The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-15
THE ART LOAN EXHIBITION.
Several Interesting New Pictures on Hand
Notes of Prominent Works
on Display

The increase in attendance npOn the Art Loan
exhibit is encouraging, aud, as it is to continue
two and half weeks longer, there Is fair pros
pect that 1t will be financially, as it is artis-
tically, success. The musical part of the pro-
gramme is to be continued from evening to even
ing. Last evening Professor Newland, of the
Institution TOR the Blind, was at the piano, with
Miss Culbertson and Miss Harvey, teachers at
that institution, and Charles Hanson and Frank
BallOu, vocalist. Miss Culbertson has a fine
mezzo soprano voice, and Miss Harvey an ex-
cellent contralto. Saturday, as heretofore, Will
be children's day. An invitation has been ex-
tended TO the pupils Of the Deaf and Dumb In
stitution to come in body on that day.
Dear old Rip Van Wrinkle df it must be spelled
out, say Joe Jefferson) couldn't forget ndaD-
apolis. Yesterday a large and beautiful picture,
a landscape came to the Loan Exhibit from
Hohokus, NJ j., which will be placed on exhibit
ton to-day. Mr. Jefferson's reputation as an
artist is somewhat Swallowed by his fame as an
actor, but he Is recognized as among the fore
most of American painters.
,n IWo other pictures were received yesterday.
They came from Minneapolis and were painted
by l.. G. Walden. son of Rev. Treadwell Walden.
whe was formerly a resident of this city. One
OF the pictures IS "a scene on the coast of
Maine," and the other "a Dancing Girl"
A picture in gallery c, of the local loan, No.
36z The Fruit Eaters" after Murillo, receives
resident OF Anderson, but who has been in Mu-
Dlch for the past three years. and who took the
prize medal at the last Royal Academy exhibit
ton. 1t is owned by Mrs. James L. Mitchell
Mr. Richards writes to a friend here tMr. j. w
Riley that he Is now at ROthenburg, on the
Tauber, q short distance from Munich, He calls
the place, by reason of it's quaint and ancient
features, San artists paradise" and says "In ro-
mantle interest it is perhaps the most interest
ing of all cities of the middle age The old city
wall is in state of perfect preservation, ana as
defiant in appearance as when centuries ago
mailed knights passed in and out her gates. the
wall is solid stone masonry several feet thick.
and from twenty TO thirty feet high with towers
and bastiOns stationed at intervals The houses
in the town all of solid stone. many
picture, In city built with such an air Of
solldlty and endurance, where once lived $4,000
or 10000 souls, are now only four or five
thousand people, The walls are blackened by
centuries of rain and shine the people sit in the
street here and there before their doors and Cos
sip, as in village. But will not try to give
any description of this beautiful old city, TO
which nearly every artist who can makes pill
grimage. l have grown to love my work since
coming to Munich as never knew before, and
my greatest pleasure now is my daily toll and
study"
In the local loan of the exhibit are number of
pictures that are exceedingly good and rank
with many of the best in the foreign loan. One
Of these is after the Shower" by Thomas
Moran, owned by Rev. Ross Houghton; another
No. 324. IS the Lake in the Wilder
ness" by Geo. H Smile, owned by Mrs. NJ. +.
Ritzinger. DR.. CASTOR ow Ms No. 354 "Loch Ka-
number Of pictures from the hand of the late
W. W. Woodward attract great attention. There
are two ivory portraits. owned by Miss Bright,
that are worth looking at not only tor their art
istic excellence but as specimens of an art now
rarely practiced, the portrait painter ivory
having lost his occupation by reason of the ad-
vent of the photographer There is finer
piece of crayOn work than the portrait OF the
late Bishop Talbot, by Mary Cowau, of Green
wich, n. Y. The portrait is owned by Miss Nor
rison, Of this city, and was taken when the
Bishop was in his full vigOr, and as such is
peasant for his friends to look upon
1t may be interesting to those VINO look unon
the pictures with view to purohase--all the
pictures of the foreign lean, and many. of those
of the local foan are for sale-that of those from
the Chicago, Milwaukee and other exhibits
many are now offered at 80 per cent. less than
the prices asked for them at those places.
One of the best features of the exhibit is the
etchings. nearly all of which from the best
artists. The lts5 of engTavinEs is not extensive,
but many Of them originals, and very old
and rare, they are highly pleasing TO connois-
seurs
"a View on the Humboldt River, in the Far
West" Is TO be seen at the art eXhiht. This won
derful landscape is by Jervis MclEntee, painter
famous for the melancholy and fascinating sad
ness of his pictures His Humboldt river view
expresses lmmensty, the des0late widness of
vast plains, endless grass, immeasurable sky,
wind, clouds, sunshine, and all the panorama of
the wild West Indians horseback give one
touch OF life and gay color to the bouudess soil
tude of this picture.