New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-23
PICTURES IN BROOKLYN

The annual exhibition Of the Brooklyn Art As.
soca'ion which will remain open at No. ia Montague.
ST. until April -, has been rendered interesting by
a rather unconventional but certainly well advised
arrangement. A limited number of artists have con.
trbuted. and the association has assigned TO each
exhibitor space in one part of the gallery for four
five pictures. This has brought about the forn,o
ton Of little groups of pictures each representing
an individuality, which naturally give the exhibition
very different character from that which usually
belongs 10 miscellaneous gathering OF American
paintings. 1t l. not necessary enter into an ex-
haustve discussion Of these groups, for the majority
Of the pictures composing them have been hung in
previous exhibitions in Newly or but at least record
should be made Of the Impressions left by two or three
Of the exhibitors Mr. Kenyon COXs four nude studies
seen together for the first tme while they make more
apparent than the defect in his art it's absolute
maierialsm, its emptiness of any spiritual content
emphasizes just strongly his great and among his
countTymen almost unique virtue. Mr.. Coxs ideal
may be the very anthesiS of that ever elusive one
whose supreme charm. Paul Bourget SAYS Is that
of being a phantom; it may be as tangible and as
of the earth earthly as that beautiful figure
which The artist has painted perhaps with uncon-
scious sefrevelaton. in No. 20. The Pursuit of the
IDEAL But tangbility has its obvious advantages
That which can be clearly can be clearly depicted
and Mr.. COX's figures are very correctly observed
His Diana Is not the transory GOODIES of Actac)ns
momcntary vision. but model who has remained sta
tOnary long enough TO be faithfully portrayed That
she is faithfully portrayed is what give Mr. Cox his
high place 1t is the uncommon strength and veracity Of
his modelling and the fine quality Of his flesh. painting
IN the two pictures have mentioned, In No 20,
May and in No. "a Brave" though this last work
is little muddy. that make him important and most
interesting artist Mr.. Cox remarked iii was
prior to the creation of the Madison Square DIANA that
more satisfactory estimate of Mr.. It. Gaudens would
be possible when he had shown what he could do with
the nude. The reflection IS with us that Mr. Coxs full
ran sc will not be known until he has shown what he
do with nude female figure OF spiualized beauty.
The only other figure painters of significance who
exhibited are Mr. Beclwith and Mr.. Eaton the former
with five small pictures, of which No As, Sewing In
the Garden mpressonistlc and very clever open
air study. which at the Union Club in January. Is
the best, but which all bright in color and spirit.
Mr.. Eaon's fonr paintings llfe-size portraits Of
men, not pictorial works but rich in the thoughtful
ness and earnest analysis which missed often in
pictures The landScapists have most Of the wall
space. NJ. Inness, Mr. Ranger and Mr.. Wyant are
even and pleasing in the five pictures they each have
respective places because they have not Disseminated
in selecting their works. Mr. Coffin show, with the
finely lighted landscape Pennsylvania Farm-After
ton of the society of American Artists Two three
years ago. three pictures that FAR below ii In
mospheIlc qualities and charm of composition and only
Of Mr.. IryOn'S i've landscapes, No. 80. \ sum
Cloud" has his customary excellence Nj. Joseph
ii. Boston is attractive in No. 10. "Twihght-Ea>t
River because he paints picturesque subcct-pant >
it sympathetcally and with considerable skill. The
generosity Of some private gentlemen In opening their
of quartet Of good landscapes by Mr. Homer Martin,
OF the pictures by Mr. Ochtman. lately exhibited
at Avcry's, aud number OF works by BcIand,
Jongkind, Decamps and several other foreigners The
picture Of child by SIR Joshua REYNOLDS is not
worthy the great English artist, Neither has the
little landscape attributed to Miet the qualities of the
equally great FIenchmdn