New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-01
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS,
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.

EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.
MISUNDERSTANDING ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE
AN IMPORTANT PAINTING OF WASH.
INGToN AND HIS FAMILY.
Next Thursday is the first Of the sendingin days
for the annual exhibition Of the American waer'Color
| Society at the Academy Of Design. Pictures will be
received at the building on january 5. and 7. The
exhibition does not open until the end OF the month
On Friday there win be opened at the Avery Gallery
an exhibition Of the Venetian watercolors by Mfr. +.
Bopkinson Smith. which have lately been semipubliciy
shown at the Aldne Club. MIR. Smiths pictures will
be followed on the .3d by number Of landscapes BY
Mr.. W. 4. Coffin. The Union League Clubs regular ex'
hbition will this month be devoted TO American works
exclusively. Another club exhibition Of interest which
will be held during the present week. that OF Pre-.
Raphaelite art at the Century, win be found reviewed
on another page OF The Tribune today After the
departure Of the NewYork Water Color Club from the
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries next saturday there VIII
be exhibited and sold at that place first collection
| Of about $50 pictures by Hamilton Hamilton. l. 3.
wiles. J. G. Nicoll. j. II. Doph. d. Crane. II. y.
smith. G. Hassam, y. DE Luce A. F. B,mner, W. V.
Brney, J. Lyman and G. Y. Turner. and then, In tive
instruments pictures BY J. o. Bristol, Arthur Parton
| and seymour Guy.
The Architectural League held press view Yesterday
at the Fine Arts Building Of the exhibition which opens
70 the public tomorrow. The expectations aroused BY
the fact that this the first chance the League has had
far space Is concerned to do itself justice. are
| fairly satisfied The Jury Of selection has not had
the happiness Of having brought before 1t SO In
portant and fine feature that which presented
last In the shape OF the designs for the greater
buildings at The Chicago Fair, but II has remembered
the height TO which those designs carried the ex'
hibon, and has exercised commendable discrtnhna.
ton this year. We are speaking now Of the purely
architectural side OF the show. In the gallery de-
voted TO decorative end applied art there Is indeed
feature, the artists who went on TO Chicago last sum-
mer to paint Of the big ceilings Messrs Bcckwhs
Weir, Reid Neinhart, Dodge and Low, having lent y
number OF their preliminary studies In blackand. white
and In color. The walls OF the large south gallery
have been given entirely to architectural draw.
ngs We will not discuss these In detail at this time.
but will mention as some of the noticeacable
abits the designs submitted by several architects In
| the competition for the Manhattan Life Insurance
| COmpany's building and In the regular competition
| proposed by the League for Columbus memorial
iounlain the design for the California building ut the
| Fair by Mr.. A. 2. brown. this architects "Grano
| Market" for Lima, Peru McKim. Mead d. Whites
NewYork STATE building for Chicago and number Of
detail drawings OF various works by the latter archi'
| tccts drawings made by Mr.. ii. Mngonlge and Mr..
| Gulbranson for The Architectural Review" which
will prove particularly interesting to professional VS.
itors. On In this gallery are the competitive
|
In the central Of the three small rooms that separate
the north from the south gallery are architectural
! drawings. many Of them foreign Sketches
| but many others OF recent domestic work.
| Of which example may have an Interest Tor those
who architectural In their tastes lnasmuch as
is the house Mr. H. K. Marshall has designed Tor MI
Rudyard Kiplng at Brattleboro VT In the second OF
| the small a few more drawings OF current
work, Mr.. Flagg's design tor new Academy Of Zine
Arts building school pieces by the students at Column
| ba College and collection Of competitive drawings
for the silver plate 10 be presented to the cruiser
New-York. In tue third room are cartoons ana smau
drawings for stained glass and mosaic By ID. NJ Arm
strong, the Tiffany Glass Company. Ella Condie Lamb
and others, and few paintings OF which nude study
| BY Mr.. H. y. Walker, In key wholly different from
that In which he usually works, Is the most Important
The north gallery Is occupied BY the loan exhibit o.
| decorative art and examples OF completed work. ana
here that advantages Of the Leagues new place
| Of exhibition most apparent. sculpture, wrought
iron work. tapestries textiles Of rich cslors and studies
such as those for the Chicago ceilings to which We have
referred need plenty OF If they are TO be seen
toriy and the effect Of the numerous objects
which Mr.. MarQuand. Mr.. Garland, Mrs. Hewitt, Mr.
Glacnzer the Associated Artist, and many others have
lent is far and away greater than 1t could have been
In the quarters into which the League has heretofore
crowded exhibits OF the sort. There Is quantity OF
extremely beautiful and Interesting material In this
gallery and 1t will help considerably to bring the exhi'
| bi,ion the popularity which 1t deserves.
Since our las, nlc,loxanda in this connection were
| published, the sales at the Ncw.iork Water Coioe
Clubs exhibition have been as follows: In the Bay
Window by J. A. Coc. go, &C October Days. by J.
| a. Marble 300; " by the Brcnx" b. H. I. seymour
| go: study Of Bull Terrier" by NJ. q. Newcomb.
| s75; From My Window" by f. L. Ely. SO: Door
| way OF Mosque by f.. Castillo. 80; ~ warning,
| by Leon Morau 1925; AN Cid SALT by II. W.
Methuen $50; "a Sunny Corner" BY T.. Daingeffieid
s2j These sales add S44O 10 the clubs total. which
Is now 81 a65. making allowance for the elimination
from the list OF sold works Of Mr. sharps Field lloS
| ers, given US In error BY the gallery last week.
Portraits Of Washington as numerous as tho
sands OF the sea- but those which will stald close
scrutiny on the score OF tffunoss TO the features OF
the great original not any thing like 50 difficult I"
| roun, When the arguments this and that paint
/ lne from Gilbert Stuarts fortunate and competent
brush are closed how many "Washingtons' OF similar
value can b. named There is at the Avery Gal.
,ery the property Of Mr.. ". f. Hav"neyu. which has
been drawn from IL" oblivion e. about fifty years TO
take its place among the few works OF It's Kind which
hav, first rate character memorials OF Washington.
7, was panted by Edwin Savage, an American artist,
horn at Princeton Mass. in 1161. lie began HE as
Goldsmith but must have turned 10 painters career
v.ry soon for Washington sat to him In 1883. when
the artist was only twenty Eight, for portrait when
the latter had offered paint and present a. Harvard.
Savage proceeded London Just after the completion
NJ mi, work. and entered the studio OF Benjamin Wcst
| Gilbert stuart's patr,n lie had less talent tlan
| stuart and there Is record OF his having had
| such success as had the latter. who was MADE
much OF by artists aud social leaders,
| I'm, ". WAS at least encouraged TO pro-
,onc his stay abroad and he lived for q while in Italy,
Returning to America, he practscd his profession In
Eoston. New York and Philadelphia and finally retired
to his birthplace where he died in 1917 The painting
ot Avcrys Is large one, nine feet long and over SIX
| feet high and represents Washington and his family
| posed around a table on which map OF the Guy OF
washington is the object OF their attention. ioung
| csorce Washington Parke C1Istis stands beside the
seated General Martha Washington and Eleanor Cus'is
the former seated and the latter standing face wash
npton and behind them is the figure Of william Lee