New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

TAIN there admirably, IN bold blacks
against a blue sky. Again the soft
grays, handled with equal breadth and
delicacy, in his Roadway, San CHING
nano,' invite only cordial praise, and
he finely interprets the weight of he
roic old buildings in his sketch of the
towers of the little town. For the
rest,< save when he gets a promising
effect of tone in his "Nocturne, Venice"
he seems to have left picturesquenes
of subject to carry his studies. The
drawing In them is too weak to serve
the purpose.
MIR. Louis Kronberg of Boston. has
capital little exhibition ut the Knoed
Ter gallery, chiefly of subjects drawn
from the ballet. With such subjects
as Degas, HIS great prototype, has
shown vittuosity is of signal impor-
lance. Mr. kronbcrg Is not virtuoeo,
Yet there resides in that very fact, per-
hapss tho key to his unauestonable
Huceees. llls technique may not be
brilliant, but it. Is polished, fluent. nj
togothef adequate, and that it IL not
Haunted only gives US n clearer con.
ceptlon OF tho sincerity which ia ons
or his first merits, lie has color. yerv
tremendously and tactfully played with.
1t Is manipulated on occasion into very
gracious nuances of tone, as in the
ballet Girl in Blue" or the Intending
Ballet Skirts" picture which has the
interest of a we'll considered portrait
and he has, best of all, a faculty for
developing his schemes into balanced
compositions. The BALLET Papillon"
and the Symphony in Rose" best illus
trate this gift for lifting a frivolous
theme to more serious plane and Civ
ing 1t lasting attractiveness. The
most sympathetic thing that could be
SAID OF Mr.. Kronberg is that, while it
IS impossible to avoid thinking Of De-
gas IN the presence of his work. one
ENDS by discerning in that work onlv
MS own personality, a skilful crafts
man extortlng charm from a theme that
is only the more difficult because II ;s
i"snlohed OF so gossamer-lile a fabric.
mere are several other things of
.his gallery, good collection of What
ler autographs, and a huge pastel bv
Mr. julius Rolshoven The latter is
stfl&lng equestrian subject drawn from,
inc indian life of New Mexico. As a
record of the horse and of the pictur-
esque aoorlglnes it is we'll executed and
mas solid value. As design if seems
a trife overcrowded
Mr.. Ernest Lawson sees and foo,s
ne landscapes that he paints about
'he upper part Of New York and West
CHESTER County have the intimate. con-
',''cihg character of impressions
charged with Il genuine emotion
mere are two dozen or more of thon,
ae the Daniel CELERY just now, new
pictures, with a freshness in them that
Will last. In one respect they seem
10 c@llenge this Judgment. As we
nave remarked before, in the last few
years Mr.. Lawson has been sono,vho+
at ODDS with his medium How recall
c'trant pigment may sometimes prove
III ms hands is shown in the painting
called Blossoms" The heavy. ino,t
impasto robs the work of all the lirht
lyrical quality which belongs to if
There are other examples, too of this
curious obstacle which appears to hovo
arisen in the artists technique. We
seem to remember period in which
his touch was infinitely more elastic
Ahd yet we arc not sure but that in his
latest period he is more capable than
capable, that is, in the things
that come from penetrating vision.
from true landscape constituencies
His truth is now richer than it ever
was. Considcr for example, the chill
in the "Frozen River" or the tender
greens in the "Twilight" He NAV not
be the master of his surfaces, but he
puts nature into his work, and does
this, moreover. with an ingratintnr
originality
The American Museum of Natural
History has recently acquired through
the gift Of Messrs. Albert G. and Jer-
! OmR T. HaOauar Nav, No.I.