New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-19

/ met recalling the Maid OF france. III
is a lovely thing, simple in style, really
winning in sentiment. Mr. Brush. like
Mr.. Atkins, we are glad to meet and
hope to meet again. Cheerfully sus-
tanned, little, we go on and are pres
emily rewarded. Mrs. Parsons makes
an authentic appeal in her delightful
fountain figure, Turtle Baby which
reminds US that certain gentle humor
is not, after all, excluded from scuipt-
ure. There is emotion, too, of some
subtlety in Mrs. BURROUGHS nude "Ac-
ouiescence," and the picturesqueness
which is never unwelcome appears IN
two salient busts, respectively by Miss
Renee Prehar and Miss Marie Appel.
Most of the sculpture is on small
scale, but a few works illustrate the
monumental motive, Mr.. French's study
for his Spencer Trask Memorial, a
graceful composition of considerable
poetic feeling, and rather robustious
/ daughter of Pan" by Mr.. r. Hinton
Perry. In practically the same cate
CORY we note Mr.. MacCartan's large
/ garden group, "Nymph and Faun," a
| spirited design executed with nice
/ fusion of frmness and suavity, and an
amusingly decorative Blue Heron
Fountain" by Miss Frances d. Jones.
/ There remain for casual but not in
appreciative citation the reliefs of chill
| dren by Miss Frances Grimes, the
dainty miniature sculptures by Mr.. Al
/ fred LEM. Miss Eberle's striking little
"Victory," and, again, the persuasive IL
, not exhilarating bust-further exam
pies of this form of art by Mr.. Du Mont
/ Potter and Mr. T. SpicerSimson. No,
there aren't any masters in the list.
But there are plenty of intelligent
craftsmen.
Among the painters Mr.. c. W. Hsw-
thorne is conspicuous by virtue OF his
understanding that art cannot live by
craftsmanship alone. His subject, as
] such, in "The Offering" implies, to be
sure, no great originality of thought.
| The idea Of painting the Madonna from
some contemporary model and giving
the whole picture an essentially mod
ern tone is no new one, and, indeed, we
are under the impression that this ar
| fist has used it before But he paints
with emotion, he has an enforced ten
derness to put into his work. He has
I character as a painter, a note Of his
own, and he is, incidentally, a rather
/ interesting colorist. The picture de
serves the prize it has received. In
that it addresses itself 10 the imagina
f, ton it is almost alone in the show, the
sole rivals il has on that score being
in the field Of landscape. There we OBJ
serve some fine things, notably by Mr.
J. Francis Murphy. Mr.. Bruce Crane
and Mr.. f. B. Williams. The figure
work generally is either gracefully
decorative, after the fashion of Mr.
George r. Barse or Mr.. Louis Valiant,
both of whom send conventional but
fairly vitalized compositions, or it IS
lightly realistic, the sort of thing that
| Mr.. Karl Anderson does in his picture
of a child in yellow, standing in a
garden attended by a nurse and dog
Mr.. Anderson is facile and momentar-
! ily effective. Pictures like this one
have their modest place. The deft por-
trait of a child done by Miss Alice KEN
Stoddard in the vein of Mr.. Henri, the
pretty girl posed with her bird cage
by Mr.. Frieseke, the sunlit "Tanis" of
Mr.. Daniel Garber-these canvases
and others of similar import are well
met in the show Are they long TO be
remembered? We fear not. Their
sprightly technical qualities are Of the
surface. They reflect no special atti-
tude toward life or toward art, they
have no distinction.
Here and there some one tries for a
holder, stronger kind of painting. There
is Mr.. Waldo Peirce, for example, whose
full length "Juanita" suggests Zuloaga,
not through its subject alone, but
through its method. Derivative or not.
it is an arresting bit of picturesque
portraiture Indeed, the looser handling
TO be remarked in Mr.. Peirce's work is
something which his Spanish prototype
% ,1,so -.
blonde forms In Mr.. Max Bohm's paint
ing hardly get together with any fe-
licity of design. He has not made pre-
ciseiy a picture out Of his nude figures.
But he has achieved a Venetian rich
ness Of mellow tone, The canvas makes
one of the more cheering spots in the
exhibition. There are other instances Of
refreshing vigor Of attack, instances
supplied by Mr.. George Bellows in his
nude and in his coast scene with fig
ures. by Mr. Sergeant Kendall in his
delicately drawn portrait, by Miss Gen
the in her sylvan nude. by Mr.. Chase
lin his portrait Of man. Equally,potent,
too. but in "A subtler way. is Mr.. Weir's
sensitive portrait Of woman in white.
For the rest the visitor must depend
mon the open-air men for his enjoy
ment. They are in inspiriting form
Mr. Jonas Lie with his direct. vivid
studies OF boats in harbor. Mr.. Redheld
with the lighter Of his winter scenes
tho one showing charm Of color. es-
neeially in the blues, which we do not
recall his ever having touched before
and Mr.. John Breyfogle with his little
beach subject, q piece relegated TO the
"morgue" which might better have been