New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-02
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS.
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.
NEW ATTRACTIONS PRESENT AND TO coME-THE
WATER COLOR CLUB AND THE ACADEMY
MR. cHAMPNEYs PAsTELs-THE TRIL-
BY ILLUsTRATIONs-A NOTE ON

BY ILLUSTRATIONS-A NOTE On
FREDERICK WALKER
The portraits of women at the Academy were
coon for the last time yesterday, and by next sat
urday all the accepted contributions for the autumn
Academy will be in place. The public VIII De AUNT
ted to the galleries on Monday, December w. ~
morrow at the Fine Arts Building there VIII oe
opened the exhibition Of the New-YorK wafer ooioi
Cub. which was favorably noticed in The tribune
-, yesterday This is a hrst-rate little exhibition
,yhich should not be overlooked Various minor eA-
bibitions are now open among the dealers uptown
At the Avery Gallery may be seen the uia",,,e'
nv Mr. On Maurier which are noticed peo"' WIN
them there will be exhibited early this week NUM-
her NJ oil paintirgs by Mr.. A. c. Rowland, n A.
which were announced 20 appear at the saiie tiii9'
hut are still on view at the Century CUB. MessrS'
Poussod Valadon & Co. have hung in their gallery
some water-colors painted out OF doors In HoHahu
bv Mr. Henry c. Lee. Mr.. Macbeth, reVerths ~
one of the most pleasing figures In Dutcn art lSei,
brings out a collection of paintings ana charcoal
drawings by the late David Artz a pupil OF lsraeis
who came near to his master in high repute py the
time he died four years ago. At the Wunderhch
Gallery there IS also emphatic recognition or the
modern school OF Holland collection has been
hung there OF water-coors by Mesdag. Mauve. Neu-
hugs Kever Won ThoIen and their colleagues anu
it contains some beautiful. specimens.
In the Wunderch Gallery there are visible at
this time fourteen Little Girl Pictures by NiisS
Maria Brooks a painter who gets at the secret OF
infancy chiefly by way of its externals, It's pretty
furbelows and dainty gait, but who Is not WIN
out constituencies to the finer difficulties OF her
problem and portrays childhood. In the MAN, Win
Justice and happy touch OF suggesuoh' AS
techniclan she suffers from an opacity OF co'oi
which she contrives to make you forget mohiehe-
ary through the gayety and harmony OF her "ec-
orative schemes. one figure only Is shown IN each
chords of color as she runs up and down the
eamut and she has sufficient scope or sentiment u
Introduce new motive into each design riei
work IL varied and agreeable. Win more SUI
ness and subtlety with more transparent coio'
and especially with a more chastened treatment OF
the bright whites in her frocks ana other draPery'
she would be most satisfactory painter OIL ch'iu
ish figures As It is she stands high on the very
small list OF artists who devote themselves TO TINS
most trying OF subjects.
Mr. + Wells Champney has on exhibition at the
Knoeder Gallery some forty-hve pastels, which II
Is an almost unqualified pleasure to see. lhey
are all copies and in studying them the one CRUZ
csm II is necessary to make Is made every three
minutes When he is dealing with Rosalba, with
La Tour with Liotard Mr.. Champney Is sadly
bandica pped by his inability to reproduce the last
fine shade In thelr matchless works. But he wouid
have TO be another La Tour to reproduce La lour
he would have 10 recreate Chardin III MS wv"
person II II were to be expected or MIN that ne
could recreate that masters pastel OF NINE
Chardin In the Louvre. and since the age VI "i
racles is past we accept for what they are worth
the pictures at present under review. 1hey are
worth much Mr.. Champney sympathizes with
his originals though he cannot rival them, ana ne
has Just the style to follow with successful
minuteness the extraordinary polish and finesse
of the old French method. He carries the same
admirable method into play when copying OILS py
thafr DD0
+; Is adapted perfectly to the elegance and delicacy
which swayed earlier French art and as a gallery
~ nota abilities presented with the utmost grace ana
refinement his little collection Is an unnlNeh
treat Here is Nine Recamer as David ana
Gerard painted her; here is John Russelis famous
Girl With Cherries: here are the princess dc
Iamballe Nine Mole Raymond. the Countess Po-
,ocka Nine de Pompadour and other fair women
and though the original paintings are masterpieces
and these copes are not. the latter are neverthe-
less beautiful and reflect abundant credit upon
their maker They Will remain on view until De-
cember -.
Readers Of "Trllby" which is to say all readers Of
good fiction. are to be disappointed as was eX-
pected a short time ago The original drawings tor
that delightful book were promised for an eNhlol-
ton uptown and then Withdrawn. but after much
cabling between New-York and London the matter
has been rearranged and the pictures may p e ,o
morrow morning The privilege OF seeing them Will
not be appreciated by lovers OF literature acne
draughtsmanship. and this exhibition vii serve to
make 1t better known In Peter lbbetson ana III
mosphere OF the novests thoughts. Here they
lose OF their charm for those who cannot Tor
get the story but they offer freer Held Tor COM
mont on their strictly technical side. Scrutlnzins
them in that light then Is Necessary 10 no s'f n
trnscaly the grace. he beauty the dstlnci9n' IN
short which Oep to- hs does sss IS pure or ss
and touch as exPressye as q, any kmSTh m ,r
on Punch" with whom he has many artistic POINTS Gin,,
In common he rarely gives the sensuous aensh.
rarely fails, either. TO Put In ms craving eNae'y
what he wishes to have appear there ana 10 40 II
one of the earliest drawings in the present series
No. ). 1T Did one Good to Look At Him. or even
as more important than this. the frontspece por-
trait OF Trllby The pure beauty Of execution which
an artist instinctivey looks FOR. and feels is not
traces with splendid sureness, in spite Of It's blunt
ness, every contour, every suotety OF FORM IN y,
Is iae very s@'V simple np work Grant that there
too much IN the ,,r bafksround ,,S of
OF the design remains. and II you VIII anaiyZe
the tall figure You VIII marvel at us r'sn1hT u.s.
dress Itself built UP with a few strokes OF the pen
f D Msaye Tf ssnsh is chiefly ~'f ound
stroke tells. See. as evidence OF this. No 49, Au
clair de Ia Lune." in which Trlbys stately FORM
with Svenga in the nearer foreground. is imaged
forth distinctly while the crowded audience across
are dots YES but they are immensely expressive
and convey precisely the impression of numbers
and distance which the artist had In mind. In
drawings ike this very nearly forgets that MT
Du Maurier has elements Of hardness In his style
How say OF an artist that he needs hexibility, in
the face of pliab;e Il touch? But the criticism
stands lust the same. and may be confirmed by
references 10 nearly any of the drawings. above all
by such "A sketch No. 50. 'Malbrouck sen vat
en- glierre" Observe the line defining the back OF
the leaning figures dress; Given the same model
and pose. and finer touch than Mr. Du Maurier
would have made 1t only true-as 1t is-but
beautihed by the thrill Of linear vitality In any
great work done with the point the line mas by
Itself extraordinary character and beauty. Mr.. Du
Maurer presents the curious case of an artist whose
line Is not itself beautiful but accompshes in the
long run innumerabe delicate tasks. II would be
hard To find n collection of pen drawings as large
this. all by one man, so Astounding In passages
of pure pictorial eloquence That Is the important
ny N her with Mlllrier. As