New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Random Impressions
In Current Exhibitions
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shortly to be published in English Mr..
&. Aspiund Is the compiler The work
will be In two small folio volumes. 1t
will contain photcgravures Of all The
stchiuea, and the edition will be lin
ssed. e. Weyhe, the book seller, is the
American agent,
There are plenty Of prints to be seen
Just now. The Keppel gallery is filled
with early engravings, works by Man.
sexna, Schongauer, Durer. Rembrandt.
and so on. At the Knocdler gallery
there is . collection Of Whistlers. The
Kraushaar gallery shows prints by,
II. A. ]. Bauer and W. Witsen. The
Kennedy gallery exhibits etchings by
Louis Orr.
The thirty-frst annual exhibition of
the New York Water Color Club is an
nounced to be held at the Fine Arts
Building. 1t will open On January IA
and will last until early In February.
The old masters at the Enrich gallery
this month are minor men Of the
eighteenth century. minor, but accom-
plished. It is delightful to see the
"Portrait of Mrs. Garrick," by Zoffnay,
on whose interesting qualities we had
occasion to dwell at some length in this
place last spring. 1t is not a very
weighty example of him, but it is
good one. There is q charming theat-
rical portrait-"Mrs. Pritchard"-in the
collection, an excellent illustration of
the suave art of Francis Cotes. Por-
traits by Nathaniel Hone and Allan
Ramsay should also be cited. There
are only two subject pictures, but those
make capital pair of pastorals. They
are from the graceful hand of Francis
Wheatley.
A number of water colors by Childe
Hassam go on the walls at the Mich
gallery tomorrow. They are to be fol-
lowed on December 1 by the annual
holiday show of paintings of limited
size, and special exhibition Of etch-
ings, some of them in color, by Will
lam Meyerowitz. At the Ferargil gal
lery there are recent paintings by
George Inness jr.
Mr.. Willard L. Metcalf and Mr..
Frank W. Benson show some paintings
at the Macbeth gallery. Among the
half dozen by the former artist there
is one very beautiful canvas, 'The .
Silver Trail" moonlit marine. The
sea is level and there is no shipping
This is a study merely of light and
color. 1t is dated 1910 but it is as
fresh in it's romantic appeal and its
truth to nature as though it had been
painted yesterday. Mr.. Metcalf's other
exhibits are his usual vivid impressions
of field, brook and meadow, with some
Of his usual charming arrangements
If autumnal tints. But the sea piece ,
pretty nearly shrivels them all up.
Mr.. Benson, curiously, has much the
same experience. All of his ten paint
tfiSo HdtS SC1 CulA McIlL. A1lS OpCu
air studies possess vitality. In his
figure subjects he realizes his gracious
presence with skill ul, accurate touch. I
But somehow in only one of these,
the handsome "Elisabeth," does his
work take on positive substance, a
beauty with true nervous force in it.
Most Of his portraits this time come
perilously near to being thin and pa
perry. He is exhilarating, though, m
his study of wild duck, Flying Mer-
ganser."
Mrs. Annetta Saint-Gaudens is show
ing group of her sculptures at the |
Civic Club. 1t includes some symbol
IL compositions.
At the Anderson Galleries there will
be placed on exhibition on November
%, to be sold on the 26th, a num-
ber Of paintings collected by the late
Walter Kerr and others. George In
ness, r. A. Blakelock, F. S. Church,
Wyatt Eaton and A. H. Wyant are
among the Americans represented.
There are pictures OF the modern Con-
tinental schools and there are a few
old masters.
The little show Of only fifteen pic
lures with which the Folsom gallery
has opened at its new location is one
Of the best which the season has thus
far brought forward. We have alluded
in another place to the not very salts
factory picture by Mr.. Jonas Lie
shown at the New Society. The Fol-
SONS have obtained in his Eastward"
. positively joyous example Of his ro-
bust art. There are good things by
William Carrigan, Chas. w. Hawthorne,
Childe Hassam and others. Mr. Ivan
Olinsky surpasses himself in his