New-York tribune., 1907-11-11
LONDON NOTES.
Sargents -MontreaaL Pictures-4
Studio Warehouses.

provisation so that they are noteworthy events,
but the ordinary work OF the self-reliant, ambi-
tious members cannot be when his sketchss
are on the walls. Mr.. W. @. Won GIehn. AN
artist with a brilliant style OF putting paint ON
canvas is his principal victim, for ne has chosen
the same title. The Brook" and the same sub
ject and rnotives-the play OF sunlight on tvo
girls sitting on a green bank, with blue water
ripping and foaming around them The two
Brooks have to be shown close together on ths
same wall; but there is no harmony OF colors
in Mr.. Won Glehn's splashes OF blue, yellow.
pink and green. whereas Mr.. Sargent's canvas
IS like a cabinet OF jewels. with emeralds
sapphires and topazes scattering their radiancs.
Mr. Sargents girls are lying the grass ons
in blue and the other IN green. and behind and
around them are blue waters and fresh verdure.
with glints OF yellow lily pads and where ths
light is strongest. He has been playing with hi,
paints until there are Jewelled effects OF color
which are glorious. On the opposite wall is his
''Moraine." Alpine medley Of purples blues
and grays. with CLEANS OF white IN ice. stones
and clouds. II Is impressionism with the most
daring brushwork. and Il IS filed with ths
sombre majesty OF awe inspiring mountains
Simpler and more finished is his third oil paint
ing. THE Fountain" with a high Jet OF water
falling in a sheet Of blue spray and screen ot
varied foliage behind q marble balustrade Ths
profile OF a lady In white. who is seated on a
stone bench and IS sketching In front OF her
easel. is set against the misty spray OF ths
fountain, and there are touches OF yellow in the
hat and of blue In the ribbons. A dark haired
man, dressed in white sits beside her watching
her work The colors have the cold glitter OF
jewels and the brushwork has been as sure "a
it has been rapid.
AS Mr.. W. Rothenstein does not exhibit any,
thing at this November show. Mr. William Or
fS left 20 hat
handed. His Grace Orpen'' Is a work os
brilliant cleverness The lady in costume OF
many blends OF blue looks up roguishly. her
hands meeting under her chin. with a glow ot
warm color in face and hair. The portrait has
vitality. charm and power. and those are SUI
preme qualities In painting. Mr.. Orpen's tech
nique is more brilliant in the portrait ot
the Hon. Percy wyndhanl. seated IN his Ii
brary. with bookshelves. paintings. engravings
and vases lining the walls and light streaming
in from a window on his face. A third picture,
Young Ireland with a red haired girl plain
audacious and smiling. is coarser Mr. Henry
Tonks has charming picture OF tail, brown
haired girl in white with blue bows and apron.
standing under bird cage. with a mirror be-
hind her and flowers in a large vase and on a
stand 1t IS distinctly decorative and fine in
color. The New English Art Club fad for paint
ing homely women IN plain rooms with trivial
amples are fewer in number than in recent ex-
hibitions. There is a girl in purple posing for
a song, with a piano behind her; there Is a
woman IN black reading packet OF letters. and
there Is old lady similarly employed. In
other instances the commonplace occupation
is merely an Incident around which landscape
is painted. when girl Is playing with a
dog among Mr. Mark Fishers green's and yell
lows or when nursemaid is reading a letter
beside baby carriage at Datchet.
The club has discovered Montreuil a haunt
for artists and is advertising it with cumulative
effect. Professor Frederick Brown has large
market scene in the French town. with blue
rooted stone church at the side and quadrant
of houses and shops; second picture OF the
church. with its mixture OF styles and gnts OF
orange and blue, and religious procession.
Mr.. T. Wilson Steer has a large canvas OF the
Grand Place. Montreuil. with the sky rising
high above its grays and yellows. and court
yard in the same town. with vines uassed
around the windows and fine play OF light on
pavement and roof lines. Mr.. II. S. Hopwood
has also returned from the French town with
drawings of an old watermill and a market
scene a wet day. The discovery OF this new
art centre. where painters can live economically
and have material for sketches and subject
pictures all around them may give new trend
70 landscape painting among the members and
apparently they need something 10 Stlmuiato
their arGOr They usually reach a high level
in this branch of art. but their work this year
lacks distinction OF style and breadth Of treat
ment, Mr.. James Henry, one OF the best men,
has single somhre sketch with lowering SKY;
Mr.. ". W. Russell has a dull. uninterestinS
picture OF the plain OF York. and Mr. David
Muirhead is metallic and unsympathetic IN his
'NIoorland Landscape" There viii be prom
ise OF fresher observation, better color and
finer technique II the followers Of Mr.. Rothen-
stein. Mr.. Steer and Mr.. OrDen flock over 10
Montreuil from Surrey and Cornwall They Will
not however. be likely TO stay there long.
Fashions viii change. ard some other Con-
tinental town will have a run as the artists
paradise.
What is more important for painters than
paradise. old or new. Is market for their pict-
ures, and this is what the proprietors Of the
GOupil Gallery striving 10 provide for them
Living painters of the first rank. English and
French, allowed 10 fill three galleries with
their most attractive work and fourth Is 10
be opened next week for the special benefit or
twenty-five artists. This exhibition Is 50 re-
markable for its vivacity and variety and the
prices of excellent works are reasonable thst
the painters Of the day ought to receive great
encouragement from sales. The pictures are
well hung. and there are not too many 10 %
seen in single hour, and no painter is allowed
TO have more space than properly belongs 10
him. The success of these exhibitions proves
how great would be the gain if the number or
pictures at the Academy 10 be reduced
one-half and all were to be properly huns With
out sky line. Mr.. Branswyn. who seldom eS-
hibits work at Burlington House, Is represented