Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-05
The Art Exhibit.


The spring exhibition of the Western Art
association is to be opened May Is, on the
second floor of the Brown building, on the
southeast corner of Douglas and Sixteenth
streets. An orchestra will eniven the night
of the opening and the closing night, May 20.
The afternoon of the Sunday embraced in
the exposure of the pictures will see the
doors open. The natural light of the rooms
selected will favor the display of the sub
iects to be hung, and the artificial light, in
candescent, will be so placed that the even.
ing view will be full as clear as that of the
day.
The supervising committee is made up of
Clement Chase chairman, w. H. Afford, Dr.
Jonas Mrs. Edwin Davis, Mrs. M. S. Silk
w orth, H. A. Smith, Mrs. DR.. Park H. A.
Collins, Miss E. j. ShulH, and Miss NJ
Butterfeld. Subdivided as follows
Catalogue and printing, Mr.. Chase, Mrs.
Sikworth; premiums and the drawing Gn-
cluding the selection of the judges), MIR.
Smith, Mrs. Park; tickets and advertising,
knight and Mrs. John S. Briggs as assis-
tants; committee on hanging, Mr. Collins,
DIR. Jonas, Miss Shultz, Mrs. Davis and Mrs.
Park. Superintendent, Mr. Garczynski.
The hanging committee will exercise discre-
tion in the reception of pictures, and may be
compelled to reject the poor offerings.
A young gentleman who will be in attend
ance on the gallery will place himself be-
tween intending purchasers and exhibiting
artists and assist exchanges. Another inno-
walton the association has made is the draw
ing of pictures. Half the proceeds from the
sale of season tickets is to be set aside for
the purchase direct from the artists of a
number of the most worthy paintings. At
the close of the exhibition the numbers cor
responding to all the season tickets sold are
to be placed in box and drawn, one Mt
box the numbers of the chosen pictures,
until all have been secured by the holders of
the lucky season tickets. This plan has
been successfully operated in New York
forty years and has been found OF material
assistance to rising young artists whose
pictures have thus found purchasers. The
season ticket entities the holder to six ad-
missions, either at one or different times,
for 81. Single admissions 25 cents.
With regard to the students tickets, it has
been decided simply to leave them with the
principals of the various educational estab-
lishments, from whom those who wish to
visit the exhibition can procure them. The
holder will present the ticket, with fifteen
cents, at the door. This system will remove
from the principals all annoyances OF taking
money and paying 1t over, and will have the
same result. One hundred tickets have been
left at Brownell hall, the same number at the
Convent of Mercy, on South Fourteenth
street, and the same at Creighton college,
and the Sacred Heart. Half the number
have been left at st. GATHERINGS academy,
and at the Parochial school of St. Peters. A
member of the executive committee also left
two hundred of the same class OF tickets at
the Deaf and Dumb asylum and notified
Superintendent James of the readiness of the
association to furnish them in any number to
the public schaols.
Season tickets, giving chance in the pic
ture lottery, will be on sale at the Excelsior
Office to- morrow, and very many will be
placed in the hands of members Of the asso-
citation altar "a lartura N M0n10V
1t is hoped, therefore, that there will be q
full attendance. These tickets will be sold
up to the last possible moment before the
drawing, which will take place on the even
ing Of the Goth inst. They are transferable,
but those who lend them are warned that
the numbers drawing prizes are like checks
iuade payable TO the bearer and the holder
of the ticket not the purchaser can claim and
take away the prize. As the premises where
the exhi bition will be held have only been
leased for q limited period, and will be neces-
sarly vacated AT its close, the association
will act for the holder OF any prize drawing