The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-02
WHISTLER AND
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Exhibition Of Two Americans
More Interesting Than Those
81 Of British Artists.
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ACADEMY OPENS in MAY MAY
Looks Now as if It Will Will Be
Mainly Devoted to Por- b
traiture and Landscape.

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\ Copyright, by the New York Herald Cc.) s2
LONDON, April III n view OF what Sir 4
ECaspar Purdon Clarke said In his recent
interview with the Herald correspondent,
1T is perhaps interesting to note that at +
present tho exhibitions of the two Ameri-
can artists, Sargent and whistler, g aral
creating more interest in London than
even those OF leading British artists.
In anticipation OF the Royal Academy
which opens in May, the Herald s art soor-s
respondent In London writes In the Ea1ro-
pean edition: "Carfax s. Co. could not
have made happier choice for inaug.1- 4 4
rating their new gallery In Bury Street,,
/: St. James. than BY holding an exhibition
F OF. sketches BY John Singer Sargent Re-
"A. There is at the pres SEN + az. no DIVER
h sity OF opinion as to the sra nix st taken
\ among modern artists by the great Amer
lean portrait painter. Fl g stands alone
the cornpeer& OF " Velasqueza and the great
est masters OF all time. but his anne sis N
based on those mary ell ous POI trait I've FL
Of the ifefof his time and {
ours, which year by year form the chiel 81 &
attraction OF successive Academy exhlbl-ss
gtiors, and by the side OF which al other
\ portraiture fades into ins ignia acat1ce.
d Rut@ C,arfax,s Exhibition a iss mainly de-s
voted rs another side of Mr.. Sargent Is arr.
Ii ere the master cnn, be allo We1s
use OF that expression be seen at pia ".
Not that his ~
colors Of Venice and Of Spa IN; are ota .o
be considered as serious and Saq1azz al ingiy&
comnlete works Of art, but every touch IN i
then, speaks OF the artist s pleasure ana
BdelEhtlin recording his impressi pms ~ "
what are presunab bly, his holida
the delight in seeing things
the Irresistible impulse Of II ~ J
tang BILE sha pc the a
light Il. y, ~ I. g ls
s NJ + he%ordinary paint err g. apid sketch
Il - . fIeeting impression Is generally the8
y q q ns wa rd an end .e His stud les are
to him his stock in lie. t he 1nater1als y
needed for the labo riouss g Il
future finished plctures. t.5 SO VIII by ~
SARGENT. 81 His fame as q porttrai pf.Inltle
ID a;,ch that n clients ankle lous to- secuIsss sss
Immortality from his alloWi
T HIM no time for OF her ~ NIX
jBnt away from ii is studio he eanES fot7s
1ow 4 his own ben t, work for his own s
:rlaaasI,,, ,ra and produce these nlarYel loiIs
imnressions which are an enc IN the g ~ y
selves, and not useful not Or fur hsr
reference.
And, therefore.I have ven turedt to %reiera
IL them as things done by hes 1asters a. az
play y That he has been preYa11l!e Il upon y
to show them at all deserves the 1 sdeeppest pp
g1a titude. for the pure del ight prodntceoE
BY their sight can only be eq ualled e p
tho pleasure the artist mus nave ;. ieit
& in producing these ske hes. 5 5s5 m ,s
ii would serve no purpose here to at at-8s
K tempt a detailed descript on Of he forty
odd d sketches, since B It IS inlpo sible to-
single out a few. examples where every y-
thing is Of equal excellence WI thout9 ex-s
ccption they l1ossess the 81 same Sgrea
Qualities, by which do no tS inea n ssto
suggest that they are "a + all mo tonos Vs.
but what they all do possess Is q raAA ~
combination Of wonderfully fresh yisIoa.3s
with unerrins slrenessS Of hand ana anA 90
equally. faultless sense of col ss
Il. THE HINrPRESsrONOF,SA II ENsI. n,
S Above all, Sargent exCels n, conveyin
The ,,npre sion 4 OF movement. This is
esnieciall ~ apparent In the figures Of gon-5
Sloliers IN his Venetian 8sket ches# IN every
sta9e Of their gracefully balanced move B
rm,ents-and few prob blems can offer more
sdifflcultles, for the slightest inaccuracy
i would convey a FEELING or inse ecurity ], 3 !
sif Sthe oarslnan were losing his sbalance
and his foothold. & 33.s# n u III ggss$ $tt sjf
Most curious iii this respect Is Sar-s u
! gents rendering Of the Colleonl monll- {
5ment. Verrocchos equestrian bronze 4
statue has in Itself this very sugges-8
,tion OF energetic movement, but though (
the statue figures in hundreds Of paint
5ings and drawings itanever looks anything I
Z hut lIfeless, bronze Bronze; t is, too, an 4
ySargent's drawing, but only In color and
In the gorgeous greens OF the patinit anu
IN It's solidity, but Mt the same time Sa.-a
gent has entered thto Ynrrocctio' o's spirit h
and has rendered that sense of balanced
movement which make colleonl's Tho I
finest equestrian statue in the world.
rhree oil paintings have been added
as .'pleccs dc resistance" to these
sketches 4 s
one Is sargents famous full length por-
trait OF Nine. Gautrian. Madame Nj 1S''
she is described in the catalogue; tho
:second.8his superb nude figure OF a 1.-THE.
ivory skinned Egyptian woman. Egypt
herself 3personified. and third. a large
study in oil colors of a Japanese dancer,
in which again one must admire the