo!s and ha"Ndnd-"huo
work.
Mr. Charles Bridgmau frees his mind IN q" Tho
Studio regarding in Brooklyn, taking for his text
the recent Water Color Exhibition in that city, at which
the old plan Of FREQ admission adopted He says
On the gst day oily six people came. owing probably
To Lent which makes the looking a. pictures "A
sin Four catalogue. were sold Total receipts fox
M, day one dollar On the second day there were =
few more OF less, AID toward hc end Of the first week
tho number reached almost tuIrty. Some mn0eeuts
would in take mp catalogue amt tart away
oh no. everything not free; -hai 90 'l e"t'-
logues A look If blank amaAement and tb" ca'dl"Eio
IN laid down One rer-"n wants :" khp" ~" Pilt'
TWENTY-FIVE cents That very dear. can buy
small books like that tie bookstore foT Ten rent.'
4 look of despair and the catalogue Is h9ndci oarh
Are these water-culors What 40 they put glass over
them for To prevent people putting Their hngot. On
them They nu.t be very fragile. VIII tho' lAA5
lonCp Until the paper wears out; bat then, yOu
know color, cat paper Oh do the II w -ironge.
Some of them look ps-hv' Why. that because Tho
artists first pour the water and then -prlhke colcr
into IT, then them in the SUM- and when they fry
they assume fantastic forms just Jack Frost does On
window pane- ami pavsmrhts, and sonieiAes II eSh's
ont landscape and sometime, marine, but tie iaces
and 6gres need "A good deal Of rctoUchns The in
nocent -tares if in dnubt whether "a believe ~ not
then IL rapture CALCULATES IL must ne frii NM no"
should ike 10 he an artist "
The Baltimore Telegram" says: There has been
most extraordinary demand for tickets Of admission
to the Walter, Gallery, and public iutere.; in il IL
greatly the increase A. Is known the proceeds 20
10 the Poor Association, and M. Walter h.lS kndiy
authorized the disposal Of 300 uckrtS a. the usd9i
places for each Of three days Easter Monday aud
the first two Saturdays III May"
There are some saty-fyo works by the late George
Fuller owned in Boston and the vicinity These with
the studies and pictures his studios at Boston aud at
Deericd and the twenty painting recently >h""n at
William. & Everetts. make total of nearly 100 pict-
ures which aro available for the exhibition 81 h4
works ne held in tho Boston Museum. II Fire Arts,
opening about May l. THIS exhibition viii be- managed
by committee of artsts aud al it, clo-e all the pot
urcs owned by Mr. Fulers estate viii be- odd az 'h'
Tic auction.
A recent paragraph in 3. The -. Jamc's Gazette -
a. follows Another of the yauuger u.cmbcrs OF hi
Academy Mr.. Herkomcr will he exceptionally yell
represented This year He has finished twelve por-
traits and subject picture most II not al of which
will be seen a, the two chief exhibitions Among tho
porrats which arc nearly all thr"eqnaricr lengths,
those of Canon Brady, Canon Ellison ai br BGtier
head mas,sr of fIarrwl AMI If Lord Brab"Urno vii
nerhops attract most attention. Mr. llcskunef has
seldom If ever done anything better than the nrst.
named of the four His large pctuIe = a souvenir II
his visit u America lie calls II Pressing West u
shows the interior Of the large Ia kowu Cao
Garden the eastern extremity e NaT York, which
IA used ~ kind of depot fur emigraHs GA their way
from Europe % the Far West rhe 6uor of the great
building is covered with crowd e hpwelCss bcIUg> Of
every European race Regnning with group VI care
lns. Mileaian. The lnff thrnllgA Rr.. ma