Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-28

The Paint Club exhibition at the new IL
brary building closed last evening. The
large attendance and the interest manifest
ed was most gratifying to the members.
There was an average attendance of more
b 500 persons daily.
All feel that the exhibition was a success
and are greatly encouraged in the earnest
effort they are making to secure for Kan
sas City the exhibition of the Western As
ISOLATION of Artists. The sale of catalogues
more than paid the expenses. With the re-
turns from advertising and donations. the
club closes the exhibition with money in Its
treasury. !
An encouraging feature in the clubs eff
forts is its endeavor to place before the
public only meritorious work. OF forty-five
%anvases sent for admission to this exhibi-
nation will encourage conscientious work
ers to greater efforts toward that truth
which Is the spirit of art.
Baldini, the Spanish painter. Is to arrive
at New York this week. He comes to
America to FILL q number Of portrait COM
missions. He will hold an exhibition at
one of the galleries OF Fifth avenue, for
Of Whistler, Verdi, Princess PoniatowsH
(who was a Miss Sperry of Stockton. Cali,
Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg and Mr.. STANFORD
White.
A portrait of Henry George-said to be
the only one ever painted-hangs in the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
The artist is Miss Leontine Bian. who
studied in Munich.
There is to be a loan exhibition of Rem
brandt's works at The Hague next Septem-
Der, in connection with the coronation OF
Queen Wilhelmina- Museums the world
over have been solicited to lend their treas
ureS.
There is a split in the Champ de Mars
salon in Paris. all the architects belonging
to it having resigned because the contract
for the new building to be erected in the
B bsIane en B to fsa rival was c Ebavaa n Es ssens's sas
lon, who was believed to have enough In
fuence with the municipal council to make
it accept the committees plans. :
Auguste Boulard, who died in Paris the
other day at the age of q years, vas n
of the most intimate friends Of Jules Du-
pre-, who highly esteemed his talent. His
work was less widely known than it might
lave been had not Boulard systematically
refrained from exhibiting at the salons.
Nevertheless he produced much In his life.
and his work included a great variety OF
subjects-portraits. landscape, marines.
etc. He is represented at the Luxembourg
by two anvase but they give but a small
idea Of his real capabilities. About a year
ago a fairly comprehensive collection OF his
paintings wa placed on exhibition at the
galleries Of Georges Petit In Paris and at
tracted a great deal o. attention. Boulard
belonged to the group Of artists known as
the the f gr,sp9 OF Of f Bary 1e 5aum mGars; aa ana m May
other distinguished painters and sculptors
of his day.
The American Water Color Society has
issued a circular announcing the conditions
of the thirty-frst annual exhibition of
that society to be held in the galleries Of
the National Academy of Design from
Monday, January 81. to Saturday, Febru-
airy 26, 1898. Following the policy Of last
termined to not receive for exhibition any
work of a less value than SIS, and II is
also announced that no work will be sold
for a less price than that quoted for publi-
cation in the catalogue.
Articles of Incorporation Of the Denver
Artists Club a been filed with the Sec
rotary of state. The objects of the corpo-
ration are to cultivate and promote general
interest in art: to establish and maintain a
permanent art collection; to acquire real
estate and to erect thereon an art gallery.
The number of the directors or trustees
of the club. otherwise designated as the
bers Of The club shall have the power to
increase that number at any time they SO
desire. The following are the names of
the trustees constituting the council Of the
club for the first year Of its existence,
Charles Partridge Adams, John Cotton
Dana, Henrietta Bromwell, Theodore Hoi-
land, Anne Evans, Willis A. Mareau, Hem
ry Read, Edward Rising, Arthur F. Will
marth and Elizabeth Spaldins.
A critic writing of the Art Club exhibition
at Philadelphia says:
While the exhibition is. in general, an
exhibition Of mediocrity. with no striking
departures and few pictures which produce
a distinct and u~nmistakable impression Of
best, and no new talents imperatively de-
manding recognition, In the collection Of two
hundred and sixty-one paintings there are
meritorious pictures which are interesting,
decidedly so. and which it is profitable to
see."
OF the present exhibition in New York Q
critic writes:
Were a foreign critic of art to. visit
New York at this time he would doubt
less tell of US that we. like the English.
are better painters in water colors than
in oil, an impression which q glanre at
the National Academy and the Water Color
Club exhibit at the Fifty-seventh street
galleries would justly convey. Never has
| the National Academy sheltered SO feeble a
| collection of oil paintings and seldom nave
the aquarellistes of America brought to-
gether a more interesting iot OF pictures.
traditions OF the art Of q National Academy