Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-11-09
FROM CHICAGO.
(Contiu ued from yesterday
Chicago, Oct. Goth. 1898.

| Ed. APPEAL:-The exhibit Of the
United States is much too large. For
50 young country we are surpris-
ingly advanced and are very close to-
Great Britain, Germany etc. in gen
eral merit. II an unprecedented jury
could have selected from the vast
number of paintings there, ala eX-
hIbit as large as that of France or
Great Britain, the result would have
surprised the world. As it is the
number is so large that the poor eff
forts are in overwhelming majority
and one is apt to overlook or forget
the many splendid canvases which
became merged in the confusing
whole. L viii say here that We are
not alone in exhibiting poor pictures.
One of the walls in nearly all if not
in every gallery are horrible attempts
that the most vivid Imagination or
most charitable could never construe
to be art. You wonder constantly
how on earth those things ever
managed to scrape in.
| am undecided as to any one ia
vorite picture and have therefor de
cided on about four. These are in
the French and Russian department
- two in each. In the French one
of my favorites is a picture of cattle
and sheep. They are of large size
ard done with startling realism. The
picture is called Returning Home.
1t was painted by Adolphe Marais
The other picture is in the same
room. 1t is called 1.-The Wasp's
Nest but many have dubbed it
'Beseiged by Love" 1t represents
a half nude fgdre of young woman,
surrounded by a perfect swarm of
young cupids. Her arms are raised
to ward off the persisted attacks of
the diminutive Gods Of Love but
from The smile of beautitude upon
her beautiful face, one reads that her
effort is only half~hearted and that
after all she will not struggle long
against the passion that is said to
Find the way" The picture is by
Ronguereau, which is sufficient
guarantee of its execution as to draw
ing and coloring The picture is
owned by Charles L Yerks, of
Chicago.
My Russian favorites are THE
Budes Attire, and "Phryne". The
first is by Makovsky. 1t has that
same wealth of color, excellence of
design and composition, and beauty
of the faces and figures of the women
that charactprizes the Russian " ed
drug Feast" 1t is one of the most
pleasant pictures to look upon con-
tanned in the whole Palace. ''Phryne
was celebrated beauty who lived
about $50 l.. c.. at a
procession in honor Of Venus,
Phryne appers to the admiring peo
pie, " says the catalogue. "Phryne, "
in the picture, is disrobed in all her
matchless beauty before an enchanted
populace. The eager, worshiping
groups about her are wonderfully
painted. AS the figures are life size
the artist was given great scope. He
has produced very remarkable
picture. His name is Henry Sic
and his picture is the prop
erty of the Gar,
| would ike to numerate and de-
scribe the hundreds of pictures which
L marked in my catalogue-especially
some Of those in the French, but IN
less | wrote a small volume the task
would be impossible.
| found Rosa Bonheur's king of
the Forest, q large stag, standing at
the edge Of the wood. 1t disappoint-
ed me greatly as l could not pursuade
myself that it is good and | have al
ways admired the artist.
Among the portraits-which were
end-the best were in the
French and Belgium sections. One
of Pope Leo NH, which has been
much REPRODUCED, is unexcelled. 1t
is by the French artist Thaubold
Chartran. Another French artist
Leon Bonnat has two portraits, one
of which IS of Ernest Renan, the
other of Cardinal Lavigrerie They