New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-08
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.
PROSPECTIVE EvENTS-PICTURES BY Mr. RIM,
INGTON-MR. HoPKINSoN SMITHS vENE.
TIAN STUDIES,

| TIAN STUDIES.
The Spring Academy will be opened to the publlo
on Monday, March 81 and will last until SATURDAY.
May -. According to the circular Just issued work.
will be received at the Academy OF Design from
] Thursday, March Q, to Saturday, March T. Incl,sye
As usual there will be five prizes offered for compet
on that OF $780, founded by T. b. Clarke the threa
OF $780, 800 and $780, each founded by julius Hail.
garten, and the Norman w. Dodge prize, for women
| Of 1900. The Union League Club holds its month";
| exhibition this week. At the Fine Arts SocIety,s
building the interesting exhibition of the Architectural
| League continues ami should not be neglected. The
architectural and decorative departments are both
we'll filed Other current exhibitions are discussed
below. At Wunderlchs, toward the end Of the month
there will be shown group Of etchiDgs made from
| scenes in the country Of Burns by David Law
| The exhibition Of the Ncw-Yorh Water Color Club
at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries closed last night
10 give place to the exhibition OF works By twelve
American artists which has already been announced
and will be opened next Tuesday The attendance "A
| Che water color show has been fair The sales have
been few-lcss than forty pictures altogether. To
the sales previously recorded the following may be
added "A villa in Bermuda by Ross Turner, $40:
| Chrysanhemums," by Emily slade, s75; Revere'
| by !. Il. Wi!es, $125 Breaking Away by l.. c.
| Daniels, $25; "MOrning Lights by W. I. Br9oks
$50; " Iemlocls and SNOW By ". l.. Palmer, sT5;
| Roofs" by n. F. Bunner. s25 " Good Morning" BY
l.. F.. Van Gorder 80. Total of sales made since the
| opening day. Sl70j.
America Is indebted to Mr. Frederic Remington;
no one has caught with more precision than he has
the note of her Western frontier types lie has drawn
the portraits Of the ypica! soldiers Indians COW.
boys and anchmen OF the far West, and he has drawn
them well. The features. the carriage and the
trappngs Of these picturesque adventures he h.,
made really familiar to the East. At the American
Art Galleries collection Of his works Is exhibition
to be sold at auction next Friday nght-and Il provss
how much he HIS TO the fact that he has
drawn the portraits to which we refer and not, in
the last sense Of the word, painted them There
nearly forty oil paintings the walls and more
than a score of water colors. The actual drawings
number only thrtytwo. But the qualities which
make Mr.. RemingtOns work worthy qualities Of
draughtsmanshlp. His color is dry and Opaque there
IS nothing artistic In his textures, there personal
feeling In his brushing and there Is not one Of his
paintings which would not look WELL II not better,
In black and white reproduction made on a smaller
scale. Consider his pictures in fact, designs made
for reproduction and their strength IS instantly ap-
parent. By exhibiting them as he does Mr. Remng.
ton practically asks 10 have them judged paintings.
We venture 10 question his wisdom in doing So for
although he has worked in color for some time and
has figured in many exhibition. his province is that
Of the black and white illustrator. that OF tho
painter OF easel pictures or course an illustrator
and especially one enterprsng as Mr.. Remington,
could not be expected 10 recognize his limitations
Color IS OF the greatest destinations in the world
and the Illustrator is not only ambitious but human.
To find him at his best, however, II is necessary 10
keep In mind his special faculties. Mr. Reminc.
tons faculties are for the deineation OF details de-
tails Of FORM OF feature and OF costume the repre-
sentauon Of animate bodies In motion. Possibly he has
studied Muybrdge. But his pundng horses with their
energetic riders, give impression Of having been
done from lifc These pictures are extraordinarily
ofiufta
their truth provokes no suspicion Of the cameras
having been used. The freedom and synthetic effect
OF No. SO, Breaking Broncho"; No. so, Heading
the Drove and No. AZ, "A Buck Jumper are
suggestive Of observation not Of mecha meal potteng
over strained attitudes. Mr. Remington has studied
his models closelythere is collection Of spurs SNOW
shoes, weapons and similar objects shown with tho
pictures 10 point to the carefuness OF his work-aud
his pictures convincing. Whether he paints tho
Mexican, In Nos. SO, SO and Al, the aborgine.
In Nos. 46 and 81 (the latter illustration Of a
curious CUSTOM, the Manufactured white Of
the plains. in Nos. 30. SO. Ga and 90. lie manages
to present distinct, racy type. His oil studies OF
Pruss!an military men are equally clever and his
oolors OF the latter better The seven
eight studies made in Berlin inmitable. They
are deity drawn and they have the humorous touch
without Which picture Of Prussan officer tells
only half its tale II the water colors better
than tile oils, the black and whites better than
either OF the former. In studies Ike No. 90, a
SIOUX; No. O5, Dlackfoot'; No. 81. French Half
breed" and No. so, "The Old SQuaw,' Mr.. Remins-
ton Is in his natural and most serviceable veln
lie knows his medium, he knows his subject. and tie
result satisfying Itself and perfectly adapted to
rcproduc1ion Most OF the black and whites are tle
originals OF The illustrations published In tho
recent edition OF Mr.. Parkmans Oregon TRAIL Mr.
Remlngtons collection being small one, the galleries
contain other objects to be sold at auction this week.
A considerable quantity OF the Kawasltma textiles
Ltely touched upon I'm Tie Tribune shown; Mr.
Fuka shila Of the japanese Trading Company, taxes
tbs opportunity 10 dispose OF large huihOer VI
japanese and Chinese porceains, articles IN metal
worries and lacquers. and there are seven painlhss
by japanese artist Mr.. Noric Komon, who has the
minutcness characteristic OF his nation ana sense
OF relief and modelling picked up in this country.
The subjects interesting scenes from native He
The execution Is thorough and refined, but not ua'
common or particularly pleasing.
Mr.. Hophnson Smith seems inclined to continue
his Venetian studies. Last year he made a good eN
nbl,ion at Avery's OF summers work on the canas'
and now at the same gallery he hangs MY "'''
water eoors of the loveliest Of all European eiue
He is one OF the few whose Venetian pictures arc
purely Venetian. Ills is not poetic Venice he'atr
il II spectacular but like the Venice OF MT HOVER:
il is A Venice whose downright reality Is only etc.
BY It's artistic charm and whose CHARM Is tne VIZ IN
OF It's reality. We miss effects In him whch eet, ~a
other artists can give lie does not appear - ha
ever sought Venice In her splendid regal mooi' her. ~.
example as Mr.. Bunce has sought and ioaifi "us'
Imt while the Venetian strain Is susceptible o. ln'
finite variations IL Yet retains us unique eharae'sII.
The key by which Mr. smith abides IS beautiful 40
never force, "A note. sharply defined some 0, w
elects are with which he deals, his touch never Ia,
the s,accs,o quality 10 which those effects nlse ~.
nis ly hive tempted him. No. IL. High Noon on W
Kiva" and No II, ALONG the Riva, are go0d spo.
men, OF the sOftness OF Ills atmosphere Oh tl3 ao.,
Of hnrd glitter In his studies OF light. me sHN't,
and subtle quality OF Mr.. smiths atmosphere MAJ ~.
partly ascrbed to his analysis o! lISAt ELECTS ~ ot
| ma.
his peculiar appreciation OF these regions. Las 49,
he exhibited quite group OF skerars lnas ~ h,prs
less reuurntcd parts OF Venice. ana TINS year ne o'i-
forward more material OF the Same sort IN No. ~.
" pehnd tie Public Garden: NO % \ DIT srs
The old rose walls and the subduei CLEAN of tle pas
water which are found only by searching ior .