Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-25
REVIEW OF ART FOR THE WEEK.

ALARGE pastel portrait of the late Captain
Reese, by Dabbs, is shown at Gillespie's.
Two fine water-colors by F. s. Medairy are
shown at Gillespie's. One Of them, a winter
landscape. is unusually strong in composition,
and presents beautiful effect of local coloring
and light and shade.
Mr.. ID. B. WALKLEY has just returned from
a trip to the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio where
he has been busiy engaged making studies of
the interior of Shaker home, for use in a
painting upon which he is now at work.
RING Roses is the title of picture by
Fred Morgan, showing a group of children
playing this popular game. The painting has
been skilfully copied in etching by c. 0. Muir
ray, and proofs are now exhibited at the art
stores.
Mr.. WILBUR L. WRIGHT, late of the firm
of S. Boyd & Co., has assumed charge of the
Hacke gallery which is being renovated and
improved. Alterations have been made in the
skylights and in other features of the room,
with view to rendering it more satisfactory
for exhibition purposes. Mr.. Wright expects
to have the gallery stocked with new pictures
and open to the public in the course of few
days. 1t will then continue to be open during
all the summer from A. NJ. until p M, every
day except Sundays.
MISS MARIE D. CoYLE has placed three
paintings in oil upon exhibition at Young's.
Two of them are still life studies, one of
contrast against some large green leaves The
colorIng of the fruit is fairly good but it is
somewhat out Of tone with that of the back
ground. The third picture is landscape very
strong in composition sndiI with better effect Of
of the Others Miss Coyle appears to do the
best work in landscapes, and has managed this
painting very well indeed, giving good effect
OF light in the sky and yet keeping 1t in tone
with the balance of the picture.
PROBABLY few will dispute the assertion
that of all styles of decorative work in wood
scarcely any look poorer and meaner than open
fretwork executed with scroll saw. This is
particularly true as regards sawn work applied
as decoration upon fiat panels of polished
wood, with which it neither harmonizes nor
pleasantly contrasts. Furniture that has been
designed with due attention to form and the
proper proportion OF It's different parts can
never look mean, however, plain it may be-
and it is much better plain than covered with
unsuitable description of ornamentation. which
materially detracts from its dignity withou.
adding anything to Its grece. A small amount
of well executed carving upon furniture will
do more toward giving it an appearance of
richness than all the fretwork that can be piled
on it especially if the carving appears as a part
of its structural character.
Two companion pictures by Mr. ]. A. Saint
are shown this week at Gillespie's In the first
picture may be seen an old chip basket in
which a white hen has established herself for
chicks. A couple Of small gray kittens are
amusing themselves close at hand by tossing
about an egg that has rolled from the nest
through hole in the side of the basket while
her ladyship presumably observes the scene
with much displeasure as she suddenly pops
out her head to regard the performance. In
the second painting is depicted the astonish-
ment of the kittens, as they accidently crack
the shell of the egg ana discover the form of a
little yellow chick; and while they are engaged
in 1afI of @k,e
phenomenon the hen has seized one of them by
the tail as means of puni>hing their unwar-
rantable interference with her affairs. A third
picture by Mr.. Saint represents group of little
ducklings by the side of small stream. The
foremost one has its head raised and holds in
its bill a small specimen of the mud crab which
its companions evidently regard as a sort of
natural curiosity. In all of these paintings
may be noted a marked improvement, as re-
CARDS handling, over MIR. Saints previous ef.
torts IN the same line.
QUITE large number of paintings have been
added to the collection which Messrs. Gross &
Lane are exhibiting at GiIlespie's SO that all
the available space upon the walls of the gal.
lery is covered with pictures of more than
ordinary interest on account of the fa,nous
names they bear. In one or two instances the
name is everything. This il notably true of
the picture by Courbet,a q very poor but yery ex-
pensiVe one, and in . less degree of that by
Rousseau, which is probably of great value
commercially, whatever may be its real merit
as work OF art Some of the later arrivals.
however. are really fine paintings, among them
the marine, by Dauphln; the landscape, BY
Daubigny; The Eagle" by Delacroix, and the
large battle piece by Troyson. The sketch by
Cabanel for his picture, The Birth of Venus.h
is very fine in drawing, and the works by Rico.
and his pupil, Reyna, are splendid effects OF
color A small study in pastel is of interest,"
as the work Of Millet, though it would
scarcely attract attention without the
hos al haa
another picture by Corot very much smaller
than the one shown last week and lust as much
better; in fact the artistic value OF the two
works varies inversely as their size, and their
worth in dollars ought to do the same, as q bad
picture only looks worse by being large. This
exhibition will be closed about the middle of
the present week.
A COUPLE of fine works by Linford are on