Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-05
SOME ART NOTES.

Inc SouIn henslnSVOn museum mas
opened Turkish room near the Damascus
| room.
The Citizens statue to Garfield at Gin
cinnati has been awarded to the sculptor
Nichaus.
A statue of Columbus for the Place de
| Government Domingo has been ordered
from the French sculptor Guilbert.
The Morton statue at Indianapolis, by
Simmons, has arrived from Rome, where it
was cast, and the pedestal is being fin
| ished. At last accounts the fund lacked
81, 500.
The Duke OF Buccleuch has been care.
fully restoring Melrose Abbey. The nave,
aisles, transepts and choir have been over
hauled and the stone.roof of the nave re.
paired.
The Louvre has acquired number of
| fgurines found at Myrina, which are like
limitations of the Tanagra statuettes. There
is a large one of dancer, and another,
also large, of nude Venus with vase
beside her.
Indianapolis rejoices in Chinese land
scspe painting Of the " Happy Valley"
place ten miles from Hongkong, where
they have race course and cemetery in
happy proximity, both for the use of the
" foreign devils"
None of the paintings which competed
in Philadelphia for the Temple prizes for
historical pictures took the upper awards.
Trego's March to Valley Forge" re-
ceived the silver medal, and the grand
prize So, 900 were not awarded.
Berlin has three of the four known coins
struck by Varus, the Roman General,
whose defeat at the hands of the Germans
forms one of the national springs of po-
etry. The last discovered was struck at
Syria and the maker of the die mispeled
the name.
The Italian Government will buy for
5,000f. the archives of the Palla Strczzi.
family of Florence. Tney comprise more
than 800 psrchments of the thirteenth to
the sixteenth centuries, mostly Papal bulls
and briefs, besides 80 series of papers re-
lating to embassies from Spain.
An effort will be made this winter to in
duce Congress to found at Washington a
national gallery for the exhibition of
works of art from all parts of tle United
States. This would b a nice field for Jobs.
Why not make the barb arians who raised
the tariff on works of art the officers of
such an institution.
a church at MILFORD, in Hertfordshire,
has in the roof OF the chancel ninety.six
panels filled with separate embIematic de-
signs, on the fiat portion of the roof six
panels filled with highly finished pictures,
and over the choir seats the symbols of the
twelve Apostles. The paintings are recent
work by Miss Hadsley Gosselin.
The latest works of Mrs. Phinney, the
sculptress, who died recently at Naples,
were portraits in relief OF the late Gov.
Denison, of Ohio (bronZe), and of Colonel
l. NJ Potter, of Providence bust of
Garfield and a marble Cupid sharpening
his arrow. She also competed for the
Morton statue Of Indianapolis, awarded 20
Franklin Simmons.
One Of W. NJ. Hunts unfinished pictures
has been serving as coil Ateral" on a
loan from Boston bank. A frame dealer
sold it as security for bill for picture
frames ordered by the artist Hebrew
inancier bought it for 5000, and adding
four ctter pictures which he had bought at
$50 apiece, gave the five to the Pacific
Bank as security for 81, 100 borrowed.
Whereupon the bank broke and the five
"eie sOIu az puDllC duCtlUH IUT GOOu.
a friend OF the late artist writes to the
papers As Mr. SLOWS paintings are OF
the most refined quality, so were the char
acteristics of the man. In this respect l
never saw his equal. 1t impressed itself
at once on all who met HIM. In health he
was OF fine figure and handsome face, gen.
tie manners, but by no means e6eminate.
He was free and outspoken in his opin-
ions; and showed in his sickness the great
est patience and highest courage, dying
without having through two years of pain
full sickness, uttered single murmur or
complaint at his hard lot
William Morris, of London, the poet
and decorator, having delivered certain
lectures full Of extreme statements in favor
socialism, has suffered greatly from the
cruel logic of some OF his compatriots. 1t
appears that he is capitalist and employer
Of labor GU large scale. When asked to
prove the genulneness OF his theories by
dividing his large fortune among his work
men he answers that for him to do so alone
would be of no avail. Ths answer to
which is that every cause must have it's
martyrs before it can prevail, and that he
now has an opportunity by practioing what |
he breaches to inaugurate 5le millennium.