Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-06
ART NOTES.

When he has finished his art studies in
Paris, Prince Eugene of Sweden is going
back to Stockholm to spend his life in a
studio.
DIR. Jennie McCowen, of Davenport,
Iowa, has been elected "fellow" of the
Society of Sciences, Letters and Art of
London.
The portrait recently placed on the walls
of the Boston Medical Library represents
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, seated in an
easy armchair, writing at a desk.
The death Is announced of John Gregory
Grace, well-known English decorator,
and of Ferdinand Bellerman, German
landscape painter of considerable note.
A statue of the late Louisa NJ. Alcott is
to be modelled the coming winter by Frank
Z. Elwell, Concord sculptor, an intimate
friend of the authoress. There is a rumor
that the statue may be placed in the Free
Public Library of Concord.
Theodore Kamensky, the Russian sculp-
tor, who was exiled from Russia by the
Gar in 1874, is now professor at the
American Art School in New York City.
His ofGnse consisted in putting the name
Liberty" on toy locomotive in one of his
groups.
Rodin, the sculptor, has finished his
statue of Bastien-Lepage, and the monu-
ment will be unveiled this month near
Damvillers, out of sight of the village
overlooking the fields. The painter wears
his studio blouse and looks into the dis
tance, while his brush touches his palette.
The sculptor gives his labor for notnhig,
and the expense of the statue has been
borne by admirers in France and other
countries.
Professor Putnam, of Harvard, has writ
ten series of papers for the Century on
Prehistoric America, in which he will
give the result of his explorations of caves,
burial places, village sites, etc. A detailed
account of the strange earthwork known as
the Serpent Mound of Adams county, Ohio,
will be printed, and the illustrations of
the papers will include number of terra
Gotta figures OF men and women in style
of modelling heretofore unknown in Amer
lean prehistoric art.
Sir Frederick Leighton is sculptor of
some renown, and might at least expect
that an architect of New South Wales
who could receive an order for the Post
office at Sydney would know of his
Wrestler Strangling Python" But it
appears that Mr.. Barnet, the architect of
the Florentine structure, with tall square
tower in stages, which is the pride of that
city, rebuked Sir Frederick for CRITICS.
ing certain realistic sculptures by an
Italian, which Mr. Barnet caused to be
placed on the facade, by remarking that
the President of the Royal Academy
might be an authority on pictorial art,
but he knew nothing of sculpture.
AT the Villa Patrizi in Rome, during
the construction of new road, the statue
of woman, larger than life and splendidIy
preserved, has just been discovered. 1t is
of the decorative marble, and two meters
ten centimeters high. 1t much resembles
the figure of Pudicitia 1t is clothed in
tunic and double mantle, one of which
enfolds the person, the other wells the
head. 1t has shoes on the feet and rests
on the left leg. Immediately after, in the
Pratt di CASTILLO, large fragment of the
statue of woman, almost as high as the
shoulders, was found in digging the founda-
tions of the new Law Courts. 1t is clothed
in a long tunic, over which is an himation
with tassels at the angles.-Ihe AtheRGunl.
The British museum has come into pos
session Of a vase only three inches high,
which is considered the finest example of
the so-called Coripthian ware in the
world. 1t is pear-shaped and has for
mouth lions head with distended Jaws.
The decoration is chiefly in black on a
warm cream paste, with red, olive and pur-
pie touches on the black. Figures in
lively action encircle it in five bands of
unequal depth, divided from each other
by strong lines. Notwithstanding their
minute size, the warriors depicted in
combat on one hand, the horses backed
by boys in race on another and the
hunting scenes on a third are said
by the London Times to be drawn
with genuine dramatic instinct and a
mastery capacity for design. The vase
was given by Alexander Hamilton, Secre-
tary of the Hellenic Society, and will be
illustrated in the journal of that society
and described in paper by Cecil Smith
Doubt is expressed whether it should be
assigned to Corinth at all, the simplicity
of treatment savoring more of Athenian
standards of work.