New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-27
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.
A NOTE on AUCTION sALEs-THE FOUNTAIN FOR
THE WORLDS FAIR-ARCHITEcTs AND
THE GovERNMENr-THE sALoNNET"

OF THE ROsICRUCIANS.
The American Art Association will have press
view tomorrow morning and afternoon ana private
view tomorrow evening Of its extensive collections
Of paintings bronzcs. porcelans and cnHos ana VIII
throw open its galleries to the public on Tnesday.
The sale will be begun early next month. OF tho
Academy exhibition which opens to tho public on
April 4. there will he press view on Thursday.
Through n confusion OF dates. the Dinsmore sale was
announced last Sunday TO take place next Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings at the Fifth Avenue Art
Galleries. The McEntec pictures. noticed In Tho
Tribune last Thursday, will be sold on those evcn-
ings. Then will follow exhibition and sale "
brca.brac and furniture. and on April the DinsmoTo
collection will be hung 1t will give place on the
10th 10 a collection OF works By the late b. X. f1'z,
which will be the last to be exhibited before the
opening OF the Society Of American Artists, on May :.
The Union League Club will lsid Its last exhibition
Of the next month II VIII be devoted 10
water c0lOrs.
There was an episode at the Cntting salo that APP
pears almost incredible lOsss beautiful little picture
calcd The Trcsome story OF the best pieces on
painting in the collec ton put up By the auconecr
at a moment when the audience seems to have been
noddng. No one responded when starting BID OF
300 w1s asked for. Then some one bid Slo; this
was capped BY bid Of s25, and finally buyer WIDE
awake enough TO orer go had the picture Knocked
down to him at that price II Is worth ten times $50
cured at the Hutchinson sale OF etchlngs In London
Tho other day Perhaps the importance Of tho
Whistlers in the collection had blinded the dealers
who, By the way, are said to nave driven AL out
degs quite thoroughly from the field At any rate an
etching by Mcryon was put up; only one man nooced
IL and lie got II 10. slillingS!
The trustees OF the late Mr. Daniel Cotticr have
issued a preliminary notice Of the sale Of his art COL
lection The first and most important part OF the
collection will be sold at the Durand Rucl gallery,
I'm Paris on May q and o. An illustrated catalogue
Is IN preparation The bare list OF pictures gwen
now mentions, among Others, fourteen by corot' In
Guiding the Orpheus-; fifteen by Dnubgny eighteen
by Diaz seven by Michel. twenty-one by AonucelH.
seven by Rousseau two by Mlet, and single examples
by Chardin, Courbet. Couture, Guard, "oya' hler'
evelt. Orchardson and Van Der Velde
Mr. Mac Monnies's colossal fountain for the worlds
Fair IS nearing completion and The Pail NAH budget
reproduces sketch. based on his models, whch SHOWS
the work as will appear when erected before the
United states Government building at Chicago The
design Is gorlfca;ion Of National goddess Conm-
bla IS seated on a lofty pedestal. borne b. uiumpha
barge which is placed the centre OF basin $50 feet
In diameter on either side Of the pedestal stand four
female rowers. on side the figures symbonhe mo
Arts on the other Science. Industry Agriculture and
Commerce. winged Victory stands on the Prov"
a laurel wreath in one hand and trumpet upiired In
the other Father Time is OF the stern. steering WIN
li, scvthe To the right and left Of the barge tall
columns surmounied by eagles reared, and IN mont
eight sea horses are urged by naked riders through thc
water which Just in advance OF them falis over Univ"
steps into the lake below. Streams OF water spout
from tie nosrs OF the horses In the rear NUMBER OF
dophns repeat the splash Of the group in the 'front.' ana
au around the basin system OF small Jets shoots water
10 a height OF twenty feet. At night the fountain Is
10 be lighted BY electricity. II will be really grand
monument. The conception Is brilliant. and from all
accounts It Is being splendidly carried out. There
have been no unreasonable restrictions placed upon tho
work In the matter Of scale. The smallest figure on
IN. barge is twelve feet In height. and the largest
twenty feet Four studios IN Paris are being used for
the construction OF the fountain.
This fountain for Mr. McMonnies's recalls matter
which has been given hardly any attention In tho
pubn prints but which ought 10 be widely discussed.
We're the buildings and decorations for the Exposition
In the hands Of the Governments the fair would DC
made sight for gods and men. The administration
had the good sense to select OF ability and enough
Of them insure artistic varied and rapid results In
the erection Of the halls and monuments. party OF
architects went before the Congressional Committee
on Public Buildings aud Grounds little more than .
fortnight ago. in Washington. and offered reasons why
the Government should abolish IT'S present system Is
having all new National buildings des gned by one
architect and either follow the example Of the Chicago
officials institute limited competitions. The wis.,
dom OF the reform suggested is obvious. In Franco
IL lone ago recognized that the best artistic talent
OF the country could not DC bcuer employed tHan III
the service Of Government. The difference between
France and America is we'll expressed IN the remark
Of Mr. t. H. Kendall. president OF the American IN
stute of Architects who AZ the head OF the dele
cation 20 Washington. In France the public work Is
better than the private work. In America the oonN'
tons are exactly reversed We erect thirty or more
public buildings wear They are designed by "
rrler the supervision OF one man. The architects b.
f9le the ssional Committee amiaov put II tat
This was outrageous because 1t 4 impossible Tor mo
fpso a
enough personally TO dessis plan ana s"psrh eSrr
one knowe tnai what i much serious Is that the
supciv ing archtect's Office under many Admluler.,
tcns been place where Incompetence has rIsnei
supreme and where there has b,cn tenth OF st
10 nine icntho Of this most me"hSncal ana Nasar ha
itudc OF the Government toward the architectural de-.
partment. When that depattnent 1, recognises e as
ono requiring artists and not ou!Ec men Tor It's piopF
administration the Government WI! also see the de
STABILITY Of dividing Is duties.
The :" sar" Josephin Pcadan has opened his Salon
metz OF the Rosy CToss-hey have refused TO admle
that his exhibition is entitled to OF SALON.
and the Durand.Rucl gallery on The Rue lie Pel-ter
is reported as being crowded every day by nGuisitye,
myslhcd aud generally soothing visitors. Tie aim
OF the new society OF artistic Rosiccans set forth
in The Tribune month ago, Is the Dcautiul. his
torca patriotic aud military paintings, pictures OF pub
lie or private lfe portraits rustic scenes landscapes
sea pieces studies OF domestic animals, flowers and
truit, all these things prescribed. The Rosi-
crucians are committed 10 legends myths. allesorteS
and dreams and of these they have given the public
great plenty in their exhibition. Here nie
onc Of the titles of the pictures scherzo" VEINS
eft lie socilp "Vlslon7 "N0cturHe," "Pnlas des
Extuse,.r Andantc7 Tempe de Ia TrstcSse.'
From u heap Of clippings sent ron in.ls wo
have cullcd few expressions indicating inc
TEMPER in which the exhibition has been received.
LA Lanterne.T referring 10 one .! me atlst' VI.
soon remarks ave do not speak Of his work. because
we are not in the habit OF speaking Of lhoe thnss
which we do not comprehend lie FlglN' eAet-
cSrs no such discretion. II asks frankly Are they
mvsticS or unatiesl" LA France" SAYS The en-
hiiion has the effect OF vision produced BY CON-
hnntion of champagne and abslnthe." lie Gaulo!s"
sneaks of symbolism In the most abstruse and otten
,ppos eNtravaeant fOim>' and calls the exhibition "a
tn ,,,Iar amalgam of visions after the manner OF
rdgar Poe Baudelairc. 1homas lie Quincy. Oillon