The herald., 1897-03-24
SOME ART NOTES
Valuable Exhibit of Prints, Etchings
and Water Colors

An important exhibition was opened
Monday in the parlors of the Westmin-
ster of etchings, engravings, photo
graphs and water colors, that will be
liberal education to art students and
delight to art lovers and connoissehrs
during the ten days which it is to last.
The water colors which stand on easels
in a good light number fifteen or twenty
only, but each one is gem in its way.
painted by an artist who is a master in
his line of work, and all are representa-
tive of different national schools of mod
ern art.
There are three by the American artist,
Walter c. Harrison. but done in the
Dutch manner and showing Dutch sub
jects. Landscapes all, with the soft
blending of tones that show misty at
mosphere, windmill here and there.
dykes and low-lying land surfaces that
transport one promptly to the land of
the Zuyder Zee.
Henry Farrer another American, who
works in America, and is generally con-
tented with American subjects. shows
a delicious late autumn scene, with a
pool in the foreground full of soft shad
ows, surrounded by wet marsh of dull
greens and browns, with a few trees in the
background almost bare of their leaves
but the few remaining are so brilliant
that they give the needed touch of color
to make most poetic whole.
In direct contrast is a brilliant
glimpse of the Mediterranean with a
sheer upland rising out of it, at the base
OF which is a little village. The deep
blue of sky and sea, the white clouds
and reflection of the houses in the water,
and the little patches of red roofs offer
a very promising Introduction to Moffat
Lindner, the Englishman, whose brush
work it is.
A Dutchman, Chas. P. Grippe, who IS
pupil of Mesdag, shows a strong flavor
of his masters unmistakable manner,
in fishing fleet that is flying before the
high wind that is evidenced in bulging
sail, scudding clouds and lowering sky
The handling of all, and particularly the
choppy sea, the work of a thorough
artist.
]. NJ Barnsley, a Canadian, is seen in
tender little bit of nature, a gray sky
overhanging touch Of water in the
foreground, a sedgy bank with under
growth and few birds flying low Very
simple. very quiet in tone, but very love-
ly none the less. Barnsley is to Canadian
landscape what Paul Peel is to the figure
painting there, and this little example
shows plainly why he can and does
stand in the front rank.
Another quiet bit, but handled in quite
Inherent manner, is sea scene OF
Albert the French water colorist. Shall
low water on beach from which looka
ing seaward over the hulk of a stranded
boat that is pathetic in its helplessness
one sees glimpse of other craft and a
bluff on the horizon line. A very clever
treatment of a most commonplace sub
ject.
Another marine view, with curling
waves dashing and foaming at the base
of chalky cliffs which rise sheer to a
great height at the right of the picture,
is fine sample of w T. Richards, the
American water colorist, whose individ-
uality and strength are always in evil
dence, yet which never grow tiresome
on account of the superiority of his
workmanship and his sincerity of pur-
pose. The cliffs are rich in their grays
and browns, and the sea is wet, and
deep, and transparently green.
There are two examples Of Rosenberg.
hgurepece of a girl with dull red hair
and the deep lustrous eyes that belong to
her type. She is clad in a gray green
gown and holds in one hand against her
breast cluster of yellow roses. The
flesh. textures and whole composition
are most artistic. The landscape is ex-
quisite, rolling meadow land with trees
grouped in the background and clouds
fhickening overhead, the whole seen
through moist gray atmosphere.
E. Van Auyden. the Swiss painter and