New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-24
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS.
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.
, NEW HEIGI,N PAINTER FORTHCOMING
EVENTS OF LOCAL INTEREsT-
EUROPEAN NOTES.


Belgium has given one unique figure painter TO the
world i'm recent years Fernand Khnopf, and now sho
furnishes a painter Of landscapes and marines who Is
scarcely as great, but who is individual enough and
powerful enough to disengage himself quickly from
the great Of workers in his field Tnls IS Franz
Courtcns, and the warrant for this remark Is 70 DC
found in Il collection Of about fifty paintings by him
on exhibition for short time at the gallery OF Sanchez
q Miller No. l2G West Twenty -thlrdst Courtens Is
first Of all a colost and master OF Hight enects:
after that he demands consideration brusman OF
uncommon vigor and Huency, and observer who has
the breadth of vision characteristic OF the impressohsts
modified by refinement such rs they soneumcs HrA'
The sentiment OF landscape OF the sea nearly
always escapes him he Is essentially n manpulator OF
paint and only occasionally responds 10 the poeUy
in nature, take him for what he is and ne Is IN
the highest degree interesting Working in the Low
Countries where the dominant color for most artists, Is
gray, he has waited for days on which the Key mas
been raised to a higher pitch, and his SKIES III some
cases. brilliant those OF the Medlerr''he'n'
No. A. Herring Boats is one of these vvld pct
urcs almost violent the contrast Of the red sails Of
the tossing feet with the blue sky. In another less
elaborated and smaller study, No 81, On the Beach,
he the gayety and clarity OF atmosphere peioVed
OF the Spanish painters OF outdoor life. with the der'
cnce that he remains cold where they woud tly giow
All his sea pictures full Of the fresh stimulating
spirit Of moving waters. The thick impaSto lie Uses
inst stops short Of heaviness and the hake-wfito
breakers which illuminate No. 30 =" A Rough sea-
and No o. Marine View" are admirably crisp and
true TO the evanescent character Oh the ehect they
cproduce. The same solid method OF laying on INC
nicmcnts which in pictures, No. 80, Farm
Yard for example is almost brutal Is yet very pleas
-, &, others like No %, Shower of Gold" wood
land scene ablaze with autumn leaves and NO. Q,
Iandscape" wherein intricate combinations Oh hghl
and shade are managed with great delicacy' IL Is
This delcacy of effect, carried as far as Is possible
with an artist whose subjectivy Is not his strong
no,n. that gives us a hint Of the higher and more
haunting qualities of landscape art in No a. Potato
cathorcr-s No. TO- "The Field of the Poor and
No 49, Return Of the Flock hint that, as we nave
said. is rare enough in Courtenss work. Rare as 1t
9, {, ,s sincere Turbd and hectic as Courtens
may be now and then. he Is never hammered lie
remains sturdy, honest workman painuhs WIN con-
yictlon to whom it is pleasure to be introduced
The DeImonico gallery has three new French pictures
Of importance A small panel by lsabey' representing
Louis Mi leaving mass in company with MS mother
and Cardinal Rlchceu and salued by his courters ara
guards is In his most temperate manner cro"usa
with figures but thOughfully composed rch IN Color
vet not vulgar as some of his pictures arc. n'er
scene painted near COnstandnopc by Diaz. who for
this occasion forsook his fary-like gyp'ies ana ds
no,cd two or three ordinary natives near an equally
commonpace bungalow is likewise in a quieler and
moro subtle vein than usual less Oriental IN color, IN
fact than some Of tho wellknown Fontainebeau ofess
scenes. The third picture is a study OF non oy
Dclacrolx executed I'm 1851 and for many years in
the Hartmann collection In Paris wihch oDtiihen
kind of celebrity the ground Of its containing only
works by DeIacroix Rousseau and Millet. Ihls work.
a very small one IS still Of DeacroiNs strongest
not ONLY I'm ruhfulness to the snarng ferocty OF us
lion but in the transparent blue tones which beautfy
the noble mountain range in the distance.
The salmagund Club. at No. 40 West Twenty
second st. will continue through Monday Tuesday and
Wednesday an exhibition OF landscapes and hgure
ncccs by Mr. Frank Moss, which opened yester'
day. The Venetian water colors by Mr.. F. Hopkinson
smith were withdrawn from Uhe Avery gallery last
ght In their place will appear tomorrow collec'
lion OF new pictures By Mr. W. L. Pcknen. After
this exhibition, which lasts a fortnight, VIII
come one Of landscapes by Mr.. Leonard Ochtman.
The twenty-hfth annual exhibition Of the American
Waterloo society In connection with which tho
tenth annual exhibition Of the NewYork Etching Club
will also be held. will be opened 10 the public on
Wednesday February l. the press view and reception
taking place the latter part Of this Week. The Fine
Arts Loan Exhibition Committee held It's organization
meeting at the Groler Club Monday evening, as
WAS announced In last Sundays Tribune. and Mr.
Henry c. Marquand elected president; Mr. Charles
A. Barney ce-presldent and Mr.. W. 4. Coffin. secre-
tary and director. The time open at the Madison square
Garden next winter for the exhibition which the comnt
tee proposes TO arrange there will extend from Novem
bor 3 TO January Is The proceeds OF the exhibition
vii devoted
societys building being erected
The Brooklyn Art Club opens Its annual exhibition
AT the Art Association Galleries, on Montague-s next
Tuesday The exhibition will remain open three
weeks The Boston Art Clubs forty exhibition
T. in full swing now will not close until February
49, Mr. Crownnshied's Italian sketches. which We're
shown at The Avery gallery in this city snort
time ago are now at the Doll and HchaMs gallery
on park.,t in Boston, where they are meeting with
liz
Mr. Frederick A. Shaw, the sculptor VINO Is "oFMns
there temporarily, has made an Invention WINCH
he believes will revolutiOnizc the art Of sculpture
No details Of hi, disc Dvery vouchoafoi. but II Is
expected 10 be exploited at the Worlds FAIR
Mr. W. Lewis Fraser, the manager OF the ART de-
partment Of The Century Magazine ieotuied d io
afternoons since in Boston before the Ne"-f"s'"u
Womcu's Press Association, choosing for his suolec'
Illustration Illustrated He took his hearers with
him nm n rlp through Italy. and spoke OF the freScoes
IN tho churches ard palaces ard other public buildings
from the work Of Giotto in the lardl chapel santa
Croce 10 the sisne chapel of Michael Angelo ana urea
IN ur,ve that all the work Of tile great painters Oh ue
Renaissance illustrative IN It's caITc'er, '%S ,ed
that IL based upon written tSN,. !ls .e IL nt
that the specialist known as the niusi traitor ! te
Of the decay Of art ana re- Nc a century TO the
present He described what he considered inc equP
Y' primarily he should b. an artist since work Of
art is work of art whether In black and white or c9or
whether initial lor Il ldShiNc i,V'Ni
Judgment" of Michael Angelo. IN conclusion, UT,
Fraser described modern methods OF reproduction ana
gave some hints az how 10 draw for wood enSi'Ns,
half tone process photoeIavurc. etc Inc lat,er pas
Of the lecture was Illustrated by fifty or more dIa""s
by the best men.
The great collection OF old masters owned py me
Earl of Dudley Is be sold at ChstieS. I'm London
within the year. This will bring Raphaels famous
"Crclx ion, into the market 10 excite the directors
OF British and Continental museums. II IS an odd
Illustration of the way things move in London as
circles that special exhibition Of works by Degas
has taken artists and critics rather by SURPRISE ana
that tho latter are in doubt to whether single
eNnmnln of The noted Erench imprcssiOnis shown ~