The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-09-26

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crn Exposition contains, this year,
40 paintings, of which fifty are in
water-colors and the remainder in
oil. Of the latter, $50 are from
the American Art Associations
Prize Fund Exhibition, held in
New York last April, when the
painters of the four pictures con-
sidcred the most worthy by COM
mittcc ofconnoisseurs were awarded
prizes Of $500 each. The prize
fund of $4,000 required for this
purpose was subscribed by VIM.
H. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Wander
bilt, Henry G. Marquand, Charles
A. Dana, editor of the New York
Sun, w. T. Walters, the Baltimore
millionaire, Quincy A. Shaw of Bos-
ton, l.. z. Letter of Chicago, and
other gentlemen whose art appre-
citation and patronage arc well
known.
The Prize Fund Exhibition was
characterized as the finest exhibi-
ton of American paintings ever
held, and not only has it been
brought to Louisville in its entirety
(including the four $500 prize
pictures), but there have been
added to the collection over $50
pictures in addition, carefully
selected from the studios of
the artists by Mr.. Charles M.
Kurtz, editor of the National
Academy Notes and Director of the
Exposition Art Department. These
added pictures are quite equal in
merit to the Prize Fund Pictures.
Among the principal paintings
in the exhibition are "Twilight," a
large picture of the open sea with
the full moon just risen, a superb
work by Alexander Harrison, val
ucd at $1,000, and one of the prize
pictures; "Thc Last Sacrament"
by Henry Mosler, another prize
picture, valued at $3,OOO;" Clusters
Last Charge" by John Elder, val
ued at $4,000; "The Flaw in the
Title" by l. II. Caliga, a pathetic
picture of great interest; A Rough
Day-Harbor of Honfleur," by +.
NJ. Boggs, another prize picture /;
" Rent Day." magnificent genre,
by Alfred Kappes; Laying Away
a Brave" a quaint representation
of an Indian burial, by George
DeFrost Bush, in which the figures
are painted nearly life-sizc; and
"Near the Coast" by r. Swain
Clifford, the fourth Of the prize
pictures.
From the magnitude of the
exhibit and the multitude of prod
ucts it is easy to understand the
pride which Californians have in
their State.
The manager of the display, Mr.
Charles b. Turrill, has provided a
complete Kindergarten on a grand
scale. 1t is something more than
an exhibit is a complete sys-
tenn of general education, where
the student may see not only the
crude product and the complete
article made from it, but can also
follow by lines of samples the
entire progress of manufacture, OF
manipulation. Thus we are shown
samples of the magnificent fir trees
of the Sierra Madre Mountains
and with them samples showing
the processes of making paper from
that wood as well as newspapers
printed thereon. Another tree, the
tucca draconis, is shown in the
same manner. The great feature
of. the timber section of the exhibit
is a cross-section of one of the
mammoth trees of California. This
slice, eighteen feet in diameter
stands on edge, and can be seer
from a great distance. TWAS taken
from the fallen trunk of the first
tree of the species discovered, at a
height of nincty-six feet from the
base. Besides this, there are sec.
tons of the sugar pine and yellow
pine of the Sierra Nevada. These
sections are nearly seven feet in
diameter. "A large exhibit is made
of the redwood of California. One
plank six feet three inches wide