The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-02
ART SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY
TWEN ANNUAL OB-
 SERVANCE HEED YESTERDAY.

Prizes and Certificates Awarded-win- chester Prize Competition-Good Work
 by Elective Students-Increase in Num-
 Der of Exhibits of Work--Mr. Blash-
 fields Address Last Evening-A Large
 and Fashionable Audience.
 The twenty seventh anniversary of the Yale Art school was held at the Art school building, corner of Chapel and High streets, yesterday afternoon and the school assembled in the galleries, and the instructors, after viewing the exhibits of the work of the students during the past year, awarded the fol- lowing prizes;
 The Alice Klmball English Prize" of $50 to Jean May Burr of Meriden, and the Ethel Childs Walker Prize" which was divided between Mildred Lancaster CoWles and Edith Vaughn CoWles of Pennington.
 Miss Mabel Mcintosh, Miss Mary Will Hams Fowler, Robert Henry Bonner and Geraldine WooIsey Carmalt of this city and Miss Edith Louise Leland of Middlefeld, Conn.,, were awarded certi- ficates for the completion of the three years course.
 A larger exhibit than usual of studies made by the various classes is shown this year. and it is evident that con- siderable stimulus to work has been given by the offering of the William Wirt Winchester Scholarship Prize. This is a prize of s1,50O to enable the successful competitor to pass two years in study in Paris. The competi- tion for the prize will begin with the commencement of the next school year, October l.
 The elective classes show a great im- provement in their work, and it is pos sible that if this improvement continues graduates of the academical depart ment, after two years elective work in the Art school, will be eligible for con- petition for the Winchester prize. The elective work nearly equals in quality that of the regular professional pupils of the schools Many of the elective students show great ability in the work, and although the time given to art study Is of necessity short, owing to the regular academic studies, they make fine progress in their art work. DIR. BLASHFIED'S ADDRESS-AN
 INTERESTING EXHIBIT = OPEN
 TO THE PUBLIC.
 The annual lecture before the stu dents of the Yale Art school and their friends, which is the first important oc- casion of the commencement season, was given last evening by MT. Edwin Howland Blashfield of New York The affair is always something of a social function, and last evenings assemblage presented very smart appearance. After the lecture an informal reception was held, when the visitors had an op- portunity to meet Mir. Blashfield and talk with him about his work.
 The lecture is one of the best that the Art school has given us. MT. Blash- fields opinions and expectations are o1 | interest not only as those of a success 1 full painter but from his official posi- | ton as president of the most influentia and progressive organization of artists | in the country, he speaks as one Witt authority. The Society of American | Artists represents the younger ant 1 more vital clements in contemporar5 | painting, and it is to them that we loof for the coming men. The tendency O | the body has seemed for some year: | to be towards a sort of famboyant i'm pressionism. But this years exhibition was calmer and saner, and while there | was no single work of exactly startling | greatness the average tone was yer! high and encouraging. This is the frs l year under MT. Blashfield's regime when we could expect to see his person | al influence showing and if the higl order of merit is owing to his taste ant judgment his government would seen 1 to be most beneficial.
 MT. BlashfieId chose for his subjec last night one on which it was especial | ly interesting to hear him speak at thi 1 time, that of Recent Decorative Art l ill the Light of the Renaissance. MI | Blashfield's large decorations which h is doing for the new National Congres sional Library at Washington, have di rected our attention to his efforts il this line, and his opinions on the sub ject are especially apropos at this mo I nent.
 MT. Blashfield spoke in an easy, unaf fected way, devoid of mannerism. Wha he said was straight to the point an practical. His paper was an eloquen appeal for what is rather absurdl termed municipal art" He urged tn cultivation of public pride in makin public buildings monuments of art, a has been done in the Boston Public Ii brary and the new library in Washing ton. He deplored the fact that S much of American painting was contin ed to the portable forms of expres sion and that large mural works wer so little in demand He showed how tn Italian Renaissance had been the out
 come of an older Influence, that (
 Rome, and said that sll reawakening
 in art life came in this way.
 He thinks we are in the beginning (
 an American Renaissance, the inspt
 ration of the painting of modern Eu
 rope, dating from the worlds fair. H
 did not lament so bitterly as do som
 of his contemporaries the apparant lac
 of a distinctly American school. H
 tried to show how much all schools (
 painting had been influenced by outsid
 manners. He praised the work of tn
 French masters, but bade young stu
 dents to turn to the Italy of the Qua
 trocento for the highest conception
 the grand manner and the most perfeC