The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-02-06

NEW YoEx. Dec. IL, 1865
With the cin-,. Of the year the Winter Exhibi-
tion ol the New York Aeadcmy Of Design i
opened in the new anil beautiful building no the
corner or Fourth Avenue aud Twenty third street
There j. ~ much more 10 blame than 10 praise
in criricisug the institutions of this city that it
IS pleasant describe thing that j. 30 thoroughly
eommen,htbl,. ~ the Neadcmy Of Design.
TLi4 Association j. one or the oldest corporate
bodies in New York. lts charter dates back u
the yenr 1926, anil ir has given an annual exhibi-
tion Of paintings from that Year until the present.
During the past two years it has also inaugrrated
n Winter Exhibition. to which any work or art
il admissible that may not have been hung upon
the walls during the previous Spring Exhibition.
The members Of the Acadeuy IRE divided into
three clsses:
L. % Aeu,lemcjan- of whom there sey-
enty-two. Among these are % be found the
names that are the best and longest known in the
history Of American aTt--sueh names u those Of
Page. Huntington. Church, t;iE1ri, Coleman, and
McEntec. The name - Professor Morse, the
fimous electrician, stands first upon the list Of
the Noudemicinu-. ~. was one Of the original
members and j. now the oldest member OF the
-oeety biz election dating back To- the year 1926
lie was then one of the rising artists Of the day.
and contributed many pictures 10 the annual ex-
hibitious. Islanders familiar with at least
one OF Professor Nforse's works-the pOFtrair of
Nouh Webster that is prefixed to the unabridged
dictionary. This portrait WIS engraved from one
Of Morse's early paintings. For several years
the Young artist continued 10 busy himself with
his pencil little forcseciu=. as be- has himself told
me, the scientific ctrccr in which be was to er-
gage % But I always had turn foT invention"
said tho venerable Professor tO me a year ago,
.. and puzzlcd my hcad for years over electricity
beeire Z ever Thought of sending messages by it,
aid - The Profesor's old pictures stilI fire.
qucntly sent in by their ovucrs for exhibition at
the Acudemy, anil the New Yorker or today gizcs
ettriousIy upon these records Of the days OF bis
grandfather. Onr, hrgc eunvas depicting the
interior OF the - House Of Representative at
Washington, iu IS23,' j. hung IN the present ex-
hibitiou IL represents our forciathers egr-latiug
by the aristocratic light OF waS-etndes, and res
rIeudcut in ruFlcs, friIIs and swalowtaici coats.
n was well that Morscs art should leave some
record or those times before Morses science intro
ducr,I the new flrec that has aided in changing
them so completely.
. The next grade in the Academy is that Of
- Associate Membcrs,'' OF whom there are seven
ty-niue. These younger men than the Acadc-
micians, and number few clever and good
many very poor painters. j. o. Eaton, Bristol,
Ilows. a.. H. Hall, Constant Meyer, and Nehlig,
arr among the better known names upon this li-t.
\ large proportion of the pictures ia each exhibit
tim comes from the studios Of the = Assocatrs.'
Works or merit, however, Well as some Of de
merit, are received from outsiders. for it j. not
necessary to belong L, the academy, either ~
AcntIcmician or Associate, in order to become an
exhibitor.
3. The .. Fellows" are class of ladies and
gentlemen, most of them. however. not artists,
who devote some of their spare cash to the follow
ing eummcndabIc purposes: O.) subscrip-
tiou of .slOO entities thc subscriber to n Life
Fellowship, to FIVE season tickets Of admission to
each ,anaual exhibition, g. the of the art-li-
brary and rc,rdiu.-rooms, and to the privilege OF
nominating two art-studcnts yearly, who will be
admitted, free Of charge, TO the schools Of the
Academy (2J y $500 subscription conicrs n
Life Fellowship in pcrpetuity, eonycyabc, with
all the foregoing privicges, To- an heir assignee.
The number or Fellows j. nearly thousand,
and the incumc Of the academy i in cunsidcr,r-
bic purt derived from their subscriptions. The
direction or the business and art-aiflirs or tire
AtultNy - III ltllttl- 81 tpUilfll bl tltNfl
members, or which the venerable Daniel Hunting
ton IL President.
Such i the organization Of the National Acad-
envy Of Design Of New York. The building, re-
Gently completed, which it occupies, Is itself
work Of art more beautiful than Is often exhibited
within it, slleric-. lt j. n structure Of white
and eolorci marbles. in style somewhat like the
Ducal Palaee at Venice. There are two arcades
Of pointed arches, one above thc other, and sup
porting wall Of ehequercd marble in alternating
eolors. This upper portion Of the building con
tlin- the picturc-uIlcrics, six in number; 1t has
No Windows, being lighted through n roof Of
glass; but spaces. are LETT upon the outer wall
for elaborate oruamentatiOu- of sculpture and
me,aIIiou-. The arcades Of pointed arches below
have shafts OF serTentinc and tinted GRANTEES; and
these are crowned with capitals Of great beauty.
representing varied forms Of flower. fruit, and
herbagc. Instead Of the hackncyed acgnthus-
leaf, which j. carved IN t1stecSs uniformity over
the capitals Of Of the sO-callcd - fine build
inss +" of America, we fui here prolus, variety
of bvelincs-- One capital = u qucenly cluster Of
twininz roses; another Is glrlouicd with the car
ven vinc-leaf, and clusters Of grapes hang among
the delicate foliage; another scc1u- % burst into
lower with the bcli-llkc bloom Of tire kalll-lIy;
AMI around Others are wTeathci oaken leayes, and
Aarels, the tcudrils Of lDwering creeper-, AMI
the arrows Of the maize III wrought inn
p"rishably there in the uIarble,--caryed with
thoroughuess AMI careful zeal which stands in
sharp contrast with the thoughtlsss imitation Of
dead architecture which prevails elsewhere
throughout this city- No two Of these exquisite
capitals are alike: and oil Of the minor details
oi the building treated in recognition Of tie
principle that variety Is the spice .: architecture
as well a. Of life
The present exhibition .lp,- not contain the