Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-09
NOTES ABOUT ART,

AsMALL painting by Rudolph Oehmler, Jr..
is shown at Elchbaum,s The subject is a scene
on Paint creek, Scalp Level
DURING the fore part of the week the center
of attraction for all art lovers Of the two cities
will be the grand loan exhibition at the
galleries Of the Carnegie Library building In
Allegheny.
The Colonel ]. A. Price prize for the best
treatment in design of the maize or Indian corn
has been awarded to Mr.. Emery Roth, of Chi
cago, for his design for Q drawing room in
which this characteristic American plant mas
been made to serve as q motive for almost
every feature.
Mr.. A. r. KING's latest stiII-life, paper of
oranges lying open upon q table and relieved
against dark blue plush curtain, may be seen
at GIllespie's. This is perhaps Mr.. Kings first
effort In painting the rough textures of the
surface OF oranges; at any rate ii Is not pro-
nounced success. 1t Is true there are some
pleasing features about the work such as are
characteristic Of the artists style Of handling
his usual standard Of merit In striking con-
trast TO the above mentioned picture 10 the
painting of pan Of rosy red apples, executed
by the same artist. In this picture the fruit has
been handled in q manner approaching perfec-
tion. and IL is wonderfully true to nature in its
coloring
THE walls of the Gillespie gallery are COM
pletely covered with fine paintings by we'll
known foreign artists, mention Of which has
already been made in THE DISPATCH. Many
Of the paintings are by men of the very highest
standing in the art world as will be at once ap-
parent upon the mention of such names as
Henner, Daubigny, Berne-Bellecour Casanova,
Perez, Bougereau, Scalbert J. L Brown, Louis
Jiminez, Leo Hermann, E Isabey, Jacquet,
Carol Diaz and others famous in various
branches of art. "The Baptism" by Louis AL
varez, is a work in which the large number of
figures shown are all drawn with wonder
full accuracy and careful elaboration Of detail
one OF the strongest and finest in the collection.
fine painting by Humborg shows three stout
friars enjoying q plentiful repast, while g
fourth is seen to have met with
a serious mishap, for in bringing
an additional supply Of viands to the table he
has stumbled at the foot of the stairs and fallen
nat upon his face, scattering the eatables in
much to the disgust of one of the monks at the
table who openly manifests his dIspleasure,
Whlle MS two companions appear to be chiefly
Impressed with the humorous aspect of the sit
uation. There are couple of characteristic ex-
amples OF work by Berne-Bellecour, and a ane
decora1Ve painting of several young women by
Jacquet "Convalescing," by Toby Rosenthai,
Is hne work, but by no means one Of that
artsrs best efforts. There is also a small
painting by Benjamin Constant, the famous
trench artist, who recently visited this coun-
uy- and who spoke in high terms Of the progress
we nave made from an artistic standpoint.
dhoee VINO admire such examples of Carot as
nho Inen way 20 thls locality, may feast their
eyes on large work by that prolific artist The
gentleman who has brought these paintings to
Pitsburg, Mr.. Bleiman, fully appreciates the
demand for nrst-class paintings here and is
almost invariably successful IN finding deiighted
patrons