Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-10
AMONG THE ARTISTS.

Mr.. II. 8. STEVENSON is going to Wampum
tomorrow to sketch.
b. b. KITTsoN, young Boston sculptor, is
modelling statue of Admiral Farragut for the
City of Beans.
PITTsBURG artists will take notice that the
hanging of the pictures at the Exposition will
begin in about ten days.
Mr.. A. F. KING returned from Paint Creek
with number of fine studies as the fruit Of q
three-weeks' sketching trip.
Mr.. ]. W. BEATTY was in town for day or
two and left again for Scalp Level, where he
will spend the balance Of the summer.
BRYAN WALL has just returned from Allan
tic City, where he has been recuperating for
the last month. He will leave for Scalp Level
some time next week for work.
MISS HosMER, the talented sculptress, pro-
poses to send a statue of Queen Isabella and
two bronze DOORS on which she is at work in
Rome, to the Worlds Fair in Chicago.
THIS years exhibition at the Royal
Academy. London, enjoys the distinction
of being the worst ever seen. None of the old
men. Sir Frederick Leighton, Millais or Watts,
have sent anything of importance, and the en-
tire exhibit is said to be below the level of even
mediocrity.
THE Borgia galleries have been thrown open
to the public by Pope Leo Kill Aside from
the art treasures which have hitherto been ac-
CeSS1Dl6 only TO q favored IeW, the 1re6cOeS Dy
Piuturicchlo, with which the sumptuous
apartments are decorated, are of the highest
interest to the student of art history.
THE Scribners have sent Robert Blum, A. N.
A., and President of the Society of American
Painters in Pastel to Japan to prepare illustra-
tions for q forthcoming article on japan, BY
Sir Edwin Arnold. Mr.. Blum is delighted with
the picturesque aspect of the country, which
surpasses his most imaginative expectations.
THE College of the Fine Arts connected
with the University of Syracuse has been en-
riched by the gift of the important Wolff
Leavenworth collection of portraits. They are
mostly engravings collected by the late Gem
eral Leavenworth, whose widow presented
them to the university. Among the number
are fine examples OF rare copperplates and
wood engravings by Durer. etchings by Rem
brandt, and other celebrated masters of the
graver.
GREAT artists like Presidents of the United
States often spring from lowly origin. Grotto
was shepherd boy: Rafael, a potter's son; Jan
Steen, publican's first born; Salvador Rosa, a
peasant lad. or modern painters, may be men,
toned Munkaczy, who started in life as a
joiner; Defregger, who plowed his fathers
fields; Mauer cabin boy aboard merchant
vessel, and Anton Won Werner. successfully
house painter, scene painter, and President OF
the Academy of the Fine Arts in Berlin.
THERE is a serious side to the recent intro
duction of garments to veil the statuary of the
Detroit Art Museum. May not the example be
followed by other cities and collections Of
statuary elsewhere turned into aggregations Of
tailors' dummies2 Is the artist to stand quietly
by while bigotry and ignorance are placing the
sacred halls dedicated to the choicest works OF
the artists creative power on level with the
gin mill and the dance hall? 1t is only the low
mind that invests the Venus de Medici In its
proper surroundings with the conditions under
which its pose implies impropriety, and the art
loving public should not be made to sufier
from such narrow-minde dness.