New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03

snow preference Tor the suggestion
over the fact. The head Of Pat Rob
erts, by Robert Henri, though painted
powerfully enough.'or too powerfully,
Is a casual view caught in moment
and held. The camera does not do this
so well, but the camera does something
like IL. OF the portraits Of older chill
dren there is less 70 say. We live In
a kingdom Of children, ami our artists
reproducing them, their masters, lend
them a lot OF virtues, out OF kindness
or servility, virtues that sometimes do
not become them, and that more often.
an overdose OF sugar, discredit their
harder reality. The exhibit, which
closes December 8, is well worth see
Ing.
Georgia 8. Engslhard Is . niece OF
Alfred Stieglitz, whose water eolors
and drawings are shown at the little
gallery OF the Photo Secession. prob
ably for the special benefit Of extIe-
mist guests at that place. Here with
the older people the quest OF the naive
is carried on with persistence
mounting to frenzy. OH the Joy Of
unlesrning, unravelling, the fabric OF
knowledge woven with so much dim
Guilty and expense into resisting
hard may be that, despite everything,
she is learning-we found much to
admire in her work, as much as we
have found in many another childs
work. The notice Of the exhibition
reads: Water colors and drawings BY
Georgia S. Engelhard, OF New York.
a child ten years old, showing the evo-
luton from her fourth year 70 her
tenth year-(the child unguided, un-
taught)-will be on exhibition The
exhibition continues until Deem
Der 20. Miss Engelhard loves horses
and draws them with the persist
ence 10 be found in all children
who draw at all Her horses, which
are romantic as the Black Beauty OF
the book. are reminiscent Of those that
decorated the red backs OF the belly
Hopper sleds Of our youth. Other
pictures here, hillside treated in tho
manner of the school from which Gift
ford Beal descends, and a tree that
suggests the lightness OF spring, may
be used as proofs that the young
painter is learning. This, II she con-
tinues 10 paint, may add difficulty 70
the production Of her later years; dit
fculty providing that twenty years
from now we still seek the primitive.
1t is q terrible thing 70 thus daily
have to face an inevitable growth.
Sixteen canvases, paintings Of Mon
hogan and Gloucester types, and land
scapes, by Randall Davey, are shown
in one gallery at Macbeth's. while the
other contains canvases by a group
of more or less morbid romanticists.
Benjamin ID. Kopman. Kenneth Hayes
Miller and J. Mortimer Block. We
have seen Mr.. Davey follow in the
wake of Henrio and then in that OF an
other one Of the Marratta coloS fra
ternity, Bellows. To-day he has very
nearly done with hero worship and
walks the world alone, or very nearly
so. If there is absence Of quality IN
his work-quality OF which we get a
superabundance in the adjoining gal
/ lery--who can say with positive as
surance that the fault lies with the
now so famous Marratta color chart
Some men have discovered IL TO be
vertable fortune in color harmonies,
despite the fact that the majority OF
artists are wont to scott at il with
/ i'll concealed disdain. Mr.. Davey is to
be numbered among the impatient
painters. His assurance is sometimes
without essential authority. His
brushes rush along with a tumultuous
rapidty, a feverish haste, and picture
/ the faults much more than the viz
tues Of our not, artistically, too virtuous
epoch. THE Drinker," a character
study, an unshaven man, who laughs
over a green bottle whose red contents
he is emptying into glass, may serve.
technically, and perhaps, also spiritu-
ally. as an example OF the remainder
of his pictures here. II has humor;
humor, however, belittled by the rush
D - faA
! hurried half hour This is the i'm
preston accorded by the technique.
I The head wants solidity. The figure Is
! dangerously like a paper doll, so sharp
4 ly is it cut out from its background.
/ And then. and this is true OF the land
scapes as well as the figures, the
. forms are puny. all of them, so puny
that the spectator feels like CULVER
in a land of Liliputians. Mr.. Davey
/ is one of our young men OF talent or
rare talent. But this has not been
productive summer for him.
The pictures in the rear gallery,
! through a similar debt 10 tonal prede-
cessors, hang together in perfect ac-
cord. We admire quality in them
/ quality is the painters word Tor rich-
/ ness Of color and texture-the same
/ quality that has been admired In tho
/ old masters. Our admiration thus may
| be a matter of habit. These men have
preferred museums to nature. lney
appreciate fully the acknowledged
properties of their medium. They care
+ little about nature, and they may know
/ less than they care about IL. IL IS not
certain that the early promise OF kop-
man has kept. He begins TO resemble
Hawthorne lie begins TO repeat him
self as though already the fire had
waned and the real heat of inspiration
was in the past. Mr.. Block matters
| less. OF Mr. Kenneth Hayes Miller we
may hear more later
Paintings by James Montgomery
/ Flagg are ut the galleries Of Henry
/ Reinhardt & Son. Mr.. Flagg is well
/ known as an illustrator, producing
much clever, II not important, work.
/ His crayon portraits of members OF the
/ Dutch Treat Club have given him an
/ enviable name for ability to catch
/ likeness. That same ability is present
/ in the portraits of this collection. As
/ paintings they matter very little; as
/ licensees they are always entertain
| ing if not always convincing. II Is not
/ strange that they should so much re-
/ semble the run of fashionable por-
I traits in righteousness OF brush work
] and hollowness of form. Mr.. Flagg
I owns exceedingly nimble fingers. Among
/ the sitters are Theodore Roosevelt,
| Booth Harrington, Mrs. Charles Dana
} Gibson. Ethel Barrymore. Irwin ). Cobb,
Arthur William Brown, Mrs. Henry
/ Blossom, James VI. Preston, May Will
son Preston, Rupert Hughes and Jack
Barrymore, The water colors OF this
show, most OF which have been eN-
/ hibited before. are superior in all the
! Tho oifq Same