New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-04-27
ART EXHIBITIONS.
Incidents Marking the Close of a
Busu Season.

The art season OF l9Os-'O5 Is drawing rapidly 10
q ctose- The exhibition OF the Society Of Amer
scan Artists comes TO an end next Sunday night
and no other important show Of works by native
-,aiuters is promised. In the auction rooms too
the approach OF summer is making itself felt
grhe season has been fuIl OF activity. In addi-
ton 10 che regular large miscellaneous shows
she-e have been dozens Of ''one man" exhibitions
and many collections OF old and modern pictures
and other works OF art have been sold. out Of
town there have been at least two artistic events
OF unusual signihcance-the centenary exhibition
AZ The Academy OF Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and
the display OF a quantity OF Monets paintings
under the auspices Of the Copley Society in Bos-
ton. 1t would be interesting 10 record il all the
facts and figures were readily accessible, the ex-
tent which tho public has paid attention 70 all
these matters. Even without the documents it
NAY fairly be asserted that the numerous exhi-
r.ions here and elsewhere have attracted large
numbers 81 visitors ii some cases W. have reason
for stating THAI the number has been larger than
ever before. As for sales. the reports from the
auction room have been altogether favorable. A
usmorandnm Just 70 hand from the Society Of
American Artists shows that since the opening
q The exhibition a dozen pictures have been sold
Tor total Of nearly s4oOo.
One Of the last. but not by any means one Of the
least Interesting OF the smaller exhibitions is that
which Mr Louis Akin is holding at the Causen
Galleries II consists Of twenty-five or thirty paint
Sings and studies made IN the Grand Canyon Of
Arizona aId among The IIopi Indians Mr. Akin is
s young man. and he has technical limitations
which keep him. in his treatment Of the figure
from rising above ordinary level The most that
car be said for such Of his Indian subjects as
Peppers The Plaza and "Woman's Work" is
thai they give mildly clever account Of facts in
themselves picturesque. We take these studies
more as promising good work in the future. in
field worth exploration. than as intrinsically good
EXAMPLES Of the painters art. But in his land
ecapes III. Akin has already something 10 say. and
SAYS Il with skin and individuality. We call his
pictures Of scenes in the Grand Canyon land
Fcspes." but i would be perhaps more accurate
70 call them visions The grandiose. fantastical
qualifications Of that wonderful region differ from
81 az the landscape forms which commonly provide
sn artist with his material Their strange masses
abound in linear effects. but those masses are
chanting. above ALL for their brilliance Of color.
Painting them with q keen eye for substance, but
more especially with feeling for the subtle atmos-
pheric phenomena enveloping his scenes, Mr.. Akin
has set upon the canvas chromauc harmonies which
recall the irnprovisatons Of Turner rather than
the dispassionate observations Of the modern
school.
Al the same time he has taken pains TO adhere
10 the truth in each Of these dreams Of his he
has painted nature as he has seen il. Where the
dream quality comes IN IS IN the delicacy Of his
color, the suave. almost vaporous. quality Of the
wells q trfdescenoe which he has transferred from
the canyon 10 his canvas. His moderation is. per-
haps. his best trait. II Is easy 10 imagine how
garish. how excessively brilliant these pictures
might have been made. Mr.. Akin has kept himself
well in hand, and charms where the temptation 10
dazzle must have been strong. He has good COM
position and drawing In these works as well as
good color and further studies Of his derived from
the same source, viii be awaited with interest Two
other artists have paintings on view at the Causen
Galleries just now Miss A. B. Shepley shows
eleven portraits executed with some facility accord
ing 10 modern French rules, and downstairs M ".
a Corn has four new landscapes which. in their
quiet tawny tones and IN their era cious sentiment
show him al his best,