New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-17
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS.
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.
LOCAL EYENTS-SALES AT THE ACADEMIC
AMERICAN ART AT MUNIcH-sUMMER

by Antoine WALTON and Josef Israels There
will be an exhibition at the Keppe Gal.
ery, from April 10 to April 30, Of pictures and
drawings by Mr.. Thure de Thul.trup and Mr.. Rufus
F. Zogbaum. The pictures by the late d. Il. Fitz ut
the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries will remain there
until Thursday the 21st, when the sale. which Is TO
be concluded the 22d, will be begun. On May 9,
the same day that has been chosen for the public
opening OF the next exhibition at these galleries. that
OF the Society of American Artists, the Metropolitan
Museum OF Art will hold its regular spring reception.
The Museum closes tomorrow and the next eight
ten days will be devoted TO the placing OF the
objects Of bequeathed by Mrs. Elizabeth Coles and
Mr.. Z. c. Moore.
In a letter printed in The Tribune OF last Monday,
replying to the query which had been put In this
column to why his pictures were 80 slow IN Coming
to NewYork, Mr.. Walter Crane stated that his works
were exhibited at Boston, at Chicago ana al o Louis
by special invitation from the authorities Oh the art
museums and institutions of those cities, who
gave their bond to the customs and undertook
the expenses OF transport and he added that tho
libcraty OF those authorities had enabled him to show
his works with q completeness that would not have
otherwise been possible The Inference Is that II
New York had been inclined she might nave had
the pictures, too, before this AS 1t is, 1t has re-
mained for the Brooklyn Art Association TO come
forward and assume the responsibilities attendant upon
arranging an exhibition Of the collection The exhibition
Is promised for next month, prio- to the trans
portation OF the pictures to Philadelphia where the
Art Club has agreed to show them for awhile. New
Workers who really care about such things viii not
mind taking the journey the Bridge The remote
possibility that exhibition OF Mr.. Cranes designs
NAV be held In New-Yorl upon some future occasion
may do something TO mitigate the unpleasantness OF
the fact that In matter Of art which appeals TO
every intelligent person. NewYork has thus far shown
no unwilngness to be outdone by Boston, Chicago,
St. Louis Brooklyn and Philadelphia.
The following pictures in the exhibition at tho
Academy of Design have been sold in addition TO
those mentioned In The Tribune last sunday "A New
Story by seymour J. Guy. $3.50; "On Guard.7 by
J. G. Brown, $3.50; The First Day OF Indian Sum-
mer, By J. Alden Weir. 300; "Low Tide-Grand
Menan, "by A. T. Bncher, $500; Flowers from
Crandmas Garden by Carrie l.. Carter, 800; ala
Cigale," by LYDIA Field Emmett, 500.
About three months the Central Committee Of
the fourth International Exhibition OF Fine Arts,
which is to be held in the Crystal Palace at Munich
from June to october 81, appointed Mr. Charles F.
Uich, the wellknown American artist. to come TO
this country and enter into arrangements with the
artists and with the rss for the especial furtheranco
Of the Interests Of the exhibition That, at any
rate, is the way in which the Central COMMITTEES
expressed it, From "The studio we learn that the
American artists living in Munich had the good sense.
avoiding the cumbersome machinery OF committee. TO
put the whole matter Of the selection Of the pictures
into the hands OF person IN whose judgment and
taste they place confidence Quite aside from tho
question VI the Of Mr.. Ulrichs appointment,
many artists would doubtless Ike to have the exact
nature OF his duties laid down In his instructions,
explained with authority. The following list taken
from THE Studion gives the names OF the artists
selected by Mr. Ulrich and the number Of pictures BY
which they will each be represented J. Alden Weir
a., Dennis Miller Bunker a. Benjamin r. F1tz Oh
Charles Melville Dewey a. Kenyon Cox (2), George
Inness 81, wlnslow Homer a. George de Forest
Brush (cl, A. H. wyant o.. Emil Carlson d. Robert
W. vonnoh (2), Horato Walker (o), John S. Sargent
49, William VI. Chase 81. T. W. Dewing 81. Childe
Hassam (3). II. s Mowbray (o). Edmund c. Tarbell
fol Frank W. Benson a., d. ". Tryon 81, A. II.
Thayer (3) and J. Men. Whistler a.. Augustus St.
Gaudens and Gin L. Warner will send casts OF their
works the former six and the latter three drawings
will be lent BY the publishers Of "The Century,
ascribner's' ard "Harpers," including Abbey's Illus
tratlons to the comedies Of Shakespeare and the en-
fire American exhibit Is to be placed IN room de-
signed BY Stanford White
There Will BE- no lack OF art exhibitions abroad this
summer. In London the Royal Academy opens on
May . and the new English Ar Club week or two
Inter- In Paris the sOcietc des Artistes Francois
opens Mt the Champs Elysees on May l. and the
societe Natonale des Beaux-.irts opens its rival
salon at the ChampsdeMars on May = The date
OF the opening OF exposition at Munich has already
been given In Genoa the Italo-American exhibition,
organized for the celebration OF the 400th anniversary
Of the discovery of America opens on June or there
abouts. and in Madrid. on september II, similar cx-
position VIII be inauguraied each having a section
Dedicated 10 the fine There will be no end OF
special exhibitions like that OF old masters Of the
Dutch and Flemish school, which the Burlington Fine
Arts Clab is preparing for May, or like that Of Cent
Chefs dCeuvre. which Is to occupy the Georges Pett
galleries in June.
"shw Sunday the day upon which the artists
OF London give their friends and the critics glimpse
OF their Academy pictures. has flooded the London
papers with pufs preliminary The list which one
journal offers OF the chief pictures OF the wear Is
headed by FIVE OF Cir Frederick Leightons works. Of
which two. "And the sea Gave up its Dead " and
The Garden Of tho Ilesperides,' promise the most
These are followed by two Tadcmas. neither remark
able In subject two landscapes and portrait. by
Mals another Napoleonic picture BY Orcharison,
Napoleon Debating the History OF his Campaigns
to Las CasaS ut st. Helena" which Is
on oi'' the BeleTophon'' in the c6antrev Request;
ner SS1p:a an orpRrs and EDydce by solomon
J. solomon landscapes by Leader Bonghton. yicat
Cow. Rudolf Lehman and Colin Hunter; miscellaneous
s pieces By roy Hr ErtHn f
chcyallier Toyler And b lGr6er sch%ah The only
ds1SSss @ George OFF, lie
large pearly landscape called Holland and picture
Of butch poppy held 1t Is not known positively
rumored that he is bnsy upon study of Isaiah.
Mr.. whistler was interviewed by representative
OF The Illustrated News Of the World" the ESQ
OF his exhibition In London, and he said among other
things: II look upon this collection merely MS q
prelude to that which hope TO show before long In
Paris where all strongest art sympathies are cen:
tired. But l wish il 10 be particularly understood
that do not ree1rd this little show in any WAY
representative exhibition OF my work. some 81
those important exhibitions at the Grosyenor repre-
Leighton and Watts You see. / am showing sre
merely some forty paintings In oil. but they do not
Include the Sarasatc. for instance, many other
equally welknown pictures. Then there are here
no etchIngs Autographs no watercolors, no pas.
tells: without examples of these exhibition could
be said represent my work." lie said further:
~ am at work on nll-lengh portrait Of DIS
tIngulshed man. the Comte Robert de Montesqniou.
Ii is standing figure. and IN Paris those who have
seen II declare II is quite OF the best things