New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-29

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IN in Modern Art
distinctly feminine. If there were
doubts Of this they could be readily
enough dispelled by the sympathetic,
gay and light touches Of tenderness
displayed in pictures like the "Enfants
jouant ayec un chat" the bright gil
lette au grand chapeau," the "Apres le
balm" and the stiff little "L'enfant a
Vorange." with its suggestions Of n
more primitive and less familiar school
Of painting
Paintings Of California by Paul
Harvey are at the Folsom gallery. Mr..
Harvey is a Californian who makes, in
this exhibition, his first comprehensive
appearance among US. His color has
greater wealth of tone than Of variety.
He is Of those landscape painters who,
neglecting the middle distance, bring
us with a wide jump from the fore
ground to the background, which would
mean, in this instance, that we are
brought from very material land Of
solid and luxurious earth end sturdy
trees to a visionary one Of blues and
purples, as well mirage as fact. The
panoramic "Montecito Valley" put on
a long. narrow canvas, may be an
exaggeration of this tendency. But
we find it again in "The Santa Ynez
Range" and the Live Oaks of Cali
fornia" and the "Afterglow," where,
again. we are asked to take, with the
painter, an exaggerated leap; leap
from the fairness of color of Murphy
to the leanness of a Monet. The effect
is something like that of a camera out
of focus. And yet Mr.. Harvey paints
each of the two planes with capable
brushes and we'll organized colors. In
his pictures of New England, the most
recent works here, he deviates from the
manner Of the California things enough
to suggest that it was born, justltia-
bly,. at the dictation of the country.
An exhibition of early English sport
ing paintings, originals. in a few in
stances, Of prints, is held at the Ack-
ermann gallery. The painters repre-
scented include Richard Barrett Davis,
Dean Wolstenholme, jr, James Pollard
J. y. Sartorius, Henry Aiken, John
Wooton, George Morland, Thomas Hand
and G. II. Laporte. The "Gamekeeper."
by Morland, the most famous of these
men, while retaining much Of his
characteristic amber tone, IS so much
tighter in handling than things we are
accustomed to from his brush on this
side of the water that, though there
is no record Of it, the conclusion is
that this was designed for purposes Of
engraving. The play Of shadows in the
forest through which the gamekeeper
strides suggests dramatic eventual
ity. We are inclined TO prefer to the
others, and TO the Morland, Wolsten-
holmes Racing" a tiny canvas in
which there is grace in the drawing
and delight in the color. The attrac-
ton of the collection is literary, and,
to some extent, associative. These
canvases are the records Of conven-
ton that we like because it is naive in
stead of being bumptous.
An exhibition of early American
cities, historical prints, etc, is held in
the print rooms Of the New York Pub
lie Library, where it will remain until
October Is. Il includes a number Of
rarities, among them a few which are
unique. Some of the prints precede the
date of the Revolution. Two by Paul
Revere, silversmith, engrayer and hero,
represent the landing of the British
troops September 27, 1853, and the
scene of the affair which he entitled -
apparently with some other engrayers
of his time -"The Bloody Massacre,
March ), 1870" Around the gallery we
/ find Lexington and Concord. The Be
ginning Of the Revolution, April 10,
/ 1915" in four original colored prints
engraved on copper by Amos Doolittle
after Ralph Earle, which Dunlap's ARTS
Of Design" cites as THE first historical
engraving ever executed in America
prospects of the Colleges in Cam
bridge, in New England" and "the first
and most important views Of Harvard,
Yale, Princeton and Columbia Kings
/ College," There are original and en-
tertaining sketches by an English Off
Ger on board Admiral Howe's feet after
the battle OF Long Island, and maps Of
/ Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
New York The map Of Boston, 1928,
drawn by William Burgis and engraved
/ by Thomas Johnson, was reputed to be
"thc most beautiful Of all city plans"
A plate Of our City Hall is dedicated
10 the Right Honorable Philip Hone,
/ Mayor Of the City Of New York" On
one plate we find views Of "The First
Cities Of the United States Phila-
/ delphIa. New York, Baltimore. Boston,
Richmond and Charleston" This, en-.
grayed by Bouquet, is the only known
copy.
The convention in the painting OF
the Far West begun by Remington