New-York tribune., 1906-05-04
AMERICAN ART ABROAD.
a NeS0 Painter zOitb Distinction of
Style-S@gents and Shannons.

tiOn at the New Gallery The t,ae. work comes
from a new man, who has not before exhibited
anything in London although his pictures have
been hung in the Salon. This is Mr. Max Bohm's
Golden Hours" an admirably painted group OF
2 mother and two children. quite as strong as
MI Brusil's painting OF mother ana child
wnich was warmly praised by English critics at
the international Exhibition in January The
N. = 1si1red mother holds on her knee the little
sirl' whose eager eyes are on the fruit, and the
Doy with a toy sailboat stands beside them The
tenderness OF home feeling is In the faces, and
1n0 'hree hgures are posed with simplicity and
charm' II is group which Mr. Thayer might
nave painted in America. yet IL has the painters
own individuality and close observation Of the
subject Tor his wife and children are portrayed
Win nne feeling as he sees them at his home in
Etaples. The craftsmanship is firm and true
as In any old master. especially in the carviney
line OF the mothers neck; and the color is soft
ana beautiful, the golden brown OF the dress i'm
parting warm. mellow glow to the radiant pict-
ufe In composition. tonality and perfect adj
Justnlent Of values IL is the best work in an un-
usually good exhibition II Mr. Bohn can paint
more pictures like this he will speedily have a
reputation IN London
MT sargent has five pictures in the New Gal
Iery-tWo portraits of artists and three Syrian
sketches. The portraits are rapid sketches that
OF MI Seymour Lucas. the Academician. the
rougher one dashed off apparently with a single
ereative impulse, and the more finished one that
OF Mr.. Napier Henry, the marine painter. a
closer character study with love OF the sea in
the dreamy eyes. The Syrian sketches are al
most too clever, for they are not wholly tuteIli-
ginle and 1t is not easy to find the right distance
Tor seeing them. One is study of goats stones
ana parched vegetation in vivid sunlight: an
other is "Gethsemane." with strange effects Of
Ashl and shadow and figure Of weird pill
grim; and the third is Padre Albera," Wig
orous example Of rapid improvisation Mr. Sar-
gents american associate In the Academy, Mp
D. j. shannon. is less experimental in his two
canVases One is an outdoor portrait Of Mrs. Ar
thur II. Lee. in an artistic costume OF pink and
Whlte' with arms exquisltely modelled and hands
admirably painted. SO to convey a distinct Am
preston Of character. The other Is a r,ortrait OF
child Oliver Vickers. with perhaps too many
accessories for diverting attention from the boy
ish face and figure. Mr. George wetherbee Is
another American painter whose charming idylls
and pastorals have a note of indfvidualffv His
Dawn at the Gate Is one Of his most refined
compositions, with subtle treatment OF light
Mr. George Hitchcock's Return Of Proserpina"
Is more imaginative in title than in treatment
With tall girl in howery meads
Apart from the American work. there Is an
unusually good exhibition Of portraits and land
scapes- The Scottish pictures are particularly
character studies-Principal Donaldson of St.
Andrews and Sir John Glover OF Yloyds-eacb
painted with prOsaic realism and genuine power
Mr John Lavery has painted the Earl OF Plym-
oUth in low key after Whistler's manner, and
Mrs. James Buckley with more individuality
and charm, and Mr. George Henry has fantasti-
cally arrayed a model in blue and employed her
IN Idly watching an hour glass. with fine play
Of high light In the shoulders and glass Pro-
ressor Won Herkomer has also experimental
with blue-not the Gainesborough blue--in a
strange portrait Of Mrs. Lazarus. red-belted
against a black background. relieved by sprays
Of lilac. There are two portraits of Miss Con-
stance Collier, the aotreSs-one by Mr. F3yaun
Shaw. which is distinctly decorative, and the
other by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, who is more
sympathetic than when he painted Mrs Pat
rick Campbell in THE Vampire" Mr. Riviere
has a more dignihed portrait OF an actress in
Miss Genevieve Ward full OF character and re-
1inement. Mr.. Richard Jack has a full-Iength
panel Of Miss MacNaughten. and the Hon. John
Collier simpler and better one Of Mrs. Lionel
Wilson in white Sir Philip Burne-Jones has
slketched Countess Fedora GleIchen while at
work in her studio in st. James's Palace and
that is at least novel environment for art
study There are also portraits Of Mr.. Alfred
Lyttelton and General Baden Powell
The list OF landscapes is headed by Mr. Alfred
East, the English Corot whose blends OF green's
and contrasts Of foliage are always beautiful
It must. indeed be his theory that a Landscape
painter has no right to portray or to compose
anything that is not beautiful. Mr. Peppercorn
with more perversity deliberately chooses sub
jects which are gloomy and austere, and makes
them interesting by working out problems OF
light under gray, solemn sky. In "a Cornish
Valley" he Is less relentless in his austerity
than is his habit. Mr.. D. z Cameron who can
not forget his graver's art when ne is working
in oils, is also severe in treatment and spariney
in color in his "Elldon Hills" Mr. Frank
Brangwyn, whose reputation as decorative
painter of original force needs more frequent
exhibition OF work than he allows the public TO
enjoy. has a strange medley in "A Wine Shop
and it is fine in color Mr.. Tuke has one Of the
few studies Of the nude in the New Gallery and
again shows himself a true craftsman Sir
James Linton is less successful than ne usually
is in historic tabeau when he portrays the
Earl OF Leicester and poor Amy Robsart at
Cumnor Palace. There are few medieval or
imaginative works, so completely has the earl-
lest tradition of the New Gallery been neglected
but there is by melancholy chance one picture
which serves to remind listess spectators of a
tragic catastrophe. That is Mr.. MacWhIrters
Golden Gate" at the entrance OF San Francisco
Bay-a peaceful marine where one looks in vain
for the doomed city which is exciting the SYM
pathies Of the world. Inf.