Abstract

The Water-Color Exhibition

The article focuses on the water-color exhibition which opened last week at the Academy of Design in the U.S. The exhibition testifies the general progress in the art illustrated. Almost all the practitioners of it who exhibit their work here from year to year have one after another succumbed to the inevitable, and, abandoning reluctantly the cherished notion that the capabilities of oil and of water-colors are identical, have ranged themselves tardily but definitively upon the side of the rest of the world. Judging from the present aspect of the Academy, the demand for "Chinese white'' this year must have been inconsiderable compared with former seasons. Nowhere, to be sure, do the design and execution of a work of art touch each other so closely as in water-color draughtsmanship.