New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
A Representative Show of Native Work

upon a technical ideal. and would seem
also, 70 q considerable extent, 70 have
realized this ideal. Mr.. Bellows
makes the drawer show, swings his
arms freely, darcs 20 grow grandIo-
duent-"The skeleton or The Storm
gestures broadly, sweeping his forms
in manfully with fat brushes that
make a rapid accounting Of salient
data and breeZily, in true Western
style, 20 on their way. Mr.. Brush
may have more respect or more reyer-
ence His "Andromeds,' hard and
imaginatively poor, is not representa-
tive. The head is a fine example OF
that cultivated refinement 20 which the
older generation Of Americans, return
ing from the studios Of Gerome o.
Laurers, were welded.
Mr.. D. ". TryOn, though not figure
painter. is of this restrained group.
His October Fields" and Evening
lAutumn)" lose force Of statement in
colorfully Joyous company. We are
led, perhaps. TO mistake restraint for
timidity. We feel that the newer men
have outstripped him, gained in scope
Of color and wealth of line. added new
wrinkles and new facts. We feel an
increase in natures store, a doubling
Of its wealth. But Mr.. Tryon may not
be representative Of his period. lie
lived amid Landscapes dominated b.
parallel lines. He pictures his resli-
ties with conscientious scruples. John
TWachtman, graciously presented IN
this collection, came nearer 20 truth
truth az a matter Of intuitive sincerity
in merely acquiring essential forms
from nature and putting them down
sensitively. His was as much record
OF feeling as Of sight-tO this extent
IL vas abstract; and abstract only be-
cause we have become accustomed 70
the reports Of eyes literally minded
Cecilia Beaux-"Sita and Sarlta," an
other we'll known carvas-has eyes like
that. and sometimes arouses the sus-
oicion, in a manner justitiaole. that ner
art is lodged in her hands. This can
vas. however, has more invention than
others from her easel, something Of
decorative intention, bloom IN the
color and fair restraint Of oratorical
emphasis in the treatment. Mr.
Twachtman's' scant paint marks, though
they WHISPER their statements, make
greater ones. This may be a pure
question Of taste Miss BeauX reports
the material aspect and literary idea
horn Of il, and Mr. Twachtman the
spir't.
Mr.. Clifford Bears THE Albany
Boat" and Mr. Paul Burlin'5 "San-
-uario" are OF an order OF capable
Craftsmanship quite often encountered
on these walls; one OF. an older and
The other 81 newer style. Both are
academic. " BurlIn's carried didacti-
ca"y 70 compositional conclusion
and Mr. Seals with less attention to
ioye;siliag and more 70
local arrangement, local arrangement,
however, With a precorceivet notion
Z bcu. Il which orec!Cc5s quite decl-
y.vely. airy i-te-..on Of bucs.i-g down
% a rea. study CT nature. Blu. few
painters &c sh.s las, Miss Mary Gas.
sstt, IN "No:ke- ard Child, q seeing
through her own eyes, BIZ. they have
beer educated elsewhere. Tni.
Mother and Child" wants the insp,ra-
tioc of some others. ? suggests mat
u might have been iustlgsted oy a
canvas that went before rather than
by the subject Mr. Randall Dsyey's
Portrait" has less Of this suggestion,
although here we ind tina: the big body
Of the sitter ia rather round than fat,
a matter Of imitation instead o. so
lIGity.
Mr.. Arthur r. Davies. IN Spring
picture which precedes his
cubistic period dis as romantically fine
"a we have ever found MIN. There IS
exotic about this picture,
suggesting sentimeutalism or morbid
ness, but suggesting also. somehow, an
honest state Of mind in which there IS
neither pose nor hypocrisy. We are
not so sure OF some other things on
these walls. There il The Negress."
b. Middleton Manigsuit, TO lend
doubt or two about the value OF the
exotic and 20 impugn the artistic va
lidity Of much uodernistic subject
matter. The mystery OF the East has
served too many romanticists already;
selling Persian rugs
woven on Broadway or near IL and
rare ~lixirs hsiling from the land ~