San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-23
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, '9j
CLEVELAND ART SHOW.

A MOVEMENT TO STIMULATE
INTEREST IN AMERICAN
ART
Thu Art Enthusiasts of Cleveland
Propose to EJECT an At Museum
There-Names of the Exhibit
Crs.
ENGLAND, Jan. 22.-The art
exhibition for which the leading
citizens OF Cleveland have been
preparing for months, will be open
ed today. The purpose is to create
enthusiasm for the support OF the
proposed museum in this city
The prizes for the best examples OF
American art to be shown at this
exhibition, aggregate $4,000 and
there are nearly 1000 separate pic
lures already entered. F. Hopkin-
son Smith and William Chase, two
of the foremost American artists,
have entered many Of their choic-
est works.
The exhibition will be conduct
ed by the Cleveland Art associa-
ton. Hon. s. c. Covert is pre- ST.
dent, and Professor Charles F.
Olney vice-president, and among
other well-known Cleveland peo-
pie who are identified with the
association are Mrs. Stevenson
Burke, Henry c. Ranney, B. E.
Holman, Herman A. Kelly, George
w. Kinney and Charles III. Ault.
Paintings will be shown by
American artists in France, Eng
land, Holland, Germany and Rus
STA. In order to prepare for this
exhibition, few weeks ago twen-
ty-siX ladies and ten gentlemen Of
this city went to Washington and
New York, and visited the Metro
politan Museum Of Art, the Lenox
Library, the National Academy of
Design and many private galleries.
The jury OF admission had their
pick of the best American paint
ings which have been on exhibition
this year in New York and other
places. The selections were very
carefully made, and the best Amer
lean paintings of the year were
chosen. Among the better known
artists who have consented to COM
pete for a share in the $4,000 in
prizes and purchase money offered,
whose canvases have been accept
ed, are S. F. Murphy, R. Miner, r.
NJ. Shurtleff, T. Moran, G. John, A.
Frazer, c. Melville Dewey, Charles
Baker, F. X. NJ. REIN, Alexander
Harrison, George w. Maynard, R.
F. Zogbaum, William NJ. Chase,
with fifteen paintings; Frederick
kost, Mrs. NJ. r. Dixon, F. De-
Haven, w. L. Palmer, Ed. A. Bell,
whose Fire Dreams" was one OF
the successes at a recent Academy
OF Design exhibition; E. H. Blash-
field, G. c. Curran, who sends fif-
teen paintings; Carleton T. Chap
man, l.. P. Dessar. Frank Vincent
Du Mond, who will be represented
by one OF his least successful works,
"Christ and the Fishermen :" FL
lott Daingerfield, and Ben Foster
by some gloomy twilight sheep;
G. Warren Eaton, Frank Fowler,
w. G. Fitlar, the water colorist;
Childe Hassam, w. II. Hyde, AL
bert Herter and Mrs. Herter, who
contribute between them a dozen
or fifteen Japanese views; w. H.
Howe, w. st. T. Harper, Samuel
Isham, McIlhenny, Miss McChes-
ney, Leonard Ochtman, w. Nettle-
ton, Henry Prellwitz, C. A. Platt,
Theodore Robinson, f. E. Sim
mons, Mrs. Rosina Emmett Sher-
wood, James Symington, w. T,
Smedley, A. T. Van Laer, R. w.
Van Boskerck, w. T. Whitemore,
o. c. Wiegand, NJ. F. H. De Haas,
James G. Tyler, Henry w. Ranger,
7. d. Smile, George H. Yew.
ell and Joe jefferson.
There will also be shown paint
ings by Turner, Herring, Morland,
Dupre, Corot, Mauve, and other
great modern masters. There will
be among the paintings represen.
tatiOns OF nearly all the great
schools OF painting. Quite large
number Of rare books and Napo-
leonic curiOs have been sent here
from New York. The great feat
ure OF the exhibition, however,
Will be American paintings.
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