New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-20
GOOD PICTURES
BY THE TEN
Mr.. Metcalf's European impress
sions-Charming Works by
HaSSam. Weir and Tarbell
BY ROYAL CORTISSOZ.

Some agreeable incidents mark the SOW
entecnth annual exhibition Of the Ten
American Painters. which has just been
opened at the MoutrosS gallery. Nr Met
calf, who has been abroad. returns with
souvenirs Of his travels, the foreruuers
/ OF the exhibition which we suppose hc
Will presently be having to himself II IS
/ good to welcome him back in pictures like
! his Salmon River-Norway With what
/ d searching eye and with what a sure
! hand does he record his impressions, An
| extraordinary skill has gone 10 the max
/ ing of this river scene lie has never
| done anything at once so crisply vivid and
50 intimate. The grassy slope i'm the
| foreground seems almost to invite our
| footsteps. Turing us under the shade of
| the perfectly drawn trees, and beyond.
where the river comes sWirling around
the point one can fairly hear and feel
the hurryins, shallow water. The very
character Of a place IS here as II is again
! in the artists Italian scenes and i'm his
view of one of the bridges across the
Seine OF the Italian studies the Dor
CHEESE Gardens has. perhaps, the more
engaging quality, but we are really more
impressed by the valley Of the Mug
none" wherein a group Of typical red
rooted houses is put before Us with just
the right indication Of its special local
significance. We are curious 20 see the
other things that Mr.. Metcalf has brought
home
Mir. Hassam comes well into the fore
ground One of his four pictures. The
Model DisrObing," gives but a mildly in
teresting account Of itself. The rest arc
beautiful. The torso in "The Golden Win
dow is the finest nude he has ever paint
ed. strongly drawn and modelled and en-
chantingly Illuminated. Most successful of
all is "Clarssa's Window" a charming
subject with "a figure looking out of doors.
bathed i'm clear. delightful light. and every
| inch OF it superb in color. Adding his
! sparkling little coast scene, The Gorge,
, AppledOrc." Mr.. Hassam gives us, indeed,
good measure. Mr.. Weir sends 1--WE pict-
ures, and two of them would by them
selves make gallery interesting. His
| Flower Girl is one more Of those ten
der. winning subjects in which he brings
back something of eighteenth century
| sentiment. one thinks of the Cries OF
| London" ana other old English prints. \
/ kind Of vernal innocence belongs 10 the
figure, and Mr. Weir matches its charm
with his reserved tones and his fine, SYM
pathetic drawing. His other triumph Is
| the "NasSau-Ba Bahamas shore scene
all aslint with light, pure blues. The
picture is like an opal. The two other
Nassau subjects leave us cold There is
| little more interest, but not very much,
| i'm the "Wndham Village Mr.. Chase
sends a toerably large group Of pictures
/ and sketches. eight in all. There is the
usual still-lfe. "A Dresden Bowl and
Dish. including q great fish, and painted,
as usual, with portentous ability. 1t re-
peats no doubt, a more than familiar mo-
tive, but 1t leaves nevertheless Il better
! impression than the big Portrait That
| is facile, workmanlike but undistin-
cushed. Mr.. Chase comes nearer 10 the
standard of his stll-ife in the Venetian
| Balcony an interior having a certain
atmosphere as well as technical merit
There are some characteristically spir-
| tied and amusing touches IN the little
Venetian sketches. The other New York
members Of the organization Messrs
The Boston contingent is i'm good form
Mr. Tarbolls Dreamer" one more deco
rative portrait oc a comely young woman
is gracefully though rather conventionally
designed. and the loose, fluent brushwork
gives one unalloyed pleasure. The canvas,
| dated 1913. still wears an unfinished air.
| VIC are not sorry. This only emphasizes
the bright, spontaneous charm of the
| thing. Mr.. Benson is rather startling, the
Silhouette Of the figure in his big wintry
scene. THE Fox Hunter" making an al
most bizarre effect IT is. too. a bit fiat
ard causes the rest OF the canvas to look
empty. He is more satisfying in his in
terror The Seamstress There the fiS-
ure is more lin the round" light and air
are better realized and there is. besides. 4
/ richer charm of color This is altogether
Ice,ef. likable piece Of work. Mr. De Camp
! sends The Flirt." the portrait Of a pretty
J type studied with more subiety than Is
usually characteristic OF this artist. 1t
rounds out pleasant If In no wise impos-
| ing show.
At the Daniel gallery there Is an cX
/ bibition OF paintings and water colors 10y
! Middleton ManiSault. Landscapes 10y
Az e. Filter are at the Folsom gallery
| The Bonaventure gallery is showing set
q. engravings made by Audran after THE
Rattles OF Alexander" by Lobrun.
These particular prints arc those when
y,ore presented. i'm the frames which now
contain them. by Napoleon To Bcrnadotte
/ In the Avery Library. AZ COLUMBIA UNI
reitv Mr. Cutzon Borglum Is making
AN exhibition Of his sculptures when VIII
remain on view until the middle OF neNt
month.
| Thc Mns,um Of FI,nDh ~ IlH "p'u0I