Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-30
ART NOTES.

ART NOTES.
There is now on exhibition in a London
art gallery new and very vigorous work
by Rosa Bonheur, Scotch Cattle at Rest,
Glencoe
Sir John Millais' picture entitled Cos
sips, little girls taking afternoon tea in
meadow, is not sufficiently advanced for ex-
hibition this season.
1t is now said that Alma .Tadema',
'Women of Amphissa' will be seen at the
Paris Exhibition through the liberality oc
its owner, Mrs Thwaites.
1t is said that at least 1000 pictures
fully worthy of exhibition were rejected
by the Royal Academy this season, because
there was no room to hang them.
Professor Herkomer, 4. R.A, has won
triumph. An art lecturer was needed for
the Yorkshire College, Leeds. and there
We're twenty-sIX candidates for the post
Of these four were seected-two hailing
from kensingtOn, one a FrenChmau. anC
the other pupil of the Herkomer school
W. H. NJ. UUrban, who was unanim-
ousiy elected to the responsible position,
Mr.. ID Urban is only % years old, and his
appointment is quoted as justification or
Professor Herkomer's method of teaching
An exhibition of American decorative
art was opened in the first fortnight in
May, says the PdH Mall Gazette, bv Messrs.
Johnstone, Norman 4 Co., the firm who
carried ont Mr.. Alma-Tameda's wonderful
furniture for Mr.. Marquand of New York.
The art work includes textiles. stained
glass, tiles, faience, wrought iron, leather,
! fret and spiral works and monotvues'
The object of the exhibition is the illustra-
ton of the rapid advancement made of late
| years in the United States in the designing
and production of art work generally
1t is expected that the exhibition o.
| British Humorists in ART at the Boyal
Institute Galleries in London will be ex-
tremely interesting. There will be many
| original drawings Of the earlier caricatur~
! lists that have never been engraved. espsc-
tally examples of female aud landscape
beauty by Rowlandson. The original
drawings by Cruikshank, "Phiz," Barnard
! and Green, illusta ative of Dickens works.
will be there, and particularly fine series
of the works Of Messrs. Tenuiel, Du Mau-
rier, keene, Samboune H. Furniss and
| Sullivan.
At Netulonia, Grosseto, in the ancient
| Etruscan buryIng-place, the remains Of a
corkwood coffin have been found contain
ing four bracelets of gold worked in tila-
| gree, three gold brooches, an amber neck
| lace with nude figures of women and dog
| headed crouching animals of an Egyp-
| tlan type, two chain necklaces of bronze,
brooches in amber, bronze and iron
and vases in fine clay. Bronze horse
| bits with primitive human figures. two
| bells for harness. and fragments OF bronze
vessels were found IN the same spot The
| tomb was surrounded by rude circle oc
| stones.
Chartrain's story of Ambrose Pare tying
up the arteries of an amputated limb du1-
| ing the seige of Metz in 1858, shown in
| the Paris Salon for 1889, is very interest
| ing. 1t has not met with the esteem that
it really merits, and this principally or
| account of the very sober, precise style Of
| its composition. The coloring is good, but
! the general aspect is cold, and the subject
| does not interest the crowd, and in & large
| painting this common detail Is really
necessary. Contrary to rule, there are
several good small pictures in this room.
\ Chevillard is very amusing. 1t repre-
! sentS the same old priest, familiar to the
artist, taking group of his enjants do
| chgW and the SuiSSe in scarlet robe before
the open church door. The pompous atti-
tude and delighted expression of the priest,
| together with the impressive attention and
awe of the children, are admirably por-
trayed.
Fl. J. Thaddeus, who is painting in Mo-
| rocco, says in letter to a friend in Lon
| Il
literally moving panorama-an Oriental
picture gallery. At every corner a new
subject strikes the eye, until ones brain
whirls. so that it sometimes becomes i'm
| possible to concentrate the attention. No
sooner have you commenced a charming
motif than another, still more fascinating,
distracts your eye. Even here Mrs.
Grundy reigns supreme. There is 60 diff
ticulty in getting any Moor to pose, if it is
| done secretly, with no other Mohammedan
present, but before the world he spits at
you, and thanks God and the Prophet that
he is not as those infdel dogs are. Sketch
him in the presence of other Moors and he
| will fly for his life, cursing you energetic
ally for the edifcation of his friends but
in the solitude of your room he cheerlully
sips his coffee and smokes his cigarette as
he submits to the ordeal"
The collection of Claude Mone's works,
now on view in London, has attracted gen.
eral public attention, and has caused
commotion among the critics. A writer
in the Pdl liaH Gazette says: =" In truth,
the spectator will be surprised to hud as
he enters the room how combination of
color can startIe the sight and for mo-
ment appear to blind the eyes. But after
a few moments he will begin to realize
if he keep a respectable distance from the
canvas-how extraordinary an amount OF
truth is contained in these remarkable
works, which are painted in dabs and
lines of violent orange, purple, red, blue
and green. He will confess, after a few
moments examination, that these blotches
not only fall into their places-prov-
ing the consummate knowledge of the
artist who laid them on-but pre-
sent binding sunlight and strong
effects with startling truthfulness
that we may look for in vain elsewhere.
Such are The Pyramid Rock and The
Pines at Juan les Pins but the collection
is fairly representative of Mr.. Monets
work and should be seen. if only to show
exactly the art movement which is at
tracing so much attention in France at
y the present time."