New-York tribune., 1885-03-16
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS
THE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.

II
AND KLsEwHERK.
The paintings and sculptures intended fcr
the sixteth annual exhibition Of the Academy have be
received during the past week. Tho members Of u
Hanging Committee will begin their thankess taak 70.
day. II believed that pictures have been ~
in than over BEFORE but any aoSurato estimate OBJ
viousy impossible whsssver may be the quality Of IL
submitted the quantity has not been diminished By
tho attractions Of other exhibitions Very few pietnrsa
have been received from American artists resident
abroad who for the most part will exhibit elsewhere
This exhibition VIII be opened to the public On Monday,
| April g. closing on May 10.
The meeting of those Who are interested In tAe for-
ton OF National society Of Arts" whch have
place last week. win be held Wednesday evening
at the American Art Galleries. An eoft VIII be maAo
| to secure o largo attendance and 20 formulate win
greater precision objects Of the embryonic Society,"
The interest shown thus ar by artists ana smateurs A
dicates universal agreement with the general propo-
tons that good should be encouraged and that ~
expenditure Of public funds for bad xt 10 highly repre-
hensbe The reduction of these propositions 10 pras
tcal working basis is problem which the artists an4
amateurs sti have before them In the past when TIE
opinions Of art Of their ocers have been
solicited upon works Of the response has usuaybesn
of cautious conciaory nature through motives Of
policy Whether this Society" n the present plan n
carried out will have the courage of Its convctons and
whether all its members will indorse feariessly OUT
spoken points which even the friends
of the project may we'll entertain doubts But y
planly only by of at sonte Independence snp
ported by all Its members that tho Society" become
valuable influence. In Boston the plan has attracted
considerable attention both favorable and adverse u
warmly ihdorsed by The 7ranscrtpf and laborfousy
criticised by The Advertiser. The Herald has a. yee
made no editorial comments The Advertiser says-n
would seem to be almost impossible to unite In single
endeavor and purpose such opposing elements as exist
New-York 1t is bad I'm Boston too the artistic
clan Is apparently hopeessy divided against itse On
the other hand 1t may be said that this proposed oKnn
cation will benefit all artists, not directly a least o
increasing public interest In art and seh meeress
nothing should induce them TO comoins IN '' sup
port.
The Union League Club. which already owns TWO or
three portraits OF Lincoln. II offered another the fu
,.n0,, n,r,rait by Mr. w. E. Marshsu which shown
a Last weeks exhibition Il was from this picture tnas
Mr. Marshalls well known steel engraving was mada
which 4, sad TO much wider circulation than
any other engraved portrait Of Lincoln This ana other
circumstances invest the original with peculiar inter-
est but It thought that the cuo wood DO )usned
in paving the price fixed by the artist
The Art Interchange Of March IL is accompanied bya
large black and white print entitled hauing tne Line
Various colorcd plates adapted to decorative purposes
ara nron,ised for future numbers. The February AT
Ao, contains good oo-eectroype print Of drawing
by Mr. Harry Chase, to which Is appended biographcai
sketch OF the artist Descriptions are given OF the new
houses of Messrs II. G. Marquand g. J. Colgate, D. z.
Avery and Mrs. Sidney Webster. This number covers
wide artistic field. from fine printing of which The Art
Aos itself is an excellent illustration to notices OF recent
exhibitions and reports from tho studios.
qrcuar, are issued for the thirty-second exhibition
q, the Boston Art Club which will be opened at the club
hoxse on April TO- and close May 2. Tbs exhieitioa
will be limited water coors, works In back ana whse
etehngs and sculpture Contributions Will Do receives
nj the club house. at Dartmouth and Newbury srees
from, Tn 1r,day March 26, until Wednesday April 1.
Mr. william f. Matohett Is the chairman OF the exaioi
ton committee.
The catalogue OF the artdepartmen stthe Seworeaus
ExuoSition shows curousy miscellaneous collection OF
s7e works Some of the New-York artists represented
az. Messr. George Inness H. Bashfeid, W. M Chase,
NJ r. H. Dc Haas, J. c. Beckwith, H. q. Brown, Frank
Fowler ID. W. Champney II. q. Jones. Alfred kappes,
Jeryis McEntee ]. Z. Cropsy, T. A. Richards, William
sartan Wordsworth Thompson. j. A. Weir, I. W. Wood
and George Il. YewelL Pictures like Mr. Rothermels
DE Soto Discoy erng the Mississippi" and Mr. Morans
Ponce de Leon In Florida appear side by side with
works which the owners attribute TO van Dyck ana
Poussn French art is scantly represented by stray
examples Detaile. Constant. and few others and
there are pictures by Italian and German painters
The exhibition also includes collections Of Mexican and
Belau paintings several water colors group OF Illus
traons contributed by the Century Company. and an
uninyitng collection OF sculptures The cataogus In
dIcates ready acceptance OF anything which could bs
classed under the head of Art"
Hagborgs Low Tide In the Channel" etched By
uguste Masse the excellent frontspece OF the March
Portfolio As regards the subject the picture is almost
a rspIica Of any OF dozen works by Hagborg which
have been this city, The picture shown at the
Union League Club last week is STAIR example. nst
beach with the water encroaching upon the sand In
pools and sluggish shallow realns, fisherman and
fisher girl or two perhaps cart in the middle distance
Syephesa tnro1gh which filters cold uncertain light
these are the elements OF nearly al uagborgs WORKS
particuiar picture characterized by unusual variety
and the high quality OF the original Is attesea gy u
ppnrey initiative manner which is pushed even to q
faithful following OF the brshwork on the SKY ana tne
Ssre Was nothing else to DO done subject does
lend itself to free interpre,aye rendering Inc
Of the gray tones in the picture which Haghorg CON
stanty affects Thus the e,cler IN MS M ,reasma o 'as
middle tnts ranging from pale slightly oi,en grsys
through the darker sones nnsance Of deeac~ snd
sofness and 1t illustrates nearly the whole range OF
r"ngcr lines and deeper billings in the low hradnd
on the left and In the riits In the immediate
before printing As regards tue left hand headiand te
with the rest OF the picture and agborgs paintings
amo, nyaras sspnF sf a M ~
etoher has made slip in his translation, Mr. Hshert
Railtons etching OF Trinity ChapeL Canterbury cntheas
has cnrlously careless and unfinished look in parts,
especially the left. Mr. Raiton seems 10 nave gone
over many OF his lines with burin in order TO- avoid
rebng but he has gained little In the way OF
and dstnctness ana his drawing Is not oey ona ers @
cism The third large illustration Is rensrkaDy good
reproduction OF Albert Durers well known ChTisnss
Day" This has been reproduced BY the Amana parsna
process and the high reputation OF this process Is Ii
Sustained by tho result Few OF the OF
white ground In OF the court yard and me
riht hand archway tho or the white llne oE tno
t and els where and Of the white dot the left
hand wall and the panks above the court AL are so
there would be little injustice either side In comparing
it directly as instance of old line engraving. Win
modern Initiative work The minor illustrations OF the
me Portfolio include 20 process prints nom yyacious
sketches by Mr. Joseph Psunell which accompany an
rclo upon The Tomb and Chantry OF the Black Prince