New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-25
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS
THE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.
SALES AT THE ACADEMY-NoTEs on THE n.
HrBITIoNs-ARr NEWS ABROAD. ---.t

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! for the corresponding week Of Last
years exhibition. There has been much speculation
regarding the probable sfatc Of the picture market
this year, and the sales at tho Academy offer the fE,t
indications which have been presented By general
exhibition. Tho outlook therefore, may be accepted
as favorable although It Is too carly 10 assume that
tho testimony Is conclusive. The sales Tor the first
week at the Academy amount to $500 against
SIS 900 for the first week of the exhibition year ago.
Tho paintings sold at the Academy, with the names
OF artists and prices Marine C. a. Plat, 800;
~ Day Dream.' J. Joley, s45; "Near Lake St.
Catherine J. b. Bristol, $3.50; A Sunny Corner'
A. +. TAFT, 1925 Fog and Cloud C. c. Crswoh
e75; Autumn Twilight kruseman Van Elien
$3.50; Daisy,1 J. @. Brown, $1,000: e Lumber
man, J. @. Tyler, $i75; a Moments Rest Har1
Roscland $500; Country Lifc' T. L. Henry, $50;
"A Spanish GYPSY" p J. Averin, s25; Looking
Down the Hudson J. f. Cropsey 1925; " Every
Thursday,' A. q. shepley, $50; "A Jolly fnrS
s. NJ. Gray, $35; "The Twins A. r. Iat 900;
Country near the Sea- Bruce Crane, s25o A
Summer Morning. T. N. Bicknell, $50; An Old
Time MaIden,n s. T. Bailey, $50; Marigolds,' Amelia
Langley $50; Studying for the Priesthood 81
DAYTON, $50 sunbeams and Dcwdrops," [. e.,
Curran 300; "Oranges,' +. NJ. Burns, S2o; " Late
for School, E. L. Henry, $780, and Tho School
Belle, S j. Guy, $3.50 The prices given are In
all cases those published in the catalogue.
The display Of sculpture at the Academy exhibition
is remarkable for its very insignihcance There
nothing which calls for special attention In the list
of two buss, two bas reliefs and group In miniar
ture which mako up the sculpture Of the collection
Nobody has had the courage yet to acknowledge
how conventional and unreal the interest in sculpture
usually is In this country and although few strong
artists have arisen, there is still before us long
period of the erection Of crude eiges which VIII DO
Judged only by their likeness to the original or
their details. But so long as sculpture Is supposed
to form a fe aturc of exhibitions, proper provision
should be made for its accommodation. i. can
hardly he encouraging to sculptors find their works
tucked away landings, or shelved on steam rsa-
ators Perhaps the fact that no part OF any exhibition
gallery I'm the city has been designed with special
reference to sculpture, is an illustration OF ths
artlfcalty of interest in the art The need OF speca
provision for sculpture another reason for fastening
the Understanding Academicans to begin an enlarge
ment of the present building on the west or 70 ouh
anew At present the Academy galleries oher few IN
ducements to sculptors.
There is talk Of an exhibition Of American pictures
nv some of the amateurs who have given special az
tenton 10 native art. Nothing would be more help
full than demonstration Of the ability of our paint
ers Such an exhibition might be made one OF most
admirable quality 1t IS pity that we cannot nave
an exhibition OF American pictures chosen With
snecial purpose every year. There might DC an ex-
hbitlon Of landscapes selected from those painted
within the last ten years and another Of genres ard
specaI collections of the works of individual artists
could certainly be made interesting. There might Dc
an exhibition of historical portraits like that IN Pniia
delpha and indeed, the possibilities are nunocriess
IL there were only individuals or an orgsnNanoh
willing to incur the trouble expense OF such I'M
dertaknrs Unfortunately exhibitions for wpat may
be termed educational purposes are rare CROUCH In
New-York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will not Be
opened until December 10 The Verestchagfn exhibit
ton at tho American Art Galleries Will be continued
into January and the collection may be shown al'er.
ward In other cities. The paintings by DelacroN ana
Breton at the Knoedlcr Gallery will remain until the
middle of December.
The first plate of the November Portfolio Is Mr.
G. w. Rheads etching after The Money changer
by Teniers the younger. The painting presents an
interior lighted only by small window In the upper
left hand corner and the etcher has therefore en-
countered heavy shadows and prevailing low tones.
since the artist has concentrated his lights upon his
centres the two faces and the pile Of coins ana papers
upon the table. Thus the exact rendering OF FORM
with full modelling and the indication Of atmosphere
and even of texture Moreover 1t has been matter
of some difficulty to preserve the tonanty OF tho
original and the easy Gadatons OF the chiaroscuro
effects These are some Of the chief difficulties pro
sented, and they not fully overcome by Mr.
Rhead, whose work inclines toward an excess Oh
opacity and heaviness, but the relative tones Of the
original are preserved anu tne Tcsut 10
reproduction. There is Photographic print present
ing Coplcy Fieldng's painting. ship In Distress
and an Amand- Durand reproduction OF scene from
Don Cuixote drawn in pen and ink by Daniel Verge,
slight sketch OF the clever Franco-span-
ish illustrator, which is furnished by Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Pennell Verge follower Of Fortuny IN
his pen and ink work, although his arr was not oaseo
upon Imitation, and he has fully mastered all he
pablo de segovie- Is perhaps the best single example
of his work Mr.. Pennell alludes 70 ne e., influence
but the writer. to be explicit should have gone BACK
to Fortuny the Of Influences OF this order
The talk of the London art world is at present
minor matters. Mr. Birch. A. r. A., has
set up his statue of Lord Beeconsfeh in the Junior
Carlton Club, and is engaged upon a statue of tho
Queen for tho Maharanah Of Podeypore. The Insti-
tute, exhibition is regarded unasprng, but on
Royal day. the Prince Of Wales, possibly from
sense Of duty, purchased two pictures. The latest
portrait of Mr.. Gladstone, that painted by Thaddeus,
has been engraved in mczzont by Mr.. Frank stern
berry under the supervision OF the ubiquitous ard
omnsclent Professor Herkomer. Dores illustrations
OF the Bible to be rpubllshed in fpcnny week
ly numbers, and this occasion is seized for repeating
the artists boast that between 1850 and 1870 no
earned ESQ 900 with his pencil. One OF the London
art critics has returned to the attack upon the con-
The arbitrary surrounding Of all pictures with mean
nsioss piece Of gilt ionery, WHICH e. 9hT sT p ss
does not suggest substitute
Although public black and white exhibitions nave
been deemed impossible I'm this, despite the great
amount of Illustrative work. a spondent writes
that the largest exhibition of Black-and hite yet
attempted is now open in the Pavilion de la Vile DO
Paris behind the Palas de Pindustrc. II consists
part of drawings made for magazines and
Illustrated papers; there also many works in
pastel which cannot by any hocus pocus be fairly
describes as blancetnoir. Over and above these,
however, few good things in pencil, chalk and
charcoal have been sent In. The best OF all tho
OF Leon Lhermlttc, perhaps tho most
brilliant master In HIS In Europe, II we put
aside the veteran Mcneil His notable contiibu-
ion IS a drawing OF some vault or catacomb. with
number Of mummfed bodies set I'm row against the
WALL II is not tho famous capuchIn vault al Rome,