New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-24
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS,
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.
NOTES on PICTURES AND PRIZES-THE AwARna
AT THE ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-ILLUsrRA.
TORS IN THE ART GALLERY-TnE
DAUPIAS COLLECTION


OF work by instructors, members and students TO be
held in the OF the League, No. 143 East Twenty.
thlrdst at the close OF this month The pictures will
he shown at a reception to be given on the evening
Of Friday, the Goth, and will remain view from
| 10 a. m to 10 p. m. on the following day. Last
Wednesday the last of the sending In days for
the exhibition OF the Society Of American AristS
| which will be seen for the first time by members OF
the press next Friday afternoon, by the artists and
their friends next Saturday and by the general public
on Monday. May . speculation 10 what the
exhibition will bring forth offers pleasant though
prontless occupation for the next few days. especially
10 those who have noticed the absence Of certain
artists from the spring Academy. Prophecies as b
the appearance of this picture or that must be made
with caution for there is always the jury OF selection
to be reckoned WITH but may speak with tolerable
certainty OF four remarkably important contributions
There is not much probability that the jury will reject
the Madonna by Mr.. Abbot Thaycr which has
created such sensation in Boston, or the portrait he
has painted OF child of Mr. Montgomery Sears
Neither is it likely that the picture Of an artist
making his family's portrait, which Mr.. George DE p
Brush had at the Union League Club this winter win
be thrown out, or that the ossan' he has painted
will meet with any such fate. And all these pictures
have been sent to the exhibition
At the Academy the Thomas B. Clarke prize Of
$780, offered for the best American figure composition
zen, was awarded last Wednesday to Mr.. W. ST. John
Ilarper's Autumn" The Norman W. Dodge prize Of
5000, offered for the best picture painted in the United
States by woman, was awarded at the same time 10
Miss Elizabeth Il. Collins hanging the Nets The
three Julius Iallgaren prizes of $500, 300 and 800,
offered for the three best pictures In oil coors painted
in the United states by American citizens under thirty
five years of age, not awarded, because although
it necessary for only fifty of the ESQ exhibitors TO
form quorum and vote upon the pictures. not more
than twenty-six artists enough interested In the
matter to present themselves and their votes at the
Academy. In 1890 and 1891 the prizes were passed
over for a similar Why this indifference should
prevail is utterly incOmpnhensibe There are pictures
in the exhibition which deserve prizes, Mr. Tarbells
In the Orchard Mr.. IIassam's "Sehnsuchtn and Mr..
Pyellwiz's Idlewid7 make good trio for example,
and It IS absurd that they should 60 without their
de.erts simply for lack Of little unseishness and
energy on the part of the numerous artists whose
pictures have been granted the hospitality Of the Acad
| envy. Only three pictures have been sold AZ the
Academy since our last record was made Marauder'
| by Tn. Robinson $3.50 Landscape" By f. Cad,
well, $50, and MONDAY" by Mrs. j. Francis Murphy,
$40.
Mr.. George II. McCods highest gift is that Of paint
| ing atmosphere. Twelve pictures by him have been
hung at the Knoedler gallery, and by far the best Of
them Windsor Castle in which the round towers
Of the massy pile from point considerably below
the walls, are bathcd in misty, luminous sunshine;
The Tors Of Ilfracombe' study OF distant noun
tans and waters filled with light and sconset M0or'
In which the key IS changed from brightness 10 gloom,
but in which there is the subtle and expressive
treatment Of open-air effects. In these pictures In
Nantucket Moors, Twilight wherein the quiet
Of evening are dencately rendered, and in over
Stony Pastures, Somerset good English landscape
Mr.. McCOrd is q very acceptable colorst. lie Is
heavier In style and less tasteful in color In the rest
Of his pictures With these American works colec-
ton of pictures by voon, Israels Mauve and Mans
has been associated Before Vollon's simple studies
OF fruits and flowers, porcelain and metal objects =
useless to expect any very eleyang sensations, yet
he one OF the fw moGe gane . OF %om one s
society Of the old masters is only matter Of time
cana aSs Nh have very T d mas s IS Quality M pn
fat gnctuons aud transparent II needs only to be
FlemngS and Dutchmen The danger is that SO MANY
modern pigments being fugitive. the pictures fade
o1ey TheTe G a u ten Jons at the Knoedr
gallery, not of them without interest, and few
Tur ST and lobster important examples Tse
pictures by Isrnels and the other tonats Of the Low
Countries are good Illustrations OF the smudgy but
artistic methods OF this school.
Those illustrators are few whose drawings It ia
worth while place exhibition after the public has
become familiar with reproductions OF them through
the periodicals for which they were made To win
themselves a welcome they must be- pictorial as to
inspire sympathy without calling in the aid Of text 50
brilliant technicians stysts rs TO do without
pCtOllu IL Het'>Sdly, UT ~ W tle
Of scenes types to make their works useful as
documents 1t Is principally because they have en-
dcavOred to fulfil this last condition that Mr.. 1hure
Thulsrup and Mr. II. F. Zogbaum are 10 be COM
mended for filling the Keppel gallery with drawings
OF theirs nearly all black and-whites which have
been published in one the other OF the Harpef maya
zines Mr.. Thustrp has travelled In Russia and
Germany for his patrons. Mr.. Zogbaum has been com
missoned to study the American and the British soldier
and iot artists have DrOduced which thOS9
who desire 10 increase their fund OF information con-
oerlng national types, customs and costumes may BE-
glad 10 possess. Schttgen himself gives hardly
trier portrait OF the German officer IN a design for
Fegende Blaeter7 than IS given in the dissatisfied
Krolls Garden BY Mr. Th9strup; who Is quite as
and peasants. Mr.. Zogbaums soldier OF the West
and his Tommy Atkins easily recognizable. Neither
Mr.; Ihulstrup nor Mr. logbaum appeals to purely,
IN his drawing and Mr.. Thulstrup, While he generally
sketches with and is det in his placing OF lights
work Is liked for It's own sake.
We have received from Knoedler e Co. illus
trated catalogue OF collection formed by Count
Dauplas OF Lisbon, which is TO be sold the Georges
Petit Gallery in Paris on May Is and L. IL Is an
important collection OF siXtyseven old and hun
dred and forty -four modern paintings, the majority OF
the former bearing the signatures Of men like Boucher
Dr0uais FragonaN, Greuze, Largiere, Natter Prud-
hon and Vatican. men whose works have never been
surpassed and hardly equalled for certain pecul
ary elegant qualities. In the history of French art.
Charles Chaplin, recently deceased, was unique
among the Frenchmen OF his time IN reviving the
fragile, artificial and delicately vouptnous art OF
Boucher and Fmgonard and revving IL with something
OF ts original charm, and Il is significant that two
ampes Of his work are In this collection. II was the
especial pride of Count Daupias that he eclectic
In his tastes, that he had no fads, but bought only
when the picture answered TO his ideas OF artistic
beauty md thus, side by side with the eighteenth
century painters of attested fame. he placed modern
men OF the most diverse styles, but who have IN
common the faculty OF pleasing. BalIdry and
Corot Boldini and Jacqme, Chaplin and Bastlcn.
Lepagc. Judging from the, superb plates
with which the catalogue Is Illustrated he had
nm almost unfailing appreciation OF the best that is
purely beautiful In art. No final Judgment can bo
offered upon a picture unless II is based upon exa-
as the helogrpvures In this catalogue tell great
deal, and In th' present instance they give al luz
presssion OF a highly valuable collection.
1t is extremely Interesting TO see how Italy strucs