New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-19
OTHER COLLECTIONS.
THE ROBINSON AND GIBSON sALE-PICT-
CRES AT THE MANHATTAN AND
COLONIAL CLUBs-MI-
NOR MATTERS


The days are packed with "a much ar, az they
can hold. While the Society Of American Artists
Ia holding its exhibition more than one sale Is 10
take place. ono more than OF the clubs opens
Its doors 20 visitors and displays works Of art
loaned nv members. Tho most important OF the
sales Is one which will dispense two collections Of
paintings by the late Theodore Robinson and the
late w. Hamilton Gibson. respectively. at the
American Ar; Galleries next week M Robinson
was an artist enthusiastically appreciated by his
colleagues and not > warmly supported by the
public. He had much technical skill and pene-
trating faculty for the Gelineation OF landscape
effects. The paintings the American Art Gal
leries were practically al! done under impression
is'c influences. and seem the work OF man more
anxious 10 paint tho truth than paint the beauty
Tint Is sometimes to he found in truth. Accord
ingy. they have LITTLE sensuous quality but give
with m almost hard and repcllent precision the
facts. and simple. which Mr.. Robinson OBJ
served in American scenery. Sometimes he seems
on the brink Of something more than fact. The
Old Gate. FrascatL" IL almost poetic in feeling:
"A Day in Ture' has capital touch ~ bright color
In IT. and tho large 'Por; Zen Deawarc and Hud-
son Canal" which has been presented TO the Net
rorotan Museum Of Ar. by the Society o. AmeA
can Artists. il almost beautiful in It's atmospheric
freshness and sweep Of view. Rut II the public
did not care for Mr.. Robinsons work II was not all
the public's fault True. he had high merits. but
his art was essentially he was too much
ernees and his accuracy-which seem 20 mean
everything but do not--.hcre Is TOO little left.
Mr.. w Hamilton Gibson was the very anttness
o, Mr.. Robinson. The six hundred drawings and
paintings shown in this exhibition by him were
all painted out o. conception OF art which pat
surface attractiveness before all else. Naturally
this excess harmed him even more than Mr.. Robin
sons harmed him. These drawings are invariably
verac!ous. and just invariably pretty. but his
foin 90 al bara 10
overloaded sweetness. and while any o: the
back-and whites, taken by Itself. has certain
plausbility there is depression In the collection as
a whole. Gibson refined that he was hnical.
and in the midst OF his exquisite detail one hungcrs
for dash OF boldness and generalization Granted
his peculiar methods. however. Gibson could do
almost anything The range o, his art IN the sphere
OF foral lie and among the birds and butterflies
was simply enormous He drew hundreds upon
hundreds OF tiny blossoms t!n!er insects and
MS hand fatered. He drew his subject with
extraordinary deMcacy. and then embodied II IN a
decorative schem. which always graceful and
sometimes startling IN i.s Wildwood charm. We
mako doubt that the sale OF the numerous
drawings he LEFT at his death will be entirely sue
cessful 1t begins may add. next Monday
evening. and continues through Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings On Thursday evening the
Robinson pictures will he sold Then the American
Ar, Galleries will be filled with collection OF
paintings belonging - Mr. A. Disbecker. a collec-
ton Of engravings. dealing with the American wars.
helon gtng 10 Dr. Frank Abbott. and collection OF
Oriental porcelaps and cur1os These will all be
sold.
AZ the Eth Avenue Art Galleries there will be
sold On Tuesday night collection Of marines by
MI James G. Tyler, with mis- cellanecus collection
OF paintings by other hands foreign and American.
Mr Tylers work Is spirited and picturesque. His
tone suffers from imperfect handling OF the pig
ments. which leaves somewhat grany surface
upon most 0, his canvasses: but tho color is vivo
the ships plunge bravely through tumbling waves.
and the general impression is pleasing. The pic
lures by other artists IN this exhibition are not
edifying.
We r.gre. that We have not space TO treat at
length the third annual Joan exhibition at the Man
haitian Club. II is composed O: foreign ano AMER
can works the latter being chiefly landscapes ny
the more conservative members OF our native
school such az c. H Davis D. ". Tryon. {. NJ
D.wov the late George Inn.ss and the late A. II.
want The Continental paintings have been 20
a great extent drawn from recent saies some OF
the gems OF the Stewart. Dana and Fuller co!lec-
tons appear among them Fortuny's "Choice OF
the Model" and Corot's "Danse des Amours.'
Briefly This exhibition Is one Of unusual dignity
and richness the ftty-seven paintings having been
selected with exceptionally good Judgment from
exceptionally important sources. II remains open
to-day only.
The loan exhibition at the Colonial Club which
will be accessible we believe FOR some time 10
como q strongest on the side OF American land
scape There are also some excellent early Ameri-
can portraits on the walls and there Is fine land
.cape by the late Cecil Lawson. Englishrnan
who has never been surHcienty known in this coun-
try and whose painting is distinctly worth seeing.
He was kind Of John Constable left late upon
the scene and with more OF the old schools than
OF the modern IN his blood
The Keppei gallery Is adorned with a large COL
lection Of etchings, Autographs and sketches by
the late Charles Jacque. He was master OF grace
and OF a kind OF rustic sweetness. Occasionally he
struck a sterncr note. as In No. l2i. "Pineraris.
and showed that ne had strength as well as suav-
!ty but the bulk OF his work was more charming
than impressive His sheepfods and cattle studies
IN general are drawn with almost caress1ns
smoo,hncss. The authority Of his art ie no more
10 be questioned than IS his refinement. But there
was strain OF the bourgeois in his artistic nature.
II left his often commonplace, and his work
Far too often leaves thu spectator cold.
Our last note is only TO record that fast upon the
heels Of all these exhibitions there is 20 follow
another The seventy-third annual exhibition al
the Academy OF Design will be opened 20 the pub
lie on Monday. March M II will close Saturday.
Nav H. Thus the Society and the Academy will
be before the public simultaneously Before either
withdraws the artists who seeded from the
clety expect 10 open a exhibition OF their at
the Durand- Ruel gallery.