New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-20
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS.
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.
Mr. LOUIS RHEADs DESIGNS FOR PosTERs-AN-
OTHER PICTURE OF TRILBY-ENGLIsH ART
lists AND THE AMERICAN MARKET

SOME ARCTIC PICTURES.
There will be two new exhibitions in the field this
week At the Avery Gallery MIR Hopkinson smiths
charming sketches OF Venice and Holland will be-
succeeded tomorrow by a number OF japanese pct
ures from the brush OF Mr. Theodore Wores Be
low in the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries. the Elem
ism and Dutch paintings belonging TO MI LOUIS
Enrich will be sold Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings. The walls will then be hung
with pictures sent for sale at auction by
some twelve or fifteen American artists Some
minor exhibitions that have been on view
for a few days and will remain open to the
end of the month surveyed at greater length
below But the principal show OF the season still
remains that devoted to the late George lnness AT
the Fine Arts Building. While II is fairly well
patronIzed it yet deserves larger attendance than
has thus far been noticed at the galleries. The
public should remember that the pictures Will re-
main at the Fine Arts Building only until the last
of the month when they Will be- transferred to the
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries. on their way to the
auction sale February. 1t is gratifying to know
that a good many prospective buyers are among
those who have visited the show, and visited 1t
frequently Representatives OF public institutions
are the alert. well as private coiiectors' anu
there is every reason to believe that the sale VIII
have the success that belongs to 1t. 1t will benefit
American art In general If Inness Is recognized as
he ought TO be upon this occasion.
In an exhibition of designs for posters which he
has opened at the Wunderch Gallery MT LOUIS
J. Rhead shows that we do need to go abroad
for good work in the field which he has entered
To be sure It Is obvious that he himself has profied
by study OF the Partisan affche. The influence OF
Grasse is writ large across the face of his art but
II is art he has cultivated. art OF very clever
interesting sort, and he Is to be praised Tor the
making Of an exhibition which is on the whole. one
Of the most suggestive have had In a long time.
He shows nearly threescore designs, some in black
and white and some In color There is not one that
is without some beauty. He has followed Grasset
In the cultivation Of what might be called stahc'
glass line-that U.s. a heavy black outline In both
figure and decoration which serves TO give the form
decision and TO separate the broad fat colors WIN
force He has a pretty decorative taste, feeling
for feminine gracefuness that IL exotic. even RENT
niscent OF the e-Raphael!tes and yet never
touched by the silly afeciation which has spoilei
the illustrative work OF The Yellow Book ana
THE chap Book" He adap,s his figures most ef-
fectively TO the space OF a poster. with It's new
table features OF lettering and other Advertising
motives See No Il No -. both designs Tor
some hair and complexion" preparation or soap
See the champagne poster No. a. and the sketch
made IN celebration OF one OF The Ceniurys MD
summer issues. No :. In each case AMI. indeed. III
every one 81 the posters here gathered together the
sheet Is filled with tact and originality and. IN spite
OF the echoine % Grasscts manner YOU fee4 tha IN
Mr. Rhead a really new ana refreshing factor IN IN"
deyelopment ~ our Industrial art has arisen IT'S
color is harmonious and attractive. II - never
pitched In too high a key. When he Uses brilliant
yellow as in No ls. medicine poster. h. iempcrs
I, with a darg blue THAI brings the strong effects
OF the work into focus AT once Altogether iher" j.
much 10 admire in this exhibition much OF present
performance and OF promise for the future. Mr.
Rhead has not reached the top yet. His work. for
nil rs ingenuity In matters Of convention. could be
much wider In range. much NOR" alv'rsh"l u EN"
than It is But up TO his present point ms aru'i
has accomplished great deal. ana accomplished "
with such skill that ne il bound 10 do more lie
marks a new era. lie is the FIRST man working m
America VINO has brought forward a collection OF
this sort He ls believe. an Englishman ny
birth and worked for a time under Legros Out MS
efforts are unlikely to be diverted from the American
channels In which they nave heretofore been ever
clscd He may bc OF public her" ana 81
hearty encouragement. FOR he hts acquitted "'n
self honoraby In a department Of ar, that needs
good workers. and he IL certain 10 give vaiuanle
impulse to other designers In America
,,,aren,lv there is to be no limit to the Trilby
mania Nh Hubert vos the other day IN his eN-
hlbl,,on AT the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries Included
a thin and artificial feminine head. which n" IA
belled osten,atiously and absurdly. fdh'"S's
r,,i,,vcnne" Now AT the Knoecr Gallery. win
half a dozen other paintings. Mr.. Constant Mayer
DISPLAYS A tall canvas In which ne essays 10 repre-
sent Trby In a state OF hypnotism. Trilby staining
IN her singing robes and attitude and held To All
apnearanses by svengalrs basiiisk eye. The picture
IL reinforced by "A note In which Or. Allan McI"he
Hamilton gives II As his opinion mat IL sup''y S"s
gests the hypnotic state" This may be grah'e''
The conception Mr.. Mayer has o. TriiDy ma "''"
,,,outssn,Iv conveyed But We md II hard to say
much more than this In commentator OF the WI" -
I'm this canvas, In all the others Nj hhE'' a.
81 pi,s tbe execution is respectable the color ~
nSessa and the sentiment is realized with some
dellcacy OF expression. but there ~ no i'"'s; 10
these productions and the Tlilhy Ike the resi-, I,
tn he final
OF Trilby does rank injustice 10 thdt ioNcE III
1ooi Mr Vaver's version OF the latter II enough
70 make Little Blllee rush from the paEe, ,rbancc
Du Maurier's novel and create az grea ~
as when he lcaped on Sveneali. ana lafy "ru,s
offending persons nose Technlcaiy Mp' ,,s mag
Trllby liz hardly more satisfactory man III IT, ar.
NATIVE relations The predomnatins whit,s sn ne
hard and dazzling and they h&yr nor 4,r more ac
cep,ab.e is the black and white plate wnich n|S
been made from the painting ana mai nn Srnss the
scale down with good effect but In inc reauc e,,cr
softness and transparency than IN me orglin' land
best of Mr.. Mayors other works J. srnan ,r"'
scape. which shows taste and executive chpac'S'
Ever since the free art clause of the Wilson biil
was passed there has been a wonderment among
artists and dealers as TO whether my very r Win
a view TO selling their works in America one OF
dealers from The other side nave estap' onen
themselves here. and at the exhibition now opem
in the Philadelphia Academy Of Fine Arts a numnrr
Of the young Glasgow men are IePresc ans received
limitations from English and Continental al's'9
that the latter would contribute to Tor hcoh aS
shows. but nothing of any consequence mas D.,
made public The first important manifestation Oh
foreign interest in the possibilities OF the anr
lean market has In the shape OF mSslo"
presided over by Mr. Ashton Lever. OF Ichu1i;
This gentleman has come 10 New, YORK as speo,a'
commissioner for fifteen English painters
bringing with him a hundred Of their wor ,
He comes for Mr.. Wyke Bayliss MI g. Snerr lh'
Knowles. Mr. Coingwood Smith. Mr. j. Macuiiorn
Mr. Edward Holmes the Hon. = Coeridse am
other members OF the Royal institute the hoEa'
water color society and the Royal Society OF Brit
Ism Artists He brings their pictures unframed am
his purpose is to find some means whereD! 'nssE
shall be more less formally introduced 10 the
American public. Mr. Levers embassy rs ea,cn ,
lated TO attract attention. The Tarn bH ven
into effect last August This. the FIRST regular uei
onstration on the part OF the foreigner co" III.
therefore, scarcely six months after permission has
been granted TO him to enter our gates laden WY.
art for which he need not pay a cent OF duy, IL
is doubtless but the beginning OF consideraoie
campaign. Within year or two we may eSPeSctt, ~
see foreign names In many or our resuiar eA a,tu.
.i..I LILA tAart hnEn nan0ned