The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-11
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Though 1t has no artistic membership, being
only q college fraternity organization, with q
modest house In West Thirty.thlrd street, the
Alpha Delta Phi Club holds tho record among
the smaller clubs of the town for good exhibit
lions OF pictures. 1t opens its doors this even
ing for its annual display of works by American
artists, and noxt week will have a "ladics' day"
on Wednesday. The exhibition will close that
evening. Tho average of the work is even high
or this year than II was last year, when 1t was
remarkably good, and tho catalogue includes
the names of many wcll.known painters. The
only criticism TO mako on tho MANAGE
ment OF the exhibition Is that thore are rather
too many pictures, for though the walls are not
crowded all tho rooms on tho first and second
floors OF the house are transformed into galleries.
Concentration in the two largest rooms and q
representation less general but more choice
would improve tho show. The catalogue con.
tains seventy-sovon pictures. about two-thirds
OF them in oil and tho balance In water colors.
The landscape painters arc heavily in the ma
jority. and while several figure works are i'm.
portant and by men of excellent reputation. the
impression received while walking through the
rooms is that tho finest pictures arc landscapes,
simply because they are so numerous, and in
large part SO good. The pictures are we'll hung
and the exhibition brings credit to the Art Conn
mitteo of tho club. OF which Mr.. Collin Arm.
strong is the efficient Chairman.
Hung in Its permanent place, over tho mantol
in the first room on entering, 10 a striking,
broadly painted portrait of the late Clarence A.
Seward. who was a member of the Geneva
Chapter of tho fraternity and its President from
| 1890 to 1897. 1t was painted last spring by J.
Carroll Beckwith and is tho property of the
club. A replica has been painted by tho artist
for the Union Club. OF which association also
Mr.. Seward was for some time President. Up
stairs in the principal room Mr.. Church's I'm
dine" No. 10; Mr.. Volk's I'm Our Child
hood" No. ~, showing two little white
children perched on q rock overhanginG
a lake, with an Indian boy who stands up in his
canoe Offering q flower to tho little girl; Mr..
Clinedinst's Before the Promenade" No. 11y
Mr.. Birney's "Song without Words" No. A;Mr.
Wiles's charming little figure Of a girl, with
blond hair. standing in profile. "Groen and
Gold.' No. II, and Mr.. Watrous's closely fin.
ished. neat little figure of a lady with palette
and brush. "olive Green" No. 73, will attract
attention among the subject pieces. There IL also
a composition. with two or three figures, depict
Ing an episode In Revolutionary times, a peace
full episode, for the personages are lovers in .
wood. by Leo Moeller, Called Away" No. ~. In
other rooms are Mr.. Fowler's Morning" Nc.
25. and Portrait, No. "a. and q gracious por-
trait of a lady in half length. Portrait No. a,
by Charles +. NaeRele. Mr.. Weldon's "A
Gardener" No. T5. n scene in Japan; Mr..
GaulS "A Mexican Door Yard No. 80; Mr..
Barse's decorative pastel with q floating figure,
"The End Of Day." No. 2. and the Breton
Piper ut the Pardon" No. 1s. by George whar-
ton Edwards, are still other figure works OF
note. =
The largest and most effective landscapes are
those by Mr.. Virgins, whose Early Evening
In Holland" No. 70, shows a flock of sheep on
the plain with their shepherds; Mr.. Weir, Mr..
Ranger. Mr.. Twachtman. Mr.. Van Boskerck,
Mr.. Dewey. Mr.. Crane, Mr.. Bogert. Mr.. Parton,
Mr.. Rice, Mr.. Franzen, and Mr.. Howe. The two
pictures of tho last-named artist, however, arc
cattle pieces. properly speaking. October
Morning. Westchester," No. 81, and Pasture
Lands. Cape Cod No. 80. Both are at
mospheric. and the cattle are depicted with
virility and knowledge. Smaller landscapes are
contributed by a long list of well-known
painters, including II. Bolton Jones, r.
G. Minor, j. Francis Murphy, Walter
i. Palmer, William A. Coffin, Leonard
Ochtman, James D.. SmilIie, Chester Loomis,
George II. McCord, Henry Prellwitz, r.. M,
Shurtleff. and @. Harry Eaton. Two fine little
rustic water colors come from w. l.. Lathrop.
and there are marines by f. x. NJ. REIN, How
ard Russell Butler, Henry B. Smell, Frederick
kost, and Edmund II. Garrett. BY Carlton T.
Chapman there is q stirring composition, I'm
the Days of 1912" in which the good ship Con-
s%titution is seen pouring hot shot into the hull
and rigging Of the Java. The single still-lifo
picture in tho collection is by Ben Foster, and
shows some solidly modelled pears.