The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-08

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The new Society Of 1ndependents. which
orened its irst annual exhibition Mt tho oli
| Leavitt Art Rooms BrosdwRy and Twelfth
! street on Tuesday. Is an organized movement
! against all iurles and rewards IN art eShiri.
! tions II was started last Skinner by tvy,, or
three painters who in the famous role NJ " Va.
/ tho People" invited all who would 10 ioin them
| in a picture exhibition in which each ccntr L..
| utor to the expenses Of tho show should hanr
| what he chose and as he chose tho wall snr,s
| helng first divided equally among then by tbs
! drawing Of lots.
! Tho result is now hciora us. and from An In.
| spection Of the names and performances " the
! artists who have entered into the movement IA
! would appear to have attracted chiefly ANA
= tours or eccentrics On It's face there Il -
rot appear full qualification for the confderrs
Of these misguided painters in tho puIh's
interest in them.
tirst and most Of all they have missed IN.
! beuenccnt services OF ,nsctinina .ine jury.
Their free for all race for wall spacs has IL
mitted numerous childish opmpositiDna that
make IT almost impossible for any average OF
excellence to H., main tanned There Ia a. most
nothing heue that might not or ought not to-
have been rejected hy any quaSncd ,u,y
The members OF the society. how,Ser resent
and repudiate the idcn that this is.a show Of
rejected addresses.
As students WORK. II these things had been
20 exhibited. there would lie some excuse for
considering them seriously. There arc a 'sv
paintings here OF decided promise aud fewer
still Of real excellence OF achievement Here
and there one discovers signs OF cleyernesa in
n technical way. OF a good color sense. or Of .
right ambition in composition. but ma rule
the fruit OF the independent movement IL not
ripe
A. D. M-
and Mr. Edward Brooks apueur to have or
Ganized this Convention OF the Neglected. aud
to their support have come Mr.. Wedwcrth
Nadsworth the wellkpown water colorist Of
Brooklyn whose appearance In such COM
pany Is surprising though he has done sDme-
thing to Justify II Ivy sending some OF his
least worthy and least representative draw
inGs Mr.. Sylvester Muhseravs. Nelson Gardner
ihis first appearance. apparently. on any
stage. Arthur y. Davies. NJ J. Whaley. Clinton
Peters. Henry II. swim hurne. metal worker; J.
T. DAVE. the well-known and successful wood
enEraver: J. Oscar Bunee. wax hgRsrs" Mira
Frances J. White. Geuevieve A. CowlcS Re-
becca Porter. Annie T. Swinburne Elizabeth
4. Cheever. Ethel Jarvis W heeler. and Clara II.
Howard.
The irony OF fate has hung Mr.. Brandeg.c's
work in the worst pie ce in the gallery but even
tho unsatisfactory Eight does not prevent its
sent are excellent in character and apparently
faithful as portraits. Mr.. Brooks makes per-
hans the hest showing. He would be an adj
yanced i'm pressionist OF the Greenery-yelIery
school. but In his Tho OAK especially aud
the Early Spring" he has given us clever
work and pictures of real beauty Of sentiment.
His " Orchard is too weird and intense to DO
accepted without a protest Next his group 10
that OF Nelson Gardner. whose crude end feeb!s
init in, .fa th.f fh..
it will have no jury. at least sppoInta sergeant
at-arlns with some u the powers o! censor.
Mr.. Arthur Il. Davies il not without some
feeling for the harmony OF color plainly. and
perhaps his drawing il not always to be con-
demned but nothing could be more droll than
his chief picture. the Young Mother" II Ia
indescriba bly, ludicr,alr except for tho solitary
naked little boy leaning on his mothers knee.
with his bare and rosy hack to tho spectstor.
The mother has the CLASSY eye Of q sleep
walker The heavy mossses- colored atmo-
sphere back OF her is alive with the most un-
accountable little girls without drapary. Some
others OF Mr.. Davies pictures are not nearly
SO bad.
Miss Ethel Whseer's landscapes are crude
and cold hui d Portrait" pt q; youine attRGs
an easel painting IS decidedly stroas and At
tractive. Elizabeth S. Cheever paints we'll In
some respects. and thore is much that is in
in detail In her largo canvas New
but the composition as q whole
is disaRreeable. 1t is q cosn binatipn Of . por-
trait and some Venetian glass and thsre 10
skilful work in It. Chez Nous" is a study Of
sunlight effects In q dining room.
Mr. husgraves ballroom so<ne Is Interest,"
ing as an experiment in light effects. but It 10
glazing and gairish in color His decorative
panel. Summer" nude study. is very at
tnctiye in color effect. though the drawing OF
the figure Is open to criticism. His Lady in
White" against gray BACKGROUND may be ao-
cspted as his best contribution.
Mrs Frances White shows three interesting
portrait studies. and there are other por-
traits by NJ J. whaley. Clinton Peters RebsooA
Porter and others Annie 7. Swinburns has
some poplars after tho manner OF Monet but
not too closely. or. 1t may be added. success
fully copied.
Mr.. Henry n. Swinburns's bronze and silver
grillss and glass and metal lantern are exesl-
lent.
The exhibition will remain open at the Lsay-
lit Art Rooms for three weeks.