Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
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certain comic weekly.
The art schools, because Of their life classes
form eddies into which the strahgest characters
that float upon the great of life occasionally
drift For instance, few years ago a quaint
old Spaniard found his way. through the So
clety for the Improvement cf the Poor into
the life class department of the Pittsburg Art
School He was of poetic turn OF mind. and
composed an elaborate poem, dedicated to the
art class ins ructors, MIR. Hetzel and Mr. Beatty,
and following the dedication were verses de-
scrptive of the characteristic qualities of the
various pupils, as seen from the models chair.
Last week the model in the same school was an
old Mexican. He was boy in the City of
Mexico during the Mexican war and remembers
General Scott. He speaks three languages
spanish, French. English. He is an old sailor
and has visited Paris. London Marsellles,
Gibraltar, Barcelona, Naples Alexandria, Bonn
bay. Calcutta. Manila, Capetown, on the Cape
of Good Hope; Melbourne Australia; VAL
paraiso Peru: Constahtinope, Rio de Janero
and many other cities throughout the world.
He says his boyhdod impression was that the
Black Sea was black and the Red Sea red but
he found them i'll color much as other seas,
and still laughs when he thinks of his surprise
upon seeing these waters. A strange old gen.
tletnan, certainly to find his way into Pittsburg.
and but for his presence in the Art School, it
would never be known that he was here.
Mr.. Waltz exhibits this week group of chill
dren portraits.
A GENTLEMAN at the Hotel Schlosser has
brought to this city one OF the most i'm portant,
IL not the most important, of the works of
Peter Paul Rubens. It represents the feast of
Herodes and contains no less than 10 figures,
matchless in composition, expression and brill
fancy of color. The illuminating power of the
painting and the ease and freedom of handling
would give 1t the unnistakable stamp
of genuineness, aside from the ire
futable documents atteSting the same.
Beneath the apparent subject, the portraits of
the master himself, his third wife, Helene
Fourment, at his side. the figure of his first
side of the table, while the other is occupied
by Rafael, Vasari, Tintorretto, Titan and
Palma Vecchio, tells another story which is
the apetheosis of the m1ngling Of Italian and
Flemish art. The painting would be the pearl
of any gallery that could boast of its posses
sion.
The fall exhibition at the Academy of Design
is now open. The jury Of selection, with q
commendable determination to raise the stand
ard of the Academy exhibitions, used its power
of rejection literally and the result is that less
than 400 art works of all kinds are exhibited.
The exhibition Is spoken of as very credta-
Bile one. Prominent among the exhibitors is
Walter Shirlaw, favorabiy known in Pittsburg.
Mr. h. 8. Stevenson is at present busy with
portrait work.
Mr. D. 3. walkley exhibits a new picture
this week. Tho canvas is a small one, and the
principal objects represented are two sheep
facing the spectator, with the light falling
upon them from a window high up in the barn
wall. The management of light is Rembrandt
ish in effect.