The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-15
ROYAL ACADEMY PICTURES
AWERIC ~ ARTISTS FORENOST
AT THE SUWuER ENHIBITION.

e. Ahhey 10 Werks far tho PeRINy lyauiu
" eapliai silARhnnr Porgaits Win a.
10 tenlina Olhrr ~ nliass 90 tn Year
I.ONnoN, May s.-The lad summed
. eHlAlilioh 81 tho Royal Academy Is open
n 40 ths lrst u,isstioh that y asked 90 oil
elils 3 Whether Il Is better or Worss
lhnn peiil At tho private view last
n fidly iheWritor met a SoCilllst, a Fabian
HsexclriIned. Whoever would come here
I. nnlesa he were paid "a do so'- few
minutes Inter the wife q an Acldemician
was eRGssmtsred and she said. hut no,
80 a d,rstlpn, Isn't this an unusually
isEdtf HhB4.-
*. r)ietFuth probably lies midway between
me tEo pdihts of view. There has been
.elaht ippFoyement N hanging In tha
14t NV yeIrs. that - ~ say thGt the
a. RkY llna u not quite 10 high and there
AZ NJ pictures hung over dOoFways
hut the pictures ara packed as tight a.
usual frame touching frame. without an
inch 20 spare between them. save in the
case 81 Sir = Poynters portrait ~ the
King. which is surrounded by curtains
Of gold hrocade.
. Yes. the Academy is much the same
a. II has always been. There IL plenty
81 dull and undressing stun. dull but
honest efforts by people who cln draw
or model with a sufficient amount Of
accuracy but have no distinctive personal
/, vision Of their own and merely follow In
the footsteps u this ~ that master who
has struck out a nev Tine for himself
There is the usual crop % presentation
portraits, satisfying alike to tho vanity
of the sitter and the pocket of the pro-
ducer There ara one or two pictures ~
the type whose meaning is sufficiently
obscure 10 make II a problem aud provoke
{ discussion. and there Is a picture by a
letter cirrieF, = picture that would pass
unnoticed except tina, IL affords an oppor-
A., tunity not 10 10 missed bv halfpenny
Illustrated pCp"ns. One yo1r such a
picture was provided Nv policeman and
another year by The son 81 suburban
lamphghter
All thi- forms what in a novel would Do
called padding. and from among 81 some
81 the really good stun j. not easily picked
out, "a 8. - often hung IN bad position.
and come, from 10" hands II little known
AANAHNHs ~ Al'NHN wv N''.N.''Il ''Ff.l INV
there ara over nineteen hundred exhibits,
including sculpture mi architectural
drawings, and with ~ many minor exit
bitiohs eNtani IN London j. would bee un-
reasonable O. cvp"ct that oil II them
should h. worA- uf 90" first rams
Tho Academic ian- have always shown
~. them-clvos 40 SUSPICION ui any new de-
Velopmcni in an. anything unacademi-.
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u no' eu1N iiha7' tof th4 ROYAL ACADEMY
has been 20 ever zinch - inception,
but isttl 10 n a surprising fact that haries
sims enc OF the latest reoruits to scad.r,ir
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seas NC aru-ahah VI mo summer exhibit
tioti tWD year agp. shonld only show two
bnrll RnrSs. Whlio 81 his time az the
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WIN - mnnA hotteeanle this year T.
the fact that the houurr 20 - the Amsri
-gAna + Hey are living aud working her.
h,,f ufni th~v are Au,sricap. Tb-... 81
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'e' ~ y - WHY
.. naaiiiun' anu M-s b'u not eart
NJ crgsnt
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a-loV '-'.' "" l's@iN " PoITa'uie.
uat hsrApeaAn With no unosrtaln voice I
In the matter % landscape II Ia well .
kndan mai hs daliVhfu In ofrtd,,r
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- ON "A1et '"io' ~soola'F anu as"
y the View English Art Club a. we'll a.
holding an occasional show az the tarfaN
Gallery ~ nothing bat laudscap--. II .
- not often that he Uses LANDSCAPES as
background 70 his portraits. hut when
be- dose the effect b. striking thus In me
portrait oi the late Mr. McMullOoh'S son
the Highland spats tumblinR over ROCKS
and the group II freshly caught salmon /
TOWN an important Part 10 The picture
Of the young fisherman
. Ihia h the first lime that Mr. Sar-
gent has been represented 10 the Acad-
erny ty nothing but hndscaua subjects
The picture that will attract most attention
II called -GlaCi-r Streams Many ps1rIs
will rave about 70. aud indeed there i
nobody hut Mr. sargent who could have
PAINTED anything ~ ia gzihgly brilliant ,
MANY artists. some Of the Hrst FrsDpt Z
IMPRESSION ists for Instance. have gIyeU Z
more convincing effects 81 hot summer !
sunshine. but here W. have die sunligpt
~ The rnret..d atpo,pbers ~ bigb s1t'' 1
tIldas coming straight out Of the canvas /
and iust glintina ON the edges Of tbs, rocLs
and the Nv streams p0uring ov,-r then .u
la wing ali the resi- IN shadow filled with A
atroDg reflected Urht
~ I. , ,,ofAevf,,I ,..iUtirg .,,A 50. q.