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THE FINE ARTS.The cheerful and helpful work of Mr. Charles Ii. Woodbury and Airs. Marcia O. Woudburv, now being shown at C hase’s gal-ery, marxs an epoch in this city of original, out-of-the-common pictures fheir imagina-tions combine new forms and combinations; they have seen Holland, Venice, France and the inhabitants therein, in all of their incongruous conditions; have brought imperfections together, and made harmonies. The figure painter and the land and sea scapist, joiutly make things lively lor the eves, put us into various moods. We laut*h at Mrs. Woodbury’s Vegetarian, a hutch, grotesque looking boy, eating carrots; we are not accustomed to such incidents, it must be litoral, it surely ,is well executed. Then we turn to the serious picture, a canal scene at Haarlem, by Mr. Woodbury; the Dutch boy is a character closely noted, the canal view a rhyme, a salutation and a song. Again Mrs. Woodbury depicts Dutch innocence and simplicity in home-ma;le, clumsy attiro jis seen inthe four children, a veritable four-in-hand, as they hobble along the road in their wooden sabots; the movement of their bodies is perfect. They are amusing types.Couple this picture with Mr. \\ oodbury s Notre Dame as seen from the River, Paris, and wo obtain another kind or religion; wo think of Hugo's Quasimodo, of the architect who designed the majestic solemn pile, of the river that Hows at its base and of the historythat haugs about the monumental structure.It does not, seem as though the two pictures were possible in the same sphere. Fresh color and masculine force permiato Mr. Woodbury’s pictures; also sentiment, when he paints rainyskies as witness the effects in No. 12.* Mrs. Woodbury makes a successful reach for the poetic in her Duccli interior, where au old woman is seen drinking her tea. There is airin the room, light and color^ives complexion to the old Delph ware, the brasses and the furniture; the old woman can liv® in the room, she has lived in it. for years and years, and its memories are about her.The color relations in the (i^nre picture, the Dutch Girl Kneeling, are excellent, light and shade are well preserved. The woman, or girl, is quite intent on something besides her work, though her fingers move mechanically with her needles. The incident is simple, the telling of it expressive, Doth artists display spirit in drawiner. Mrs. Woodbury sees and paints draperies and texture* remarkably well —she sees and paints character also. Mr. Woodbury has gained in color, even his admirable pencil drawings show it. Heidelberg Castle, looming up in the foliage, has the air of age; how delicate the shadows and how sensitive the touch.
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Boston, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Dec 23, 1891
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