New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-11

lish period, might have preceded the
Impressionists. He hints at search
for more truthful color in some OF the
portraits contributed to this exhibit
tion. The "Epes Sargent" in gray
clothes. with its fine head and vigorous
~ modelled hand, is a good example.
There is purity IN Copley, clear dry
ness Of color. The reds Of his sketch
for the ambitious Death of Earl
Chatham" while harmonious, are noted
without reserve in color nearly pure.
This sketch was put down with verve
and economy of paint marks lost IN the
finished work. Like Stuart, the Bos-
tonian is represented by fourteen
works. Benjamin West, another OF the
Americans who permanently left Amer
lea for England, is represented by but
two works. "Dr Enoch Edwards" an
excellent bit of character painting. and
an unfinished american Peace Com
missioners, Treaty of 17S2,' wherein
are shown, grouped about table at
which sits Benjamin Franklin, Jay,
Adams, Temple Franklin and Laurens.
This latter is lent by Mr.. John Pier
pont Morgan. The full length of Wash
ington by Charles Wilson Peale gives
a very good idea of the great height
and stopping shoulders which history
records, and something else not IN his
tory. IL may be that Peale had more
humor than the first President or than
his other Disqualification this is BIZ
ography-or that the first President
had more than is elsewhere recorded.
Peale shows him with easy natural
ness Of posture, one leg crossed, smil-
= s l. ID, kotrr hf
in pure enjoyment of recent victory,
probably, for behind him, in a quaint
ly sketched village street, are being led
a file of relocated prisoners of war.
Trumbull's Clinton" is a more suave,
a more proficient, more finished work,
but it is not so human. But there are
enough records of human faultiness
here TO please the most confirmed real
ist. Robert Feke, Joseph Badger,
Ralph Earl. Jonathan Blackburn, Mat
thew Pratt. Edward Savage, James
Sharples, John Smibert, William Win
stanley and John Woolaston have among
2 few not outstanding virtues the one
Of sincerity. (These men are our
Primitives) Their pictures live to-day
for this alone. And Morse had that,
along with a greater power to express
&C.. We think of his portraits Of Moss
Kent" "Mrs. S. NJ. Mitchell" and Of
Susan Walker Morse" known as the
"muse") with considerable pleasure.
He was an honest, conscientious and
capable painter. John Neagle-"Levi
Dickson" and "Sergt. Andrew Wallace
had an exceptional depth and wealth
IN his color, an atmospheric quality
which Will be found to be quite rare
here.
inc following note from the catalogue
Of the show may be Of interest: The
present Exhibition of Early American
Paintings was planned for The Brook
Ign Museum because there had been no
similar exhibition in New York since the
Metropolitan Museum exhibit of 1911,
sufficient interval to justify a revival
OF effort and interest in this phase
Of our national art. Previously there
had been special exhibitions at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in
December. 1887; in the Metropolitan
Opera House in April and May, 1889,
the year Of the Washington Centen-
NAL; at the Boston Art Club in 1908,
and again in September. 1909, at the
Metropolitan Museum, in connection
with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration
The monumental works in paint and
sculpture and sketches for other works
of this character at the current Archi-
tectural League Exhibition depict the