New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-22
American Artists in Divers Fields
done in Munich and luxuriant in color
signed wilhelm" Chase.

done in Munich and luxuriant in color
signed wilhelm" Chase.
The exhibition of American paint
ings at the Montross gallery is largely
! interesting because Of what might De
described as retrospective elements.
There are pictures here Of other days.
which come back to us tested by time
The three Ryders are all old friends
| One of them is the impressive "Resur-
rection" which we reproduced a week
or two ago. Its companions are the
oonlight-Marine," which has some
thing like grandeur, despite its small
scale. and the truly dramatic Macbeth
and the Witches" La Farge's beauti-
| full Autumn" reappears, one Of the
most sumptuous of his decorative
panels. Dewing, who is represented by
one of the lovely figure studies of his
present period and by couple of pas
| tells, is also to be observed in the
Fishing" he painted some years ago,
landscape with figures, echoing Wat
| tcau as to the motive, but painted with
an intensely personal touch. Davies,
who has turned of late to fantastic
ideas of the modernist persuasion, has
three pieces in the show, all in his
earlier manner and all enchanting. The
Lake in the Serras" is really magi-
q
cal landscape. The mother and Child"
has the richness of Maris and is more
lightly hit off The several Tryons con-
stitute a piquant group. The latest
works in it, disclosing his maturest
ideas, pale little beside the charming
composition and the unaffected sim
plicity of his early "Moonrise." There
are two fine Thayers, one of them
flower piece Of extraordinary beauty;
there are good specimens of Twacht-
man, Weir, Hassam and Chase, and, 70
lend a dash of sharpness to the en-
Jemble, there are a couple of hard but
clever paintings by Henri. Of great
personal interest is the portrait Of
Ryder by Kenneth Hayes Miller. The
show as a whole is quite the best Of its
kind that has been held at this gallery
in a long time.
The Ederheimer gallery makes
small but altogether admirable display
of drawings by the old masters. A
slender decorative composition by
Durer, a wonderfully modelled head by
Roger van der Weyden, a picturesque
study of barn by Callot, superb
classical landscape by Claude, a mas
tcrly little head by Rembrandt-these
are some of the treasures shown. Goya,
Gainsborough, Bartolozzi and others
are also illustrated. On two Of these
workshop fragments we are impelled
to make more than passing comment,
the sketch book pages by Guardi. They
hint at no composition, no picture.
The artists purpose was simply to note
the movement of his eighteenth CEN
fury figures, to catch the flow of their
cloaks, their grace and elegance. 1t
would be impossible to beat the verve
with which he records his light, pro-
foundly Venetian impression. The
faded paper fairly vibrates with life.
The gallery arranged by the GOrham
Company on the top floor of its build
ing, a gallery devised for the display
Of plastic art under conditions to some
extent akin to those of the open air, is
filled just now with an exhibition of
decorative sculpture by American art
lists. By decorative" it is to be as
sumed, is implied the influence of ideas
relating to gardens and their sculptursl
establishment, but this motive is not
in complete command. There are
pieces here which would be interesting
in any environment. Much of the work
shown is by artists Of familiar traits,
familiar aptitude-artists like Harriet
Frismuth, Stirling Calder, Edith Par
sons, Helen Mears, and so on. Their
fountain figures are charming. A few
newer types come forward. Mr.. Albin
Polasek's Fountain" is.a capital little
bronze. Mr.. Leo Friedlander reveals a
note Of his own, an admirable large
ress Of feeling, in his antique motives,
and shows an instinct for grace, be-
sides, in one of his statuettes. There
are other newcomers, but not all Of
them Of equal interest. The exhibition
would have been improved by judicious
sitting.
Mr. Charles Carey Rumsey, at the
new Sculptors' Gallery, presents pre-
sumably exhaustive collection OF his
works, and emerges from the test a
more interesting figure than he has
hitherto appeared to be. The pieces he
has shown from time to time have dis
closed ability without making manifest
his possession Of any salient traits.
Now, through the cumulative effect Of
these numerous exhibits, he success
fully afirms an individual and very en-
gazing talent. The dexterity which he
has always enjoyed is seen to be allied
with that inner vitality which only
Isprings from genuine research into the
truths of nature. Witness his por-
traits Of horses and his studies of other