Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-06-03
OF ART, PAINTING AND EN-
BROIDERY AT ANNUN-
CITATION ACADEMY.
The Closing Exercises to Take
Place on June II, at the
Opera-House.

tt3H ACdueIlN IL TIA plulN ara wing q
a close. The commencement eyer
cises will take place at the Opera
house ON the night OF June the 18th
For the next two weeks the pupils
of this famous Academy will devote
the school hours to reviews of theiI
studies and public examinations.
The closing session OF Annnnciation
Academy has been one of the most
successful in its history. for it has
at this time an enrolment of one
hundred and eighty-nlne pupils.
That these pupils have made marked
progress and Improvement is clear v
apparent to those who have visited
the Academy during this and past
sessions. The corps OF teachers was
never better, and the training and
discipline of the pupils will compare
favorably with any like academy in
the United States.
Annuneiatien Academy is con-
Quoted by Sisters of Charity who
have been educated for teachers, and
they possess an art of imparting
instruction that causes their pupils
to love the school room and school
hours; hence, owing to the interest
taken in their studies, their progress
is wonderfully rapid. and, at tie
same time, the knowledge and learn
ing impressed on the expanding
minds OF the pupils is lasting.
AnnunciatiOn Academy has been
blessing to Pine Fluff, for dur
ing the sixteen years of its existence,
hundreds of Young ladies have re-
ceived Quotations which qualified
them to take positions as shining
lights in the highest circles of educa-
ted society. TOdaythe graduates of
Annunciation Academy are rec0g-
nized as among the most brilliant
young women in the State. Their
minds are not alone stored with
the knowledge of books, but in their
school hours they We're taught those
graces of manner, art and music
which would mark them, in any
society, as brilliant and highly
cultured women and credit to the
excellent academy in which they
were educated.
This morning (Tuseday) GRAPHIC
reporter had the pleasure of visiting
the art and industrial room of the
Academy and viewing the magnifl-
cent exhibit made by the pupils this
season. The dimension of this room,
which is wei lighted, is about 40 by
% feet, and it is literally filled with
beautiful thing and every item in it
was the work OF pupil of the
school. There were plain and fancy
Sc wing (for it should be remembered
that every girl pupil Of the Academy
is taught the art of sewing), en-
br0idery and drawn work of all
kinds, oil paintings, pastels, delft,
crayon and pen work which would
be n credit to any art school in the
land. There were geometrical and
drawings which did
great credit to the young lads who
executed them. There was cast
work and mouldings, and raised
maps made of pulp and hundreds of
other articles of great merit the
viewing of which makes a visit to
this room treat to all lovers of art,
pretty things and education.
The reporter must be pardoned if
he INDUCES in s'invidious distinction"
for number of the pupils have on
work of such merit that
we feel that it is but just to give
credit to whom credit is due
Among the first of this number is
Miss Martha Valiant, II young lady
who by her free hand drawing and
drawings from life, evinces marked
talent in art. Her work this season
is even a great improvement over
that of last. Her violin study, in
u b1 t'it3 10 a 1iCNC vi W vi u vi WHlCil
Miss Valiant may justly feel proud.
1.-The Little Sea Horses, a pastel
by Miss Bessie Blnthenthal, is a
beautiful work of art.
A floral frieze, an oil painting, the
work of Miss Hennic Blum, is simply
exquisite.
The specimens OF crayon work by
Miss May Blnthentha, attract at
tention and merited praise.
"Pharo's Horses in crayon, by
Mrs Wightman, and The Stag at
Bay" by Mrs. John Walls, are ex-
ceedingly well executed.
The relief map of the United States,
by Miss Valiant, and the map OF
Europe, by Clifton Dreyfus, elicit
ordinations OF wonder and delight
from all beholders. These maps are
made with pulp and accurately show
the mountain ranges, rivers, ETC.,
and the coloring, which indicates the
praries and timber lands, lends them
beautiful effect.
The oil naintinV representing a