The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-26
AMERICAN PAINTINGS SHOWN.
ANNUAL exhibition AT THE
FINE ARTS BUILDING.

Exhibition the best or Recent Years
Portraits n Notable Flement-W.
NJ. Chase Buys Paul COrnoyer'S "MRdl-
son Suuare"--Other Fine Pictures.
In It's twenty-sevcnth annual exhibition,
which was opened 60 tho public yesterday
In tho galleries Of tho American Fine Arts
Society's building, In West Fifty -se venth
street, the Society Of American Artists
presents better exhibition than II has been
enabled to put before the public in some
years. Making all due allowance for the
tricks Of memory regarding those annual
shows il Is still wholly safe 20 say 80, and
TO say to all interested in the development
Of American art that the exhibition offers
most interesting opportunities to study
the work that American painters are doing.
No features for exploitation, such as
the group Of Whistlers or a star work OF
some celebrated painter have been called
in, as in some recent years, and in view
Of the results only praise has been heard
from exhibition gOers for the societys
course. A liberality rather than familiar
Partially Of judgment is apparent on the
walls, and in place Of unbcoken lines OF
the Academic there are to be found can
vases speaking for those artists who have
something to say, the exhibition to this
extent Rejecting the early principles OF
the society, which sometimes have seemed
10 be gaspinR in an Academic flood. There
Is interest in every side, and the good work
requires not search but only the open eye
and discerning mind 20 find.
The portraits are notable element In
this years eX llb ton, In number and char
acter, distinguishing il from some OF the
shows Of late years and emphasizing the
opportunities which those Americans have
neglected at home who have been patron
ling facile foreigners for some seasons.
Among the picture painters, too, American
motives seem 10 be mo wing with effect,
and William NJ Chase seized the occasion
10 note his satisfaction with the painter Of
one Of them by promptly purchasing Paul
Cornoyer's Madison Square one OF the
exhibits in the south gallery.
Irving II. Miles has one Of the notioeably
attractive oanvases Of the exhibition IN
Wiles, y and shows, also, a portrait Of William
I. Smedley, the artist, and In a wholly
different key Portrait Of Miss t. Robert
Henri shows a figure painting, Spanish
Dancer and a Portrait Of +. Ambrose
Clark, Esd (stepson Of Bishop Potter,
which exact due homage. William Glackens
in one Of the canvases that arrest the atten-
tion Of visitors the Portrait Of a Young
Man" shows a we'll known writer on bis
way to the BARRIERS, perhaps, but one Of
the most interesting portraits of the eI-
hibtion. Another portrait painter a new
conner in New York exhibitions, but not
likely to remain a stranger If the comments
Of visitors upon his exhibit il Indicative
Henry Salem Hubbell Of Chicago, shows
portrait. THE Poet" with Old Master
feeling; and Charles w. Hawthorne has a
canvas in a similar manner, his Boy with
Bowl
Maurice PrcnderRast pictures native life
in one Of its happy aspects in his "Seashore
canvases, two OF which are hung. John
Edwin jackson shows a Night in Times
Square, Frank V. Du Mond a Spirit Of
Spring typified in a head: Robert Vonnah
a Portrait Of Chester S. Lord. Esq painted
for the Lotos Club; II. A. Mac Neil a sculpt-
ured head Of "Quang. a Moqli Maiden
f. W. Redfeld landscape. Sycamore HILL
Thomas Eakins Portrait Of Carroll Beck
with. ESQ, which looks almost as though
MIR Beckwith might have painted Il: Ben
Foster a yellow House by Moonlight
Mr.. Glackens a refreshing May Dav in
Central Park W. T. Smedley a portrait OF
his mother and one Of Master Smedley
Henry b. Smell one OF those ever delightful
marines, 4Polpero;" william NJ. Chase a
portrait. Master Roland NJ. II. Bancroft
a Portrait OF Miss Evelyn b. LOngman."
So much as brief indication Of the variety
OF the exhibition The prize winning paint
ings are 50 marked that they may not be
pyvarlookad