New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-15
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS
CURRENT AND COMING EvENTs-rHE ARcur.
TECTURAL LEAGUES DECORATIVE MS.
pLAY-BARYE BRoNzEs-NorEs

| PLAY-BARYE BRONZES-NOTES
| The weather has had a bad effect upon the a.,
| hibItlons At the Architectural League there have
been comparatively few visitors. and Mr. IIophusoo
smiths Venetian pictures at Avcry's have not han
| seen by half as many amateurs as good wesths, .
| wonld have brought TO the gallery. The time OF M,
Smiths exhibition has wisely been extended ana
the water cOlOrs vii! remain on the walls until next
| Saturday night. Downstairs In the Fifth Aycnus
| Art Galleries the collection OF works by twelva
| American artists will not be dispersed until TUESDAY
| and Wednesday evenings. 1t will be followed I'm.
medIately by a number OF paintings BY j. b. Bristol
y. A. At the Fine Art sccietys building committees
| are already Immersed in preparations for the gram
loan exhibition OF pictures and objects OF art which
| Is TO be opened In February and Is to I'LL In mosa
| OF the time between that month and the OPENING
OF tho exhibition OF the Society Of American Ar,u
| In April.
| 1t would not be altogether unnatural for any ono
walking through the Architectural Leagues exhibition
to assume that the League an association for the
| DEVELOPMENT Of decorative rather than purely con,
structve art. Certainly the Subcommittee on decon.
ton makes n bravei show than does the Subcommittee
on architecture. During the last ten days the lara
north gallery devoted to paintings and objects Of
applied art has worn the harmonious air which Il
lacked when first notes were pInted-the hanging
| committee having finally brought order out Of con.
| fusion-and that air is not only harmonious, but
Dnlllant 1Hefe cOulu Dccil Uo HdpWer tNukno
than that OF making archaeological pavilion for
| the stained glass There are beautiful essaya
In this form OF art by Mr.. Lafarge, Mr. Maitland Arm.
strong and the Tiffany Glass Company, and they are
shown to the best possible advantage. In connection
with these executed productions there are hung the
original cartoons and sketches, fact 10 b
| emphasized for demonstration OF the progress
OF q work OF art through some OF its various stages
is in the highest degree educational The committee
| hoc than direction.
some metal fixtures designed by Mr.. f. +. Caldwell
for the Archer and PancOast Company, and for the
new Hotel Waldorf drawings, models. matrices and
finished specimens are all shown The original de-
signs and the final proofs OF some charming wall
Papers are contributed by Nevlus and liaviland. But
most OF all will the amateur appreciate the privilege
OF being admitted to the mysteries OF work in
transltD in the case Of the Worlds Fair decorations
II must be confessed that the representation OF these
il confused enough of the painters Mr.. Basheld alone
gives n lucid idea In single color sketch OF what
his dome In the Liberal Arts Building is TO be like
Iut VIC easily wait for next May
10 see exactly what the artists have
done at Chicago. and, besides, these sketches
were not made for this exhibition-hey were simply
gathered from their authors workrooms to ilusn,s
some OF the methods used in the latter In that Is
their value II Il extremely interesting 10 note the way
IN which Mr.. Kenyon Cox has drawn from the
fnide model first and then made additional studies OF
the same figures draped There are positive lessons
in draughsmanShip in the academic yet vI1le
studies by Mr.. W. l.. Dodge, In the grace
fu designs done In an accomplished black.
and white artists best style by Mr.. C. s. Rein
hart and I'm the cartoons by Mcs,r,. shirlaw, Reid
and Weir. II any adverse criticism Is provoked by
these drawings, it Is that no remarkable ierunty
Of Imagination appears to have waited upon the task
OF making the emblematic figures obviously embe-
matte s,n, this defect is more than likely TO have
disappeared In the completed work. and no doubt the
various ar,ss explanatory in their iiieTent vas,
as Mr. Beckwith is In his d" Panel Representing Elec-
tricty, One Of the first features OF the Fair Will
be the proof OF our capacity incapaciy for mural
decoration. The preliminary sketches assuredy promise
we'll. From the data relating 10 The plastic Work
about the buildings. impression equally encouraging
on the WHOLE is b. CLEANED. II Is meagre data and
It has been tnadequatey caalogued, but even the
anal photographs reveal something OF the excellence
Of Mr. Roh smiths Franklin Of Mr.. ID. c.
rrench's uuadrga for Columbian arch ana
OF one at least OF Mr.. Martny's works, MS gFoap
entitled The Horoscope Two small plaster m1dc'
Of polar bears and one OF a ram for Fair brAse
show that Mr. Phinnster Proctor Is an "anlInai1
worthy of the OCCASION: Mr. Karl Biiter's spirited
croup IMPLYING Water makes pleasing appeirans,
in the plaster exhibited. AMI the two mednlions Of
Titan and Ra phael .or the Fine Arts Building OF which
Mr. Warner shows sketches In plaster, are striking
rs sculpture, II not portraits. II l. ei"uNihs "
lind Mr. Warner working boldly and in spirit "
arcenes, I'm these colossal pieces aud then vishms
dccacy and refinement upon the "scu'enlr nal
dollar, and the dedication medal More than
worthy to Le associated with the latter artistic eho's
is the se,l Of the Niagara Power Company eAh'n'ei
I'm large plaster form and in small silver by us
SCULPTOR MIR Macmonnies This Is a mastery per
fo,mance, full OF originality. and Win TOUCH VI
coouIns siyle Mr. Frcnch's me monument ITO
group Of Death and the Young sculptor OF WHICH
we have spoken previously Is again exhibited We a'
clad to say there Is dainty little portrait Of .
child In relief. by Mr.. Hartley, and there Is Dec
ora,ivc Bust by Mr.. Henry Linder "heh
has a grace OF It's OWE. There Is little else
I'm SCULPTURE here which need detain u. The As,or
Historical Door for Trinity Church. by Mr. Nehas' Is
historical enough, but not notably artistic nor "'
there high qualities In the "Orpheu," OF Mr.. liozer' VI
the bronze portrait in tasrelief by Mr. IL. Lesrana
Cannon There some exceedingly rch pieces y.
old textile art in this exhibition, ana one example "
modern work, Il large reproduction OF Raphaei'
Miraculous Draugh, OF Fishes embroidered BY Mss
LYMAN Of the Associated Artists, which Is me ~
color and I'm workmanship, though not Wholly SAWS
factory IN the modelling OF details. Mr. ianuen u
lent some gocd specimens VI FEATHER walleo'e'"o,
there are four sevcnteenthcentury, spanish "V
columns from Mr.. Glaenzer, and there Is eAeeuN iVA
work. furniture and columns In marble from Va'.'"'
makers The gallery holds the material for more 'na
one hour OF interested study. We urge our reaue's
visit the exhibition II closes the 10Th.
At the Durand Ruel gallery Is collection oi So"s
twenty.eight bronzes by Barge. II inclu"es Wv
Walking Lion and Its companion masterpiece, ' .
Walking Tiger; two reductions Of the Lion Oh Wv
Tuieries," OF which have 50 noble copy III p'a's
In our Metropolitan Museum, and humoer "
the smaller pieces In which the great French so"p
depicted the reposefu and sanginary episodes oil w
among tigers. wolves. bulls. stags, bears ana o',.
members OF the animal kingdom. The subjects III 'u-
collection are all well known, but the bronzes n"
"A more than ordinary value in having all been s,.s
a beautiful patina. II is the pana quite as nv"
AS the chiselling which determines the standing y,
proof of one Of Baryes bronzes. In the present. "
stance the general excellence OF the patlna renu''
The collection especially deserving Of attention