The Nevada picayune., 1885-09-10
Our Exposition Letter.
rom our special Correspondent

! LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 3, 1885.
 The Art department of the Southern Exposition con- tains. this year, 419 paintings of which fifty are in water color and the remainder in oil. Of the latter, one hundred and fifty are from the American Art Associa- tion's Prize Fund Exhibition, held in New York last April, when the painters of the four pictures con sidered the most worthy by a com mittcc of cOnn0isseurS were award ed prizes of S2 ,500 each. The prize fund of $10,000 required for this purpose, was subscribed by w. II. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry G. MarGuand, Chas. A. Dana. Editor of the New York Sun, w. T. Walters, the Baltimore millionaire, Quincy A. Shaw, of Boston, l.. z. Letter, of Chicago, and other gentlemen whose art ap preciation and patronage are well known.
 The Prize Fund Exhibition was characterized as the finest exhibit
 
 ton of American paintings ever held, and not only has it been bright to Louis vile in it's entirety dnc'uding the s2 ,590 prize pictures) but there have been added to the collection over 250 pictures in ad- d:tion, carefully selected from the studios of the artists by Mir. Chas. N. Kurtz, Editor of National Ac- ademy note 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, ' q large picture of the open sea with the full moon just risen, a sn- perb work by Alexander Harrison, valued at 5000, and one of the prize pictures; The Last Sacra- ment" hy Henry Mosler, another prize picture valued at 5000; "Cns ter's Last Charge" by John Elder, valued at $J, 900; ''The Flaw in the Titlc,' by l. Il. Caliga, a pathetic picture of great interest; "A rough day-Harbor of Honheur," by F. N. Boggs, another plize picture; "Rent Day".a magnificent genre, by Alfred kappes; "Laying away a Brave" a quaint representation Of an Indian burial by George DcFor' est Brush. in which the figures are painted nearly life size; and "Near the Coast" by R. Swain Clifford, the fourth of the prize pictures.
 There are among others, land scapcs by Inness, Wyant, Bristol, Moran, Casilear, Tryon, Dewey, Parton, Murphey, Bliss Baker, Has prouck, Shurtlcff and Minor; Ma rine pictures by Dciass, Rehn, Harry Chase, Brichcr, Norton, W. T. Richards and Silva; Animal pie tures by Dolph, Inness, ir., Tracy, Sword, Howe, James Hart, and Charles Sprague Prarcc, and Fig ure subjects by J. c. Brown, $. J. Guy, Gilbert. .Gaul, Peniold, Blash- field, Wilmarth, Kappes, Bridgman, Weir, Witr, Fredericks and Percy and Leon Moran. "Guinevere' by Fredcricks, is one of the favor- ite pictures with visitors, It rep resents the character from Tenny- sons poem, and is superb work.
 The exhibit of the productions of California made by the Southern Pacific Company occupies over l5- GOO square feet of space in the northeast section of the exposition building, thus filling the largest
 
 space of any display, The rail road company have gone out ot their way to gather and present an exhibit that is a complete eXposl- ton in itself. It would seem that every corner of the great state of California has been ransacked by earnest and active workers in or der to gather these things which will most interest people east of the Rocky Mountains. From the magnitude of the exhibit and the multitude of products it is easy to understand the pride which Cali fornians have in their State.
 It is impossible in a brief letter 10 convey an adequate idea of this display, which is viewed by thou
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