The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
NATIONAL AOADEMr OF DESIGN.
Notable Picture. Mt the Spring Exhibition.

NAl1OHAL ~ VT DhoAuNs
Notable rictures ut the sprinG Exhibiuou.
Tho seventy.second annual exhibition Of tho
National Academy of Design will open to the
public on Monday. April b, and continue to May
Is. The reception givon by tho President and
MEMBERS OF the Council will DO held this oven
ing, and tomorrow will bo private Wow day. or
buyers day ms It Is commonly called. Tho
vanishing day for tho artist contributors TO the
exhibition and tho press view were held yestcr.
day.
Tho present exhibition contains i0T works.
only two Of which. a bust Of Daniel Huntington,
the former President OF tho academy, by J. Scott
Hartley, and a bust portrait of n child, by Edith
W. Burroughs, are sculpture. Even II cursory
look at the exhibition makes plain tho fact that,
unlike tho exhibition Of the Society Of American
Artists, there are numerous subject pictures.
Some OF these depict historical Incidents, others
are genre subjects, and n few are classical. Tho
presence OF these works, whatever may he tho
artistic value of some Of them, will no doubt
give popularity to tho exhibition. The display
is unusually strong in landscapes. There are
some good portraits, but not SO many rs In
one or two recent exhibitions. The walls are
well hllod and tho hanging, considering the con.
ditions imposed upon tho committee by the Acad-
emy's rules, is worry we'll done. .
Tho centre Of tho south wall in the South
Gallery, commonly called 1.-THE place OF honor"
is this year held by q largo landscape by W.. l..
Picknell, LA Route do Nicc,' No. 55. II comes
from the last Paris Salon. On either side Of it
hang portraits of Mr.. Henry Parish. No. 1853.
by J. Carroll Beckwith, and of Mr.. Charles
Stewart Smith, No. 256, BY T. W.. Wood, the
President Of the academy. The middle OF the
line at the east end OF the room is occupied by a
large picture by Daniel huntington. The
American Projectors OF the Atlantic Cable No.
900, in which there IRE nine portrait figures.
1t 10 owned by tho Chamber Of
Other prominent places in this gallery
are held by j. G.. Browns ITO Decide
! tho Question:" No. 2s4; William NJ. Chasc's
Portrait Of Mrs. d." No. 3l7; +. L. Henry's
"ln 1s37-The Childhood Of Rapid Transit"
No. 3O9; william 7. Smcdley's "A Summer Oc-
cupation," No. 265; Thomas Moran's Solitude"
No. 305, and James NJ. Harris picture of land
scape and cattle. Tho Wind Bloweth," No. CAS-.
Imported landscapes on the line are by II. Boil
ton Jones, J. b. Bristol, r. Swain Clifford. Rob
ert c. Minor. J. Francis Murphy, Arthur Parton,
George H. Smillic, James D.. Smile. J. r. Bre-
WORT and r. NJ. Shurtleff. In the centre OF the
north wall Of the North Gallery there Is q large
landscape, AN Old Landmark" No. 1o4. by
William L. Sonntag. Opposite on the south
wall hangs Saved from the Wreck" No. 142,
by C. d. Weldon. Tho central position at the
East enu Ol Inc ShlltTy - given 10 hTueot FdT-
tons landscape. Lingering Daylight" No.
1877. and other notable pictures are George B.
Buffers" Tambourinc Player" No. SO; c. @.
Curran's Music OF the Waves In Fingal's
Cave" No. l13; William Fl. Howe's Young
Holland" "a cattle picturc). No. 81; Francis
q. Jones's 9TH Friends" No. II; VIII Fl.
Lows "A Northumberland Of Miss E." No.
II; and B. West Clinedinst's Study Of a Span
ish Girl" No. IS. Leo Moeller's Patriot at
Valley Forge" No. lO3, which has been award
cd the second Hallgarten prize. hangs on the
line in this gallery, and Mother and Daugh-
ter" No. 14l, by Wilbur A. Reaser, which re-
ceived the first Hallgarten prize, is on the sec
ond row OF pictures In the centre Of tho north
wall.
Prominent works in tho East Gallery arc Cat
tie by the Sea- by Carleton Virgins, No. 1876,
which is placed on the line in tho middle OF tho
east wall: Henry Mosler's Invoking Gods
Blessing No. 1853; Louis Moeller's Tho VIII"
No. 1872: II. W. Watrous's Records" No. 200;
w. II. Lippinco't's Pleasant Reflections" No.
l61; "Fete Champetre,' No. 10. by L. Z Van
Gorder: THE Old Mill" No. 1872. by Roswell S.
Hill. and white Head Portland Harbor." by A
T. Bricher. In the West Gallery are +. A.
Bridgman's CLEOPATRA on the Terraces of
PhilR.' No. 1858; Frederick James's Franklin
and Gen. Braddock," No. 357; Hugh Witter Ditz-
ler's lis 1t the Peacock Aboard the u S. Brig
Hornet. 1873" No. 364; Lyell Carr's From the
Mountains No. $40; Walter Satterlee's In
Charge No. 1886: Frank Russell Green's
workers OF the Fields" No. 33s; r W. Van
Boskorck's Late Afternoon. Wakefield. X. L."
No. 1874: J. Wells ~Champney's Miss Mary
Mannering as Daphne" No. $50. and Thomas
Moran's "Montauk." No. 400. "Moonrise-
Decorative Panel" No. 1913. by Robert Reid. tho
Clarke prize picture. hangs on the limo on the
east wall OF this room. near the door leading into
the South Gallery, and near by. on the second
row. Is placed "St. Catherine" No. 395,
by NJ. L. M%hcomber. which won the Dodge
prize for the best picture painted by Q woman.
The corridor contains the third Hallgarten
prize picture, GRANDPA" No. IA. by Charles E.
Proctor; Ferdinand and ARIEL" No. ls. by
Henry Prellwttz; After the Rain" No. 81. by
A. T. Van Laer, Weighing the Bread" No. g.
by Amy Cross: Josephine and Her Mother
No. 40, by Edmund c. Tarbell; q largo canvas
hung over the door at tho head OF the
stairs-"Muley Aben Hassan," No. 1, by H.
Cecilia Beaux; Indian Medicine Man"
No. 81, by E. L. Couse: "A Ball Col
ebrating tho Victory OF Yorktown-Freder-
combc; "Ploughing the Atlantic" No. %, by
James g. Tyler, and "Tangles." No. %, by Fran
els Day. The catalogue, which contains lists of
officers, living and deceased members OF the Acad-
envy. fellows and prizcmen, and a variety OF In.
formation about the institution. Is well got up
and 'copiously illustrated with half.tone prints
from pictures In the exhibition.
LINE OF PIERS down THE BAT.
when They stretch from Liberty usland to