Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18
LOCAL ART GOSSIP.

TEERE are 1000 professional painters and
sculptors in New York City.
Mr. DEWoLFE SEAMAN was elected mem
Der of the Bohemian Club atits last meeting.
TIE winter exhibition of the National
Academy of Design, New York, closes
December 81
Mr.. JOHN W. BEATTY gave lecture on
perspective to the pupils Of the Flttsours
Art School Thursday last.
Mr. D. B. wALKLEY is at work on large
painting, Interior of a Southside Glass
House, 1. completed in time he may send
it to the Worlds Fair.
THE legal complication which stopped the
sale o. the late Cyrus W. Fields pictures In
New York was adjusted and the sale by
auction took place during the week
Mr. AND MRS. j. ELMER SALISBURY are to
spend Christmas as the guests of French
army officer at his chateau1 near Dleppe-
They are returning to Pittsburg IN March.
Mr. s. STEVENSON exhibited at Boyd's
this week e well executed crayon portrait
Ola Young man. Mr.. Stevenson is very busy
in crayOn and oil portraiture on account OF
the holiday season.
A FINELY executed water color reproduc.
tion was noted at Gillespie's during the
week Its title is "a Fisherwan's Wedding in
Venice" and it is by Thomas Moran, the
well-known New York painter.
TIE Bohemian Club held its usual fort
nightly gathering on Monday evening at the
studio of Mr.. Bussman. There were some
hall dozen ne members eiecied. The club
is looking ouC for new quarters.
THERE will be no spring exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Phila-
delphia. The exhibition OF pictures by
Pennsylvania artists destined for the
Worlds Fair to be held in January next Will
take its place.
MIR. HETzEL is at work on three large can
vases destined for the Worlds Fair. The
misty autumn effect mentioned in these
columns a lew weeks ago is rapidly nearing
completion, and though out OF Mr. HetzeIs
usua! vein is one OF his happiest efforts.
An excellent exhibition of artistic work
may be seen at the studio of r. h Burfoot,
corner of Carson and South Twentieth
street. The work is attracting much atten-
tion Of the artistic portion OF Southsloe So
ciety. Mr. Burloot is really one OF Pitts
burE's best artists, and brilliant future Is
promised.
Mr. J. ELMER SALISBURY recently called in
Paris on the wcIl-known American artist,
Henry Mosler, who is represented in the
Luxembourg gallery by ''The ProdiEal Son."
Mr.. Mosler was Mr.. Salisbury's teacher on
his first arrival in Paris. Mr.. Musler is to
contribute picture in the near future to
the Art SOciety's permanent gallery.
spective exhibition OF the Society of Ameri-
can Artists, New York, by his large paint
ing washed Ashore" which gained him
medal at the Paris Universal Exposition OF
1889. The painting represents a dead body
washed ashore with French gendarmeS in
ali his official regalia taking notes from a
crowd awe-stricken peasants who dis
covered the body.
The American Artists Association, 13l
Boulevard Montparnasse, Paris, now num-
bers some go on Its rolls. The association
home includes a library, picture gallery,
reading room, concert hall, restaurant etc.
1t gives monthly picture prizes, also holds
frequent concerts and picture exhibitions.
The association Oanqueted tue Hon. w hite-
Ia v Reid on the occasion of his resigning
his ost as Minister to France.
4 VERY interesting exhibition of Al pict-
ures was opened a few days ago in New
York by the Russian marine painter, Aivos-
ky, who has been called the Russian Turner.
Among the collection are two OF interest to
Americans, "The American Relief Ship Leo
Entering the Port of ODESSA" and Cheer
ing the United States Flag" in one of the
famine stricken Russian villages. These two
painting have been offered by the artist to
the Metropolitan Museum OF Art.
AMONG the new pictures contributed re-
Gently to the Art Society's permanent gal
lery is a landscape by D. B. Walkley, a
very finely executed pastel portrait OF a
young girl by E. A. Poole and a water color
by Mr.. PezZol. The three superb European
masters A Lion by Gerome. Cattle by
NerUoeckhOuen, and landscape by Cour-
bet, lately loaned to the exhibition by Mr..
Charles DOnnslIy. are well worthy of a visit.
The coming week there will be added
great many new pictures by local artists
Mr. A. Bryan WALL has a fine autumn
landscape, with sheep, on exhibition at the
Gillespie gallery. There is also on exhibit
tiOn ut this gallery landscape by the
French artist Peraine, and q collection of
water cOlors by well-knowh Eastern artists.
As the artist cannot paint by artificial light
last Monday and Tuesday were holidays Tor
members of the craft AS one OF them said
there was not daylight enough in any of the
two days to paint a single brush stroke. II
this sort Of weather continues Pittsburg
artists may have to emigrate in body
VANDYKE.