Connecticut western news., 1876-03-03
ART AT THE CENTENNIAL.
What Home and Foreign Artists are DoAD
 to Make a Successful Display.

What Home and Foreign Artists are Doing
 to Make a Successful Display.
 The art contributions to the Centen- nial from abroad, says correspondent, will be of the first rank. Italy alone will send more than one hundred and fifty groups of statuary. France, Ger many, Italy, Belgium. the Netherlands and Spain will intrust several of the treasures of their most venerable gal leries to the mercies of the Atlantic and the cale of the Centennial commission. The living native artists in all these countries are eagerly enlisted. Mexico, Chili, the Argetine republic and Bra gil have applied for space; and if I am not greatly mistaken, there will come from some of these countries, of which the people of the United States are for the most part profoundly ignorant, proofs of artistic power and discernment which " those who know pictures will take exceeding delight in. Every coun- try has appointed it's art committee of selection, or rather rejection, through work of art must pass before it can be here German pictures intended for the exhibition are sent to be judged, the de- cision upon them was intrusted to a sin gle eminent critic, himself an artist. His standard proved so rigorous that numbers of artists, who perceived their inability to equal the merit of certain works rejected by the arbiter, declined to submit to the ordeal and withdrew. Consequently the 15,00O feet of wall space at first asked for by Germany have dwindled to 5, 1000; but the applications for space still so far exceed that which can be granted, that the commission halls every such reduction as 8 Godsend, as well as new guarantee of the genearl high merit of the art show.
 American painters and sculptors in Rome, Florence, Paris, Munich and Madrid are equally enthusiastic with their foreign brethren.
 The commission appointed to examine the works of French artists have com. pleted their labors. They have selected 670 pictures, including the "Declara tion of Independence and the "Sur- render of Yorktown" by Charles Ed ward Armand Dumarsq; cold and New California, by Bartholdi; "A Portrait of Washington, by Princeteau; several works by Messrs. Jean Pierre August Alexandre Philippe, Charles Blanc Brest and Alfred; also one hundred sculptures and sixty engravings and designs. Story, Harnisch, Miss Hos mer, Montague, HandIey and Volck among sculptors, will contribute theil latest or best endeavors. The United States ship Supply sailed in January fol Civita Vecchia and Leghorn and Tan gier. At Civita Vecchia she will fint accumulated and take on board American paintings and statuary from Rome, an6 at Leghorn all American works iron Florence. In the meantime these work will have been subjected to an ordea similar to though D. obably not quite st severe as that specified in the case of tn works of native foreign artists. By per m ssion of the State department ou ministers at Rome and Munich were em powered to decide what pictures b, American artists in the countries t. which they are accredited may be for warded for exhibition, and 8 committe was appointed by the American artist in Paris themselves to make there tn same decision. It is proposed in thi way to guard against huge invoices O mediocre paintings and to save Ameri can artists abroad from the modification of forwarding specimens of their wor which might prove unacceptable at tn exhibition.
 Domestic art contributions will b far more numerous and important thal the commission was at first led to ez