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Practical results have followed tho exhibition
which closed last week ut tho Alpha Delta Phi
Club, and the Art Committee announces sales OF
pictures amounting in the aggregate to about
81, 600. William II. Howe's excellent cattle
piece, October Morning, West Chester" was
purchased by the club with money subscribed
by the members. 1t will be hung In the club
house along with Carroll Beckwith's portrait Of
Clarence A. Seward and some other pictures &c
quired by the club in previous years. The other
pictures purchased from the exhibition this year
were Princes Bay, Staten Island by Fredor-
lex w. Kost; December Grey" by w. Merritt
Poet; 9Th Edge Of the Woods" by w. L.
Lathrop, and Green and Gold" by Irving r.
wiles. The exhibition of " Portrait NO. "A" by
Charles F. Naegele. broughtthe artist a connie
sion to paint another portrait OF a lady, and two
or three possible purchasers are reported TO DO
considering other pictures which figured In the
collection. This is the sort of a record which
makes a club exhibition popular with the ar
lists.
At the annual meeting Of tho club last week
an amendment to the constitution was adopted
by which members Of the fraternity who are
professional artists may become life members
of the club by presenting It with one or more
original works of a total value Of $500 In lieu Of
a cash payment. The list Of New York painters
who are eligible under this provision includes
Daniel Huntington. ex-P resident of the National
Academy OF Design; Edgar M. Ward, Reginald
Cleveland Coke. Chester Loomls. and Stephen
Van Schaick.
Ten burnt wood panels have been flnished by
the artist, j. w. Fosdick, and taken to Lake.
wood TO be placed In George Gould's new house.
where they will form q frieze over the book.
cases in the library. The top of the bookcases Is
about Ave and a half feet from the floor. and the
panels. with two exceptions, are about three
feet square. One Of the series placed over the
fireplace. forming the central point in the deco
ration, Is FIVE feet square, and shows an ideal
portrait Of q lady OF Queen Elizabeth's time, and
another containing the coat of arms commonly
| credited to Shakespeare 10 3x5 feet. Two other
panels bear heads of women with Elizabethan
ruffs, and the remaining SIX are ornamented
with the crests and bookplates Of famous men,
such as Washington, Lord Tennyson, Holmes,
Dickens, John Adams, and Daniel Webster.
The library is finished in brown ebony, q
product Of Africa, close grained and of
a greenish.brown tint, which makes q
| fitting contrast to the tints Of the burnt wood
panels. These are executed in Eastwood. which
is naturally white, close grained, and soft, all
.noror c,cher " md their General tone 10 brown
TIE ,;nts ronn. from cream iyorv ubero the
,vood Ia hrt sl;gbtlv sineed IN dark hroyn
where it is deeply burnt. This form Of wall
decoration Is in considerable favor in England,
ana ,yas INTRODUCED hor. aomo yenrs 400 NV
NJ Eosdiot II ia exceodinglv nleasIng IN
oroct ,ybon vol s~.cuted ana a. 10 dnrab,e
M Fosd,ct has nushed His art IN n b;gb state
~ rorfoctior and obt,in In these latest ,vorLs
some noveI and attractive resn,ts The draw.
inc 4, Tho aepre nnnels Ia comnetent and tho
daoorotiye ~onalitv ia vail sustained throngbont
,he ssr,e.
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The exhibition Of pictures by American ar
lists now open in the gallery of the Lotos Club
to visitors who have cards Of admission is inter
esting in tho new works lent for the occasion.
and good In the average of those which have
been seen before. The selections have been
made with a gratifying catholicity Of taste. and
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