New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-20

snip ard the modelling is of the right sort-true
1oEceIui and marked everywhere By knowledge
mere Is enough mature technique in this picture
70 1uIhsh forth score of the average canVaseS
lat are admitted 10 the exhibition. But something
% missing. the decacy Of vision. the generating
touch which would lift this coldly realistic study
OF a MODEL TO a higher plane and turn II into a
warmer more beautiful impression of a type one
wishes that to Mr.. Coxs gift of research into the
ulIheulties of form there might be added an emo
uon sufusing and TRANSPORTING his material. 1Leie
is curious instance Of a similar want OF insplra-
ton provided in Mr. William Cottons picture Inc
Princess TIE title is III chosen, but so, lot uat
matter IS the note which the artist has attehPteu
TO strike His central figure is nude Att!e siil
Just emerged from the bath and submitting ~ ''i0
respectful mnistrat!ons Of two young women, oi9
Of whom wields the towel while the otheF ioius q
powder box. The wear garments OF so
inquired stuff and posed il attitudes scatSei -
ting 10 their occupation Mr.. Cotton feAs pet" cen
two stools His imagination deserts him and m
stead of making a pretty scene out OF I"'S -
terior-something dainty and pIcturesque-"e -'-. 5
US vaguely conscious Of a kind OF ihcVns' 49, ~ Iii
preciosity. The garments OF the women q
painted but It is the composition as a unit tiIa'
should be important, and it is quite unlnteres'ins
Mr. Ballins The Three Ages" Is fhougAliUi''
put together good in its arrangement OF qu'el
tones and fluent in handling. 1t almost Oul 1lo1
quite, suggests a romantic Impulse Inc -
that hangs lust above II, THE Law OF LIE OS
contains lesson for Mr. BALM: II polhts u ,"o
usefulness of atmosphere in work OF iias
pretensions. A certain glamour Is essenu :. ~
pictures like The Three Ages" II is because - =
not sufficiently suggestive that Mr. A q. achM"t|
misses fire with his VANITY and that MI rte'.
WITT fails TO make an altogether convincing pa1i'
ing out of his Venus thing so pleasing -
conception and 50 refined i'm color that II ought 10
have received the last Touch OF poeuc pAaii'!'
Again and again the figure pieces disappoiht III inns
M
The Southwest Wind" promising 'haI 'ie'e
is evaporation in their spottiness. we are On
ground though IL may not be as firm as 'V1N' 80
the bits Of frank modernity that we get from MI
Glackens Mr., Sloan. Mr. Myers and Mr.. peterson
One difficulty among all these artists j. nut
whether imaginative or not, they are lar from
achieving the spell that lies in pure palnuns'
Some OF them try hard enough for this. MY hehl-'
for example evidently strives with al ms might ia
his full length portrait Colonel David Perry 10
;r,nor+ style into his handling of textures, Duh
somehow the simplicity of the thing does NOT seem
spontaneous. He too might take a ies1 lioiH a.
other mans book. turning 10 MI oHases suPI4O
.stiu Iifa-Fish" to see how pigment may De n
,,.s,a5 viii, charm OF its own; and the same les
son might be studied I'm the same way oY NJ
Barse the painter Of Tho Apple; by MT. Bur
roughs the painter Of Tom the RnFmer' anu -
a dozen others. , l.,
A veteran who has much 10 tell TO the juniors -
Nr Walter ShirIaw whose big Sheep shearing IN
the Bayarian Highlands" we'll sustains the con-
spiouity # enjoys in the Vanderbilt Gallery IRIS
is piece Of painting that, # not masterpiece OF
color is at all events a work with NE IN II 49,
bo,5lv ana sincerelv executed Beside it pictures
like The summit" by Mr. Louis Loeb. or The
Amber Necklace" by Sr. c. {. Curran' or ms
indian studies Of M Couse and Mr. Deming seem
fairly trivial Nature, always nature would soIVe
The trouble II preoccupaton with paint for ITS own
eaka win not How true this is Mr.. Shirlaws
handsome composition shows. one is grateful TO
every painting in this exhibition that brings into It
the 1italizng power of light and air This is "hat
Mr. Wier does with hts charming Friendly WISH
There are other welcome contributions 10 he noted.
mora landscapes by AIr. Shurteff and Mrs Conan
a noticeable study of birds by Ill. Charles X.
Knight: a capital ''Pierrette" by Nj John Da
Costa, and paintings by Mr. Maynard Nj Dam
gerfed. NJ Beckwith and Mr.. Gushing But with
Tbasa the list Of more or less outstanding produc-
tons comes to an end - l.