The sun., 1899-01-29
ARr VOTES.
The Monet Exhibition at the Lotos Club
Mr.. Palmer's water Colors mt Avery's.

| The Monet Exhibition At the Lotos Club
Mr.. Palmer's Water Colors mt Avcry's.
The art gallery OF the Lotos Club Ia filled with
a well-arranged collection OF twenty-five pic
lures by Claude Monet. and visitors who res
| ceive cards Of admission from any member OF
the Art Committee. William t. Evans. Chair.
man. and Henry W. Ranger. Secretary. may
| sec the exhibition until Tuesday evening. Jan.
| 81, when IL closes. The catalogue is prefaced
| by a monograph by William II. Fuller. in
| which this well-known amateur, whose
| Barbizon pictures were sold by the American
| Art Association last winter. seems to renouncs
his allegiance to that famous school and writes.
with clear dictlon but archaeological argument.
most enthusiastically OF Monet But Monets
place in the art Of to-day is now pretty well
settled, and It is generally conceded that his
| work is losing ground instead OF gaining. His
| originality OF method, his strength and ha
| ability to invest many OF his canvases
| with rare quality Of luminousness arc
! granted by all Intelligent artists and amateurs,
but the conviction that beauties Of form and
composition arc factors he can never obtain
has been forced upon thcm and they recognize
that with all his power he s incomplete. just
what his place will be in the future it is mpos-
sible to predict but 1t seems likely that he
will be accorded a position in the art OF
our time that will be a very honorable
one, but that he will neither be considered such
leader as Manet was. nor that his pictures
will be valued in any such sense as are the
works Of Corot, Rousseau or Daubigny. Monets
temperament is an artistic one but. judged
from his work, 1t is singularly one-sided and
prone to cherish brutal facts unrefned by moro
than slight sense Of what all great painters
have considered the primo qualities In pic-
torial art.
The present interesting and instructive ex-
hibition contains three works that are truly
fine from whatever point OF view they may be
considered. These are the Bridge" No 8;
Floating Ice on the Seine," No. Is. and
winter on the Seine," No. 13. Very good but
less good than these, are " The Cliff Near Pour
ville." No. 8; "The Wheat Field" No. 4; the
Village" No. o." Belle Isle. No. 5. and Plum
Blossoms" No. 10. Among the others which
contain good qualities and poor qualities to-
gether are Nos 9. z. IL. 1S and 81. II the
exhibition contained only the pictures 80 far
named It would make a far better impression.
As IL Is. we turn from these and are confronted
with such muddy mixtures rs Fog at Pour
ve." No. l such a completely fiat and cheap
piece Of painting as Autumn on the Seine"
No. IA: such a false-looking transcript
as Sunset at Etretat," No. 16. or such an en-
tirely unattractive nay. ugly, canvas as
"Falaises a Dieppe." No. H. And there are a
few others quite as uninspirng, including
1.-The Coast Guards House," No. %. which.
with its tinsel and mica-roofed cabin in the
foreground illustrates what may happen to a
painter whose vision Is narrowed by theory
and who pushes his theory to absurdity.
But II one closes ones eyes in passing
these curious canvases. there Is much enjoy
ment to be found in looking we'll at the others.
Floating Ice on the Seine" for instance, 10
such good. manly, truthful. righteous sort OF
a picture that it does much to heal the wounds
rauan6 hv the yyinl ad ~
of the others.
At the Avery galleries. 369 Fifth avenue. the
annual exhibition of water colors by Walter
Launt Palmer is in progress, The title for the
collection this year is Snow Pictures" and
the exhibition will be open until Feb IL. Five
OF the twenty-five pictures depict sum-
mer landscapes or views in Venice. All
the others present various effects OF
morning. noon, evening or night on snow
covered stretches of country. forests.
streams or mountains The subjects as usual
have been found in the Catskills on the
Hudson or in the hy country in the neighbor-
hood of Albany. The pnly general comment
that may be made on the exhibition is that the
pictures are better than in previous years. good
as the former exhibitions have been. and that
MIR. Palmer. instead Of painting himself out in
the almost constant pursuit OF the same class OF
subjects, gains in force. in apparent truthful
ness of rendition and in cleverness of handling.
After the Snow" No. 3: The Red Bridge
No. %; THE First Rays" No. IT; "Twghr.'
No. 7. and 'Sundown." No. 19. merit the
highest praise. though possibly in the last
named composition the water of the mill
pond rejecting the part Of the sky out
side OF the picture is too light for pic
torial unity. Almost equally If not quite as
excellent are :" In the Woods at Santanoni."
No. IA; Snow and Open Water."No. 6. and "A
Stone Bridge" No. 13. La Salute at Night"
No. "a. is the more convincing OF the two inter-
pretations of that subject. the other being La
Salute at Noon." No. 23. but both are very plc-
turesque in arrangement and clever in execu-
ton.
The Carnegie Institute OF Pittsburg an
nounces that at its recently closed third annual
exhibition pictures representing a total value
of $20, 300 were sold. The purchases consisted
OF eighteen works. of which four were BY
American artists. There must be something
the matter with the promoters In that
ambitious art centre. for the proportion leaves
much to be desired. Last year the sale OF
sixteen pictures amounted to $20S19. and six
were by Americans, at home or abroad.
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