New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-12
ART NOTES.

Artists and designers invited TO submit
sketches for poster competition announcing the
Gas Exposition that is be opened In Madison
Square Garden In January The committee offers
three prizes OF $780, s5 and so for the three designs
deemed best by jury consisting OF two artis's'
color printer and the president OF the company
The drawings, which must be sent In before De-
cember l. must be on paper Is Inches wide by ~
high and portray the growth Of gas ms an Hlum-
mating agent and as fuel for mechanical or do
nestle purposes. All designs should be sent 10 the
company at No. $50 Broadway, New York, OF which
t. G.. Brown s manas.~
In her studio at Washington Square. Miss TIL
llnghast that versatile artist who can build II
house decorate a church or paint portrait, ex-
hihilcd early in the month recently completed
memorial window ia stained glass for Trinity
Church. In Binghamton. The subject chosen Is
THE Vision OF Cornelius" as told in the tenth
chapter Of tho Acts. and shows the standing hg-
urcs Of Cornelius and thr angel. face TO face. The
charm OF the work IS its exqusi;ely beautiful color
and It's contrasting lights and shadows Cornelius.
the Roman. sombre shade. stands somewhat
abashed before the angel In full llsht. There are
dignity and rcpose In the work. and happy sug-
goston OF revelation IL brought out by the reugent
figure OF the gel.
The second competition for the Paris Prize. which
was established five years ago through subacrip-
tons obtained by John Armstrong Chanler Will be
held at the Fine Arts Building the week beginning
October 10. The prize allows the successful com
petiior 500 year for live years study in Paris.
and Is open TO any man woman over twenty-one
years OF age who IL resident Of New-iork State.
Candidates who desire to enter the competition
must submit two wings from life. which must
be TO George W. Brcck. secretary. No. 2l5
West Fifty-scventh-st.. by October Il, and from
these drawings candidates for the final competi-
ton Will be chosen The jury TO make the award
consists Of the presidents OF the Metropolitan Mu-
scum the National Academy. the Society OF Amer
lean Artists and the Art students League. In con-
junction with a body of artists three OF which are
TO be selected by the Academy. three by the So
cicty OF American Artists and one BY the Paris
Prize. In Paris VI. Gerdme viii supervise the work
OF the student and report annually to the New
York jury In the final competition the candidates
Will DO required TO make a drawing from the nude.
TO paint "A head from life and composition In
color.
NJ Paul Jobert. the official artist OF tho French
Navy, arrived In New-York Sunday morning. Oc-
tober L. on the steamer La Bourgogne. from Havre.
NJ. Jobert has come to America TO arrange for pac-
ing his pictures exhibition. together with those
of NJ Henri Guersrd president OF the Societe des
Peintres Graveurs Francois, md the marine pieces
Of Bejot. the marine painter. Three hundred and
nifty pictures will be exhibited.
The plaster model OF the bronze statue Of Gen
crai Grant is being placed In front of the stone
bridge which crosses the Fountain Green Drive.
about half mile above Girard-ave. in Phila-
dcphia. The bronze statue will lie placed In posi-
ton there soon the site IL found to be thor
oughly suitable. This will be determined by plac-
ing the plaster model and observing the effect.
The statue OF General Logan to be erected
In Chicago will be placed In Lake Front Park In
stead OF Jackson Park. This IL In Difference TO
Mrs. Logans wishes The base OF the monument
Is to be a granite structure 20 feet high,
a mound 80 or 10 feet high. with diameter of 200
feet The bronze equestrian statue. of heroic size
Will surmount this emlncnce. II will. in all prOba-
bility. be dedicated next summer
Interesting classes were formed on Monday De-
tOber 3. at the Brooklyn Art School. In the Art
Building. az S:i5 m. Professor J. j. Stevenson Of
the University Of York. gave an iustra ted
lecture OIL THE Geology OF the Appalachian Noun
tain system" Joseph II. BOSTON instructed classes
In frcc-hand drawing and drawing from the an
tique and from models there being beginners
classes. as well advanced classes. In the study.
The lesson was at 1:3O D. M In the Art Building
A very fascinating writer has Just owned to tho
conviction that women were never Intended to be
artists. save I'm the adjoining OF their own beauty
They are born to play, the sparks fly upward
just as mans birthright Is to work." Elsewhere
she tells Us that work IL fatal to beauty: and t by
beauty be meant mere smOothness OF skim bright
ness Of eye and perfection OF color and bloom, We
must. with little natural sorrow, agree to the
proposition for truly deep thought and feeling are
as nseparable from the artist temperament as they
are fatai 10 the beauty which depends upon
freshness only. or the higher bcauty-that CT
expression-we may console ourselves by saying
that II Is the crown Of the worker and never rests
on the empty head Of the merely idle woman. That
| We were born to play Is not theory that will
please many OF us. Presumably. even the LATEST
knows what ennui H. and realizes that a perpetual
round or amusement would. sooner or later. pail.
And II so. pray where could you find a potent
beauty-killer than ennul? The bored ono Ia ever
sallow and sickly. dull OF eye and lined OF visage.
| with droop OF discomfort to her shapely mouth.
! Is her face worthy to rank beside those of our
| women artists. whose work has been an honor to
| our sex?
| Miss Mary Flower. Ex-Governor Flowers Niece ID
specially gifted in porraiturs and 10 devoted 10 her
chosen profession.