New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10

parasite, ne fashionable portrait
painter.
There are thirty-fve portraits in this
first collection. Anna and Dora
street urchins decisively. and the
Baron s" are by George Luks, whose
comprehensive love of life includes
those truths whose Importance the tenn
porizer and the reformer are very apt
20 minimize. The portrait Of the
Baron S." whom We find Luks liking
for certain almost naive lifting OF
the social mask, may indeed be num-
bered among the portraits tending 10
shy us away from their creator. The
point of view is here again important.
Mr.. Luks has given us a man so loaded
with life that the dampening influence
of conventional dictates are of no avail
against il. A contrast 70 this reality
is in Mr. Albert Sterner's pleasant ana
casual portrait of Mr.. Paul Chaliin.
Had Mr.. Steiner dared 70 talk less po-
iitely he should have given us per-
haps a more valiant record of a man.
The Lolita" by ZulOaga, aims TO be
decorative as well as-in the Spanish
way which is sometimes cruel--to be
truthful. The decorative scheme de-
tracts only a little from the reality.
The Chinese Girl" by Jerome Blum,
loses the sense of reality, of thickness,
of flesh, in a web of decorative en-
tanglements. The Lady with Black
Scarf" Adolphe f. Borie; Miss Mary
Hoyt Wiborg," Mary Foote; Portrait
of Baby" VI. Jean MacLane; Mr..
Alexander Drake" John c. Johansen,
and Mrs. william n. Kremer," by
Cecilia Beaux, are 20 be numbered
among the portraits seen so often
good enough in craftsmanship, but
quite uninteresting in conception.
George Bellows's PORTRAIT or a
Judge" is heroic; his Jean" little
girl peering out with quaint, twisted
smile. is delightfully."- human. we
should go to William Glackens TO get
into an atmosphere of gayety; not for
the truth surely-his point of view IS
TOO much his own for that Robert
Henri is also a prejudiced painter,
forcing his sitters into a mould or MS
own creation. He contributes TO this
collection portraits of Abby tpencer
Beyeridge and Albert Beverage. lr.
Mr.. Jo Dayidsons portrait Of Mrs.
Whitney is graceful, natural, convinc-
ing. The two portraits Mrs. Will
lam Morse Rummep and Miss Eliza
beth Van SAINT Norcott"-by Walter ID
Goldbeck are painted with an excep.
tional attention 10 detail: exceptional
in a day of swashbuckllng painters
One might wish that in this detail ne
were less attentive TO academic iinish
and more 70 the erratic code which IL
natures own.
At the Braus gallery is shown a col
lection Of small pictures that IN paint
ers and material suggests the Academy.
In between the names of Charles Bit
finger, who begins the list, and K. W.
Van Boskerck, who ends II, are great
number OF other academiciaRs, some Of
them, like Emile Carlson, recognized
for long time; some Of them, Ike
John +. Carlson, though on the way,
not yet arrived at the final official
recognition. They are crowded here
into all the available space, which IS at
best limited. as though the wall itself
were a thing Of palpable nakedness, un-
fit for the sight Of Dc sent eyes. The
frames touch each other and cry out az
the crowding in many shades Of pol
ished gold; cry out rom the walls
where they are dovetailed like the
pieces OF ieur dc patience. and from
chairs, where they sit back at angles
quite undignifed. Here, then, within
their sometimes rocco. often sandy
frames. are the aristocrats Of art. can
vases by men recognized in officialdom
made TO play al democracy sight for
the sore eyes of the malcontents. Sew.
enty-fourth Street happily is a long
way from Washington Square. the Lib.
eral Club, the Candlestick and the
Dutch oven. We recognized. amid tn,
patches Of this crazy quilt, little Pau
Cornoyer that may rank, some time, a,
one Of the finer efforts from his brush
Modest. unpretentious, IL presents on,
Of those small streams that lure us, II
the summertime. with an Arcadian op