New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-12
HUDSON-FULTON CELEBRATION MEDALS.
Presented Bidder and Colonel W.


gratifying If one could applaud Mr.. Albert
Herter's "Hesperides." but while his work
manship Is Individually accomplished his TO-
mantle theme is painted without trace of
romantic emotion it Is left, In fact. merely
commonplace. There are one or two other
effective bits of figure work, the animated
little School Steps" of Mr.. Jerome Myers
and Mr.. Tanners vigorous sketch of him
self but In this part OF the exhibition the
landscape men control
Mr.. A. L. Groll has brought back one OF
the best of his Western impressions in his
large Mesa Encantada," and Mr.. r. NJ.
Shurciff has never more freely or more
sympathetically interpreted the forest in
terror which he knows we'll than in his
beautiful Rocks and Rills' Mr. W. L
Lathrop, too. is at the top of his powers
IN his Edge of a Marsh" with its strong.
tawny tones. and another justly popular
painter who on this occasion puts his best
foot forward is Mr.. Emil Carlson, in his
luminous Moonlight on Kattegat.'' a pict-
ure full of character Mr.. 9. ". Redfeld,
with The Old Bridge: Mr.. +. F. Rock.
with his Red Zarepe"; Mr.. f. 3. Williams,
with the romanticisTn of his "Ramapo
Hills all give pleasure. and there are
landscapes by Mr.. r. Keller, Mr.. Arthur
Hoeber, Mr.. Birge Harrison, and. in fact
a dozer others. which help to fill the place
with sense OF fresh landscape sentiment
and technical skill. Appreciative reference
should also be made to the Breezy Day
of the recently deceased Worthington Whit
fridge and the Rousseau-like Landscape
by Mr. Ralph A. Blakelock.
In the large Vanderbilt Gallery. for which
the Academy generally reserves its most
salient picture, the place of honor is given
to work which beyond all peradventure
is bound to seize the eve, This is Mr.. r
J. Waughs Buccaneers" a spacious sea
piece, with great ship heaved up against
the sky on immense waves. what time
band OF cutthroats board a vessel in the
immediate foreground and turn its decks
into shambes in the good old fashion
The sea is finely painted, so is the galeon
aforementioned. but II IS impossible to
speak at all warmly of the swarm of pi-
rates. Drawn with knowledge and firm
ness, they are otherwise disappointing in
that they are portrayed in hard, crude
tints and, as regards action, miss as though
by a hair the naturaness essential to the
motive. They stick out of the canvas, so
that the latter falls into two parts. one
abundantly significant of Mr.. Waugh's abil.
ity marine painter, and the other COM
memorating an ambition i'll advised. for the
present, at any rate 1t is to be remarked.
in fact, that the paintings in this gallery
which assert themselves more urgently
through amplitude of scale are not, on the
whole. the most successful
Mr.. Chase has painted portraits finer in
quality. though not, perhaps. richer in
realism. than his Spencer Kellogg Esq"
| and Mr.. George Inness. jr in his up from
the River" does n vast, steady going and
conscientious piece of work without raising
in the beholder more than a mild flutter
of artistic interest. One willingly turns 10
such an unassuming sketch as Mr.. Sar-
gents Venetian Water Carrier" unassum-
ing but mastery, or to a piece of sheer
eXqulsiteness like The Pet Bird by Mr..
J. Alden Weir. Mr.. +. ]. Couse makes in
The Conjurer'' the honest. direct and
documentary" appeal which was described
in this place on the occasion of his recent
exhibition. Mr.. Hugo Balm repeats I'm y
Song and "Jnspiration" the encouraging
account of himself to which aluSiOn has
already been made, and another of the
younger men, Mr.. L. u. Valiant, consd-
erably improves upon everything that ne
has hitherto done in his Woodland Play.
work showing that while he has not yet
shaken off n certain tepid thinness of draw
ing he Is mellowing both in his color and
In his sense of form. The Daughters Re
turn" by Mr.. Robert MacCameron, dis
closes Enthusiastically i virile talent, and. at
the same time. indicates in this artist 4
curious insensitivenesJ 10 beauty. 1t is not
that his three French types are uulovely
in themselves, that is, perhaps, beside the
point It is. rather. that his searching
craftsmanship and modelling are without
distinction, without charm, and that his
| color is likewise uninspiring. II is much
for painter to get as much truth into his
work as Mr. MacCamerOn does into his, but
In art one Graves that instinct for beauty
which raises truth TO a higher power.
There are some clever portraits to be desig-
mated. notably Miss Lydia f. Emmet's
Mother and Child Mr.. George BellOws's
"Signor Prosper Invernizzi," and M. l..
Mora's Miss Lola Compton" and there are
beautiful landscapes everywhere.
one would like 10 particularizo as regards
the latter, wishing to dwell upon such a
sparkling little sketch as Mr.. Chase's
Italian Garden or such an individuaiized
piece Of Monticelian tone as Mr.. J. J.
Enneking's Winter Twilight" The land
scape contingent always lahorS 10 good
purpose. and need say no more than
that it owes special weight in this instance
to Mr.. ]. r. Murphy, NJ. Bruce Crane,
Mr.. George Bellows. Mr.. W. Granville
Smith and Mr.. Lewis CDhen. Add TO their
works the capital little piece. THE
Rendezvous by Mr.. c. T. Chapman: the
beautiful Mountain Laurel" by Miss II.
NJ. Turner; the delicately toned Beach
Horses" OF Mr. William Ritsche. and the
uncommony we'll painted interior by Mr..
Charles Bittinger. Library of the Cnver-
sity Club" and you have a fair Indication
of the best that the Vanderbilt Gallery has
to show Then. in the small room off the
things, portraits by Mr.. c. W. Hawthorne
Mr. Clifford Adams, Mr.. Robert Henri and
Mr. George Debereiner. another landscape
by Mr. Enneking. n very spirited Beach
nj Coney.' by Mr.. Bellows, and a prOmis-
ing decorative scheme by Mr.. Paul Chal-
fin Scattered here and there throughout
the show are examples Of sculpture, Il few
OF which by MI Chester Beach. Mr.. \. :.
Calder, Miss Frances Grimes and Mr.. Rob
ert Aitllen, illustrate interesting tempera-
,nents and q good standard OF technique
Decidedly. the Academy this year made its
spring exhibition deserving of public sup
port. H. -
ANTIQUE SALE TOTAL, $11,824.
Psyche Seated on a Rock" Chselled
bronze figure. signed by Moreau. was
knocked down to !. w Buckley for sS1.