New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Random Impressions
In Current Exhibitions

and adds pictures to show that he has
broader scope. He paints summer
sympathetically enough and with the
technical proficiency which we have
noted before in his work, but he re-
mains essentially an interpreter of
winter. His special note lies in his
preservation of snow forms, the wet
ness and weight of substance which
is no doubt often "fcecy blanket" !"
but which frequently has richer
texture. 1t is not by any means, a
negligible point. Paintings of snow
often decline into studies of mere
whiteness. Mr.. Waltman is admirable
in his truer realism, in the force, the
directness, which he brings to his
studies. He has, too, some lively ac-
cents of color in more than one of
these new pictures. "The Hill Beyond
is the best of them.
Mr.. Herbert Meyer has pleasantly
varied exhibition at the Babcock gal
lery, studies of the Hudson and OF
Vermont hills containing some we'll
painted grays, good portrait of
"Mrs. G." and one particularly good
decorative composition. This last is a
screen in three panels, with ducks ar
ranged below willow branch. Orien-
tai in motive, it is done without slavish
imitation of the Japanese method. The
design is good and so is the workman
ship.
Next Wednesday the public will have
an opportunity to observe the charac-
teristics of perhaps the most conspicu-
Gus figure in modern Russian art, Ilya
Repin. collection OF his portraits
and historical subjects will then be ex-
hibited at the Kingore gallery.
Of the three collaborators in the
current exhibition at the Folsom gal
lery Mr.. Guy du Bos does most to
Justify venture having about it an
atmosphere of experiment. He shows
some singularIy promising landscapes,
careful statements Of. fact in which
one is conscious of effort yet not
wearied by it, as SO often happens. Two
of his studies, made respectively at
Sound Beach and at Bernardsville, are
winning in their sincerity and truth.
The "Nude in Studio" is also veracious
but it wants the suggestion that the
landscapes give of an artist on the way
to something new and fine. In the es-
says in his familiar. sa.irical vein Mr..
du Bois does what he has often done
before: he is piquant, but falls short
of making his technique charming.
He has for comrades Eugene Speich-
er and George Bellows. The former
paints landscapes, landscapes which
begin by recalling Cezanne, in mild
iy amusing way, and end by impress
ing one as merely dull. Mr.. Bellows
contributes six or seven landscapes
which do not even begin to hold at
tention. In one of them, perhaps, the
"Old Barn-Gray Day." there is a
hint in the treatment of the hills that
he was trying for something with
beauty in it; but there is no lasting
quality in this, the best of the lot. Mr..
Bellows seems to have been rather
aimlessly thrashing about, as though
his talent had taken a vacation. Think
ing back to some of the brilliant things
he has painted, we are fairly astonished
by these inconclusive fragments.
There is new gallery to be added
to the already long list in the city, the
Mesnard gallery, at 2s East Sixty
fourth Street. 1t makes credita Bile
start, with American paintings, among
which good examples of Emil Carlseu,
Childe Hassam and the late William M.
Chase are conspicuous.
At the Whitney Studio Club there is
memorial exhibition of the works of
the late Charles T. w. Mielatz. He
was prolific and uneven etcher, spe-
clalizing in New York scenes. His
line was firm and accurate, sometimes
little hard. Now and then it tapk on
a surprisingly painterlike quality, as
in the delightful "Catharine Market"
He was useful and occasionally a
charming historian of the city's archi-
tectural monuments. 1t was a good
idea to show with his prints number
of his drawings, especially those land
scapes in which he employed altogether
the delicacy often omitted from his
work with the needle.
There may also be seen at this place
a number of drawings by Mr.. Donald