New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-17
ART NOTES.
MINOR ExHIBITIONs-GIAMBA R1RA'
NEsI AND ALBERT DURER-THE HUNT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE

prospect Of being opened to the public. 1he WAFER
Color Society still occupies the Academy OF Design
and the dealers everywhere present compact "''e
shows devoted to one two artists. or the new
exhibitions to be brought forward this week. the
most important are scheduled for the Fine Ar's
| Building and the American Art Galleries Az the
former there will be opened on Saturday the t"e,h
annual exhibition Of the Architectural League THIS
Is always OF the most interesting events or the
! season, and will be awaited with lively antcipa-
tons There Is a press view on Thursday. a recep-
ton on Friday. and the 10th the galleries VIII be
he mdd HRe Of 70 next e month At the american
Galleries the contents. OF the Holland arr Gar
Chickering Hall The many paintings brought over
by Mr. Preyer-chiehy Dutch-will be visible at the
galleries named above next Friday, and VIII remain
on view until the beginning of the sale on Wednes-
day evening, February u
Both the regular spring exhibitions OF new Ameri-
can pictures will be opened in a comparatively snort
time Tho Society Of American Artists has sent
out its circulars From these It appears that ex-
bibits will be received at the Fftyseventh-st gal
leries on Monday and Tuesday March ID ard ~
Vanishing Day and Press View are SCI DOWN t tOa
next day and the exhibition will open to the pubic
on Sunday March %. closing on SATURDAY May !;
from Thursday. March H. to saturday. March b.
inclusive. Vanishing Day and Press view Will
r ncrnr on A Monday April 3 The Academy show
will last until Saturday. May 10
In the mean time. while all these big affairs are
impending. the smaller galleries are as ""'
said above crowded with smaller collections OF the
"one man. description. 1t must be SAID that ho' All
NJ thorn re exhtlaratng. We leave aside or course
the superb Diirer collection at the Groer Cluo 10
which we recur below, and the interesting uiSpaS
of Piranesrs etchings at the Keeper ralery' u
which we also make further reference 'heae .'
Of old classics It Is among the minor modern ar'-
lists that the galleries invite us 10 walk by 'he oo
inst nov-and unproftably enough. on the o'her
hand there Is some very pleasant, even artlstc'
work TO be discovered in the long Journey ro
example at the Avery Gallery. there are the haunt
ing pyrotechnics Of Mr.. p. Marcus-Simohs uul
there arc also some pasels by Mrs. j. r. Murphy
which In their dantiness and quiet feeling, are wen
worth n visit Then at the gallery OF FisneI .. 40
Ter & Schwartz the water-c0lors OF Nj sS s,nremsrk
abe but at least they have veracity good taste
and now and them in the adys wGTn nmmer.
GUS sketches we find really d ,b ee1cn
scene pulling In the Net RIVIERA, aii 20 n,arked
6y the criois imprint OF hand In these thsf hch
color vivacity OF style ana aeci more frequently
Mss she does since it lies Within her grasp M
are pTst ihey shfs lack af force and
originality. $500
Mr. Van Boskerck who has score OF A",e'ie
andsca pes at the Knoeder Gallery, Is not perhaps
very original painter. but In these iates' WIN ~
his he leaves such good impression that DC can oe
forgiven his deficiencies OF style. ne mas At ~.
ratio an indubitable sympathy for the placid scenes
NJ Newfoundland and In such canvases AS lazy
Pond Peacedale" or The Old Homestead reace
dale" he has hit the very tone ana mayor Vi '"e
Rhode Island country. Mr.. Van BosKercks ilh-
paste Is still little brittle his color mas not yet '
ouaIitv that II needs; yet he might nave seVerdi
moro drawbacks and his pictures would continue 70
be artistic and likabe. Their central merit Is ta'
of keen sympa hetic understanding OF an atractNe
phase of landscape and for this. II Tor nothing es
the painter deserves high praise. The landscapes
affa In m
Of Turner. which Mr.. Thomas Moran. n a.. mas
hung at the Kraushaar Gallery. are poetic IN con-
s eFaiT in color One canvas and only one in the
collection, "A Summer Trance IS positi:e,y eH-
m%osph.re in the deiicacy OF its sentiment But the
remaining pictures are excessively hara wsn oOo Of
nature Mr. Moran's ideas are invariably suggest,
there is wSisS Mis-: ps N
supplied to the catalogue But no mater now SIM
cere in his method he may be- TINS b s pre
senting an view OF landscape or OF the sea
,ncinr. they seem wrought out OF the artists DALI
with pigments for their own SAKE ho' ou' VI
penetrating study OF his suo)ects
At the Klackner Gallery the Woman's Art Club Is
IN possession with an exhibition Of some sixty or
seventy paintings some of them good more OF them
mediocre The previous exhibitions of this little
club have occasionally contained some excellent
work It is doubtful il there is enough ability dis
tributed among the members 10 warrant an annual
best artists here Miss Cassatt Miss Parrish. Mrs.
Prellwitz and Mrs Gotthold. with or two others.
can easily obtain admission at the Academy and
elsewhere. Why should they group themselves with
ambitious but wofuly immature painters. just for
the sake of holding "Woman's" exhibition? The
majority OF these pictures are very poor. When we
have observed the new and vigorous touch In Mrs.
Gottholds Study of Head the powerful style
and workmanship in Miss Cassatts 'Baiser Ma
ternel,' tho thoughtful and solid execution which
Miss Parrish has put into her Portrait" and the
CLEANS OF adequacy in handful OF other produc-
tlons we have said all that can be said I'm favor of
the show 1t is the eighth in the history Of the
club. II the members are wise ihey will either
for the of e hofns On
they will drop 1t altogether. The exhibition at the
Alexander T. Van Laer and etchings by Mr. Leigh
Hunt, invites hardly more encouraging comment.
but he lacks distinction and backbone Mr.. Van
aer sn nike M har nS He makes pretty pictures
from this survey of current exhibitions of Paintings
We may note that the Clausen Gallery. in West
Twenty eighth-st announces Il painting by Turner
recently acquired and that the Ohio Society OF New
York viii hold next week It's irs, exhibition Of works
house IN tifth-ave Will open with view for mem
day evening. 1t will last until March S.
The sixty-sdght prints at the Keppel Gallery
which have been selected from a much larger mass
to illustrate the art OF the eighteenth century etcher
Pranes. belong in the category OF doubtful battling
things. If you like Them you like them tremend-
ously. IL they bore you. they bore you beyond all
measure This Is because Piranesi never had the |
passion for his art for its sake which produces
great etching and you cannot say OF his views OF
old Rome that they are intrinsicay masterpieces |
They are nothing Of the sort But they undoubtedly
do possess an immense amount Of vgor, OF bold
panterIika eloquence: in their curious ra Their pro-
sale way they are possessed OF style 1t is at this
point that the sensitive student OF Piranes laws |
hold hat he VIII oh, al,
work springs from his singular way OF looking at
the monuments OF antique and later Rome Piran-
esi was hardly Of n poetic temperament yet with
out knowing 1t. he put certain poetry into his |
etchings. We have called them prosaic They pro- |
woke tho epthet because they show such deliberate
and literal elaboration OF the facts of Roman archi- |
lecture. They are exactly what views" would he IL
Piranesi were making them to-day for a publisher |