The evening times., 1899-03-25
PRIZE PAINTINGS ON SHOW.
Exhibitions of Fine Picture. b,
American Artists.

Exhibitions of Fine Pictures by
American Artists.
New York. March 25.-Two important art
exhibitions open today-that OF the Society
of American Artists. at the American Fine
Arts Building. and that OF the Society of
Landscape Painters. at the American Art
Galieries-of which private views were
given yesterday. HoEs
The Society's exhibition is it's twenty
first. The Landscape Painters were or
ganized only last year, and appear as a
body before the public for the first time
The standing of these painters as artists
and the great impetus given to American
landscape art by the prices which the in
ness pictures realized AT the Clarke sale
make the landscape exhibition one of first
Importance.
The Landscape Painters were started by
twelve painters, who have been facstiously
dubbed The Twelve Apostles" The paint
ings which they show are highly charac-
teristic and representative.
X. Swain Gifford's landscapes include one
entitled Coast Trees, an admirable ex-
ample OF the country around Buzzard's
Bay. IL has the stern yet human qualities
of the soil from which our Puritan fore
fathers wrung their scant living. Mr.. Gift
ford has handled the subject admirably.
Robert Minors Evening" Immediately
attracts attention by its warm, rich color
ing, and his other canYaSes worthiiy sus-
tain his reputation. Walter Clark has
among his pictures one entitled -On Breezy
Bays, showing a hSherman'S hut, with
nets and few windworn trees and shrubs
in the foreground. fiurried sheet of water
beyond, and in the distance a low opposite
shore-a work with fine feeling for color
and composition.
Bruce Cranes Might on Cape Ann is
an admirable reproduction OF calm semi
darkness on the New England Coast. His
Winter Morning" with eornstalks and
stubble lightly covered with snow, Is an
other fine example of his work.
| J. Francis Murphy has number OF mis-
| charming autumn and haze effect. Carle-
| ton Virgins has several large cattle pieces,
which attract attention through their fine
coloring and the admirable handling Of the
incidental landscape. Walter Palmer has
| taken occasion to show that he excels in
other than water scenes.
| George II. Bogert shows series Of
charmingly painted canyases from his So
| journ in Holland. Among other interest
| ing pictures by William A. Coffin is
''Moonrise and MIST" with an attractive.
soft. hazy effect. The other artists. whose
| work is also excellent, are Charles H. Da-
Wis, Frederick ". Kost and Leonard Oeht-
/ man.
| AS usual there is something fresh and
| vigorous about the exhibit of the Society
of American Artists. Three prize pictures
are in the Vanderbilt gallery'-D. W.
Tyron's Early Spring in New England -
which received the 81 500 prize at Pittsburg
last autumn. and the prizes pictures of the
F.! present exhibition. Douglas Vo.k's very
pretty Woodland May (Shaw prize)' and
/ W. l.. Lathrop's finely painted Clouds and
Hills CWebb price,
J. Appleton Browns May" H. Borton
Jones Afternoon by the River" Louis
Paul Dessar's ''Nocturne," Albsrt Hertsrs
The Eve of ST. Agnes and AT Twilight
and c. Warren Eaton's canvases, also in
the Vanderbilt gallery, will not fail to
attract attention.
Among the striking pictures in the south
gallery are Frank Fowler's portraits OF
Mrs. Samuel Sloan, ir., and former Gov.
Roswell p. Flower. A pretty composition
| in low tones is Bryson Burroughs Mother
and Child The same artist has telling
picture of plow horses and men at work.
The strenuousness of the task is well ex-
pressed. Charles C. Curran has a capital
little picture, entitled White Turkeys"
For delicacy in the treatment of the fig
ures and the surrounding landscapes Hen
ry B. Fuller's Mother and Child" is ad-
mirable.
W. j. Whittemore's Portrait of Mar
jorie Holden is charmingly quaint. Carl
ton p. Chapman has spirited picture from
his 1912 series, showing the Wasp and
the Avon,' and R. VIVIAN Boskerck a we'll
painted Kitchen Garden" A portrait by
w. H. Hyde, Mrs. L., attracts most at
tention among the oanvases in the west
gallery. In the east gallery is a very large
canvas by Henry B. Smell. showing in a
spirited manner the pursuit OF the Colon
by the Brooklyn and the Oregon. In this
gallery are also "A Musician of the Rin
Mountains" by Alloys OKelly. and Mrs.
Rosina Emmett Sherwcod's Girl with a
Harp" charming canvas.