New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-28
executed. filled with a very real char
acter and clean cut in profile.

executed, filled with a very real char
acter and clean cut in profile.
A great boon TO humanity will be
conferred by the critic who discovers
the anti-new-art serum. or specific. or
whatever the doctors call II, with
which to inoculate hitherto healthy
artists, or those showing only the pre-
liminary symptoms of disease. One
of the latter is Mr.. II. l.. Hildebrandt,
whose paintings are now on exhibit
ton in the City Club of New York.
The visitor begins 70 sense the fever
in the air when he first sees Mr..
Hildebran6t's two portraits. The one
of seated Girl is coarse and unde-
fined in handling, while a noble gem
tleness, latent in the old Squire"
comes TO the observer rather through,
than by means of the artists me-
dunn. The same state of affairs OBJ
tains with the other work; sort OF
house-blnd green, which begins 10
make itself felt in "The Picnic" and
Arranging Flowers" and reaches It's
elimination in "In the Woods" But
the worst symptoms break out in his
Autumn Landscape" where a scene
that should be full Of snap and vitality
looks as though it had been made of
colored putty.
Otherwise. Mr.. Hildebrandt's results
show workman-like drawing and taste
in composition. Even the green be-
comes pleasing when toned down 10
the restrictions placed upon il, as in
his Laurel" or his nude of girl
entering a pool. or when reduced TO
single spot of color as in THE Sewing
Pee" The last named pictures un-
dou0tedly show Mr.. Hildebrandt az
his best There is freshness ard 4
delicacy of thought about this bathlne
girl that makes one wonder how the
artist could ever have dreamed OF
his "Autumn.D His purified splotches
give place 10 dry contrasting colors'
which yibrate as the light Of such !,
place would do. In 1.-The Sewing pee;
too. his breadth of texture is wen
within the limitations OF comprenen-
sible symbols. Moreover, with iach
Of heayiness that is refreshing, he
nicture had a Terborch-like atmosphere
of home tranquility. IL is strange 70
fool this note of affectionate care /
,hrouoh Mr. Hildebrandt's rapid-hre I
rnetbod of work. Yet the note is there 1
and we'll worth nursing.
II is strange how. with but scan.
warning. a rather unsympathetlc artist
NAV expand into a work OF pleasure
giving Imagination when the subject
suits him. Mr. Edgar l.. Pattison, who
is exhibiting his etchings IN the
Schwartz gallery, IS case in point.
After seeing his "Toon Tower, Christ
Church" and others like il you feel a
hard iteralness about his work. Then
"The Edge of the Sea" or his Land
scare" appears, and your impressions
Of his matter-of-factness mellow. OBJ
yiously his city-cramped Imagination
has begun to spread its wings. Next,
perhaps, you see LA Danseuse," where,
with a Watteau-like subject. he has
given more play to charm of compost
ton. Finally, when in a Morning
Walk" a gentle touch Of sub-conscious
humor lightens his fancy, you begin to
feel an affection for what moment be-
fore had been sober indifference 70
ten hour day craftsman.
The same thing is true of the paint
ings by Mr.. Alfred Helsby, now on ex-
hibition at the Strauss gallery. The
first impression is that his fondness
for Turner rises infinitely beyond his
power TO follow that master. BROAD