The record-union., 1891-02-01

Low, Metcalf, Mobray, Platt, Smediey,
/ A. ST. Gaudens, Thayer, Z. c. Tiffany,
Tryon, Van Boskerck, Walker, j. Alden
Weir and Wiles. In this case prior exhi-
bition in Brooklyn is no bar. Works will
be received on Thursday and Friday,
April 10th and 18th, up to P. NJ. The
New York Art Guild is given preference
as agents for taking care of work in
transit. Vanishing day will be Friday,
April 24th, and press view the same day
after IL o'clock. There is no restriction
as to the number of works sent in or to
be accepted. The Webb prize of $500 will
be awarded by vote of the jury; it applies
to landscapes painted by artists less than
forty years OF age. William A. Coffin,
13S West Fifty-fifth street, is the Secre-
tary.
If the experiments of DR.. Variot result
in a practical and easy process, that
branch of the sculptor's profession which
Keeps him in bread may fail. Dr. Variot
has succeeded in treating corpses by means
of electricity i'll such fashion that a fine
covering OF copper or other metal takes
the contour of the face and figure. The
skin is painted with q solution of nitrate
of silver and then subjected to vapors of
white phosphorus dissolved in sulphide of
carbon. 1t is then ready for the electric
bath, the treatment having made the skin
receptive of the deposit. When the
metal has been deposited to the requisite
thickness the contents of the copper
mummy are burned out and there re-
mains the exact image OF the dead in
'imperishable bronze" The advance of
realism and the cheapness and perfection
TO which this process may be brought are
mournful matters to sculptors who rely
mainly on the natural desire of the living
for statues of their departed loved ones.
The split in the old Salon, by which
another annual exhibition has been
h1S thn t,,G, xN4.4I,
Societe dies Artistes Francois and affected
the fund for benevolent purposes called
the cdlSSe DIES ret1diteS. It's property
amounts, however, to the sum OF S207,-
Oh. Some loss to the old establishment
was inevitable, but the cause of art in
France has gained by the break in mo-
nopoiy which has done good deal of
harm by forcing French artists to limit
themselves to certain methods and sub
Jects. Both societies may now be able to
set themselves against the unwieldy size
of exhibitions, which did injustice even
to those who by the quality Of their work
or the arts of the lobbyist were able to
gain Il foothold. Two Salons are better
than one, and perhaps three better than
two. The movement is a triumph for
decentralization, which is now healthy
tendency for France.
Excavations at Marseilles. on Colbert
Street, have laid bare collection of
ancient human remains which seem to
have been thrown there from an ancient
cemetery. Among the few coins discov-
cred is one of the second century before
Christ, belonging to Marseilles. 1t is
bronze piece with an Apollo head on one
side, and on the other q bull tearing up
the earth with his horns. These symbols
belong to Phoc@a, in Greece, and were
reproduced on the tokens on the Phoc@an
colony in Gaul. A coin of Theodobert
has a cross with the inscription Theo-
doberti Rex, and on the other side the
monogram OF the King. a coin of Con-
stantine was also found, together with
earrings, plates of coats of mail, a bronze
ring with glass bezel bearing a leafiess
tree, and parts of a metal belt.
Joseph Kretschmar, of Chicago, has
modelled statue of Columbus as a beard
less young man with flowing hair. He
wears fur-trimmed cap like that on the
bust in the Uffizi at Florence. He is sup
posed to be standing on the PROV OF his
ship, looking at the horizon and stretch
ing out his right hand. The left rests on
his breast. He wears tunic and cloak
trimmed with fur, and carries Spanish
sword by his side. Figures of Freedom.
federation, Philanthrophy and Glory are
to stand about the pedestal. The last is
winged, and has two attendant figures
typltylng Power and the Arts.
The Atheneuns says: Few visitors to
to the Academy exhibition of last sum-
mer failed to admire the Tulip Culture
of Mr.. g. Hitchcock, one of those choicer
instances of 'impressionism' where taste
is master and, so far as it goes, the truth,
ii not the whole truth, of nature is re-
garded. 1t is glowing, but slightly sub
dued, piece of sunlight on beds of red and
white tulips, of diverse tones, and closed
within rows of trees. This picture and
three and twenty more by the same hands
are now at Messrs. Goupils, New-Bond
street."
The fund of 1000 NOW amounting to
$4,000 which was left by Mrs. Lucius j.
Knowles of Worcester Mass, for the pro-
motion of art in that city, has been in
trusted to corporation newly formed,
called the st. Walstan's Society, at the
head of which is the Hon. George f. Hoar.
The society is not strictly an art society,
but holds fortnightly meetings to discuss
topics of general interest. The "clerk" is
j. Evarts Greene.
Concerning Pencils etchings, illustrat-
ing "Charing Cross to st. PauFs," by
Justin Mccarthy, the AthenGune holds
that in his haste the artist has done in
justice and damaged capital subject by
the ''scrambling fashion'3 in witch he
has dealt with it. 'The loose way in
which he has etched numerous figures, |
few of which move or stand on their feet, |
is deplorable.
William A. Slater, of Norwich, Conn.,,
has enriched the Slater Museum with |
many new pictures, including a REM
brandt-'The Rabbi"-and three Corots
"A Farm" 'Nymphs and Fauns,"
and "A Gray. Day. 1.-The Sewing Girls
by Millett; "Return of Columbus" by
Delacroix, and Landscape and Cattle"
by Troyon, are among the novelties.
Montague Browne, curator of the Town
Museum of Leicester, England, has
designed a frame for the mounting Of |
coins. By pulling lever the frame |
rotates snd shows each coins diverse and
reverse at the will OF the spectator.
The museum of Rheims has inherited |
from Dr.. DelacroiX q portrait of tho |
writer Michelet painted by Couture and |
a bust by Chavaillaud Rheims.
Rouen has new museum devoted TO |
paintings which has cost a round sum,
but is criticised as building not particu-
larly well ordered for pictures.
Alfred Holder OF Vienna has published
a vOlunp nv A Ibis Rojp1uO6 HIM