Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-25

hibited his first Salon picture, ''Hamlet
and His Mother" the year following. 1t
is now in the crush room of the Boston
theater. Mr.. Rolshoyen last year started
an art class at his studio in the Faubourg
St. Honore, which has proved a success.
Daniel Ridgway Knight, from Philadel-
phia, is the only American pupil who has
studied under MISSIONER. He has settled
down at Poissy, a village near Paris, not
far from the house where his late master
resided, and there paints pictures of peasant
life; for, although pupil of Meissonier,
he is not copyist of his subjects. but
treats of rural life among the French
country people of today. He has built in
the garden attached to his house at Poissy
studio entirely of glass, like an ordinary
dollhouse, with the exception that more at
tention has been paid to joining the plates
of glass together so as to efficiently keep out
the rain. Here the artist can work in all
weathers except the hottest, and in winter
with snow upon the ground is able to sit
comfortably and finish pictures commenced
in the summer, posing the model in diff
fused light, similar to that in which the
painting had been begun by a country
road side
Archibald A Anderson occupies the
wing of a new house composed almost en-
tirely of studios, at 591 Avenue de SAKE,
behind the Invalides. The studio is ex-
ceedingly spacious, we'll lighted, and pro-
vided with shades and curtains which may
be drawn backward and forward at will.
Palms and flowers of most delicate hues
adorn the place, together with a broad
divan, piano, some Louis XVI furniture
and velvet drapery. Mr.. Anderson has his
own private apartment on the premises
He is the founder of the American Art
Students association, where youthful ar
lists from the United States with great
hopes and slender purses find advice, COM
fort, assistance, together with books and
newspapers. The members, from about
forty at the start, now number 300. The
rooms Of the club are at 131 Boulevard
Montparnasse.
Humphrey Moore, from New York, has
his studio and apartment and family of
cats at 81 Rue Ampere. He is rare artist
and highly gifted man. His studio and
home are stocked with curios of Spanish
and eastern productions, sketches Of Jap
anese and Moorish life, dolls, fans, quaint
swords of ancient days, damascened and
golden; bright tapestries, dragons and
ghouls, such as are to be found described
in Nine. Judith Gauthier's works and M.
Lofts more recent novels In one of the
rooms are two striking ikenesses of Mr.
Moore, one in oils by Madrazo, and the
other in colored crayons by Boldini. In
the same room is Mr.. Moore's beautiful
picture, ''The Captive" the property of
Mrs. Robert johnson, of California. 1t is
owing to his wonderful ability in sketch
ing japanese life that Mr.. Moore was made
a member of the Mirliton club in Paris, a
rare distinction for foreigner.
Mr.. Walter Gay, pupil of Bonnat, has
taken a new studio and handsome man
sion in the same street as Mr.. Humphrey
Moore In fact, the center of artistic life
is around and beyond the Park Morceau.
There are many painters and sculptors
who still cling to the Latin quarter and
the Place Pigalle, but the general tenden-
cy is in the direction noted The quarter
is for this reason frequently spoken of as
the "artistic zone" Here Mr.. Walter Gay
has gradually gained a most deserved rep
utation.
If more space were at my command l
would go on and say a word of Mr.. Guern-
sey Mitchell and Mr.. Paul Bartlett, both