Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-03
ART NOTES.

John Rogers, the sculptor, has completed
full-length figure of John Eliot, the In
dian apostle.
A German sculptor accompanied Edison
over to America in order to complete on
the steamer the sittings which the inventor
had not had time to give him in Heidel-
berg.
The beautiful Queen Margherita of Italy
has ordered portrait of herself as pres
ent to the German Empress. 1t will be
painted by Professor Cesare Talmone of
Milan.
Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt, who has been
painting portrait of denry james, will
return to this county early next month to
spend part of the winter with her parents
in Philadelphia She received an honora-
bic mention at the Paris Exposition, the
highest reward paid to a woman for oil
painting.
1t will be remembered that Potter Palm
er offered one prize of $500 for the best fig
ure painting, and $500 for the best land
scape contributed by Americans to the ex-
position now open in Chicago. The figure
prize is won by Carl Melchers with "Ves-
pers," and landscape by D. w. Tryon with
"Rising Moon, Autumn"
A young German student of Assyriology
has been experimenting with soft tiles and
STYLUS. and concludes that the Assyrians
wrote their cuneiform lines with cube
shaped instrument having a pointed end,
which was made of wood, not metal. He
processes to find it very easy to write cune-
form as rapidly as German with such
stylus.
The Norwegian Art Association held re-
Gently an exhibition of paintings by artists
of Norway and Denmark, in Minneapolis.
The association agreed TO purchase works
for $1,000 from the Norwegian contingent,
and others will be bought by private pur-
chasers. No Danes are among the elect.
The association has not covered its ex-
penses, the deficit being $4,000 or more.
A very important exhibition opened
lately in Philadelphia at Memorial Hall.
1t shows the advances made in the United
States within the last ten years in pottery,
porcelain, tiles and stained glass for win
dows. 1t will acquaint Americans with
the names of artists and firms who ap-
proach and sometimes surpass very famous
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specialties.
George Ropes, architect of the State
Capitol at Topeka, Kansas, advertises for
two designs for sculptures to fill two pedi-
ments, and one for statue to surmount
the dome. With them are to so sealed
proposals for the execution of the sculpt-
ures, to be addressed before November e,
1889, to the Secretary of the Board of State
House Commissioners in that city. Mr..
Ropes will furnish circular containing
conditions and instructions.
According to the Chicago Evening Jour
nal an artist cannot stop to examine long
painting of the nude in gallery of that
city without being made uncomfortable by
indignant glaaces "the remarks of people
near him turn him aside after hasty sur
vey." The conclusion the journal draws
is this: the nude in art should be excluded
from street windows and miscellaneous
gatherings in art galleries and confined to
places "where artists alone may gather,
discuss and admire" As this would be
merely to encourage prurient prudery,
would it not be better to accustom the pub
lie to the nude in art by all practicable
means until the people become ashamed of
such vulgar childishness?