New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-05
ART EXHIBITIONS.
LANDSCAPES BY Mr. RANGER-A coll
LECTION OF AMERICAN PICTURES
THE RICHARDS WATER-COI-
ORS-MISS CASSATT-MR.
WORES IN JAPAN.

WORES IN JAPAN.
The most interesting exhibition Of the moment IL
that of Mr.. II. W. Rangers landscapes at the
( Tooth Gallery. His work has improved steadily
In quality. 1t Is true that he has not yet wholly
shaken on certain indications Of undue suscepti-
bility TO the example OF other men. notably the
Barbizon and modern Dutch painters. But these
suggestions Of outside influence are fewer than
ever before, and the work. on the whole. is done
with mastcrful a hand that the observer IL
quite willing 10 forgive the shortcoming 10 which
we have referred. Mr. Ranger has warm. rich
| color. which he handles with drectness and force
At long intervals he would have been at
tracted by a subject In a light. vivacious key as
witness No. 10. Spring" but his usual key Is
deeper and at the time forvid The
! irdoscent view Of High Bridge" in which tho
city 10 the south s represented in Turneresque
vein Of golden mystery. is fairly sumptuous in
color. The decacy Of tonal graduation illustrated
/ ny this picture is finer than has been noticed In
most OF the artists landscapes. But 1t is for his
holiness and solid strength that he is most to be
admired In this exhibition. The tree forms In
Golden Autumn and in Rocks and Oaks"
modelled with vgor and accuracy which may
have been fostcrcd by study of Rousseau and
1 Dupre. but which speak OF nothing con-
cusively than OF spontaneous. individualized pow
| The sixteen pictures full Of the charm OF
landscape they characterized by excellent
qualities OF design. and the leave. In short. thu
impression OF sympat hetc and capable painter.
Most of all. the, disclose n strong. healthy tenn
permanent. expressing Itself with 1t is de-
cidedly masculine that these pictures repre-
Mr. Pincus Chock has placed on exhibition at the
American Art Galleries "A collection of more than
three hundred paintings. which will he sold at
auction next week. the dispersal OF the pictures
beginning on Wednesday night. American artists
exclusively are represented in the collection some
OF them by many ten or fifteen pictures each
1t is little Disappointing 10 have to say that,
with all this array OF native accomplishment. It Ia
still impossible 10 find anything Of really memo
ra BILE character on the walls. but. on the other
hand this collection is exactly the thing In which
discerning collectors should take active inter-
est. 1t is made up OF minor pictures chiefy-there
are panels by II. Siddons Mowbray. Childe Has
sam F. s Hamilton. George w. Maynard and
a dozen others which would escape notice In
SHOW Of the Society Of American Artists. FOR eH-
ample as being Of merely personal interest-yet
Il is Just in their casual personal significance that
| they have value Many collectors And 1t inconven-
tent to buy important paintings by Americans or
foreigners They arc TOO costly. Well. here are
unimportant but Very characteristic things. can
vases small in scale and unpretentious IN treat
ment but spontaneous. artistic. and very inter
estng to possess examples OF some OF our clev-
crest men. Take the nine somewhat fantastic
sketches by Gustave Verbeek. They are original.
| piquant little productions. Some day they will be
! Of greater value 10 collectors, we imagine than
they are now. Mr.. Chock shows varied taste In
his collection. Landscapes and figure subjects ap-
pear in about the proportion Emil Carlson
has some attractive still life paintings in the show
and Mr. Langley's capital coast scene in the first
| gallery is one Of several good marines To name
all the artists whose work has been collected by
Mr. Chock would be long task. 1t may suffice
TO add that any number Of wel-known painters are
enumerated in the catalogue, so that the sale
-ab1a 70 he ms
At the Avery Gallery are water-coors by
William r. Richards and his daughter. Miss Anna
NJ Richards. The first of these artists has long
held conspicuous and honored position in the
water-color exhibitions. his studies OF the sea
having a naturalness in composition and finish
in execution pleasing 10 many lovers OF our coast
scenery and Of those Wild bays and cliffs which
mark the shores Of Cornwall and the Hebrides.
Mr. Richards deprives himself OF effects which
are perhaps within his reach by combining himself
persist emily certain delicate scale or color go
delicate at times q lend weakness to otherwise
forcible productions but within his chosen limits he
IS usually sure Of himself, and usually secures his
scheme o. atmosphere and light with precision
in itself highly creditable. OF the ultimate style
of his work 1t is impossible 10 speak so confidently
| 1t is lacking In power. lacking In distinction Mr.
| Richards has found much Of his best material in
the shadows along the shore. where the water lies
pale green and sometimes nfeless. Something OF
that nerveless quality has got into his style He Is
veracious. and his workmanship is that OF an ac-
mirably trained artist. But in these water -colors
we have neither the delight and beauty OF truth
nor the fascina tion OF the artist whose workman
ship Is instinct with artess strength ana a Hesh'
original inspiration.
Miss Richards has not previously. we believe,
held an exhibition Ike that which shares the gall
lery with her father. Her work though not I'M
familiar in the annual exhibitions Is In tho main
new II deserves become better known and es-
with Olf
chitecture For the landscape and figures In these
water-colors we have scant admiration. The archi-
lecture as in Trinity College. Cambridge" Is
thoroughly artistic. Mibs Richards has some
breadth of style and some depth of zone Her
buildings are picturesque. but not at the expense
~ trutb ON the contrary she would seem TO
have used the utmost care in preserving the de-
tails OF her subjects. Her method is evidently
that OF her father. loosened and 10 that extent
improved by individual taste. BY dlnt OF STRIVING
for even greater breadth and hexib'lity' ana oy
raising the key Of color slightly, Miss Richards
you'd win a good place for herself among the
whereabouts of the day.
II ia now about three years since a welcome was
offered in this place the work OF Miss Mary
Cassatt whose art al that time was INTRODUCED
IN the American public as something more OF icHS
new and strange We cannot say that In the II
,or,u Miss Cassatt has perceptbly wideneo he'
aud,ence ON this side OF the ocean In Paris she
to hoan known and admired as one Of the strong
cot Of the followers of Manet In America where
Manet himself is not unanimously acclaimed one
Of the immortals the bold studies IN oil ana the
SIN more, original drypoints. wherein Miss Gas
satt has advanced her peculiar IDEAS nave oeen
examined with interest and then. we rear ighoreo'
A.. revi,al Of interest I'm them should BE- Drought
about by the exhibition now open at the Durahd-
Puel galleries 1t contains some II not all OF the
nictires shown three years ago ana numOer %
noyy things Judging from the latter Miss Cassat'
IN. not advanced very far. the only improvements
noticed being in the direction OF Il" n'o'e"s'' "
-, 0rer suavity of feeling The latter por-
,rots are geniIer more human than their predeces-
= Wa do no, mean that the earlier portraits are