New-York tribune., 1903-03-18
Art EXHIBITIONS.
Il Crorded Calendar of Interesting
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SNe srt season Is drawing to close. but its last
SssR1 are, rs always, crowded. On Saturday.
March a the Society Of American Artists will
open It's tventydfth annual exhibition At the Fine
Arts Building. About three weeks later the Ten
American Painters VIII bring forward their annual
display At the DUrand-Ruel Galleries. In the mean
time nearly every Of the dealers has on view
O collection CT works by this that Individual In
the auction rooms there is stiH much to be done
At the American Art Galleries there will be opened
Tomorrow exhibition Of three different collec-
GicuG- ali of which to be sold One Of these.
formed by ths late A. Aelrose Burrttt, of Water
bury, consists Of antique Oriental porcelains and
rare stchings and engravtnss. Another, which be-
loag1 to Mr. Samuel Colman. ss made up IN part
Of his own works IN on and water colors and IN
part Of paintings by men Of the Barb1on and other
schools. The third places before the public the
paintings left by the late John H. Twachtnan-
These three collections viii presumably excite the
Lively bidding that has characterized most OF
the sales fhts year. Careful investigation has dis
closed the fact that this has been one Of the most
prosperous art seasons in the annals of NsW-Hork-
Observers Of such matters will. therefore. watch
with sreciaI interest the sale Of Mr. TwachtHans
pictures It affords the connoisseur an excehent
crportunfty show to what extent he u nnueOceo
BY fashion By intrinsic quality. by prejudice n
favor Of foreign art by appreciation OF native
work Nr TwachtYnan had made for himself q
peculiar and an honorable pIaca in American art
VIII this fact be recognized? The eleven Aone1
collected BY the lete William h Fuller were eoio
see IL those whose taste for impresstonIsm these
figures o6er certain testimony have the courage
Of Their convictions and win show it by support OF
The kind Of tnpreseionism which Ar TWacntrnsn
prsctise6- We may add that the exhibition ana
sale Of his works are under the auspices OF COM
ruttee formed Of Stanford White, Augustus ST
E7sudens Thomas B. Clarke and number OF
others including the nine associates with whom
ne exhibited during the last few years.
At the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries there begins
70 morrow night. and continues Friday night, a
sale Of one hundred and thirtynne modern pictures
belonging to Messrs, Fishel Adler & SchWartz
who thus overhaul their stock prior to removal to
p. galleries The bulk of the collection consists
Of popular subjects painted by tolerably well known
European artists. spshle workmen. but In no way
distinguished. Scattered through this miscellany
are Hftesn twenty things Of a higher quality Al
the head Of them sN is q beautiful landscape by
the late George Inness. luminous in color and
Characteristic style. there two fair examples
Of ThauIov a clever Venice" and an interesting
night scere Port de Christian: kaemmerer, the
superficial. but accomplished, and always enter
tanning Dutch painter. is represented by couple
Of pretty panels. AT the Shoe Makers ana ,ae-
turning from School" and there are pleasant
rfctures here by LerolIe, Bridgman. Jscquet Twill,
Tapv srd KowaIski. The early Cour5et. 'Au Bord
de Ia Mer.' has interesting qualities But,
after the Inness, perhaps the most signihcant
things here are the pictures by q few Dutchmen.
such as Blommers, Ter Meulen and kever, which
form q most engaging little group.
Salient among the one man exhibitions just
opened is that at the Dursnd-Ruel Galleries Of
paintings and water colors by Mr.. Wifrid D Won
CIIehn an English artist He has done, we believe,
much decorative work in London. and he now
shows two three illustrations Of this side Of his
art: but exhibition. which TO nearly three
score pieces Is devoted chiefly to portraits and
landscapes The first impression receive is that
Sir. Won Glenn takes broad view Of his themes.
and paints them with ease with vigor and with a
certain largeness Of feeling. His color s fresh
and brilliant though not seldom marked In ths
backgrounds Of his portraits by a pitchy brown
which unpleasAntly recalls the days when eager
contributors to the Salon were prone to seek easy
and epecious effects through undue use OF btu
men The point brings US to the curious want OF
balance in Mr. Won GIehn's work, which reveals It
self close scrutiny. The viEor which at first
blush one is inclined unreservedy 70 admire proves
IN long run rather treacherous. 1t enables him
70 give his figures delightful reality. but II carries
him too far as for example. in the full length
Portrait OF Miss Irene Vanbrugh." wherein the
vivid color the striking lines Of the old fash
;oned hounced dress are sadly exaggerated and
orerpower the personality Of the sitter Much hap
pier is the large Portrait Of English Girl
which is also very boldly painted, but with in
frlitely finer taste. Oddly enough the delicacy
which the misses IN the general aspect OF
portrait he again and again secures in the treat
Tnent Of the face The Portrait Of an English
Girl Is charming in this regard; SO likewise are
Youth" The Straw Hat In the Garden" and
the Portrait" which shows young woman ii
white exquisitely drawn. Looking among the land
scspes the virtue not wholly disap-
pointed but neither find in sufficient measure
that for which searching.
M Won Glehn is enormously clever, and in every
thing he does there is q personal accent which IS
very beguiIing. his studies Of nature, while
technically interesting. the whole, lacking
in atmosphere and in sentiment. The best Of his
open air pictures the three Versailles studies
which are grouped together. and these are more
admirable decorative quality than for anything
else Turning these TO the strictly decorative
schemes We find The Sea GulIs' well designed,
EuaveIy painted and agreeable in color but neither
The Song Of the Sea- nor Il Enchanternent de Ia
FoTet is completely satisfactory both being rather
heavy where the forms concerned. and too
Eyrupy In color, though both contain good passages
q execution and indubtabIy effective IN con-
cePtfon Here there a sketch like The Foun-
1air. Florence like two Of the Venetian
subjects, gives moment of exhfaration, sense
OF something we'll seen and pquantly handled
The collection a whole possesses oiSconcerting
ambiguity. II is beyond question that Mr..
Glenn has talent and, upon occasion.
can paint with authority. The Portrait Of
N English Girl" with = few other things
n the show. makes US feel that the painter
may 20 far and that certainly shall to see
his work sgain. But there is too much here that
is tentative and uneven, too much to suggest the
who is feeling his still far from what,
with his gifts. he ought TO achieve
Mr.. Arthur Eoeber has at the Katz Gallery thir-
teen per. most. If all. of date.
Several these show distinct advance. Pictures
like Clearing After RAIN the Cape Cod
&arshes'' and the September Moon. Cape Cod"
ling for the excellence OF composition which
note IN rF q effect.