New-York tribune., 1907-11-17

Ing to match strangely foreshortened poodle
with yellow ribbon at his feet. When men are
anxious TO be painted with costumes and ac-
cessories which offer assurance of notorfety II
is not surprising that women affect startling
colors and poses. Mime Gabrielle d'Annunzio
from the hand OF Mr.. a. de la Gandara is hard
y more than a mechanical frame for a pink
evening dress against an ollve-brown curtain
Black-haired Mrs Webb is introduced by Mr..
Henry J. Hudson in orange with white to relieve
1t; and the Hon. John Collier not content with
presenting Mrs. Shawcross in crude vermillion
balances Mrs. Harold Richie in white on the
arm Of a chair in order to display the green
upholstering. with affiuence OF yellow curtain
behind her
There is, at least. we'll dressed woman I'm
this gallery Of contrasted colors This Is Mrs
j. ]. Shannon. painteds by her husband In an
artistic lilac evening dress with curtains parted
behind her to light the face. She is IolIing back
in her chair In a characteristic pose and II is
a lifelike portrait Of a beautiful woman In
the adjoining (wesD room the work Of the
Society Of Portrait Painters is exhibited under
normal conditions of costume and color
schemes. Mr.. Sargent's portrait Of Mrs. E. G.
Raphael has little OF his so-caued swagger
style and is painted smoothly and restfuIly
The lady is in black evening dress against dark
background. her face shaped in light and her
hands toying with fan. There are diamonds
at breast and coils of pearls around her neck
and her hands tingling with color. The
dull red and gilt of an Empire chair and ia BILE
complete simple effective color scheme Sir
w. Q. Orchardson. the most consistently Rrit
lsh portrait painter of the Academy has two
examples OF his uncompromising art One sub
1ect is Lady Gilbey, in black against a veIlow
lsh-brown background with a pair of large
hands on n handkerchief in her lap and with
lace painted In the downright, painstaking Eng
Hsh way. The other is portrait of Mr. Charles
MoXon. in dark lounging Jacket against a duu
curtain with glints of red and green one hand
in pocket and the other holding half burned
cigar These are characteristic works of excel
lent quality, painted with straightforward Er,,-
lish purpose without suggestion of infiuenca
from France any oldtime period Dt
Lavery's chief portrait subject is LADY Norab
Brassey, tall and erect in a dark COSTUME
trimmed with fur. a white feather streaming
from black hat. touch of purple at the
throat and one hand exposed so as to take the
high light along with face and feather 1t is
a Whistlerish portrait. with figure well posed
but with face too rigid. The same PAINTERS
portrait OF Mrs Charles Baker Is a less nra
tentious work. with a gray dress emerging from
mauve background and with touches of ereen
in hat and parasol and glints of gilt In tho
chair
One of the most original works in This Iorro
exhibition Is Mr.. Charles Shannon's portrait M
himself with large marble torso behind hin,
From contrast with the cold stiffness of the
marble fragment, the figure of the painter he
comes vital in heXibility of pose and naturalnesa
Of expression. and there is fine technique in the
arrangement OF spaces and ordering Of valuas
The same painters sketch of Mrs Iegge ana
child, with the mother holding a towel over the
naked baby fresh from the tub while the nursa
maid looks on with approving smile is ineeniuo
but too unfinished for exhibition Among tho
experimenters In Gainsborough bIue-and tbey
are increasing since Mr.. George Henry forced
his way into the Academy with the helm op a
model in blue gown standing against a Chin
pendale sideboard-are Mr. T. B. Kennineton
with a study OF a maiden In light blue with
white sleeves. and Mr.. Emile Fuchs with a Iaa,,
in darker shades of the same color, with a b,g
picture hat. Mr.. George Henry himself sns-
tains his reputation in a stirring vivacious nor
trait of Mr.. John MacKillop Browns chiIdrsn
a boy in blue and a red haired girl in pink with
a sense of motion in the younger child like that
communicated to Miss Alexander In Wh,stIar,s
famous work, but not with faces in so low n ,xa,,
of color as scarcely to be alive. Less forcihla
displays OF individuality in paintin, ara Mr.
Harold Speeds summer girl with a ,diaphanoun