Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-28
ART NOTES.

The bronze statue of the late Senator HILL
OF Georgia to be erected in Atlanta, will cost
about $4,000. of which one-half has already
been subscribed.
- Mr.. f. F. Andrews who is chairman of the
committee on the art department of the coming
Garfield Memorial BaZar has been in New York
dnring the week looking after the interests.Of
that special branch of the exhibition which it is
intended shall be made attractive and interest
Ing in the highest degree.
- Mr.. f. III. Miller has been at home for several
days but expects TO go back next week to Bos-
ton. where he still has several orders to execute
He took the opportunity while here to move bis
studio into the new building 915 street, where
a room specially planned and lifted up Tor
his uses. and where ne will be pleased TO see MS
friends when he returns and gets settled Tor the
winter.
- The work of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Moran.
who have been passing the summer in England,
was much admired by Mr.. Ruskin, and he paid
them the substantial compliment OF purchasing
several of their etchings and water colors The
e.chings he particularly admired, and pro-
nounced Mrs. Moran's style in that work as
grand" They both brought home many
sketches and studies of English scenery.
A discovery which has been hailed rs
miniature POmpeii in the center of France has
been made in the neighbOrhOod of Potiers A
buried GaO-Roman town has been found. with
the ruins OF a temple ia yards long by 20 yards
broad. baths, theater. streets and houses.
Sculpture in good preservation iron, bronze
and earthen articles are found. The town is
thought to date from the second century.
A large eagle with wings outspread has
been modelled by Launt Thompson for me-
mortal in the National cemetery at Nashville to
the soldiers of the regular army who fell in the
hat 10 of 1nn Of hot
battle pay for the work. which is said to be
very fine Mr.. Thompson, it will be remenl-
bered. is the artist who executed the statue of
Gen. Scott which stands i'm the grounds of the
Soldiers Home, near this city.
Some idea of the interest taken by the
public in the fall exhibition, now open at the
Academy of Design in New York, as well as of
the merit of the pictures shown. may be given by
mention of the fact that on private view day.
before the rooms were open to the public. thirty
canvases were sold aggregating nearly s., 900.
This result must be very encouraging to the ex
hlbiting artists. many of whom had doubts as to
the expediency of q fall show, when it was first
proposed.
The Philadelphia papers speak highly of a
landscape painting contributed to the fall exhi-
bltion of the Academy of Fine Arts now open in
that city. by Gaines r. DOnOho. the talented
young Washington artist now painting near
Paris. whence he sent the picture in question.
The Times speaks of it as not only the biggest
landscape in the room. but ''in some respects,
the most satisfactOry-a beech wood. with gray
fchen-cOvered rocks showing through the bare
tree trunks and above the leaf-cOvered ground.
1t Is like a bit Of real woods seen out of WIN
dow"
An exhibition of paintings by Mr.. Alma
TadeIna is to be opened at the GrosvenOr Gal
lery, in London, in December. At least three of
Mr.. Tademas best and best known works are
owned in this country, and an effort will be
made to secure them for the exhibition. They
are Down to the River" in the possession of
Mr. W. VI. Vanderbilt; ''Sappho." of which Mr..
W. I. Walters. of Baltimore. is the owner and
the ''Spring Festival" belonging to Messrs
knoedler Il Co, of New York. The first named
two would add considerably to the interest and
quality of the exhibition.
A new landscape by Boris. exhibited in the
window of Fischer's book store on 18th street.
attracts much and well-deseryed attention 1t
represents pretty park scene. with lakelet in
the foreground hemmed in by rich foliage while
beyond a long roadway furnishes an opportunity
to show fine effects of perspective and distances
the vista being finally closed by noble archi-
tectural group. 1t is painted in more cheerful
'key than the majority of Mr.. Boris landscapes
and in color as well as in lights and shadows it
shows decided improvement on many of his
pictures heretofore exhibited here.
- The commission to select model for the
statue of President Garfield which the state of
Ohio proposes to place in the hall OF statuary in
the national Capitol met in Columbus on We'd
nesday, for that purpose, but were unable to
come to a conclusion. The decision will prob
ably not be made for several weeks yet. and an
effort will be made In the meantime to have the
models examined by Mrs. Garfield. Whether
The choice will be made from those offered or
whether the selection nOStnOnp1 in nrdar tn
give other artists than those represented an
opportunity to compete does not appear.
A bronze statue of the late Hon. Morton
4cMchael was unveiled with suitable ceremo-
MES, in presence of large thrOng in Paramount
Park. Philadelphia. on Thursday. The distin-
guished journalist is represented seated in a
Roman chair, this being placed on a massive
square base of granite eight feet high. The
figure. which Is of heroic size and pronounced
q faithful pOrtrature of its subject is presented
In an easy and graceful attitude, the left hand
holding pair of Eyeglasses. while the right is
partially extended, as if to add emphasis to an
assertion. The statue which is the work of
MI j. H. Mahony. young Irish-American
sculptor. of Philadelphia, was cast at Chicopee
Mass Its cost was $4,000 which sum was
raised by popular subscription.
Mr.. Fisher shows at Barlow's a very inter-
esting portrait of young Midshipman Cabaniss,
who unfortunately lost his life while on duty in
China. He has several other portraits well
under way in his studio in Corcoran Building.
but the picture which attracts most attention
there Is view Of the Natural Bridge of Vir-
ginia- The grand and wonderful features i'm
nature do not as a rule make the best subjects
Tor reproduction on canvas but this painting
promises TO be both faithful transcript of its
subject and thoroughly pleasing work of art.
Mr.. Fisher has many sketches of other scenery
taken III the beautiful ncighborhood of the Nat
ural Bridge. which he hopes to make available
during the winter. and he will probably send
something to the spring exhibition of the New
York Academy of Design.
The Art Interchange prints, In response to
arequest by its editor this pleasant little bit of
autobiography, from the pen of Miss Jessie Nc
DermOtt, Washington young lady, whose pro-
gress has been watched with much interest by
many readers of The STAR:
81 was born at Washington. and have been
able 10 draw more or less ever since can re-
member anything. think the first thing ever
made for illustration for the St. Nicholas
magazine, which was drawing of Little Bo
Peep asleep in the grass. / was quite a little
girl at the time. and cannot remember much
about it, lhave never made anything in color