New-York tribune., 1919-03-11

EOpU as iHc one winch Wa Nosfprdav
VI placed on view at the American Art
Galleries, TO be sold at tho Plaza
next Thursday and Friday evenings. This
is a mixture, from the estates Of tho late
Thomas r. Ball, Of New York, and the late
Francis White, OF Baltimore. with addition,
from other sources, and artistic mixtures
are notoriously uneven. But tho balance
in Che present instance is on tho favor
able side and the interesting thing about
It is that the American school turns the
scale. The exhibition might almost be de-
scrbcd one Of our landscape men
The elders proudly head the list Homer
Martin is represented By three examples.
one Of them an early water color which it is
particularly good to see, because his work
in this medium rarely appears The "Au-
tumn Landscape in Cleaning is welcome
for its lovely tones, its pale, subtly modu-
lated greens. The remaining Martin IS
another autumn picture, a sunset with
masses of trees sihouetted against fine
sky. The sole painting by Wyant, a Com
ing Storm" is darkly beautiful. dramatic
picture, full Of sense of moving clouds
Inress is in fine form. There are good spec-
mens of his later manner in the group Of
four of his pictures, one of them especially
the "Tarpon Springs, Florida d delight
fully fresh representative piece; but per
haps the gem of the four is the "ltalian
Landscape" (No. 109). It is always peculiar
Joy to meet Inness on Roman soil He was
to become, as we have often pointed out,
one Of the raciest of American artists, but,
being an artist, he responded to the quality
in Italian landscape which we can only call
traditional. The stone pine Is probably the
most pictorial tree in the world. Il rises
on the Italian scene like some asthetically
consecrated motive, ana its surroundings
play up" with the result that nature there
seems half art You feel this semi sophs-
ticated charm in the Inness to which we
refer The work Of Wnsow Homer, carly
and late, is also well illustrated. The later
and more familiar phase Of his art IS
reflected in the brilliant marine "Prouts
Head. Maine" It's companion IS the In
viting Shot: Defiance" one of those
souvenirs Of the Civil War in which The
expert technician is only dimy foreshad-
owed but in which the VIVID commentator
on life is revealed with something l.As
gusto.
There are other paintings from veteran
hands, including characteristic AdrOn.
dack picture by the loving Interpreter o.
forest interiors, the late Roswell H. Shurt-
left, and to the same time-tried category
belong the two cleaning Venetian subjects
by the late William Gednev Blnce and
Ehhu Vedders unmportant but amusing
little sketch THE Water Boy Of the
older men il is Bakelock. however, who
alone figures in positive bulk 70 the exhibi-
tion, there being a round dozen Of his
works shown. The group embraces some
striking pictures. striking because they
take US back Of that period in which ne
developed the manner by which he IS most
known When he painted his "lndians on
the War Path he had TO formula. lie was
concerned only to denote the mass and pro-
file of the mountains framing the narro"
pass through which his figures dcfe lie
not consciously romantic but agtlessy
grandiose. It is a notable pictare. There
are other examples Of him IN unconFen'
tiona vein, the Woodland Broos." which
is almost as free and broad as % Nyant'
and the "Nymphs in the Forest n wnicn
it is divcrting TO see him tacking The nude
like any Salonnicr though on a minute
scale. For the rest these BlakciocSs are
in the glowing style for which he Is chiefly
| remembered, ranging from the stormy
Sunset" a tiny note, to tho biz Warm
Summer Moonlight which is the sort o.
full dress typical thing museums crave
In contrast to the sensuous warmth OF the
Bakelocks there are two pictures By the
lamcntcd New England painter, George
Fuller, whose work seldom see me
CLOSE Of Day on a Kentucky Farm IS an
arresting memorial Of him. The figure has
no relation at all to the spirtuelle ere
ations that gave him his fame, but IN the
landscape his sincerity and special sensitive
quality are clearly manifest
Round these remembrances Of the pion-
eers there are assembled any number OF IN.
teresting things by their juniors. One oi
Chase's effective costume pieces, INC
Court Jester is present. There - 5000
picture IN the earlier manner Of Mr.. Arthur
b. Davies. the Girl with Thorn in Hef
Foot" Mr.. Childe Hassam, the late ineo-
dore Robinson, that engaging colorist .ne
late Robert l.. Newman, Mr.. Charles ".
! Hawthorne in most spirited picture o
two men at a dining table. all contriouSe
substantially to the excellent ensemoiss