New-York tribune., 1909-02-03
PAINTINGS BY T. W. DEWTNG, D. W
TRYON AND ROBERT REID.

painter Of the figure and painter of land
scape have possession Of the Montross gallery
I'll February Il. They are Mr., T. ". Dewing and
MT D. ". Tryon, both artists of distinction. They
MI the room with the charm of temperament, of
nature trans1gured by a feeling for the poetry in
form and color. OF Mr.. Dewings seven figure
studies six are the lightest. most notes
IN pastel; the other is one of his most carefully
pondered works in the richest medium of the
painter. This Lady Playing the Viooncello' is a
study Of blacks. but of blacks that trembe or
the verge of grays and have wonderfully tender
quality The figure is of a rather fuller type Of
beauty than that by which this artist is
tomarily attracted, and a peculiar grace OF form
is blended with loveliness of tone. The back and
shoulders are modelled both with breadth and
delicacy, but in fact the whole figure is remark
able for its solidty and the craftsmanship with
which it is portrayed. The composition. too, Is
more than ordinarily felicitous. Among the pas
tells there two In which, curiously, the
drawing seems less secure. The arm, for example,
in Green and White is puzzling in its length
But in these fragmentary impressions the con-
structive element is almost beside the point VINO
breaks butterfly upon a wheel? The beauty Of
these drawings is the beauty of swift half-iIn-
paIpable Impressions flung upon the paper as in
a breath and made bewitching through the
piquancy of gesture or pose, and the mower
like purity of tone of color.
Mr. Tryon, too. brings forward both oils ana
pastels In the latter he does what we have seen
him doing before-he records with sensitive touch
in a mood OF revery, some fleeing aspect oi
the sea land In his oils he takes another
stride forward, confirming the conviction OF MS
critics in the year two that his art mas
gained fresh impetus. There have been times "hen
his favorite composition. disclosing Level iore
ground hemmed in at the back by screen oL
trees the latter kind Of sentinel row, has roCsed
a suspicion that he following me line OF ieSSt
resistance and leaving invention TO take care Oh
itself Now though he is faithful TO his o!o mo
tive he paints 1t with much a1dor that INC
suspicion of convention fades. After all, one may
paint the same theme over and over again SO l'ilS
as the painting remains a labor Of love, ana III
landscape especially, so long as fan!har IoTIu'a
is filed and refiled with new element Mr. Irgoh
seems TO have grown even more subtle OF VISION
TO have arrested on the canvas even more eH-
ouiste phenomena Of light, Of tone. OF landscape
sentiment In his pieces, as IN his landscapes
there are new skies skies purer, more tehueIls
oalpitating than any he has painted before liioi-
dentally too he has let himself go IN more tlaIi
one instance with unexpected visor Inc @A"
turnn Morning" for example, not only taxes d
fresh departure in design but in color Is snlP1eI
stronger and more direct 1t is pleasure oy iSeIl
70 see his pictures and Mr.. Dewtngs togeIhei'
Their intensely refined individualties have not pc
Eriled them away from the substantial truths VI
nature but have only made them the more " Ias
tidous and the more subtle IN their Interpretation
of those truths