New-York tribune., 1910-11-10

,sve had in the formation of Mr.
. he shows the same characteristics
thN 80 comes to raint the Church of
Maria della Salute at Venice. You
oan'a hin, for the portrait Of a building
,ooA lives you in its place a version of
ou' ,'tift1lly drawn and mysteriously
If the tone and atmosphere belong
rooUe .bs church. There is no rnistaking
ms -,ousness of Mr.. Guerin's work nor
Tue = ,re fail TO do justice to the pict-
"ou'1 ,.oress of his compositions and the
u ~ distinction Of his craftsmanship
the treatment of architecture is
ID Granting the validity of his
.1o these applications of it could hard
IoI t..,ered. But all formulse are treach-
y =, nsinting and this one is doubly
eious.or+ing. eious for it not only gives US an
.rbitrary view Of nature. but, when
,' - eaid holds the artists personality as
a'i lee he is subject to manner where
u lid he the master of style.
~ show that the New York Water
,q,h is holding at the Fine Arts
r,1,iIdinp is a very pleasant afralr' repro
- ouantity of clever work by in
,'I,,ror, craftsmen. AS usual, there are
.o,- aeure subjects of any great conse-
t,,, there are any number Of capi-
- e+r6i.s made out of doors. Mr. Alex
a,der Robinson, for example. win MS
t-.,,51,. nain+ed pictures of scenes In Hol-
,a.I on5 elsewhere on the Continent. leaves
.reap ping impression Of technical ability
and an unforced feeling for the picturesque
motive and there is much good WORK III
l,i,dred vein by Charles P. Grippe. Rnoda
Holmes Nichols Anna Fischer. {. Ellen
Simnson. William J. kaula and A H.
AMMAN Here and there we find, too,
flashes Of the daintIness that is always so
attractive in the handling of this medium.
hits like the Roman sketches OF Ernest
David Roth. the illustration for a fairy
tale bz- Ruth Sypherd Clements, and the
germudan scenes OF Taber Sears. There
are q few other pieces which invite par
+icuIar notice, the three or four illus
trations by Elizabeth Shipper Green, the
big study Of an Oriental type by Charles
Sarks. and the charming note Of color
struck by Anne Bosworth Greene in her
Path Over the High Dunes but the
exhibition as a whole is sufficiently com
mended as a fairly interesting miscellany.
of average excellence in respect 10 tech
niqua.
In the gallery off the main hail at the
Fine Arts Building there may be seen
collection Of paintings by Mr. A. L. kroll
who in 1905 won the Mooney Travelling
Scholarship at the National Academy Of
Design He has been industrious, painting
with great vigor a considerable number of
studies and pictures. including very care
fully modelled nude and an even more am
bilious garden scene with several figures.
He seems to have Oscillated between
rather suave and restrained habit Of paint
Ing and one OF notable directness and vivid
ness. this bolder manner being most in
evidence. In drawing ne is A tritie heavy
handed. and his color is often excessively
crude. The show discloses a modest talent
in the making rather than a powerful gift
got well under control
In the Katz Gallery two exhibitions are
just now accessible One Of them, to
which a number Of Ameri an artists have
contributed. contains some good landscapes
by Leonard Ochtman. r. ". Shurtleff
Bruce Crane, William A. Coffin and divers
others Miss Lillian Genth sends one of her
studies. in which nude figures are rO-
manticalIy distributed about sylvan scene.
In a room by themselves are ten Noe
turnes'' by Mr. Bolton Colt Brown. He is
ingenious and not unskilful in the manipu
lation Of his tenebrous masses of tone, but
they are removed just a shade too far away
from nature and are not even amusing in
their artifciality. p. c.