New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-01

posthumOus panels Of Whistler occupy the place
Of honor. Besides these there are excellent
American pictures. Henry Van der weyden. OF
Boston, exhibits an "Abreuvoir'' which fully
realizes the ideal Of evening fascination. The
horses enter the greenish-blue stream, and the
composition is simple and delightful. Frederick
FTieseke Of Michigan, sends four nudes. women
at their toilet and danseuses that hold their
own with the best works Of French artists
Alfred Maurer, OF New-York, has already Gre
ated a school and has many imitators but he
should avoid growing tendency of working
with too dark colors. Maurer exhibits five pict-
ures, among which the young women writing
letters at table IN a deserted cafe and Chez
lie Coiffeur" are the best. Walter Gay is ac-
knowleldged in Paris to be the master Of lux
urious Louis XIV interiors. and this reputation
is amply justified by the pictures he exhibits
this spring. Julius Stewards portrait of Mile
B. s., bright eyed young woman with a straw
hat. is gem. Alexander Harrison's ocean
waves and Atlantic skies are beautiful har-
monies Of poetic solitude. Eugene Vail ex-
hibits Venetian evening study Of two figures
crossing the Bridge Of Signs Ernest Rosen of
New-York sends a charming "nocturne por-
trait" Of a young woman enraptured with her
own performances on the plano. Charles Bit
finger, of Washington, has a somewhat Whist
tired in white satin, viewed from the back. gaz-
ing at herself in a looking glass. Miss Eliza
beth Nourse. OF Cincinnati, exhibits FIVE excel
lent Brittany landscapes, a view Of the roofs Of
Tunis, and also a delightful interior painted
against the light from a window near which Is
a woman reading. while two children are play
ing at a table. George Rowland, OF New-York
sends delicately composed landscape Of the
Bruyere Valley, near Laren, in Holland Miss
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panel imparting the melancholy grace Of Brit
tany, with its dark, mystic trees. Miss Lucy
Lee Robbins exhibits a brilliantly colored can
Of a young woman at her toilet, the figure
being reflected in mirror and also q nude and
a woman warming her feet before a fire.
George Aid. OF Illinois. sends a clever picture Of
a woman in white before a looking glass Miss
Grace Gassette, Of Chicago has portrait of a
woman in blue dress. Mahouri Young, Of Salt
Lake City. has some exceedingly clever pastel
drawings. Baneel La Fargo Of Newport, has
strong drawing IN black and sanguine Of a nude
study for "Andromede." Francis Thomason, OF
Arkansas, has an interesting picture Of a woman
seated at window.
II is astonishing to note how apt the younger
American painters are to initiate Whistler's
mannerisms. The salons are full Of false, fresh
water Whistlers The moment one enters a
room in an art gallery in Paris the American
pictures can usually be detected at a glance by
their dark uncertainties and by the servile copy
ing Of the American painter. whose superb In
eQualities are fully realized. but whose
failures were better than most mems triumphs
American painters IN Paris suffer from this
chronic craving for imitation. II they do not
Initiate Whistler Sargent or some French
master, they set TO work and copy one another
few years ago Walter McEwen. OF Chicago,
in yvh f. eaf{
at a mirror. In the Salon to-day there are no
less than eleven American pictures in which
DANES, more or less Colonial or Empire are COM
placently gazing at themselves in mirrors
Young American painters in Paris will make no
real progress until they develop their magma
tons and become searchers for truth and origi-
nality instead OF seryile copyists. They have a
mania for obsequious pigheaded imitation and
from this point OF view it becomes a question
whether or not the influence of Whistler's genius
Is not more pernicious TO them than beneficial
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