New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-24
ART NEWS AND COMMENTS.
THE WEEK IN ART CIRCLES.


NOTES OF THE ExHrBITroNs-NEw PAINTINGS
AND PRINTS.
The wesrsome task of hanging pictures at tho
Academy WIN DO finished this week, and ihers win
be the usual private yiswss on Friday and saturday.
The number Of paintings sent In has been large and
there SHOULD DO no difficulty In forming coliection
OF excellent qualify. 1t should be possible 10 inn
prove upon the exhibition OF last year, although thai
was tho bet ever held BY tho Academy.
The exhibition of Barye's brcnxes and watercol.
ors, which has been announced In The Tribune, will
BE- opened Mt the American Art Galleries about April
Is, Dr. ". T. Walters has consented 10 lend cx-
amples Of Barye's finest work from bis admirsbis
collection, and Messrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence II. O.
Havemeyer and others will contribute. An effort
will be made 30 obtain some bronzes from the Cor
eoran Gallery, The exhibition win be practically COM
plete that It viii illustrate oil tho essential phasos
OF Barye's work, and It win include many proofs
which con psrstvely few have secn. The Truth,
science AMI sympathetic quality Of Barye's work
have been recognized by several American amateurs.
for many years, but there has been in New-York no
adequate opportunity for general study Of the grcat
est modern sculptor of animals me value Of such.
exhibition 10 obvious and its purpose, the creation
of interest in subscriptions TO the Barge memorial
in Paris, deserves cordial support.
An exhibition of American paintings win be opened
ct the American Art Galleries the first week IN May.
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Buffalo and osle painting will be selected for tie
Buffalo Academy OF Fine Arts.
The Pastel Club win open an sxhhition at tho
wunderlich Gallery next month Mr.. Blum has CON!
nfbuted some pastel drawings to the exhibition IN
the gallery of Messrs. Keppel Co., which recall the
charming group Of sketches shown last year But
the present examples less apt in expression less
certain in the attainment of results. They dons
upon gray paper with touches Of red and blue
and yellow but the language Of suggestion IS some
times carried too far Among the more "importanr
pictures Of this collection two coast by
Mr.. W. 7. Richards, which entirely worthy ex-
amples Of the artists work his manner, founded
upon the English school Of careful linear drawing and
completeness Of details is familiar TO every one. but
these pictures are finer in atmospheric quality and
low green cliffs in the ig6. Of the setting sun e
aeularly good in pictorial q well as IN simply 'go,s
color; y Ssss,s " 4 Gibson Ssyps:a, Her S
others, with some drawings by Mr.. c. A Piatt
Messrs. Knoedler & Co. have received an aim-
portsntP example Of Troyon, Tho Pasturage,' from
the collection Of De Foor Bey. This is painting Of
large red Normandy COW standing the edge Of .
stream. with the head turned to one side Just in
the is white and red calf, and there arc other
cattle in the background upon plain, underneath
pale slightly vaporous shy The attitude Of the most
prominent animal strained, but the coorfng Is
rich and SOFT and the brown water in the foreground
Is expressed with much deltcacy and truth Tho
coat of THE calf Is cruder and more ohaAy and else
whore the picture is uneven, but its value and in
tercst arc undenisble In the same room is the last
picture which Daubgny sent to the salon. the Hsr-
Dor Of Dleppe.' painted In 1877, the year OF tho
artists death. This Is a painting Of stretch OF low
ground with pools Of water, touched with yellow
light in the foreground and beyond are ships ana me
irregular buildings of the town, whore red roof ASSERTS
itself among the dull colors Of tho Surroundings Tho
picture is comparatively low IN tone, gloomy 10
places and there is little Of the artists familiar
use of eens In subject and IN coiorin& tho picture
Is unusual but It has the merits Of simple and
broad design and Of painterlihe execution. In adj
dlion to tho element of personal interest It Is ac-
country, although BoussOa vafadOn cs. and others
other pIs@res the .rdss has sOSsS, the ,ia q .ss
mystery q the night The reclining assIs are
color but 1t might be difficult TO reconcile the clear
ss of the cOlSrns and the darkness Thlsa wells
exact truth Of facts But the twilight effect asyn
t asa an ss s o Sh
the attempt at sugges uveness and pictorial quality
In placing his beasts Of prey in his .watereolors
against peculiarly wild and desolate bsekgronnds
81 n ssun Sr ne s ss1 Sc , xss
are not unimprossve 49,
Johann Wilhelm preyer whose death was reported
last week. was ranked among the first Of the Dussel
dorf painters, and not many years ago American col
lectors regarded him as the first sdlIlife and tufb
painter of any modern school, He was born at Rheyds
near Dusseldorf July 10, 1903, and he was pupil
Of tho Dusseldorf Academy from 1922 to 1897. For
The next twenty years he spent much time In travelling
on the Continent and studying various galleries His
speciality, adopted early as 1880, was faithfully
adhered to. One painting Of wild flowers dated 1887,
in the National Gallery at Berlin, an early suiiife
picture painted 1884 in the Konigsberg Museum,
'ruft piece IN the Lepsic Museum, and sah
life In the Munich Pinacothek stiiliife painted In
1857 is in the gallery Of Mr. W. p Walters and great
many others have been brought TO this country. With
he passing Of the Dusseldorf school, preyers repnta
ION declined but mos. amateurs are familiar with his
Example Of his art may be seen in tho wolfe collection
t the Metropolitan Museum which also contains an
Example Of bis daughters stiL life painting. A SON
survives who is o painter Oh genres.
Among articles on Vatican Rude n,e history Of en-
Zraying 10 colors and the odiot collection. IN the
darch Gazette des Bcaux Arts" Is by NJ Lousslo
mon the recent exhibition Of painter echers at the
Ourand- Ruel gallery In Parts. After depreca1ns
'arisian lack Of interest In original etchtng NJ Lousta
OF says One is not Obliged 10 teach the English and
americans that the works Of first impulse, rapidly
developed under the fingers Of an artist have very
many charms for which would vainly search for
race IN the finished works which the artist
as painfully labored and medstated. They have the
race and faole attracuveness OF Letters written by
eople of wit and not intended for publicity The
uthor without knowing It d!scloses himself eomDctely
me understands perfectly that which he says, and
hat which he has not taken the trouble TO say Afcs
L. Whist is the original etchingf drawing multiplied By
40 miracle Of printing In this shoot Of paper tbs
,odsltes the NEST oaptvatingof art whore II appears
eshablle It is a rare spectacle for him who kRovs
ow 30 SEQ but the eyes OF the crowd have %
,ts curiosity The crowd does not comprehend tha
a,fv,,rd the sngecstou1 H. Loustatet has bean q
asty IN judging American and English by the ap-
reciative Judgment Of few amateurs. Beta coun.
les have been flooded with heavy lsbored engraTer'
chngs Of recent years, and IL IS an open question
neither tire aat Of original design with the needle VIII
cover from the abuses 10 which has been subjected
the Paris exhibition Miss C2satt and Messrs Pas.
sh and Plat were among the exhibitors, and per- a