New-York tribune., 1885-01-26
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS
THE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.


ton will be on Friday next The usual reception for
gentlemen only will be held in the evening and satur-
day will be devoted to the interests Of buyers Inc e1
hibton will be opened to the public on Monday FED
ruary 2.
This will be the last week OF the exhibition Of sketches
and studies at the American Galleries The frequent
replacement of sketches which have been sod py new
pictures has sustained the interest Of the collection ana
the amount of the sales has been upon the whoie sas
factory The exhibition will close with sales aggregatng
nearly So, 400.
At the coming exhibition OF the New-York.Etching
Club there will be shown large etching by Dr. Leroy
W. Yale, entitled August Twilight, Larchmont Manor
Those who followed Dr. Yales excellent work as an
etcher will find their expectations fully realized Id the
strength and freedom with which he has etched TINS
large plate from nature. In the foreground is stetcn
OF beach, the sand rpped by the action OF We waves
and just to the the right Is stone wall sur
mounted by grassy bank, the distinction In teAture
cevery indicated upon which are two tall trees here
the intelligent rendering Of foliage and the obvious reef
against the sky with the consequent feeling OF atmos-
phere are points OF noteworthy merit Ia the central
middle distance behind heap Of rocks are other trees
skeched to their general appearance at
that distance and the left across an expanse OF sun
water the sails OF schooner In shadow against
the high fine OF the opposite shore boat containing
rough figure is drawn up on the beach. The SKY Is
varied with thin clouds ana DarS OF uSnt rIop Inis
description it will that the artist has worked out
"A subject OF considerable cOmpexty, and he has evil
dehty bestowed upon his plate amount OF loving caro-
and thought which render the result comInendaDle
contrast to the 1msy sketch which not nfrequenty
passes muster etching. This is picture not q
heterogeneous collection OF unrelated scratches, ana
looking at it as picture such points the excellent
maintenance of perspective and to marked extent the
OF values noticeable while at the same time the
composition necessarily overbaanced on the left
the picture has look OF weakness 1t Is hard to see
how any pictorial effect gained bv the last TWO inches
on the left The artists needle done very suggestive
work in few lines the beach in the foreground ana
the transition the robust and substantial work OF
the wall and landscape proper interesting as the
the with the light shi ing between
their branches. This etching published last week
by Mr.. Keppell but will be first exhibited with the
Etching Club.
Tomorrow the Barge monument erected in Mt.
Vernon Place. Baltimore, by Mr. W. T. Walters, will be
formally unveiled. Mr. Walters has issued a pamphlet
containing portrait of Barge and discussions OF the
sculpors work by A. Genevay, Eugene Vern, Charies
Banc TheoI hle svestre, and Others In the preface
Mr. Walters says: "To the young artists Of America
dedicate the tansatons herewith presented of reviews
by intelligent of tho French critics OF the time
upon the life. methods and achievements OF the dis
tingushed sculptor A. L. Barge by no means the least
important Of that remarkable group Of artists who nave
marked our century with such distinction ~ler 10
Decamps. Delacrox, Rousseau Troyon, Milet, Ccros'
Diaz Dupre and Barge May remind my young friends
too that like Leonardo da yinc Titan. Michael Angelo
and Raph ,e not one possessed talent or genius
enough TO succeed without persistent, unremitng toll
realizing that in the arts, where tho Imagination
plays great part genius is laeor
The designs for Christmas cards lately seen here In the
competitive exhibition held by Messrs. L. frang Co.,
are now on view the Chicago Art Institute At pres
ent designs valentines In order and several new
examples of figure work in coors are exhibited by Mr.
Prang including some specimens oil coloeu prints Oh
| satin.
The supplement tor The Art interchange OF January Is
contains six designs for fans BY American artists
The Illustrations OF The Art Amaen for February
for the part limited to the work Of Messrs Jan
! Cheninski and g. w. Edwards. part OF the formers
In the Genital Park. New York" appears the from
spece and there ia double page colored print repre-
senting Putting on" by Mr. Edwards The supplement
presents designs for jewellers for carved vain at
| panel and variety OF decorative purposes.
The following IL from the Note Book -" good story
comes from Paris about that ustrious painter Jehan
George vbert. whose work Americans esteem highly.
This summer New-York dealer. who does large
business with W Vibert having called at his studio aud
given his orders. said But you see. NJ. Vibert we still
have this execrabs tax 30 per to pay. and
s"N'
part ought to your prices 80 per cent until the
tax ~ aboll.hhed. Mon cher MONSIEUR replied NJ.
viber your Jemsnd Is perfectly just had anticipated
IT, and as have determined to raise my prices 80 per
cent allo you to pay me the old prices Nous sommes
! daccOrd.'"
Another paragraph In My Notebook" is rs follows
The painter. J. +. Rafaelli. has been developing
recently, In Paris contemporary the idea OF museum
OF famous paintings be placed in the Louvre. These
lie proposes To arrange by schools and by the artists
hanes III laise aiphs 70 hih .e i,ee 20 tn p%D1i % n
brief history OF the picture In question by tins means
1t would possible IN time t. collect photographs OF al
the famous pictures in the world The idea is excellent
and whether ii be- carried out or not in France we mlS
well upon In this country Let some pubc-spiried
| gentleman giye-to the Metropolitan Museum say
few thousand dollars TO buy photographs Il The c0uec
tOn OF tie Louvre the National Gallery tue Museums o
| Berlin, Munich Dresden Madrid and ST. Petersburg
and he Will he doing real service 10 art IN America
Then. he Wishes 10 he still more nunineen let mn
found museum OF casts OF the famous sculpture of The
world ami or ALI the fine architectural ornament Inc
materials ready; all tnat Is needed Is some one Il
take the initiative to collect them and classify thenl
The Maga.ine Art for February contains article
upon the home OF Mr.. Joh Petite. r. A. at Hampstead
hla Erance and Pompeii in Black and White" A. Mary
! +. Robinson writing upon Mr. Ehhu Nedder, says: The
! psychicaI quality (which above all Others
trhs note OF american art is very apparent in Mr..
Vodders work. Ii enyrossed him early ana had this fata
learn the best way to say it, So that his form
ouains while his idea Is almost always lisn-
gushcd He is of the artists who are not painters
and his work il often faulty In lighting. tone anOs
phere and deXerty Of eNture as 1t renned IN concep
On and design No course OF study counteracte
this natuals slovenness ofechniqne Mr. Nedder never
becanc a strenuous student in any school AS boy he
was for a while with painter named Mathson In Sher-
! burnc New York. and In 1896 lie studied for few
| months i'm the studio Of Picot In Paris. He now
twent, and hal finished his With the exception
of few lessons IN drawing and anatomy from tloren-
tine named Buonau, he received no further instruc
tlOn"
Again thewter says alluding to the drawings for ht
RIbaynt" 1t is with interest and resp peet that al
lovers or literature will observe tie impression made
| n very modern niy stlcal mind by the different ant
Oriata my sticsm of the twelfth century In Persia
| To xe the Italian details, the facile inspiration o
| MIR Vedder far with the different spirit only In the
arabesaurs which, my thinking are more suggestive
in this connection than figure drawins Is likely !.
| nIoye-onIy in these aud In one piece, The Row OF
Moving shadow Shapes does tho idea OF Omar seen