The times., 1899-03-26
PRIZE PAINTINGS ON SHOW.
Exhibitions of Fine Pictures by
American Artists.

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
Galleries-of which private views were
| given yesterday.
The Society's exhibition is its 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 al the Clarke sale
make the landscape exhibition one of first
Importance.
! The Landscape Painters were started by
twelve painters, who have been facetiously
dubbed The Twelve Apostles" The paint
! ings which they show are highly charac-
| teristic and representative.
| r. Swain Giffords landscapes include one
| entitled Coast Trees" an admirable ex-
/ ample of the country around BuZZard S
! Bay. 1t has the stern yet human qualities
| of the soil from which our Puritan fore
fathers Nrung their scant living. Mr.. Gif-
| ford has handled the subject admirably
| Robert Minors Evening" Immediately
attracts attention by its warm, rich color
ing, and his other canvases worthily sus-
! tain his reputation. Walter Clark has
among his pictures one entitled "On Breezy
Bays" showing a fisherman's hut with
nets and few windworn trees and shrubs
in the foreground, iurried sheet of water
beyond, and in the distance 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 cornstalks and
stubble lightly covered with snow, is an
other fine example OF his work
J. Francis Murphy has number of his
charming autumn and haze effects. Garlic
ton Virgins has several large cattle pieces,
which attract attention through their fine
coloring and the admirable handling CT the
incidental landscape. Walter, Palmer has
taken occasion to show that he excels in
| other than water scenes.
George H. Bogert shows series of
charmingly painted canyases from his So
iourn in Holland. Among other interest
ing pictures by William A. Coffin is
ls'Moonrise and Mist with an attractive,
soft, hazy effect. The other artists. whose
work is also excellent. are Charles H. Da-
Wis, Frederick w. Kost and Leonard Ocht-
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
present exhibition, Douglas Vo.k's very
pretty Woodland May (Shaw price and
w. L. Lathrops finely painted Clouds and
Hills" (Webb prize.)
]. Appleton Browns May" II. Borton
Jones Afternoon by the River" Louis
Paul Dessar's ''Nocturne,' Albert Herter' 5
The Eve of st. Agnes" and .At Twilight
and c. Warren Eatons 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, jr., 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. F'uller'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 1872 series, showing the Wasp and
| the Avon,' and r. w. Van Boskerck a well
painted Kitchen Garden" A portrait by
W. H. Hyde, Mrs. L. attracts most at
tention among the canvases in the west
gallery. In the east gallery is 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 Riff
Rosina Emmett Sherwood's Girl with a
Harp a charming canvas.