New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-07
ART EXHIBITIONS.
Recent american Paintings at the
Fifth 4uenue Art Galleries.

There was fire some time ago at the premises
Of Mr.. William Clausen, the dealer In straight
ening out matters with the insurance adjuster, he
has found It desirable under instructions from that
individual, to have auction sale OF part Of his
stock OF engravings, mirrors and SO These
Items are now view at the Fifth Avenue Art
Galleries. where they leave an excellent impress
sion, for they appear to have suffered practically
no damage. The chance is good one for those
who are In search for bargains At the same time
Mr.. C7ausen exhibits a quantity of paintings by
American artists. and these also afford the discern
Ing collector good opportunity. The miscellane-
Gus objects are to be sold Thursday evening and
Saturday afternoon. The paintings will be disposed
OF the evenings OF Wednesday. Friday and Sat
urday
Landscapes predominant among the pictures here
and many OF them Of charming quality They
are by painters who generally adhere to low TONE
and this is say that there some bits of rich
color in the collection. The late Robert e. MINOR
supplies some of them, works which are. moreover,
not only fine in color. but delightful in sentiment
Mr.. George II. Bogert is represented by several
romantic pieces. and there are some adrniraole ex-
amples of Mr.. Edward Gay. the late Richard Paul.
Mr.. H. w. Ranger and Mr. Charles H Davis A
group of new pictures by Mr.. ". A Coffin en-
braces two which denote a substantial advance. In
1.-THE Lake and Oaks he has produced a more
interesting design than he has shown In a long
while and the treatment Of the tangled foliage is
also broader than any we have hitherto noticed in
his work "On the Delaware. near Milford, shows
in it's synthetic handling of the PUSHES similar I'M
provement. Mr.. c. T. Chapman's coast studies ana
pictures OF shipping bring an engaging atmosphere
Of energy into the exhibition. and for the same
quality we would commend Mr. Kost's capital
Fishing for Sea Bass" This is not an exhibition
OF Important pictures. but perhaps for that very
reason it should prove the more attractive 10 the
purchaser who is not too ambitious. The paintings
are in the MAN. OF modest scale They interpret
American scenery with technical adequacy. with IN
dividuaIity and with true feeling. The occasion Is
creditable TO our landscape school. and 1t ought
not to be neglected when the sale begins
v1-be, this season is ended the list OF
exhibitions will have reached surprising total
These little shows succeed one another with POSI-
lively startling rapidty. One OF the most interest
ing of those which may now be seen mas just
peen opened at the Clausen Gallery by Mr. Ernest
g Pexotto He brings forward a number OF
paintings OF Italian gardens. and they reveal
merit even more striking than that which has
been observed in the pen drawings which he has
contributed 10 the magazines. He has caught the
surface picturesqueness of his beautiful subjects
The large Cypress Avenue is sympathetic in feel
ing; il makes the most of the fehcitous pictorial
motive offered in the stately trees. and 1t is a
handsome piece of color. Mr.. Peixotto is more
successful in pictures like this or like The Red
Gate or "A Garden Portal pictures of close OBJ
servation and solid workmanship. than in those of
moro delicately poetic subjects. The tenderer as
poets of the Italian garden, dreaming in the sun
fairyland in ancient villas of the South which.
for its translation into terms OF color. requires
more caressing touch than he has thus far devel-
oped. But he Is in the right road
AT the Knoedler Gallery Mr.. J. J. Shannon, one
of the few of annual visitors from abroad
whose ministrations welcome, Is showing a
number of recently executed portraits. New por-
traits by Mr.. Walter Russell may also be seen at
the galleries of F1shel. Adler and Schwartz. Mr..
Carroll Beckwith is showing some new oils and
pastels At the Powell Art Gallery and Mr.. Charles
Warren Eaton has seventeen landscapes mostly
painted in the Low Countries. at the galleries OF
Louis Katz At the Modern Gallery there
paintings by T. Scott Dabo and Leon Dabo The
Keppel Gallery is occupied just now by etchings of
London and New-York by Mr.. Joseph PennelI.
These include the studies OF 'skyscrapers," in
which the artist endeavored. with much heroism.
TO prove that there is a certain beauty in some
very unbeautiful things.
The twenty-eighth annual exhibition of the So
ciety OF American Artists opens the public on
Saturday, March II, at the Fine Arts Building. On
March IA. at the Montross Gallery. the Ten Amer
lean Painters Will open their annual show.
Circulars are out for the thlrty-ninth annual ex-
hibtion OF the American Water Color Society II
will open at the Fine Arts Building May 3.