New-York tribune., 1922-04-09
Random Impressions
In Current Exhibitions
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etchings and Autographs. Redon is
quite as much the mystic in black
and white as otherwise, but color is
his passport into the realm of pure
imagination. These effects, often lurid.
start strange haunting echoes that
leave ono frequently wondering at the
source of them. And yet there is an
epic majesty in work such as "Apollo"
and crushing melancholy in the i'm
port of "Orpheus." He is altogether
most comprehensive and lovely in the
painting OF flowers, and where he COM
poses them with the female figure in
Spring" the ensemble is most appeal
ing 1.-The White Bouquet" and
"ophelia" are eloquent representations
OF female form, while pegasus"
Cain and Abel" and other prints in
black and white leave one with a strol4
impression of the painters power as 4
craftsman.
The French painter, Victor Charre-
ton, made q good impression when his
work was first shown here at the
Dudensing gallery. 1t won an equally
sympathetic reception when it was pre-
sented here second time. Now a
third show at the same place is an
nounced, to last through the month.
simultaneously there are shown some
decorations by Mr.. W. F. White.
Several exhibitions Of portraits are
to be announced. One of the works of
Miss Cecilia Beaux opens at the Arden
gallery tomorrow. At the Fearon
gallery there are portraits of noted
Canadians painted by Mr.. H. Harris
Brown. The Arlington gallery brings
forward portraits by Mr.. Henry R.
Rittenberg. The Ralston gallery pre-
sents English portraits of the eight
eenth century and shows also a group
Of Barbizon pictures.
Julius Delbos, exhibiting at Mrs.
Malcom's gallery. is an English painter
whose water colors have received
neritcd recognition abroad, including
their acceptance in the Royal Academy
He shows a fondness for landscape,
reproducing with equal sympathy the
rural atmosphere Of Old England and
the low river meadows OF New Jersey.
Hic perspectives are unusually inter
csting. "The VISTA" in the artists
prevailing scheme of browns, is espe-
cially charming. 1t begins with a canal
and bridge as the immediate center OF
attention and trails off into intermi-
nable distance. august in England"
has the same beauty in its vague de-
tachment from the observer. This
little clustered hillside village is pre-
sented in charming color and design
English Landscape" weavcs an even
more fascinating pattern out of an ex-
panse of broken fields and roadways
Because he paints sincerely the en-
chanting aspects of nature, and be-
cause he plans a composition with po-
etic vision, Delbos is making contri-
button to good water color.
The collection of contemporary art
at the Montross gallery is composed Of
oils, water colors, drawings, Autographs
and engravings Foreign and American
artists are represented, Matisse, Van
Gogh, Gaudier- Brezeska and the like
on the one hand, Arthur B. Davies,
Samuel Halpert, the Prendergasts and
Henry Fitch Taylor on the other. A
few artists not noticeably modcrnistic,
such as Allen Tucker and Paul
Dougherty, are likewise included.
Examples in the exhibition of por-
trait drawings which Albert Steiner
is having at the Seligmann gallery have
been lent for the occasion by various
owners. who have sat for the artist
during the last few years. 1t COM
prises twenty drawings full of refine
ment and dignity in style. In this
guise Mr.. Sterner is more restrained
than customary. He would like to
launch out, perhaps, somewhat as he
does in the head of George Zabriskie
instead of resorting to close modula-
tions for form and tone. Throughout,
however, there is a progression to-
ward greater freedom in linear express
sion. This is most noticeable in the
recent portraits of Mrs. A. Stewart
Walker and Mrs. Clarence Hay. But
at all times he is the consumn,ate
craftsman. His form takes body
and living grace under skilled hand.
ling, however abbreviated his tech
nique may be in these examples. The
male heads are particularly good in
character. while there is striking con-
formity of treatment to the classic
symmetry of the features in the study
Of Mrs. Robert Locher.
The annual exhibition Of the National
Association of Women Painters and
Sculptors is at the Anderson Galleries.
In its scope and its logical standards Of
workmanship it represents the national
deal fully as much as the Academy.
Most of the Eastern states and even as
far west as Michigan have representa-
tion among-the collection of nearly
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