New-York tribune., 1912-03-08

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IT would be hard to find in the whole exhi-
bition picture whose inherent and endur-
ing beauty would make the visitor not ac-
| quainted with the subject wish to see the
| portrait again.
Charles NJ Russell, who was a cowboy
before he became painter or, to be more
accurate, who found while still cowboy
that he could depict the active life Of the
ranch and the trail In such way as to
communicate his visual impressions to 9TH
ers, is holding his second exhibition at the
| Folsom Galleries where there are also TO
be seen water colors broadly and invitingly
! painted 10y Alice Schlle Mr.. Russels
| group of recent pictures records the West
In its frontier aspects, the West that is
rapidly passing away. one sees Indians
! perched high over "A river scanning the
distance for possible victims, cattle being
rounded up or driven over difficult places
/ by iron-nerved cowboys. the old-fashioned
shooting up" Of mining camp and many
! other glimpses, authentic, no doubt Oh SUB
Jects and scenes worth the transmittal to
/ canvas or paper. Mr.. Russell succeeds in
/ placing at the disposal of the onlookers
| enough Of his own pleasure and interest IN
what ne has painted TO make these unas-
suming pictures agIeeaby worth While.
They are illustrations that really Illus
trate, and within the limitations OF paint
er for whose work no fanciful pretensions
are made they are acceptable as studies OF
! light and movement.
/ The water colors by Alice Schile, chiefly
/ of foreign themes. show positive appre-
/ hens!on Of the possibilities Of this much
! abused medium. The painter has been con-
! tent TO remain within the field she has
/ chosen; her water colOrs utilize skiltuily
| the fluent and sparkling qualities that are
80 often overlooked by painters in this dell
! cate form OF delineation.
! Al the Macbeth Galleries, Emil Carlsen,
| y. A, is showing sixteen landscapes ana
sea pieces, all OF them testityins TO the
| honest and appreciative way In which he
has studied the world Of outdoors Mr..
/ Csrlsen's admirable paintings OF sull-lie
I are not represented In this exhibition out
| the visitor acquainted with his art IN TINS
! departmcnt will find no difficulty In perceiV-
/ ing that Mr.. Carlson studies his landscapes
I and the surface Of the moving seq with d
regard rs scrupulOus In It's search Tor es-
| sentials Of form and color as that WHICH
! ne nanIfests I'm his studies OF fruits anu
| fish pottery and metal. The pVotal place
! in The gallery Is gwen To study OF green's
! th. interior of wood, with a stream re-
aacting the leaves of oveThanginB trees. In
this "a in most OF Mr. Carlsen's work one
| d.tscts the Northern strain in the artist
| lineage AZ indicated BY a certain hushed
,,taIitv typically Scandinavian, quahty
~, rrecisely defined by calling 1t re-
strained vet suggesting what is calm and
! o,i.t a. opposed 70 the vivaclty That ami
r,.tss the art of Southern Europe MI
| I,ris.n g. A Dane, but his forty years In
this country give the community OF artists
! h.r. a right 10 claim him AS one Of them,
| . right. too, that has long ago been gladly
.-,ar,issd In the new annex just added to
,b. Macbeth Galleries there has also 0een
placed on view memorial eNIl'o'uoH VI
nsiptines by Joseph r MCDOWELL, who was
= trustee OF the Carnegie Institute oi rus
burgh.
samuel H,dpert is one Of the new men
worth watching. Al the Murray I'M "@i
Iery he shows this week forty or more
naintings and few vigorous drawings III
! y,birb may be- noted his progress through
nearly 4 decade in representing "hat he
has seen. While he has evidently been IN
suenced by the Post-Impressionists II II
oplv In the tendency toward a very tull ana
b..vv line and smplitication OF surfaces
His later work shows less beauty OF coior
than some Of his pictures made FIX or eisht
! wears ago. Il looks as though the sl"'S
hines and muddy browns beloved OF certain
pot st-Irrnressionists had begun to exercise
! g., fr..ou.nt u control over Mr.. Halperts
vision.
up, as Robert Coady remarks in his
catalogue foreword, the young artist mas no
| thought OF theory. and, best OF all ne mas
embraced no mechanical formula OF CUBES
90 ,,,aneIes or cones; he has merely sought
% danict natural objects In their proper ell
velope OF atmosphere. There are lahu- !
scapes from Brittany glimpses OF houei'
and Paris. and there Is II New YORK street
scsrs In which prosaic house fronts or req
brick have taken on something AKIN 10
beautv. In his still life paintings Mr' Hal
.r, also shows proficiency and a point OF
view
rtchings py Albany +. Howarth. an as
L.. rrarnber OF the Royal Society OF
r,,oh.rs IN London and a man whose rec
oo,ition has come more swiftly than Is usu-
iii, the case is represented b. an exhibit
49,, ~ his plates at the Moulton Rick
80. Gallery. Choosing landscapes and
o,.,hitectural themes In oxford, Cambridge.
.,,dor and elsewhere as his subjects Mr..
tIo,.artb presents them with competence
-. ,r.ouently rises TO level consider
ri, higher than this term would imply
-, .h.p Mr. Howarth's plates sug-
aos, that while he Is not yet master OF
e.. ,noy he called the grand style. it may
,.a,onohly be expected that this VIII be at
taInable after he has learned 10 snnphiS
- a.nsrolize a little more broadly. Per
hans too. he will modify his now Amos.
,rvariable practice of lighting the centre OF
his composition for the sake OF the forced
contrast with the shadowed portions on
s,tbar side Of the design. There Is much
~ aa,,irable detail In these prints, and the
oxhih,tion 's doubly interesting az the work
:, man who IL likely TO become better
known
A. the Keppel Galleries may be studied
,hrough March % a representative group
- the etched plates of Auguste Lepere. one
., the considerable masters OF to-day In
rrorce Facades of cathedrals, Paris street
scenes. landscapes with figures are here,
and the impressions are in nearly every
case admirable. Lepere makes one rejoice
18th him in the marvellous beauty that
,ives In Gothic tracery, in the light and
,badow distributed over the stonework OF
r,edayal church walls and in the sunlit
asnect of the figures of a landscape. He
sas mastered the problem of achieving rich