New-York tribune., 1900-05-06
PART IL.
SIXTEEN PAGES
LONDON NOTES.
PICTURES AT THE NEW GALLERY
FRENCH PLAYS BY ENGLISH AND
AMERICAN COMPANIES

+bere Is no evidence its walls that any body Is
dreaming dreams and seeking to forecast what
che art Of the future VIII be like. Last year
.be,a was & Holman Hunt of exceptional in
terest This season amateurs with regulations
which are still 10 be made occupy places of honor
and faunt their crude schemes OF color and
decoration before the spectators eyes and the
Academicians and seasoned exhibitors fill the in
tervening spaces. OF creative energy and high
Imagination there are signs. There are whim-
sicaI vagaries of fancy in place Of the splendid
creations OF Burne-Jones wonderland Of dream
like beauty and poetic romance
There three ambitious pictures in the north
room-"Charity." by Mr.. Frank Brangwyn de-
fective in draughtsmanship and confused in COM
position. but fine mosaic of color; Mrs. Evelyn
de Morgan's Spear Of Ithuriei," with neither
power of imagination charm OF color and
Mr Spencer Stanhope's Expulsion with con-
ventional angel armed with an impossible sword
driving out the tripping pair from q fowery
Eden. Mr.. Walter Cranes Stranger" belongs
10 a higher class Of work. It is apparently the
Angel Of Peace with olive branch in hand. we'll
drawn in blue draperes with auburn hair and
benignant face. Mr. Herbert Schmalz also has
real contribution 10 art-'"The Holy Mother: An
Evening in Nazareth There may not be a
spark OF divinity in the child and the Madonna
may be lacking in serenity and exaltation but
there is power in the composition there are
harmonious blends Of grays and browns in the
color scheme. and the background of Nazareth
is delineated with skill 'Danae Cast Out" by
M Foord Hughes, is an amateurish perform
ance. and Mr.. Henry A. Payne's Enchanted
Sea" Is also crude
Mr. Schmalz and Mr.. Crane are supported In
this room by several characteristic works of ex-
perienced painters. Mr. George H Boughton
has two pretty idyls. "A Song Of Spring" and
''Ashes Of Roses worked out with deicacy of
color and refinement OF method Mr. Alfred
Parsons has a luminous and beautiful picture
The Weir Pool" Mr.. James Orrock has found
in northumberland another Of the quaint mills
which he paints with sympathetic touch Mr.
Aumonier has "A Gray Day full of atmosphere
and well toned. Mr.. Edward Stott has in The
Little Apple Gatherer" a dainty and charming
sketch. with good effects OF light Like The
Widows Acre" IN the adjoining ROOM 1t shows
signs Of the same talent for mixing poetry and
pathos with his paints which is disclosed in
the SHADY Boon for Simple Sheep" which is
now on exhibition at the GuildhaI.
In the west ROOM where the Burne-Jones
pictures were once seen, there magma
tive works Of unique distinction. Mr.. Windsor
Fry holds the place OF honor with Ave
Maria" which fails to excite emotion and be-
low it is wide panel by Sir James D. Linton
Illustrating the Opening Scene in the Decam-
erone." with many figures painted heavily. with
romance Mr.. George Wetherbee has in THE
Siren one OF his graceful and fecitous idyls
OF the sea- and Mr. Collier S1nitners makes a |
less successful attempt on a larger canvas to
depict nymphs and fawns piping and dancing
joyousIy in Arcade. Sir William Richmond has
naked woman sprawling ar full length on the
sand TO illustrate the theme Summer Seas" in
blue and silver. but this work hardly comes
under the head Of poetic Imagination. Much
5afr in
tion is Lady Alma-Tademas Poets Flower"
one OF the few bits OF genre painting in the gal
lery.
In this room. as in the first one, the strong
and interesting works by Academicians and
prose painters who are wide awake and have
never been caught lettering nodding in the
Greenland where Burne-Jones content to
live. Mr.. Alfred East makes the closest ap-
proach 10 it in his ''Lago Maggiore" the most
beautiful landscape of the exhibition. The mo-
ment OF early dawn is timed with precision for
there Is a sense Of departing darkness rather
than the gltnmer CT light; and the deep blue of
the lake Is suffused through the entire land
scape and allowed TO tone the trees, the herd of
goats underneath. and the hillsides. The effects
are soft, dreamy and beautiful The foliage OF
The trees is massed in a Corot. and there are
gimpses of blue water through them exquisitely
toned A fine foil for this work is Mr.. Pepper
study Of fading light in a commonplace scene
without natural beauty. and with the plainest
DIends or grays, murky whites and browns. 1t
is the close Of an ordinary day in u dull place
but there Is a wonderful sense OF atmosphere
ana subtle balancing Of lights. Mr.. East goes
FAR af1eld for a beautiful scene and paints il
with poetic feeling at a dreamy and witching
Aour Mr. Peppercorn finds his inspiration IN
me dullest pastures and commons. and enveIops
them with murky atmosphere which can be
ie4t' ana II ne leaves out beauty he does not
miss II in his interest in problems of light.
There are other landscapes and sea pieces in
this room, notably Mr.. Thorne Waite's Home
o. Caedwalia.' with mountain and glen; Mr..
Napier Henry's ''FisherInan's IIarbor" with its
stone steps. group OF busy boatmen and eff
fective water painting; Mr.. Auan's stirring 'Au
Hands on Deck; Mr.. MacWhirters Gates of
Sherwood Forest and Mr.. Watts's Loeb
Ness, IL \ hch land. and water are painted fer
The sake OF color scheme. There is also
group Of portraits. with Mr.. Sargent's General
Ian Hamilton ore-eminent among them. and
Mr. Watts's Wifrid 5. Blunt and Miss Lima
Duff Gordon hardly less conspicuous. There is
tst effects in Jose Moleno, the NIueteer,' and
by which the picturesque figure Il touched with
water color. but his daring and strength com
nland attention in any medium
In the north room there is only work OF
distinct imaginative power This is MIR. Her
bert Drapers Water Baby" in shell, which
posed to view among the rocks-a fantastic con-
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