New-York tribune., 1900-01-25
ART EXHIBITIONS.
r,,v WILLIAM T. EVANS COLLECTION On
AMERICAN PAINTINGS.

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.ertcan art Mr.. Thomas b. Clarke ana MI VIII
- r Evans The former sold MS pictures at ths
s-or,can Art Galleries year ago MI Evans now
1ces his collection view IN the same pace
P,"N tb,.,o, opens TO the public this morning
- t,ndred and seventy paintings oy American
artists are shown. They viii be sofa Al Nilo slns
tIau on the evenings OF January 81. FeO'ualy aH0
. Neither Mr.. Clarke nor MI Evans eou-u -.- -.
- ar,arenttv in forming an entirety represent
, - - work We notice now. as we noticed
1ast year the absence OF seveFal important H1lL
other painters are represented Oy WI . NS 80 -
time ago and just estimate or tneir aOiil'.e Io
- ,r+o consideration what they nave since ae-
on l,td This f. especially the case IN the neld
- es,,rs palnting The landscape contingent =
more evenly balanced - 49, 49,,
Some Of these days perhaps nfty years heI07' ti7
rtto-fa7 Of American art will have an interesting
- 1,,,i,o the genius OF the Nation as II has
haaD evnressed on canvas VIII We De ple-en'-
nent for our landscapes or for our hgure panLl
A, nresent speculation the subject is ha@dIuOus
-rba deftness OF a practical age Woulo seem 10
,to .~rsa+ developnents in many Of the prime
assertials Of figure painting Yet thus iar tne
spiritual and imaginative qualities "n'ch our 80
tIcaIitv Is supposed quench seem 70 nave PlaSeO
,bet- mart with such force among the landscape
- ~..[ - +bev rather than their cOnfreres.
go the nurelv American thoughts OF American
art This might be said even were tnere Io' 80
few figure paintings OF consequence II l"I ,..t-
.1oo,ton F2,1t II may be repeated the SITUATION
NAV
NE aIlude TO II now it is only because TINS ex-
bibition offers one very opposite Suggestion Il
reminds us how few good American hsu p3-,-e p
there have been in the past william motifs I'M
the best of them ALL is. by some lrohlcai O-e.-- .
ts,hIs here in only one work and that Is marine
beautiful and full Of character De II sail-
Fuller who died only fifteen years ago, was ., -,
tbeIess one Of our pioneers We kno" IrOHi Sei - -
far,ous oaintings Of his how fresh ana olstilS
10 his art The two paintings by MIN whicn MI
F,,,ans possesses "LOrette" and bringing 1Oil-s
the Cow" II manifestly inferior examples aI1 So
Characteristic enough for US 10 see from theni NS
hts influence has faded He shows even IN lneSo
a,i.fac+or1 works mis- tenderness Of feeling. tne
Trasbness OF his outlook the fascination OF ms
style. He does not show, ana ne never uIN - -
the strength the first class power the quaii'y .
orsatnsss which imposes itself upon others eAoi'
ing them to labcrs OF emulation anu 81, an
teaching them how to reach the same le'1l- -.
this Is missing You cannot have a seHOo ,,,-ts,,I
a master Fuller an interesting ues -
nainter but he was not master, ana w
forcing the point when we see tne o'l ~ -
the medal in the general drift Of such hsure WI,
as Mr. Evans illustrates in his snow II. - = -
with no ancestry and with all due respeel Io 80 80
supreme gift OF originality We niuS'
II IS the worse for that fact
The noInt need not be labOred. however Let u
turn rather to the intrinsic merits OF lIT
work here displayed 1t Is ofteh auhIa0S- -
DoUing's Lady In Blue may rot De one OF ms
- +b,Dgs but II bears the stamp OF authority
che charm, of style And the late wyatt Eaton,
he too in his stately "Reverie' or MS renheu anu
hsautifrI .'Cigale" contents US through the sheer
.,,DIicity of his art its fine spirit It's disnheo m
divduality its technical sobriety ana tnorOueH-
rass There are other figure pieces Whicn maAe
tbe,r effect There are Mr.. H. o. walker w"
Dictures ''The Boy and the Muse" ana A MOTH
ing vision both remarkable Tor grace o.
sign and dercacy o. treatment 1here "a 1n9
eusve nude study The Reflection by the Ia'o
R. Fitz There is Mr.. MoWbTays oaih,y
..TIoreaI" or there Is Mr.. Kenyon Cox 5 AcalellO
nude May there are Mr. A r Fyoer -
hans TOO romantic panels, poetic m concepuOh'
Glowing in color and altogether too loosely exc
cuted These are all interesting, all artistic though
nothing in the list is quite as rich IN oeautS OF
as abOundlng in power as we shouid IKE 70 oe-
Mr. Church is sadly Disappointing. About twenty
of his paintfngs are gathered together. A few are
good the early Pandora for example, and the
large design for stained glass decoratiohs
water The rest of the pictures are deplorahiy
thin and their weak drawing saccharine eolor
and trivial mannerisms only look the worse FOR
the assembling of many Of them IN one place.
We pass lightly over the light. clever work oy MI
c. c. Curran-wishing. by the way. that soma
Weightier merits could be imported INTO X NJ
Brush Mr. Daingerheld. Mr.. G. H. Boughton, Mr.
Low Mr. Shirlaw Mr.. Hamilton and Mr. Taroeu
count creditably in the show. Mr. Thayer's Dung
Woman has many good qualities that We Wlsn
IT had more 1t Is of those numerous paint
ings into which he has poured his sympathy. his
ideaIism his special charm, without concealns de-
fects OF modelling and impurities OF color which
very nearly ruin the whole work
Our landscape painters have been fortunate They
have suffered from such arid past as has rem
dered the way Of the figure painters more difficult
forcing them to take the initiative to feel their
was comparatively unaded toward those higher
stages OF art upon which many OF them. We
are bound 10 add have arrived. even though the
Evans collection does not demonstrate that fact
The landscape men had Inness Homer Martin
and Wyant to set the pace for them 1t has
made all the difference in the world Ideas are
| pOtent even II they only In the air. 1he
three artists just named all had ideas. they mad
genius and without personally instructng their
juniors they stimulated them enormously, blazed
the path for them. set them 10 work in the right
way There are no fewer than seventeen paintings
by Inness IN this collection. ranging through all
the phases Of his splendid style There is the lucid.
restrained and superbly realistic Winter Morn
| ing at Montclair.' There is the flaming sunset
on the Passaic," work riotous in the profusion
of its color but "held together skilfuly as any
OF the designs in a far quieter key. The thirteen
Wants also run the ganut of his art. from the
exquisite Mghtness and grace OF the large IN the
Adirondacks'' the simpler. more direct and more
solemn qualities OF the solitude There are eight
paintngs by Homer Martin. OF which. the
imposing and elegtac 'Old Church in Normandy,
has a wonderfully haunting beauty. Among the
other things by him the little panels, Lake
George" "A Mountain Brook and 'Frouville at
Night" are especially characteristics and beautiful
We should mention here, too. Mr. Minors mel
low canvas The Close OF Day" and Mr. Winslow
Homer's turbulent and powerful "Weatherbeatsn-"
Fut II Is impossible 10 specify all the landscapes
and sea pieces which are grouped around these
fine works of the older men, the fruit and glory OF
the founders OF the school Some OF these younger
men are uneven. 1t Is true. Sea and Rain Is the
only one of MIR. BOgerts six pictures which II
Of in aude