New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Sixteen Works.Of
Pissarro Bridge
Thirty-one Years
Pieces OH Exhibition Re-
Gently Imported Range
From '73 to 'O4; Pennell
Etchings Put OH View
By Royal Cortissoz

By Royal Cortissoz
The Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine
Arts announces it's annual exhibition.
1t will open in Philadelphia on Sunday.
February S, and will last until the end
of March.
The National Association Of Women
Painters and Scalptors is holding its
usual autumn sketch exhibition at the
Arlington Gallery. 1t opened yesterday
and will remain on view until early in
January. Sketches, small pictures,
sculptures and miniatures are shown.
The associations annual dinner took
place last night in the rooms of the
Architectural League.
The works of Pissarro recently i'm
ported and placed on view at the Du-
rand -Ruel Gallery. are dated as early
as 1873 and as late as 1904. The COL
lection of sixteen pieces gives an ad-
mrable idea of his style and quality
or the former it is to be said that Pts
sarro is individualized without assert
ing any clearly marked or inspiring
traits. There is no mistaking the clean
cut appeal of almost any other member
of the impressionist group. They have
strongly energizing qualities. if moth
ing else. Pissarro lacks power in his
style. He is suave, gracious. insinu.
ating, and eXctes measured liking
rather than enthusiasm Perhaps one
explanation of his failure to strike
twelve is his weakness in pictorial de-
sign. There is a single picture here
the harbor scene. entitled "Decharge-
ment de bois, Rouen"-in which the
picturesque elements Of the water
front are brought into a perfect unit
Of form, light and color This is an al
together captivating performance. In
general, the truth and the subtle tone
in Pissarro's art are accompanied by
poet of his band, an authentic figure
in n great movement who himself fell
short of greatness
In the rooms of the Whitney Studio
Club three artists make an exhibition
which will remain accessible until
Christmas. Miss Nan Watson con-
tributes paintings Of flowers Mr. Ma
honri Young is represented by draw
ings. Mr.. H, NJ. Linding sends water
colors and wood carvings
Mrc Il
the noted correspondent and critic, has
q dual interest for the public She is
remembered as q survivor OF the pre-
Raphaelte circle. She is an artist her
self. At the gallery of the Willow
brook Company she is showing num-
ber of her water colors, studies of old
English manor houses and gardens, of
Scotch scenes, of few Italian sub
jects and Of flowers. There are also
two portraits of Mrs Stilman, one by
Burne-Jones and the other by Ford
MadoxBrown. The show lasts until
the end of the month.
Mr.. Louis Kronberg, of Boston, has
taken a studio in New York and marks
the transition by holding an exhibition
of recent paintings and pastels at the
Howard Young Gallery He devotes
himself chiefly, as hitherto, to subjects
drawn from the ballet, not the ballet
as it is seen from across the footlights
but the ballet in its moments of repose
or practice. He draws the single
figure, posed with the light elegance be-
longing to the domain Of the dance, but
studied with a seriousness bringing
out the human interest in the model
His work gains from year to year. 1t
gains in deftness and spontaneity
The Slipper" is & characteristically
skillful and charming portrait 1t has
too, the quality in which Mr. Kronbere
has most improved, the quality of a
genuine luminosity in his color He is
safest both in design and in sentiment
in these isolated studies of dancers. Ir
pictures like the "Grandmother" he
wanders rather Intellectually from his
familiar subject. When he sticks te
the ballet pure and simple, as in the
Preparing for the Dance" or the
Ballet Girl in White" his fresh, ac-
complished work gives pleasure.
Mr.. Joseph Pennell is an illustrator
Of appalling industry. He has ran
sacked the world for material He j:
equally at his ease before Greel
temple and New York skyscraper
under the shadow of French cathe
drai or amid the titanic operations Of
the Panama Canal. At the Keppel Gal
cry he shows the fruits of his latesr
labors, etchings of railroad activitie:
in the United States last year and this
He has drawn our Grand Central in
side and out he has studied rails ant
bridges in Pennsylvania, Illinois ane
Missouri. Some of his earlier Ame ri
can plates are shown and with them ,