Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-07
ART NOTES.

Paintings by Humphrey Moore, E. L.
Weeks, Lionel Walden and other Ameri-
can artists living in Paris and London
have been sent to the exposition at Min
neapolis. A large number of pictures by
Frenchmen will be shown.
Designs for an iron tower l, 400 feet high
are shown in the current number OF the
Engineering and Building Record They
are by Edward S. Shaw, of Boston, and
from one of the sets of designs in compe-
tition for the great tower proposed for
London.
The fair which is to be held at Kansas
City will have an art loan exhibition as
one of its many attractions. Missouri and
Kansas are Jointly interested in this fair.
Those who wish to send works of art
should apply to Colonel I. B. Bullene,
Chairman Of the Executive Committee.
The town of Concord will present to the
new cruiser Concord bronze reduction Of
the minute Man of 1775' by French,
which stands near the bridge, in memory
of the skirmish at Lexington. Apropos of
this the Boston Herald suggests that the
city present to the cruiser Boston statu-
ette group recalling some locally famous
occurrence like the "tea party" IN addition
to the set of colors already presented.
A life-size portrait in oil of Goethe is
said to have been discovered among the
effects left by his musical friend Zeller.
German papers report that 1t was painted
in 1910, when the poet was 6O years OF
age, by the ill-fated artist Gerhard Won
Kugelgen, who was murdered at Dresden
in 1920. There must be some error in the
dates. since Goethe was in 1910 in his
sixty.second year. A similar portrait is in
possession of Professor Kurschner, of
Stuttgart.
Concerning the replica of Story's statue
of George Peabody in London, which has
been set up in front OF the Peabody lnsti-
tute at Baltimore, correspondent OF the
american Architect says: at is colossal, but
as portrait almost Photographic in the
representation of minute details of dress
and other attributes-a forcible example of
the difficulty of producing artistic or pleas
ing results in attempting to deal with such
a model as the intelligent and successful
commercial gentleman of the nineteenth
century in his ordinary business costume,
seated in his office chair on a public square,
with his benevolent, barred head exposed
to whatever else besides blessings the i'm
partial skies may see fit to send upon it,
A fountain designed by Olin L. Warner
is to be added to the works of art which
now decorate Union Square, New York.
1t will stand on the curb at the northeast
corner of the square, over against the
Everett House, and will afford watering
trough for horses The fountain is gift
from Miss Shepard, lady who takes the
greatest interest in domestic animals.
While this fountain is in the making, why
not arrange place for giving city dogs
bath? All the broad fountains in the city
are so surrounded by flower beds and filled
with aquatic plants that dogs are warned
off. The North and East rivers are hard
to reach, and at few points can floats be
found where dogs can be sent i-to the
water. The overflow from the trough used
to water horses might be caught in tank
flush with the street, where little dogs and
big might have a wash-down, if not
swim. Here is chance for kind-hearted
lover of animals.