Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-19
NEWS FROM ART CIRCLES.

Murat Halstead thinks that there is q
limit to importing Egyptian antiquities,
| and it would be wiser not to bring over the
| Pyramids.
Granite for the tomb of Zachariah
Chandler, and also for statue of Stone.
wall Jackson, is being cut at the Hallowell
granite works in Maine.
Miss Gardner, the pupil of Bouguereau,
whose pictures have been reproduced in the
! Portfolio, has sent to Boston her priscilla"
and Returning Home"
The Joan of Arc" by that clever young
Partisan painter, Bastien lie Page, will form
an interesting feature of the coming ex.
hibition of the Society of American Paint
ers.
The portrait of Mrs. Hayes, by Hunting
ton, shows the amiable wife of the Presi-
dent standing near q drinking fountain
She wears cameo medallion of the Presi
dent.
In Memorial Hall at Harvard the latest
ornament Is stained glass window in
memory Of Rear Admiral Charles II. Da.
Wis, of the Glass of 80. On one side is
Columbus, on the other Admiral Blake of
the British Navy.
The paintings in Boston from the San
Donate sale comprise g Interior of Butch
er's Shop" by David Teniers, and ''The
Usurer," by Gabriel Metsu It appears
that the collection has not yet been def
nitely acquired by the Museum.
a romantic story is told of Hiram Pow
ers that in bis early boyhood he had
dream of a white woman standing on the
other side of dark, swift river whom he
wished to reach, but could not. This dream
haunted him until he began to model in
clay. He considered it a prophetic intima-
ton that he was destined for sculptor.
Mrs. Oakley describes Washington AL
ston in 1881 as poetic in appearance. 81
think in wearing a green coat he showed
his taste IN the color most becoming his
clear, pale skin, and white hair. He was
very attractive, and his powers of story
telling, especially of telling ghost stories,
were wonderful. 1t was said that he be-
lieved in ghosts, and one is inclined to be-
lieys SO from his impressive relation. He
was very quiet at dinner, and his voice at
all times was low and sweet"
At Montreal they are making ready to
destroy one more of the buildings which
have history and keep the city still little
different from ten thousand others. This
is the residence of the early Governors,
built in I704, and known originally as the
Chateau de Ramezay. In 1925 it was sold
TO the India Company, which used it as a
trading post In l775 Brigadier. General
Wooster, OF Montgomery's army, estab-
lished in it his headquarters. Benedict
Arnold was there the following year, and
entertained, among others, Benjamin
Franklin. It stands almost in the center
of the city, opposite the new City Hall,
which is monument of architectural plati-
tude costing half a million of dollars.
L'Art should at once publish an article on
this building under the department called
90 Vandalisme."
The designs accepted for the new build
ing of the Boston Art Club are by W. r.
Emerson. The work of Mr.. Emerson,
says the Boston Herald, as well as that of
Richardson, McKim and several other lead
ing architects, is strongly imbued with
medieval favor, and the present design
is in form, on the whole, more Roman.
esque than the neoclassic " renaissance
of the Queen Anne. There is considerable
resemblance to the ancient architecture
OF the Rhine, for example, particularly
in the curved lines of the helmet roof
of the tower, and of the dormers. There
is picturesque, but not disorderly, ire
gularity in the distribution of windows.
The material will be of brick, the stone
trimmings of harmonious hue, and it is
designed to use carved brick-work freely
in the ornamentation. The most serious
objection made to the plans comes from the
artist members, who complain of the lack
of sufficient gallery space, which, it is said,
is really not so great as that in the pres
emit clubhouse.