New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-06
AMERICAN PICTURES.
Nep Works by Mr.. Carlson, Mr..
, Wdlker and Others.

new paintings, most of them sea pieces. Inc
first impression they leave is OF heightened
power, Of n taste and skill grown inner ana
more sure. Especially is there some improve
ment in Mr. Carlsen's surfaces They are now
purer and more suave than they were wont to
be. with fewer traces of the almost graduated
effect in which for a time he seemed interested
IF one thing more than another has occasionally
In the past diminished satisfaction in his always
essentially distinguished work it has been
tendency to bring the truths of nature within
the boundaries of rather narrowly defined
scheme of color The sincerity and charm OF
his impressions have had to make themselves
felt through what has come very near to being
q veil of sheer artifice. There are some lano-
scapes here in which this prediction for a too
arbitrarily fixed key of tonaliy is still to be
noted. But in the pieces Mr.. Carlson lets
himself go with freedom and vigor and
gives new beauty to his moving waters
In the big marine called midsummer Storm
he returns to motive which he has handled
before, rich smother of surf, and paints 1t
with a delightfully."- sensitive and firm touch.
Even more successful the little studies of
shore, notably the one called THE Bathing
Beach," In these he deals with the kind Of
subject that Fortuny used now and then to
paint, but in place Of the Spaniard's glittering
staccato he gives you simple, broad, and very
tender notation of things freshly With
these We would group one or two little Venetian
notes sketches possibly trifie more sponta-
neous and personal than the pictures which
dominate the exhibition. But everywhere Mr..
Garrison is the painter of originality, the deli
cate colorist, the man with something of his
own to say and happy way of saying it. 1t is
good to a room full of work done SO we'll
AT the Montross Gallery there is collection
f nineteen old and new paintings by Mr.. Hora-
lilo Walker, oils and water colors. The newest
.hings d not, the whole, the most attrac-
tive. Least of ali is Mr.. Walker to be con-
graduated on the most ambitious of his recent
works the Man Telling a Tree" The execu-
ton is sound enough, but the figure, studied in
e moment of violent action, has not been drawn
with any pictorial felicity whatever, and, in
iced. the composition whole is quite with
out charm. One willingly turns to earlier and
familiar productions. in which the artist id
heres to the straightforward presentation Of
ordinary and placid barnyard scenes which has
long been characteristic of him. In these he
puts his material together in quietly pleasing
fashion and otherwise wreaks himself on sober
but handsome color and softly luminous atmos-
pheric effects. He is a very honest realist and
In both the mediums he employs he is robust
craftsman. HIS exhibition is not precisely
chanting, but it makes q forceful appeal On
March "a it is to be followed by the thirteenth
annual show of the Ten American Painters
The Macbeth Gallery, where Whistler's nor-
trait of Maud Franklin, The Fur Jacket: An
Arrangement in Black and Brown" has been
attracting much attention. is now filed with
paintings by Wo American artists of the present
day. Miss Cecilia Beaux shows a number Of
new portraits and drawings. and Mr.. Charles II
Davis brings forward a collection of his recent
landscapes. At the same place may be seen an
interesting landscape by the late William Morris
Hunt, which is reproduced this page. This
picture, The Pine Woods ought not to be
missed by students of the history of American
art. 1t is 4 suggestive document in that his
tory recalling the days when Hunt was putting
into practice IN this country ideas developed
through association with the Barbzon masters
The easy generalization in this study of an
intensely American scene, the loose touch and
the fresh color all point to the opening Of q
new movement in period which sorely needed
him from France. 1t is masculine and know-
edSeable piece Of work suggestive in it's histori-
Cal significance and intrnsicay very winning
1t is pity that the exhibition of Mr.. Sterner's
drawings al the knoeder Gallery, which was
closed on Friday, could not have been extended.
Tor it embodied some valuable lessons AS has
been noted before in this place, he has been
occupied for some years in reViving a kind of