New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-15
ART NOTES.

uuch credit is due to the Groller Club for its public
snirt and enterprise In organizing at its clubhouse
No. 90 East Thirty .scconds an exhibition OF French
Afhches" or illustrated advertisements ana posters
Theatrical managers, patent medicine mannac'u'o'.
and all other persons that ilk who do so much towau
warning and demoralizing tho artistic taste OF INC
people by their hdcous posters which cover an o1'
walls and fences would do well to WISH the eA"oi"
and to learn lesson from them Among the h"lu'eN
posters exhibited are specimens of tho work Oh lara"
d'Ache,n OF Jules Cherot and OF Daimler "hi." ao
drawn with such cleverness, spirit and brio that .es
Mt once catch and hold the public eye, while thcr
artistic finish is of nature to render them worthy Oh
display in art museum instead Of sHre eDHbton
fence may be added that similar nrogress al
Rordcaux where examples OF the posters ana
mcnt Of the past forty s are G sbdMSs the growth
and progress OF this branch OF art
Aauarelles appear to be growing each year In popnr
favor Those displayed in the American Art "ale'ies
by the newly organized Wster-Coor o,up, an"
reference was made The Tribune OF FRIDAY last arc
attracting large crowds; and the same may be SAID
=, The collection OF water colors now on exhibition IN
the Keppel Galleries. Some OF the best American
artists are represented the walls OF the lator anu
the show is quito worthy OF visit one OF the clever
est pictures is that in which Childe Hassem porrays
portfv Partisan buying his newspaper at one OF the
boulevard Mosques The expressions Of character on
the faces OF the buyer Of the seller are deghtfuy
rendered and will be pronounced as true to hfe oy
all those who have sauntered along the great Fassh
thoroughfarc which extends from La MADELEINE 10 We
Porte st. Martin. Equally clever Is Francis DAY
piouante girl black half hiding her face IN Eoo H
covered novel She seems embarrassed at BENG us 10
fectcd in the perusa OF the volume, and In DOUBT as
whether best to conceal the bushes her cheek or @
eIltae title the back OF the book On the
Beach n IT, is certainly the finest and indeed S@e
Of the best pctures COMPRISED p1I n 0 Plat is like
wise worthy. of compensation Its cSlonns Francis
eelent and its indydu,ty pronounce cSsrmns
landscapes. OF which "The Mpond" Is likely " '''U
most public favor.
The artists appear to be coming 10 inc ,''v
this autumn In a marked manner FUZZY h"i, "
the members of the recently organized New forh
water-Color Club ladies' whose numericai s.e"S'
has enabled them to secure a proper recos""o' "
their rights with regard to space and position IN 'ho
exhibition of the club at the American At "aleros.
The woman's Art Club of New-York is likewise Iun
of life and possesses a membership OF about Sixty
Among the best known of the names that figure on us
rolls are those Of Rhoda Holmes Nicholes, Dora W.
Keith and Rosale Gill; meeting OF the ciuo 'ooh
place last week for the purpose OF discussing tmc On
EeSarS next s In Pa the artist be
getting on even better. Not only has she organiSed
will henceforth be represented by newspaper fonndea
owned and run by TIE association: 1t Is ortnishny
20 TSe oea Gsses artist
and as the champion Of her rights and opinions
The sacramental plate OF the old Protestant and
interesting study for both the antiquary and tic artist
Religion occupied far important place In the ex-
isence of the early coonts than 1t does In that OF
their descendants and much attention, taste and
money were lavshed those days upon objects used In
the celebration Of divine worship than now Numbers
of dccaely chased and exQrisltey fashioned chaces
cwers hagons and other forms OF ecclesiastical pato
we're brought and sent from the Old World In the SIX
teenth seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and there
Is every reason to believe that many OF the ch0icest
ctuaaps of ld
hidden away American churches and entrusted 10 the
their value to both the antiquarian and the artist
The sixth annual exhibition Of the Architectural
League of NewYork will be opened at the Fifth Avenue
Art Galleries on Tuesday. December 23. and VIII con
tinue for three weeks. The display will consist OF
architectural designs designs for decoration and or
furniture drawings, sketches and models OF archi-
tectural, decorative and ornamental subjects. Also
specimens completed work such as carving in stone
or wood wrought ron mosaic glass stus and furniture
None OF the works be displayed have ever been pnb
ljcly exhibited in New-Yorh before. Among the designs
shown will be the successful drawings OF the fourth an
Dus Gold and Silver Medal Competition which Is heid
each year in connection with the exhibition The sub
ect presented for competition is the design OF marble
foGea or pavilion for the reception Of Grecian statue
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