Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

oPPOAAbSu d COumlIIee on ART Dy Ine cOInIulI-
tee OF Councils in Allegheny. with power to
add one to their number. Several PROPOSE
lions have been made by Allegheny
gentlemen looking to temporary or
permanent art exhibition in the Carnegie gal
lery The most feasible of these suggestions,
probably, is the one which contemplateS kind
OF perpetual loan exhibition. There seems to
De contradiction of terms here, but that IS
about what the proposition means. Public
SPIRITED art lovers who own paintings are TO be
invited to loan their pictures for q limited
time, one collection to take the place of an
other and thus the loan exhibition is
TO be continued indefinitely. This is
perfectly feasible and an excellent plan. The
Metropolitan Museum OF New York contains
WORKS OF art and vertu every year which are
loaned in this way. Collectors of paintings
can put their works to higher use, and the
pubic spirit heretofore shown in this direction
IS su11lclent guarantee that such a plan can
be successfully carried out in Pittsburg. The
good people have always been and are willing
to share with their nelghbors the pleasure and
lnnuence which flows from good works of art
even though such sharing means some incon-
venience. The educational influence of such an
exhibition is Of the utmost Importance to the two
cities. 1t is simply impossible to compute the
influence such an exhibition will exert. Many
thousands of people WILL during season, care
fully and repeatedly study the works shown,
and if proper care is taken in the selection of
the pictures exhibited, the popular taste will
be cultivated in the only way possible.
Mr.. JACOB BEEsoN, the father of wood en-
craving IL Pittsburg, and a gentleman well
known in art circles, was in the city last week,
alter an absence of a year or more.
THE suggestion was made last week by a CO.
temporary that an old-fashioned cider-press
would be a picturesque feature in the SchenIey
Park. Why not a typical bit of Pennsylvania
farm, including the cider press. 1t is there
now in Its native rusticity and beauty and only
needs the command or Mr. Bigelow 10 preserve
IT. Indeed. the peculiar quality which belongs
10 an old farmhouse and surroundings must
be preserved. Ii cannot be manufactured. In
few years at most the park will everywhere
present wealth of artificial beauty. Care
fully kept walks and trim lawns will gradually
creep over the face of nature 1t would be
simply charming to come, in the midst of cul-
uyated beauty. upon quaint little farm with
all that that name SuggestS-the worm fence,
the hayStack, the swing in the apple tree, the
spring house. A garden fenced in with split
oak pailings could be literally crowded with
Old-fashloned flowers. HollyhocKs. marigolds,
phloX, ladyslippers. sweet peas. poppies, morn
inElOries. and all the other flowers SO dear to a
thrifty farmers wife could be made to bloom
and blaze in the summer sunlight to the delight
of thousands, ave. hundreds of thousands of
city people who seldom get beyond the city
line and to whom the memory of Just such
scenes are very dear The old Snider house in
the curve OF the road is just the place. What |
say you. Mr.. BIgelow, is not this a suggestion |
worthy OF adoption?
AN important portrait of Bismarck, by the |
eminent Munich painter, Wanz Won Leubach, |
is'on exhibition at the International Art Gal
lery, New York.
THE New York Press says: There is water
color exhibition at KeppePs. IN Sixteenth
street. this month which is quite worth a visit
Some of the best of the American artists are
represented, and the only water colors by Will
lam 7. Richards which will be seen this year
are this gallery. W. Hamilton GibSon's |
contributions most satisfactory esnpclallV |
so is "A Connecticut InUervale." 1t almost
seems as if the atmosphere of This landscape
could move and breathe There is a grim
werdness in Childe Hassam's Might" and the
usual appeal TO the poetic if sOmber side of ma
ture in a. H. Wyant's Trees and High
lands" George Smillie has 4 Study of Old |
Willows" Walter SaterIee, some picturesque
figures; Z. I. Chapman, several interesting |
marines; Bruce Crane records the fading tints
of autumn. and ]. Francis Murphy pictures
some exquisite bits of last summers greens
and blues. Special interest attaches to this eX-
hibiton because these are the pictures secured
by the President of the Pittsburg Art Society
for exhibition at one of the society's receptions
in January.
A NOVELTY in the way of an "art" exhibition
is that of collection OF theatrical posters at
the clubhouse of the New York Grolier
Club.
THE special excitement in the New York art
world last week was the presence in that city
Oh the Art committee OF the chicago W OrlQ'S
Fair. The committee appeared quietly and
with the idea of not having Its advent known
TO take look over the art field there with
view Of perfecting arrangements for securing
the best example of paintings owned in that
city for loan exhibit that shall do credit TO
the art patronage and connoisseurship of
America. They don't know out in Chicago
that We now have in PIttsburC the finest. il not
one OF the largest, collections of paintings in
the country. There are several things they do
not know in Chicago.
ARTHUR LCMLEY. who was a war artist for
F. dnE Leslie'S Illustrated has become totally
blind from cataract.
THE New York Water Color Club, recently
organized, opened its first exhibition during the
week in the American Art Galleries, New
York. Many new names appear in the list OF
contributors, and the collection is spoken of as
a very good one. The older organization the
American Water Color Society does not open
its exhibition until February.
Mr.. ID. b. WALKLEY is engaged painting an
interior from a sketch made near Cleveland.
THE Haseltlne collection remained in the
city longer than Mr.. Constans expected it to
remain. A number of canvases were sold
among the number beinp the one nv Rosa Ron |