The record-union., 1897-09-05

To quote Theodore Roosevelt: MANY
men before him have seen and felt the
wonder of that phase of Western life
which is now closing, but Mr.. Wister
makes US see what he has seen and in
terprets for US what he has heard. His
short sketches are so many cantos in
the great epic of life on the vanishing
Wilderness He shows us heroic fig
ures and a heroic life; not heroes and
the heroic life as they are conceived by
the clustered intellect, but rough and
strong and native, the good and evil
alike challenging the eye. To read his
writings is like walking on a windy up
land in fall, when the hard weather
braces body and mind"
The Chicago Art Institute will hold
its tenth annual autumn exhibition OF
oil paintings and sculpture from No
vember Sd to December 18th. The
works. to be eligible. must have been
executed by contemporary American
artists, and must not have been public
~ shown in Chicago. Juries and col
lecting agents have been appointed for
the cities of New York. Paris, Boston,
Philadelphia, Cincinnati and st. Louis,
the days of collection here being Octo-
Der 18th. 10Th and 18th. The New
York jury co%zists of Messrs. H. Sid
dons Mowbray. William A. Coffin and
F. X NJ. REIN, and the collectors are
Messrs. w. s. Budworth & Son, IA
West Fifty-second street. The expense
of shipment in either direction will be
borne by the Art Institute, which will
charge a commission of 10 per cent. up
on all works sold. In Chicago the Art
Committee in charge will include Chas.
/. Hutchinson. James H. Dole, Martin
a. Ryerson, Bryan Lathrop and Rob
ert A. Waller. The Advisory Commit
tee of Artists will be made up of Ar
thur Dawson, Charles Francis Browne.
Hardesty c.. Maratta, Pauline Dohn
and dorado Taft. W. NJ. r. French is
the director.
1t has been recognized for some time
that the exhibitions at Chicago, St.
Louis and Philadelphia open extremely
good markets to American artists. 1t
is fact none too palatable to New
York members of the Academy of De-
sign or the Society of American Art
lists that some of the strongest paint
ers now at work here reserve their most
representative pictures for these eX-
hibitions in interior cities, on the
ground that a better chance of sale
exists in them. If this theory be a true
one. and its proof it not easily estab-
Ushed. a reason for it may be found in
the vogue of foreign paintings in New
York City. Several factors have slim
u1ated this general preference for for
eign over American artistic produc-
lions. Knowing that America has yet
produced few painters who can proper
" be termed great, but that EUROPE
with its hundreds of years of art life
and influences. has given TO the world
its masters in painting and sculpture
the uninitiated picture buyer is too apt
to choose a foreign painting simply be-
cause it bears a high-sounding name
which neither he nor any other man
NAV have heard of before. In many
cases these foreign pictures have beer
bought for a song in Paris from hael
workmen, and can be sold here at Z
profit for prices that would afford &
young American artist not even bare
living.
The influx of these works has not YET
been felt to such an extent in cities far
Their from the seaboard.- and therefore
IuaIlN SOQQ American pit bOSkeASs
those produced by local artists, fnc
their way to the exhibitions. The Chi
cage Art Institutes autumn show vii
doubtless be we'll worth seeing.
FraLkfurt's chief art treasure is Dan
neker's famous Ariadne, concerning
which his pupil. Professor Boyer. gives
some new information in the ''Zeitsch-
rift fur Bildende Kunst." Dannekei
intended to create a female figure OF
ideal beauty. but although we'll
known actress, noted for her beauty
volunteered TO serve as his model, ne
found it necessary. during the three
years lie was engaged on the work, tt
engage twenty-one other shapely wo-
men to serve as models for various de-
tails. When the Ariadne was com
pleted, Car Alexander happened Il
see it, and was so much pleased with il
that an effort was made to get it fol
him. But it had already been sold tc
wealthy Frankfurter, who thus saved
this statue of Germany
Nav York Post. Mr. Putnam'S sig.