Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-27
In the Art World.

RENoUF's immense picture of the Brooklyn
bridge has been transferred to the Art Institute,
Chicago, where it covers q wall in the main
gallery.
SLIGHTLY tinted green grass is introduced
by decorators in certain rooms having abundant
light, as grateful to the sight and having SUBJ
DUNG influence on the decoration.
POPULAR subscriptions to q monument in
honor of Alexander H. Stephens are solicited
in Georgia. He Is to have bronze statue rep
resenting him in later life as he appeared in
Congress,
A STATUE that once set the world of art
a-talking has reached the auction room. 1t is
the tinted Venus executed by Gibson, at Rome,
in 1852, for Mr.. r. P. Preston, and il was the
first piece of sculpture upon which the expert
ment of coloring was made in our time.
QUEEN VICTORIA has a liking for employing
foreign artists to paint the portraits she wants,
and she causes keen pang to English painters
whenever she passes over native talent in this
way. They are suffering now because she has
invited Herr Swoboda, the Austrian artist, and
his sister to Windsor Castle to execute COM
mission.
IT is understood that the Trustees of the
British Museum have made arrangements for
the purchase of the Carlisle collection of en-
graved gems, which for about $50 years have
been among the most precious ornaments OF
Castle Howard. The collection, mainly formed
by the fourth Earl of Carlisle, consists chiefly
of Roman and reco-Roman relics.
MISS THEo ALICE RUGGLEs, a New England
sculptress, received honorable mention for her
work at the Salon, it being the only instance
where the honor has been conferred upon lady
for sculpture. Miss Rugges also received
honorable mention at the recent International
Exhibition in Paris. For young lady still in
her teens, this is a remarkable record.
In picture at present on view at the Roya
Academy, London, Mr.. Wylie has endeavored
to represent the bottom of the ocean. The
artist, 1t is understood, has been frequently
down in a diving bell to make sketches for his
painting was intended to be a faithful and
scientific, as well an artistic representation
of regions not seen by many.
"THE studio where Hiram Powers worked SO
long remains just as he left it, correspondent
writes from Florence. "Some years before his
death called there, and he showed me his
artistic children-his Eve his Greek Slave
and other. statues, and a great company of
busts. Now I find his son, Nicholas Powers,
doing the like good work in the same place. In
looking at the fathers statues could trace the
growth Of his art. When Thorwaldsen visited
him he inspected his Eve closely, and Powers
apologized for it, as his fret work. Thorwald-
sen said, 4 know good sculptors who would be
proud to call it their last In a neighboring
studio the Boston sculptor Ball is doing good
work, as also his son-in-law, Cooper, of Nor
folk. va. Adjacent studios are also occupied
by William Green Turner, Of Newport, Il. l.,
and Larkin Mead, both doing excellent work.
The center of Meads studio is occupied by a
colossal allegory Of the Mississippi. The mar
Bile block weighed "A tons, and smashed the
freight car that first attempted to convey it,
The huge long-bearded, Neptune-like Father
of Waters has water source leaping beside
b;,,, and decorations of Indian corn and other
products of his fertilization, including an allI-
gator under his foot. But fundamentally he
rests. like the Hindoo's earth. on turtle
Mead has in his studio gathering dust four
panels in relief representing the life of Wash
fnyton They have not reached the national
monument, but they caused his election as one
of the faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in
Florence"