Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-01-17
ART NOTES.

SAx& ANo l.
The thirteenth annual exhibition Of the
American Water Color Society VIII open in the
galleries Of the National Academy Of Design, in
New York, on the Cd of February, closing on
the 2sth OF the same month. Both water colorS
and examples in white and black are eligible
Pictures designed for this exhibition may be
sent as above, addressed to the president or
warded SO as to arrive there not later than the
21st inst.
Accepting as true the poets assurance
that
1.-The dearest things lie nearest rs,
and following also the example of many other
eminent artists who often find their best inspir-
alton in familiar everyday scenes, Mr.. Thomas
Moran is at work on a large view of Jersey City
from the basin of the Morris Canal. II promises
to be highly successful work, and viii go to
the National Academy exhibition.
- Rev. j. Leonard Corning, now lecturing in
New York, will deliver a course of Illustrated
lectures on art in this city early in March. They
will be'gfven under the auspices of the Wash
ington Art Club, and, judging from his previous
efforts in the same line here a couple OF years
ago, 1t Is safe to say that they will be both in
teresting and popular.
- The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, in which
New Workers have been taking considerable
Pride OF late, seems to be in a rather bad way
financially, and the prospect now is that things
will be worse with it before they are better. 1t
pay for representative collection of porceiains
recently placed in its rooms. and it is still in
DEBT $4,000 on account OF the famous CeSnola
collection OF antiquities which added SO much
70 its reputation and interest. Desiring to dis
charge these obligations and to provide fund
for other purposes, the directors recently under
TOOK to raise 900 for the permanent benefit
OF the institution, but the effort was total
failure. The trustees have accordingly aband-
oned that plan, and will hereafter make their
appeals for contributions for specific purposes
such, for example, as the endowment OF their
new free Industrial art schools. This state OF
things does not speak very We'll for the nber-
large and wealthy as New York, and it is little
to the credit OF her numerous milliOnaireS that
none of them have so far shown the disposition
to be to that city what MI. Corcoran has been
to Washington.
"A number of his old-time business friends
and neighbors gave complimentary dinner to
Mr.. Max Weyl, at Abners, on Wednesday even
ing. Something over twenty seats were filled,
best style, that feature Of the evening was of
course greatly enjoyed AS for what might be
called the intellectual and good fellowship side
of the occasion, it was all that could be desired
by either entertainers or entertained. The
God-SpeedS were as sincere on the part of the
givers as they were deeply appreciated by the
recipient.
AS is well known to all persons who have
given any attention to the subject the price
which works of art may bring at an auction
sale is no indication whatever of their artistic
merit or intrinsic worth, however accurately it
may mark their market value for the time be-
ing. This fact was forcibly illustrated at sale
OF exceptionally clever paintings which took
place in New York few evenings ago. The
pictures offered were contributed for the benefit
OF the late Charles Rosenberg, painter and art
critic, by well known artists, who appraised
the whole collection as worth not less than
$1,000. Yet when it was sold the gross sum
realized amounted to only $S0O,-a most diSap-
| pointing conclusion, whether the feelings of the
| contributors or those of the beneicarieS be
| considered.
"A son OF Alexander Hamilton is about to
erect granite portrait statue OF his father, to
| be eight feet In height. 1t will represent Ham
| ilton standing with one hand resting on a
| column, and at his feet number of books. 1t is
to stand on a heavy pedestal, and viii be placed
In Trinity Church yard, New York, where Ham,
| iltOn is buried
| One of our exchanges announces 1t as some
thing worthy of note that in the New York par
lorS OF Mrs. Paran Stevens, widow of the late
hotel keeper, '.may be seen $50 900 worth of pic
| tures statuary, bronzes, bric-a-brac and arti-
| cleS of vertu most effectively arranged" This
| is a tOlerably large sum to be thus invested to
| be sure, but it is nothing extraordinary in New
| York. We happen to know one resident OF that
| city, who doesn't aspire to the distinction of
| often get into the papers, either, whose moder-
ate sized parlorS contain pictures worth close to
900, and there are a number of other equally
| quiet and retiring private gentlemen residing
| on and in the neighborhood of Fifth avenue
| whose Iarlor collections are worth nearly as
| much. OF course when it comes to those who
| own galleries the figures go much higher. One
of these collections, belonging to a well known
| banker, is valued at s., $50 900, and one or two
| others represent nearly million.