New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-16

FTfth Avenue Art Galleries and VIII be sold there
a. auction next Thursday and Friday evening" n
made up q popular Esafecss painted by clever but
rarely brilliant artists The best things displayed
s-e bv T1laiI0w Israels. Martin RICO. Fabres
C-a-rier-B elleuse Gays DetaIlle and Albert Lynch
These interesting names are al cTeditably repre-
scented. We may mention also an attractive early
work by the late J. J. Tlssot an illustration OF
what hs used 10 CO before be gave himself 10 the
production Of his famous series o: Biblical de-
signs.
Al the galleries OF the rsew-Eork Cooperative
Society the Society 81 Illustrators has opened an
exhibition which contains nearly two hundred
paintings. sketches and drawings. The men who
do 80 much 20 make magazines attractive have
sent many % their Characteristic Illustrations. men
ike " Chickens ". T. Smedley. A 2. WenzelL
Howard Pyle orson Lowell Louis Loeb. Henry
HUT c p. Gibson and 4. Z Keller Some OF the
work % the late c s. Reinhart Il shown. ana
there is q group Of good drawings BY the late
Robert Blum The show e uncommonly Uniform
n excellence q b-ius over with vivacity ana
cicverness and is decidedly rot TO be neglected
The landscapes by Mr. George A Traver. which
arc hung IN q reieh5o-fcg room. reveal some feel-
ing for the sentiment OF nature and are agreeable
in tore and atmosphere. but they have little ndi-
yfduartv. and close scrutiny discovers that Mr..
T-raver has sharp limitations IN respect 70 the
modelling Of forms and the handling q textures
Upstairs the Blakesee Galleries there Is an e1-
hlhition o. set Of tapestries from the Barberini
OF DIDO and Fneas- They are handsome speci-
mems of seventeenth century weaving, bold In de-
sign pure IN oolor and n splendid state or
preservation The group Is well worth seeing.
The exhibition now open e. the Enrich Galleries
consists Of some twenty-five thirty early Ameri-
can portraits works BY Gilbert Stuart. John Trun1-
bull Rembrandt Peale and others All 81 these
are historically interesting. notably the portraits
of WASHINGTON " Stuart, Peale and Trumbul, and
some o. them ere ct value pieces Of painting.
The portraits OF Nfr. and Mrs Gabriel Manigault
By Stuart are superb. with their ripe carnations
and fluent brushwork they make one think Of the
glories OF the English school, OF some Of the more
Characteristic work Of Gainsborough. The great
virtue % our earlier school. which may Re very
fairly studied n this exhibition. kind Of
pedestrian thoroughness. raised IN happier mo-
naents higher plane. The leaders Of that
school II other words though alvsy- accomplished,
were not always inspired Stuart seems certainly
to have been In the r1ght mood when he painted
the two family portraits have Just mentioned.
So likewise must sully have been when he painted
the Charles Manisault' which IL included in this
collection. Ths little show Is altogether one OF
serious value uneven but just because Il is IN
even giving the student a very good idea Of what
portrature amounted IN this country IN the late
eighteenth century end the early nineteenth
The salmagundi Club has opened its annual /
exhibition. which VIII last until tho evening OF
Saturday February =. The clubs gallery has been
pleasantly hlIed with a quantity OF pictures gen
orally snan II scale BY members. 4 good deal o. /
unimpoTtsnt work IS shoWG. buf there plenty OF
skilfu bits o. landscape ara there are several In
teresting figure pieces.