New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-13
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS.
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.

pAsrELs BY Mr.. CmLDD HAssAM-rnREE LAND.
scAPEs BY CAZ1N-FoREIGN EXPEDITIONS
SIMON JACQUES RocHARD.
Tho Architectural League announces that It's sew
enth annual exhibition will be opened TO the public
Thursday. December a. ard closed January o. press
| view and private reception will be held December
%. The exhibition Will usual attempt to describe
the years progress in architecture and the allied arts
| The objects admissible are architectural designs
embodied in plans, elevations and sections, shown
IN perspective designs for decoration. furniture and
the like photographs of executed work; cartoons for
stained glass, ulsze drawings for ornament and the
| like; models of executed proposed work; COM
pleted work. such carving in stone wood wrought
hon. mosaic glass, stuifs and furniture; sketches
drawings and paintings of architectural decorative
| subjects. No competition is mentioned. Works will
be received Of the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries on De
cember 10 and H. The day before the League closes
| Its doors Mr.. F. Hopkinson smith will open an exh
bitIon in the Avery Gallery upstairs If watercoors
| done IL Venice last summer.
Nine moro pictures have been sold at the Autumn
Academy during the last week. They are The
Twins, Orange County, N w. by A. F. TAFT, 1915 ;
Afternoon Tea" by Carrie J. Blenner, 500 "a sum
| mer Girl" by Juliet Jolley, S5c; at Work." BY
Emily slade, $50; "A Summer Girl by Charles
Bridgnan. SEQ; "spring Blossoms by Charles f.
Moss, $3.50; "Village Stories" BY L. w. Esenlohr
| n
| 500: and In Garden" by Letita B. Hart, 1928
This makes total of fortyone pictures sold for S66l2
About L. 900 persons have thus far visited the ex
hibtion which has until December 20 to increase its
sales.
The lisc Of sales at the Water Color Clubs exhibit
ton has been added TO follows Tulips by Julia
Dillon, $780, autumn on the HOusatonic,' By W. c.
Filter $s5 "Cast up by the Sea-" by NJ H. liardwlck,
1895; Shipping on the Thames" by Charles Dixon,
l & (tar-
necHcut HIS by Beatrice sturs s25; "Catslls in
| October by Jane A. Coe, S.; "Catsks in NOvem-
berD by Jane A. Coe IS; "a Story" by Francis Day,
SI6o; Turkeys and Daisies by II. NJ. Rosenberg,
| 1925; Dartmouth by c. T. Chapman, $50; "The
| Dead Cold Year, by W. N. Post, $75; "Lady Slip
pers,n by NJ c. W. Reid. $50. Twenty eight pictures
have brought 81 $50. The attendance at the galleries
has averaged from $50 to 500 daily. The exhibition
closes December Is.
The streets Of Lexington aud the country lying
| about that historic spot in Massachusetts have fur
nished Mr. ChiIdc Hassam with subjects for number
OF pastels which claim the first place in exhibition
OF his work at the Blakeslee galleries, Fftave. and
Thirty -fourthst. The locality is inviting to the
painter Lexington itself Is typical New England
town. sleepy its atmosphere and very plain and white
as to its architectural features but made beautiful by
| countless clms. Nowhere but In New England has
the village main street the stately yet homelike charm
| which Mr.. Hassam rcproduces in No 49, Elm
Avenue Lexington" The old OF villages like Con-
cord Lancaster or Lexington finds them more and
more attractive. They never grow satternly with
time; even their graveyards filled with crumblng
stones being pleasant places, as we are reminded
by sketch OF the old burial ground ut Lexington.
The sunlight Mr.. Hassam has essayed to paint Is
genial rather than brilliant 1t filters through the
branches in No. 4, The Waverly OAKS with Singh
lar softness. In some Of Mr. Hassam,s water colors
and oils of urban subjects In No. 20, Fifth Avenue
and in No. AZ, The Manhattan Club he carries
pecullarities Of color further than the tenes OF the
most advanced open-air school should allow, but
in his pastes Of the country he observes the incest
moderation. No. g. "White Birches,' No. II, a
Meadow Brook and No. Z, september Clouds" are
filed with the pure bright light of day, yet the color
fully preserved the high keys in which they
arc pitched have not caused the artist TO give his
blue skies or his very green meadows arbitrary EN-
phasis. The regard for harmony Is felt In the
autumn sketches, of which No 8, Autumn STROLL
Is the best. In pastel, apty called Eternity
Mr. Hassam confines himself to single palish blue
tint accented by a thin streak of amber light. Ii
represents closing down Of the mist off the Isles OF
shoals. The horizon is almost ndistinguishable
through the vaporous curtain which covers sea and
sky with the same tone. The solitary light in the
picture comes from indomtabe Jupiter. who triumpls
even over the mist Considered rs color scheme and
as a presentation OF a suggestive natural phenomenon
the study Is very thoughtful and artistic. Mr. Has
sans oils and waercolors reveal him as no more and
no less clever than has been for the last or so
in the use of those two mediums. His pastes should
add considerable TO his reputation.
Three pictures by Cain, just hung at the Knoeder
Gallery, testify TO his nexibility as a landscape
painter. They are devoted TO three phases Of the
DAVIS nfe morning, evening and midnight and in each
case the signs of the time registered with penera
ton and authority The centre panel in the trptych Is
a study OF Abbeville by Moonlight Abbevle Is one
of those towns In the North whose canals, lined with
houses that might be Italian as well as French, I'M
medatey provoke "reminiscences of secluded Venetian
waterways. There - The same air OF d0mecity the
same air of surviving In spite Of the domes-
ticty and the same OCCASIONAL gimpses OF trees In
full foliage leaning out Of gardens planted above the
waters level. During the day the French SKY Is
glay compared to the Venetian sky but at night the TWO
places are equalizcd both have then much The sane
characteristics Gains Ab5evile picture proves ms
In It the is not visible, but her Hight Is sufficiently
dlnused through the street for the placid water TO
catch vivid reflections OF tile dwellings on either Sue
The view is taken up the street. when dihlhlshe' at
some distance until IL Is closed by bridge lie soul oi
midnight is in the picture. :" A Farm In Holland SHOWS
a meadow powdered with dandelons ana hSso""s
pfoclamIng their color boldly under blue sky that Is
full of floating white eii. In 'rbe setting sum the
heavens are lit up with orange and rose and gold hnes
which are dlmy repeated In the play OF nght ana
shade among the bushes in the landscape beneath.
All three works bear, In addition u tle marks OF
truth, the sign manual OF an independent "rust'
Cain as much a. Daubigny or Corot Is his own
school. lie Is not the poet that CoIot Is, but Ike
Corot looks at nature through glasses that are new
and powerful that show him acts without distorting
them and seldom lead him into any OF coloraon
Perhaps his fault Is that he Is always 30 even In his
work: Just as there Indications OF falling or
so there are none OF inspired moments, OF times when
the understanding OF landscape has risen Into clair
voyant rapture corot and Rousseau had moments
~ this sort That i what gives them their |
dominion The Knoodler cutlery also Tentroduces |
MIR John f. Wers picture Forging tile shaft" which
created n sensation IN NewYork dozen years ago |
n Is n tribute 10 lsbor an svotheosis Of Drawn and
mechanic sill as they appear under pictorial COZ |