, 1880-05-16
IRT NOTES.
Important Sa1e-4cademy Notes.

| Important Sale-AcademT Notes.
There will be an important art sale at O. O'Bren:
| Tuesday and "Wednesday afternoons, whcE
| about $50 pictures will be disposed Of ut auction
| These works are from the studios Of home and
| Eastern artists. and many Of them are brilliant
| examples. Among the artists represented are
| George Inness, james H. Deurd, J. g. Brown
N. ]. Heade, d. F. Bigoiow, jasper Lawman, H
F. Spread, Lyell C. Carr, Eugene Torrey. Marstor
Heam, J., r Sloan, s. K. johnson, and Henry
Koch. Most Of the pictures have been from
time to time noticed ice in 1T The E TRlnuSE. M
OF Fine Arts is announced to begin next Wednes-
day, under the direction OF Miss Annie Shaw
This cluas spes.ds the whole day in the dcld and
works i. oil, water-coior, or bnck aud white. On
Wednesday and Saturday Of each week, or tho
next fair day. Miss Shaw's excellence as O. iand-
scape painter, aud the use Of the whole day for
practice bid fair to make the class highly salts
factory.
The other classes of the art school are hard
awarded ut tho end Of the term for the best
studies from life, the antique, etc. The Satur-
day forenoon indoor sketching class continues
ladies' life class has Just closed. and the even
ing classes will continue but week or two
longer. The lectures on artistic anatomy will
Robertson now has charge of the afternoon
classes on alternate days with MIR. Earle.
ST. LOUIS
Mr.. French, the Secretary of the Academy Of
fluc aElS, Fk.EEILt uluAC u Sl5iL VI IQapEElON u
the kindred institution in St. Louis, and reports
the following information:
The ST. Louis School Of Fine Arts is a depart
direction Of Prof Il. G. Ives. one Of tie most
competent art-cducutors in the country. The
whole Number Of students is $40, Of whom two
departments Of the University, and one-third
exclusively art students, All the branches Or
dinnrly included in school or fi1se-art, draw
ing. painting. modelling, and design, are pro-
vided for, and the school is in such state Of
efficiency Us to compare fusorabIy with any art
school III the country, East or West.
stcrcoscopic slides for illustrating lectures upon
design and history Is particularly good and full.
The present rooms Of the school D., are in the
main University building. and urc 200 feet long,
ull north light" and HI feet wide, with tho use
Of lecture-rnms besides. To this will be added
soon the class.r9on,s in the Grow Museum the
The Crow Museum is built by the muniflcence
of one mau, the Hon. Wayman Crow, and when
Art Department Of Washington University. It
is deyoted exclusively t9 tne-nrt PURPOSES, the
front part Of stone and the wing Of brick, con-
i4ox4o feet, M audience-room FOR SO persons.
and various class-rooms and studios. The wallis
are up far as the caves, and the building will
tie M @ BUILDING, exclusive Of land, viii be about
Sll0.00. 1t is not hre-proof, which Is to be re-
Compared with our own vigorous beginning Of
an art school, the number Of students at St.
Louis, not otherwise connected with the Uni
versity, is about the same,-1D or 1N- The
half higher than here, but our school IS much
nearer sclf-snpporting The teachers employed
number nearly the same and II Is hoped that
ices may be made next year. whereby the staff
OF both will be practically Increased.
The energy aud enthusiasm Of Mr.: Ives. to
WHOM, the fine-Art Development at St. Louis is
largely, II not chiefly due, cannot be too highly
praisel-