The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-30
THE ART INSTITUTE.
One Of the Finest Exhibitions Ever
Seen in Rhode Island.
LOANED BY WELL-KN0WN PEOPLE
A Partial List of the Best Pictures I'm the
Hall-rhe Providence Ara Institute aud
who Its Members knd Onicers Are at
Present.

The Art Institutes exhibition in the
Infantry building, which opened last even
ing, is one Of the finest ever seen in this
city. The rooms are actually loaded with
the best pictures owned by citizens of
Providence and Pawcucket, including
large part of Mr.. Walter Richmond's
splendid collection.
There has not been an exhibition of any
such proportions since ten or twelve years
ago, when there was one in the same hall.
Gov. Ladd. ex Gov. Taft. ex-Chief JUS
tice Durfee, Mr.. Richmond, Joseph G.
Ely and "A number of other prominent citi-
zens were there last evening, and many
ladies enjoyed the pictures, sitting about
in groups or strolling around the rooms.
IL has been the aim of the institute to
display pictures from all the schools, and
each home artist was invited to send two
pictures. The Barbizon school was large
ly represented, also the Dutch, German
and English
1t Is the object of the institute to make
itself "a thorough medium for the exhibi-
ton of the finest pictures andto offer
prizes for home-painted ones. In the
meantime its members claim that there is
no instution such as Mr.. Jones intended
To leave his art fund to and that it should
be left in the hands of a trustee. / heard
prominent man say last evening that he
favored setting up a fund and erecting Il
building for the institute at once
But To return 10 the pictures. There
are 100 of them, and among the loaners
are ID. l.. Goff, Charles III. Springer, w.
III. Henderson, Walter Calender, Gen.
Olney Arnold, Walter Richmond, l.. b,
Goff, Miss +. &. Hail, Henry Aldrch, J.
w. G. Ely, Miss Julia Bullock
Oren Westcott, George III. Dart, c.
III. Ames, Joseph c. Ely, A. f.
Ham, Hezekiah Conant, j. c.
Spencer, h. q. Angel, Beriah Wall
American Screw Company, Mrs. j. ii. Par
sons, Judge George NJ. Carpenter, 5. NJ
Vose, NJ. j. Perry, Edward NJ Bannister
Edwin A. Smith, James r. Chase, George.
a. Buffum, Charles A. jackson, John y.
Arnold, 5. r. Chatiee, Coy. III. w. Ladd,
Johns III. Congdon, William Gammell,
Miss l.. d. Owen, eX-Gov. Royal c. Taft.
Among the most notable pictures are
"Venice," by George l.. Brown "Land-
scape," by Camille Magnus; Dorothea," I"
by Gabriel Max; ARAB Scouts" by
Adolph Schreyer; "a Dutch Housewife -
by Louis Melting; portrait of w. H..
Henderson, by John N Arnold /;
Cavalry Scouts in a storm" by j. A.
Oertel; Dragons" by James Alexander
Walker; Flowers" 10y Jean Kobie; Break
ing Down the Clods" by Jules Hereau;
Gathering Flowers" by Meyer Won
Bremen Matterhorn" by Rofliaen /;
Landscape" by John Crome; Land
scape and Sheep" by Charles Emile Jac-
que; Meeting of Bismark and Louis
Napoleon at Sedan" by Wilhelm Champ
hausen; Home of the Wood Nymph I"
by Corot, and many others by
the same artist; September On The
Palmer River by Edward NJ. Bannister ;
Dutch Meadows" by II. j. Wessen-
bruch; Landscape" by Albert Bierstadt
Hillside" by Daubigny; 'Sunset-Med
field, Mass" by George Inness: portrait of
William B. Beach by Charles A. Jackson
"Rehoboth Woods by Edward NJ Banis-
ter; Portrait of Lady" by Charles A.
Jackson Dry Docks-East Providence"
by ;. II. Chaffee; Landscape and Cat
tle," by Thomas Robinson Cattle en-
Route" by Constant Troyon, and Gypsy
Camp en- Algiers," by Eugene Fromentin.
The officers of the institute are: Presi-
dent, Walter Richmond first vice presi-
dent, Hon. Thomas Durfee; second vice
president, Hon. George NJ Carpenter :;
treasurer, Oren WestcotJ secretary,
Joseph G. Ely.
The directors are: Walter Richmond,
Thomas Durfee, George, NJ. Carpenter,
Seth NJ. Vose, Beriah Wall, Johns III.
Congdon, Oren Westcott, Albert +. Ham
and Joseph &. Ely.
The present members are: Herbert
Almy, f. Benjamin Andrews, Edwin G..
Angel, Pardon Armington, ID. Russell
Brown, Walter 5. Ballou, Arthur
f.. Brown, George NJ Carpenter,
Johns H. Congdon, James Coats,
Charles II. Child, IL. Conant,
Thomas Durfee, John w. Danielson,
George II. Dart, Albert G. Day, Charles
5. Durfee, Elisha Dyer, James w. &. Ely,
Joseph c. Ely, Herbert n. Fenner, William
Gammell Rathbone Gardner, Moses
B. /. Goddard, DIR. William A.
Gorton, William S. Granger, AL
bert +. Ham, Rowland Hazard,
Mrs. Herbert +. Hinckley, Richard ;.
Rowland, Horatio A. Hunt, George A.
Jepherson, Augustine Jones. Hiram Ken
dali, B. b. knight, Herbert w. Ladd,
John Larkin Lincoln, deceased. Augustus
NJ. Lord, r.. Philip Mason, Eugene w. Ma
son, Geo. w. Il. Matteson, John McAuslan,
H. q. Miller, William G. Nightingale,
Marsden J. Perry, Asa X. Potter, Walter
Richmond, Henry G.. Russell, Nicholas
Sheldon, Gardner c. Sims, :. :. Sprague,