The record-union., 1896-05-03
NOTES OF ART.
American and Foreign Art News
Items.
Personal Mention-Women in Art
Japanese Pecuharities-Art
Leagues-Bequests.

hIOWH american artist, mas peen elect
ed member of the Royal Academy, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
the late Lord Leighton.
The Record Union" notes with
pleasure that wood engraving is mani
Testing a revival. The strength, indi-
viduality and vigor of the clean, clear
cut stroke of the wood engraver is
not, let us hope, to be wholly crowded
out by the process work of recent times,
which has for its basis Photographic
art, that calls SO very little of the per-
sonal quality into the picture
Those persons who still believe that
exhibition juries discriminate against
women in art should go at least once to
the current spring Academy exhibition,
If only to see what a goodly portion of
the prizes in the gift of that conserva-
tive institution were awarded to women,
remarks the New York Post"
An arrangement has just been con-
cluded with the trustees of the Rine-
hart fund for the Peabody Institute for
the establishment of a school of sculpt-
ure within the Maryland Institute in
Baltimore. The plan contemplates the
employment of an instructor and the
furnishing of models by the Rinehart
trustees, the Maryland Institute to sup
ply rooms and necessary equipment,
and the department to be known as the
Rlnehart School of Sculpture.
The Art League of the South was
organized in Louisville, Ky, last Tues
day. It's object is ''to secure a united
effort to encourage art, to awaken a
greater appreciation of art, and to pro-
mote the interests of Southern artists" !"
Miss NJ. L. Ingram of Henderson, KY,
is it's President. 1t was determined to
hold an exhibition of pictures in Louis
vile the first week of May 1897, and
in connection Herewith to have a con-
vention of artists from all over the
United States, which suggests to the
Record Union" the thought that there
might well be formed an Art League Of
California. There is assuredly need for
something of that order in this State.
not only to encourage art promotion
and support, but unity of interest and
effort among artists and art patrons.
1.-THE Critic of New York pays this
tribute to young artist just deceased:
Theodore Robinson who died in this
city on April ID was one of the most
successful of our younger painters of
open air subjects, whether of landscape
or the figure. He was born in Vermont
in 1852, went to Paris and entered the
studio of Carolus Duran in 1878, and
was later the pupil of Gerome. He re-
turned to New York, but made little
real progress until, during a second visit
to France, he became acquainted with
the chief of the French impreSSiOnists,
Claude Monet, whose painting showed
him how to turn his special talents to
the best account. But he was never a
mere imitatOr of Monet. His color was
always very personal, and he retained
so much of what he had learned from
his early training that his rendering of
form was always Of a sort to be under
stood by those accustomed only to the
older methods. He had, therefore, a
very considerable success on his final
return to America, and his future
seemed to be one of uncommon promise.
In the current exhibition of the Ma
tional Academy Of Design is a fine ex-
ample of his later work, The Layette,
a young woman sewing in a cottage
garden. To his painting of a little girl
idling In the Sun was awarded the
Shaw prize for the best figure picture
in the exhibition of 1892 His pictures
at the present exhibition of the Society
of American Artists, at the galleries of
the American Fine Arts Society, are
Washing Day. The Little Mill-Au-
-,l1 ,~,+t
Vermont Hillside: October Afternoon
and Correspondence all of which are
well worth seeing"
Miss Ida Waugh, daughter of the late
S B. Waugh of Philadelphia, a popu-
lar portrait-painter of the last genera
ton, is this years winner, at the Ma
tional Academy, of the Norman w.
Dodge prize $4,000 for "the best picture
painted in the United States by a
woman, without limitation of age" 1t
is a life-size, three-quarters length
portrait Of DR.. Paul Sartain.
The Charles T. Yerkes and the Wilson
L. Mead prizes offered by the Chicago
Society of Artists have just been award
ed by a vote Of the members of the soci-
ETY.. Jules Guerin received two prizes.
the first Charles T. Yerkes prize of $500
for his oil painting, THE Cleaners" and
the Wilson L. Mead prize of S10O for
his water color, Hauling the Log"
The second Charles 7. Yerkes prize of
5000 was voted to Charles E. Boutwood
for his Rain and Tide, Annisquam.'
Under the will of the late D. 7. Mills
of Boston, the Museum Of Fine Arts of
that city will receive nearly S750,000
upon the demise of his immediate heirs.
It is possible for the trustees to antici-
pate the bequest in any one Of several
ways.
"a Text Book of the History of Arch
itecture," by Professor A. d. F. Ham
lin of Columbia University has just been
added to Longmans, Green & Co.'S series
cf College Histories of Art. The book
contains over 200 illustrations, biblio-
graphies, glossary and an index of
architects.
Perhaps no other form Of printed art,
says the Critic" holds so much amuse-
ment in store for the collector as the
Japanese color print. In other lines the
great work is known, classified and de-
scribed, and there is very little chance
Of obtaining any Of it ait bargain
When one gets a good impression of a
Durer or a Marc Antonio, a Rembrandt
or a Whistler, he pays its full price, the
money value of state, condition, margin,
everything, being calculated to a nicety
But the fancieS of individuals still r1JIe
the prices that may be asked and paid