The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-07
HoNoRs Fon a Young ARTIST.
Mr.. william II. KIine's Picture at the
National Academy Exhibition.

Mr.. william II. kIinc's Picture at the
National Academy Exhibition.
Mr.. William F. Kline is winning new
honors in the word of art. Those who
have watched his work, particularly Sa-
vannahians to whom he Is wei known,
have taken not only an interest, but a
pride in his advancement. Mr.. Kline Is
a son of Mr.. r F. Kline asd although
young he IS winning, and in fact, al
ready has won, high enconiums from con-
noisseurs The New York Home Jurnal
has the following in regard to his picture
at the National Academy of Design:
Mr. William f. Kline exhibits his first
important picture a the current exhibition
of the National Academy OF Design
Though il has attracted wide attention
as marking the advent of a new factor
in American art, il is only connolsseurs
of excellent eyesight and people with the
art instinct who WI discover 1t. for 1t
is practically "skied," and its rare and
refined cooring is seriously impaired by
its neighbors OF course, it is difficuH, If
not impossible, to hang three hundred
and odd pictures in a manner to satisfy
everybody, and it is not within reason to
expect that justice shall be done TO every
compe titor, so long as more pictures are
accepted than can be properly shown: vet
1t seems as if the committee might have
given Mr.. Kline's work a more advanta-
geous place. IT hangs in the north CAL
lery, No. q, and is entitled Her Trl-
butte" 1t is mastery piece of work and
stamps the young artist as a man of ex-
traordinary talent. The theme Is the
American flag. and Mr. Kline has treat
ed 1t in manner al once artistic and pop
ular. The conception is highly original
and it is realized with much feeling and
good taste. In an old-fashoned interior
seated upon q quaint, long, ma hogany
sofa, covered in green leather a colonial
relic, sits sweet maiden of the sixties
gowned in an old-fashioned ouiet old
rose colored dress, sewing upon tho flag
II lies partly across her knees and parity
on the sofa. and i'm arrangement and col
oring is most skillfully handled. The pic
ture is aptly titled il is the najden's mi
butte to the cause in which she can take
no more active part Accurate az m de-
tail, beautifully drawn. refined and rnelo-
dious in coloring, graceful in corDpositjon
and enveloped in an atmosphere of poetry
and sentiment, it will lead many to won
der why Il has not taken one Of the prizes
for which II is eligible-the Clarke or Hall
garten, especially as the latter Is divided
into three parts. For Il seems TO meet
the conditons-the best picture i'm oils
painted in the United States by an Ameri-
can citizen under thirty-fve. Howbeit
II Is a superb piece OF work. and the buy
er will some day tell Of his purchase with
peculiar pride; for, though the picture h
a present performance Of meritorious ex-
cellence, Il affords promise of still greater
things to come. Mr.. Kline, whose stu
do is in the Holbein, 152 West Fifty-ffth
street, is a graduate and a scholarship
man of the Academy schools. and achiey-
ed the distinction of first winning the I
II. Lazarus prize scholarship. the
American Prix de Rome" having re-
turned only last year from the three
study abroad which 1t confers. His ca
reer win be watched with INTEREST,"