Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-01-27
ART NOTES.

Mr.. Richard N. Brooke has been elected q
member Of the Literary Society, which, under its
rules, includes ten artists in its active member
ship Of forty.
Ross Turner, formerly OF this city, has been
chosen one Of the artists to illustrate Houghton,
Mifflin d Cos new edition of Hawthorne's works.
An etching by him of 1.-THE Old Manse' faces the
title-page of the volume entitled chooses from
an Old Manse."
- The 23d annual exhibition OF the Artists
Fund Society, of New York. opens with q
private view this evening, and will remain open
during next week, at the Kirby Art Galleries,
S45 Broadway, where the usual sale will take
place on the evenings of February 5th and 9Th.
- Miss Catharine L. Wolfe, whose collection of
paintings, II not one Of the very largest in New
York, Is certainly one of the best chosen, has
sustained her well earned reputation for lib
erality by subscribing 81, 500 to the fund for
erecting the BarthOldi statue Of Liberty in the
harbOr OF that city. ;
= Mr.. Walter Paris who has been in New
York for several weeks past, returned here yes
terday with the purpose of locating permanently
in Washington. While not giving up water
color painting entirely, it u.s. we understand,
Mr. Paris intention to devote his attention in
the future mainly to architecture and decOra-
tive art.
The very large number of persons in Wash
fngton who are interested in art, but who were
unfortunately prevented, both by the bad
weather and the limited capacity Of the hall,
from hearing Mr.. Story's lecture on Michael
Angelo last Saturday, will be pleased to learn
that that gentleman has kindly consented. In
compliance with many requests. to repeat
the discourse next Thursday evening MI
StOry's peculiar fitness to deal with this inter
esting subject is so generally understood that 1t
would seem to require nothing more than the
mere announcement of the fact to fill the room
on the occasion referred to.
The people of Rhode Island. and especially
the citizens of Providence, are actively pushing
forward the project of erecting an equestrian
statue of the late General Burnside In that city
Something over $4,000 has been raised 81
pledged for the purpose, but as this sum is not
deemed SUFFICIENT, efforts in that direction are
not to be relaxed. Meantime committee OF
seven, of which the Governor OF the state and
tho Mayor Of the city are er o1icio members
has been appointed to carry out the contem-
the committee seemed to favor private appli-
cation to and negotiations with q few leading
sculptors, rather than the plan Of inviting
models and general competition.
The cause Of art has sustained an frepara-
BILE loss in the death Of Mr.. GustaEe Dore which
occurred in Paris several days ago, as has already
been announced in the foreign dispatches. This
justly celebrated artist first became extensively
known to the people of this country through his
illustrations of Dante's "Inferno," subject
| which gave full play to his weird grotesque ge-
MUS; and from his work as an Illustrator OF
books of various kinds he continued to be chiefly
known here, as few Of his paintings ever came
| to the United States, and those which were
brought over were unfortunately minor in char
acter and generally deficient in color tislikely,
therefore, that he will be chiefly thought of In
America as a draughtsman of rather gloomy
and uncanny imagination. but of tremendous
power This idea falls very far short. however,
of doing him full justice, as those who have had
the opportunity to see his large paintings in
| London and Paris can well testify. Many of
these prove him to have been an absolute
| master, alike in drawing. composition and color.
He also gave promise of obtaining eminence as
| sculptor had his life been spared. As it is, it
is quite safe to. say that man living can fill
his place in the particular lines he followed,
whether ia the quality or the stupendous
amount of work achieved in the comparatively
| short art career of less than thirty years.