Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-05-28
ART NOTES.

TIE Fine Arts Academy OF Buffalo have
leased new building for the better exposi-
ton OF their statues. paintings, engrayings, ami
brio -orac.
Mr.. II. L. Hillyer, who for a long time was
secretary OF the Washington Art Club and
always one OF It's earnest and active working
members, leaves Washington next week tor
Ms MS new nome Ia Michigan. He takes with
MIN me good wishes OF large circle OF friends
-Mr. Story has nearly completed In his
stuoie IN Rome the MODEL In clay or his pro-
posed statue OF the late Professor Henry 10 be
erected In this city. The figure is clothed IN
the ordinary dress OF the day. the whole being
then covered with the conventional academic
gown. Both the likeness and the eject are said
TO be good.
- Mrs. S. n. Pike, OF New York. announces
that she VIII send to the next Exposition IA
Cincinnati, next september, a picture OF ST.
Cecilia. by Tintoretto, which she intends after
wards TO present 10 the Art Museum OF that
city. Mrs. Pike was formerly resident OF
Cincinnati, and IL was there that most or her
husbands wealth was acquired.
Mrs. Fassett is now at Columbus. where
she is engaged in painting a portrait OF
Gov. Foster. to be placed In the Ohio state
Rouse In that city. When completed this plct-
ure Will not be the only portrait by Mrs
Fassett honored by place In that bull ling. A
portrait OF Chief Justice Waite. painted by her
seSerai years ago, now hangs IN the Ohio Su-
preme Court room. which, as well as the Ex-
ecutive and other state Onices, is located in the
capitol
The Partisan says that American ps-
tronage Of art would be moro beneficial both 60
France and TO America IL 1t were really pa
tronage OF art, instead or patronage OF fash
ionabIe names" This is very true; but there Is
no need OF limiting the application OF the re-
mark TO American patronage. liz would apply
with equal force TO the patronage extended 10
art by France. and by Paris, ITSELF for that
matter. Certain artists are The rage there as
elsewhere.
Since going to Paris, Mr.. Ross Turner has
Concluded that on the whole Venice is a better
field In which to follow his profession than the
French capital. Accordingly, after short stay
at the latter place and brief visit 10 London,
he goes back 70 the fair and fascinating Queen
or the Adrfatic, where he finds most congenial
subjects for his pencil, and where he Will again
spend the summer. His present intention is,
as has already been announced Ia Tue STAR 20
spend the winter in Rome. Beyond tnlt he
has made no plans, but he will probably come
back TO Washington next spring, ana then bs
governed by circumstances as 20 the length or
his stay here.
-Despairing probably Of any action In that
direction by the authorities OF either the state
OF Virginia, which was the great commoner's
birth place, or Kentucky. which was his adopted
home, Mr. John ID. Defrees, OF this city sug-
gests TO the friends OF Henry Clay that they
take measures 10 secure statue OF that popu-
lar statesman, 10 6e placed either in the OLD
Hall OF the Capitol here or In some other sutta-
Die place. Ii Is hardly less discredltable 10 the
nation than surprising that Mr.. Clay has not
already been honored IN this way, ana IL would
81 EN- that there ought 10 be no doubt or trouble
about raising the funds necessary for the pur-
pose II the subject were once fairly presented
10 the public.
According to the art critics OF the New
York papers, the statue of Farragut set up in
that City last Wednesday is by far the finest
thing OF the kind In the United states ana
probably In all the world. 1t is safe TO say,
however. that II the picture or it In Thursdays
Graphic is anything ike correct the judgment
or the public will not endorse This extravagant
estimate. The figure presented there is not
particularly imposing. and is too small for the
base, which looks very much like the interior
OF locomotive round-houSe, upon the walls OF
which bad boys had oeen allowed the unllm-
Tied use OF chalk and charcoal. # is likely
however. that as a work OF art the statue and
its accessories are better than the Graphic Illus
tration, and we sincerely hope they are.
1t Is said now that the explanation given
for the rejection OF MIR. Ernest Parton's pic
lures from the Royal Academy this year is that
they represented American autumnal scenery.
the colors OF which are so vivid that the COM
mittee On admission concluded they were too
highly expressed for nature, and 50 voted 70
refuse them place. Americans who have seen
the paintings Ia question say however, that
they are not exaggerated or untrue in color,
and it Is altogether likely that they are not,
artist TO reproduce from his palette the gor-
geous coloriDg which nature some times puts
upon the hills and fields OF this country. It
would be almost as difficult 10 surpasS the
splsndors OF a sunset On canvas. But these
things the English who have never been away
from their moist and misty island cannot UNDER
stand. They Loyalty Imagine that England Is
all The world, and That what does not look as IL
looks there or what is not done as it is done
there, cannot be right Even nature must be
governed by the Jules they prescribe.