The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-20
ART THE WORLD OVER.

Rafael IL expected to be one OF the
guests at n large dinner to be given by the
Marquette club OF Chicago to the artists
| resident or stopping In that city.
The Boston Camera club has been hav-
| Ing competitive exhibition OF photo
graphs and nearly 200 were displayed.
Mrs. Arthur Sewell took the prize for gen.
eral excellence and Mr.. j. Price Loud for
the most artistic sentiment. Prizes were
also given for technicality figure compo-
sition, etc.
An interesting exhibition of modern
Dutch paintings 10 now going the rounds
OF the different cities. The exhibition
| comprises Il large number of paintings. the
subjects being chiefly drawn from local
Holland scenes and figures. The best
known artists represented are lsraels,
Mesdag, Neuhuys. Roelofs Maris. Ter
Meulen Bommers, Bosboom, Bisschop,
Gabriel, Du Chattel. and Valkenburg.
We are told that at Vathy, In Samos.
with the help of the new governor, Bero-
| witch Pasha, a museum has been estab-
| lshed for the antiquities of the island.
The success already obtained by the pro-
vncial museums Of the Syllogos of Gambia
and OF the Evangelical School Of Smyrna
In preserving the antiquities Of the Turk
|
will be Of great use to future students Of
archaeology.
1t is reported from Paris that the draw
ings of the late M. Alexandra Bida will be
sold at the Hotel Drouot this week. This
sale awakes especial attention in Paris,
because for many years NJ. Bda had en-
tirely ceased to exhibit his work. Forty
large water-colors,, illustrating Shake
| speare. and thirty-twO drawings after Mol
| iere, are sure to be much discussed; but
| the pearls Of the collection are said to be
| the numerous series of sketches and stud
les from nature, the result of the artist S
frequent travels in the East. Some are a
| painters notes Of Il curious impression,
some are the first jottings of his illustra-
| tions of the gospels.
Dodge Macknight, New England land
scape painter of the new school, has been
rather roughly handled by the critics out
west. "BOston is going crazy over him."
says a Chicago scribe land RobertVon
noh has set the seal of his approval on
him: but, Vonnoh and Boston notwith-
standing, / cannot believe that his wild
| imaginings are anything like nature. Vio-
let-tinted landscapes and impossible SUM-
rises and sunsets have been meekly swal-
lowed, but when person not strictly col
lS dSheu ~ SnuQOWS
| thrown by red trees, 1t is time for revolt
AS yet Macknights pictures have only
been seen at close range, and 1t may be
that when hung and viewed from a dis
tance they may show some merit Time
alone can tell, and until time has told Mr..
Macknight must be written Of as one still
too far advanced in the wild flights of
fancy for ordinary mortals to overtake."
The war with China has given a great
vogue to war pictures in Japan. A large
number of these have been sent to this
country by Bunkio Matsuki, young jap
anese art dealer Of Boston and Salem, who
| Is now on visit to his native country with
his American wife. These pictures are
remarkably spirited color prints from wood
blocks, and combine the effect Of Occi-
| dental realism with the principals of Pc
| culiarly japanese art in a. way that, while
| often marked with much crudeness, is not
infrequently remarkably powerful and at
times impresively poetic. "One of the
strongest of these pictures" says the Bos-
ton Herald, "is that of a Japanese gen.
eral mounted on a splendid horse, standing
on high ground and watching the progress
of the battle below. 1t Is q beautiful piece
Of drawing and military pose, and would
be worthy of Regnault Such picture
would make the reputation of painter in
| tho western world"