The Portland daily press., 1885-06-08
SOCIETY OF ART.
The Eleven,h Exhibi,ion Of the socie.

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The eleventh exhibition of local art will
open to the public at the Society of Art build
ing, this morning, at 10 o'clock, and will con-
tinue through the month OF June. Saturday
evening the exhibition was opened to the mem
bers of the society and the press, and the rooms
were filed duringIthat time with an interested
and fashionable assembly.
The merits OF the exhibition this year are
not as pronounced as on former occasions but
there is much good work to be seen. There
are 80 oils 16 water-colors, and about % black
and whites. Included among these are several
paintings by artists from abroad, that are
noticeable, especially Wordsworth Thompson's
advance OF the Enemy, No. Is, which is
the show piece of the collection. It portrays
scene in "Lionel Lincoln" descriptive OF the
advance of the British UNDER Pitcairn ON Con-
cord and Lexington. The gray tone of the
picture, especially that in the left half OF the
painting is admirable. The scene presents an
old fashioned New England farm house in the
left foreground, out of whose low door is pour
ing troop Of red coats, each man bearing his
share of the plumber. At the gate an orderly
salutes his officer who, on horseback, is issu-
ing commands to him, while another moulded
officer close by listens to his Buperior's orders.
By the garden fence lies the wounded son Of
the owner of the farm while bis mother, erect
and defiant, supports the shrinking figure OF
her terrified daughter. In the road lies dead
trooper, and in the distance can be seen sour
rying troop of horsemen and farm house in
flames. Tall trees form part of the farm prop
artu md fhair afr
ward. The atmospheric effects are fine, the
pose of the different figures easy and natural.
About the garden fencs are strewed broken
china and furniture, evidence of the vandaI.
ism of the British Grenadiers.
| No. 81 Brissot's "Haymaking in France is
pastoral subject Astounding in the sentiment
| of country life. No. II, IA View in Shell
borne" by Sonntag is marked by the favorite
| characteristics of this well known artist. Mr..
| M. J. Burns figure sketch,s No. 25 is noticea-
BILE for the life like repose of the sitting wom-
| an. Mr.. @. l.. Fox, who has been studying in
Paris, exhibits the large painting "a Harmo-
ny in Gray" No. 81, which took the End prize
| at the semi-annual exhibition Of the school
ofsFine-Arts, in that city,and No. Is, "rhe In
| FAINT Christ" In No. %, Mr.. 81. L. Woodcock
of Belfast, exhibits "a Country Road" admir-
able in drawing, colorng and true feeling. H.
B. Brown displays five pictures, any one of
which would adorn q gallery. Mrs. e. r.
Pierce's, pond lilies, is highly spoken of, as is
Miss Nelly Browns "Tiger Lilies,' No. 80,
mentioned by us at former time, and Miss
Howe's MAY flowers, No. 8. Mrs. G. A. Dy-
| er's "Sketch at the Cape" No. %, is faithful
| portraiture of common feature of our rural
| scenery. In No. IL Mr.. j. T. Wood! gives an
| excellent representation of an old mill in Nor
| way. c. +. Kimball has one of his pictures,
full of sentiment, in breezy knoll on the hill.
| side near the ocean, backed by pines and frs,
| in No. Is. Miss Alice Gould has made faith
| ful copy of an Eastern scene by Waterman, as
| shown in No. 10. Miss B. FL. Berry shows an
| attractive room in Orestes Pierce's residence
at Baldwin, sndlMr M .IB. Gilbert's two sketch
| es, "Big Diamond Landing" and "Near Sim
| onton's Cove"
| Among the water-colors there is large
| painting by Hudson IA Visit to Grand
| mama's'' from which a woodcut has been made
| to adorn the catalogue. Mrs. G. IT, Davis has
| two charming views. one, No. 40, "Bonny
Eagle" Miss Longfellow exhibits an odd
| effect in "a Mexican Domeo +. Hcpkinson
Smith, the celebrated artist, shows an old ship
yard, full of life, in No. IS, and in No. AZ Miss
| Ella L. Shaw shows some pretty designs for
| Christmas cards.
In the black and whites there are two front
| elevations for the new State street church, one
| by Fassett, the other by Stevens; girl and
| dog, No, so, by Miss Howe; figure of man,
| No. 66; and broad field in the cleaning No.
| SO; all excellent and the last named full of
| feeling.
| These are but few Of the best of the collec-
1 ton.