The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-04-24
Art Notes.

Mr.. Colin Hunter has been elected an associ-
ate of the Royal Academy.
Rosetti's superbly colored picture, "Fazio's
Mistress" is one of the chief figure paintings
at the Glasgow Institute.
Mr.. Joseph e. Temple will succeed Mr..
Fairman Rogers as director Of the Pennsylya-
mia Academy of Fine Arts.
In the second gallery of the Royal Academy
are two landscapes by Rnbens. a Farm at
Laeken," and "Atalanta an d Meliager.n The
latter is said to be magnificent.
Two Boston gentlemen are making collec.
tions of American pictures, induced thereto by
Mr.. Thomas B. Clarke's enterprise in that di.
rection.
Mr.. Walter McEwan recently opened in
about one hundred canvases, chiefly composed
OF interiors and landscapes that he painted in
Holland.
Mr.. james ID. Gill, an art leader in Spring
held, Mass, is now giving his seventeenth ex-
hibition of pictures by New York artists. The
sales OF six previous exhibitions have amount
ed to 100000
Ruger Donoho, young Washington artist,
now IN Paris, has on exhibition at the Corco-
ran Art Gallery, landscape painting. which
was exhibited at Paris and Munich, and pro-
nounceu by the critics to be one of the best in
the American collections.
The Studio appeals to every artist in the
land, "who believes in the abolition of the
protective tariff" to lose no time in stating his
views, by letter or petition, to Congress. as
some action is soon to be taken on the Bel
mont bill.
An Italian Renaissance room in one of the
New York houses is to have a ceiling formed
OF large paintings by Mr.. E. II. Blashfeld The
centre piece is an allegory of morning, the
side pieces, "The Genius of Happiness Bestow-
ing Gifts" and "The Genius of Protection
Banishipg Evil Dreams
Early in April, Mr.. George Inness, who
stands in the foremost rank of American land
scape painters, will exhibit a collection OF
about forty paintings at the American Art
Galleries in New York. Among these will be
the famous Niagara that has excited SO much
OOrID10rt.
A 'Gallery of Old Masters is being design.
ed for the Century Magazine by Mr.. T. Cole,
the American engrayer, whose plan is to COPY
directly from the picture aud transfer the orig
lnal to the block by the use of the graver, a
photograph thrown upon the wood being en-
ployed to assist in the outlines.
From April 18th to June 18th, Paris will en-
JOY an exhibition, in the gallery of the Rue de
Sea-, of the select works of MISSIONER. All
the great European collectors have promised
to lend their treasures, and ola Rixe'' will be
contributed by Queen Victoria. Two statu-
cites, modelled in wax by Msissonier, Punch
and MousqaetGS"e, will also be on exhibition.
Bedarieux, the native town of the late ar
fist, Cot, is about to erect monument to his
memory. The government has purchased his
picture called "Mireille," for the Lucent ourg
collection. "Spring-time," one of his best re-
membered pictures, was cbarmingly engraved
for "The Aldine," which was, in its day, the
best art journal published in the country.
The landscapes exhibited BY the New York
Color Society are said to be f'lamentably lack
ing in composition and harmony of parts" al
though considerable care has been bestowed
on the technical qualities of drawing, Among
those most noticeable as exceptions are the
"Studio Window" by Mr.. Homer Martin, and
7" A Coast Meadow" by Mr.. j. Francis MUIR
ply. The Water Color Society opens its doors
on Sunday afternoons, and very circumspect
and orderly array OF people, chiefly belonging
to the middle classes. attend the exhibition.