The record-union., 1898-12-18
ART GLEANihGS.
HOME AND FOREIGN NOTES OF
ARTISTS AND ART WORK.
Criticism - Exhibitions - Galleries
Discoveries - Painting
the Salon.

the Salon.
The ancient notion of having an eX-
hibition Of pictures refused or de
clined for want of space" by the Royal
Academy is again mooted in London
This time the Imperial Institute is pro-
posed as the refuge for the rejected.
The refusals of the selecting commit
tee have been this year more than
ever.
An effort is being made to preserve
the fine medieval belfry tower of the
Cathedral at Ravello above Amalfi,
which has been condemned as unsafe.
No rebuilding Of the tower is contem-
plated, but it is estimated that about
500 is required to prevent the old
tower being a source of danger and 10
reopen its original windows, several
of which have been blocked up during
the last two centuries. The Italian
Government will contribute in proper
ton to the sum which can be raised
by voluntary contribution; but Ravello
is so poor place that no money can
be raised on the spot beyond a small
sum collected by the local clergy.
"Those who are led to purchase
French furniture. girandoles, candela-
bra and clocks, imagining them to be
of the time of Louis XIV. or XVI, will
be interested" says the ''St. James
Gazette" "to hear that at a recent
sale in Paris of the effects of the Mai
son Beurdelay, which occupied several
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French furniture bought at high prices
the models for the bronze work for
which these pieces are so notable. A
commode by Reisener from the Hamil-
ton sale, which may be given as one
instance, fetched 5000 francs; ard
even a cendelabra Venus and Cupid.
Louis XVI. style, reached 1000 francs;
Louis XVI. clock, after Carlin, the
original Windsor Castle, $3.50 francs.
How was this copied?"
A friend of Arnold Rocklin relates
that when that eminent artist was
quite a young man he married a Ro-
man girl, beautiful and accomplished
but as poor as the young artist. Their
daily meal often consisted of a pot of
beans. Yet the artist would not sac
rifice his ideals for any sum of money
One time he painted a landscape for a
wealthy German merchant, who, as the
prospective owner of the picture, ask
ed him to make certain changes in it.
This the bean-eating painter refused
to do, though the price offered for the
altered picture was nearly $1,000
An amusing and ingenious person is
the French critic, M. Arsene Alexandra
He has been writing in what we may
call his happiest manner about the
sale Of French pictures in America. He
informs his public that when in the
early weeks of the war there was talk
of boycotting Frehch dressmakers and
milliners, artists felt little shiver run
down their backs Luckily for France"
he adds. 'the story amounted to moth
ing" And the reason for this he seems
to find in the fact that when -Ameri-
cans bought anything In French shops.
or We're served at restaurants, they
received back the exact change and no.
body said, "Vive l'Espagne, sir" NJ
Alexandra assures us, moreover. that
neither London nor Berlin nor Vienna
can ever supply the wants of Am4ri-
can shoppers" Nos propres ele-
gances" belong to Paris exclusively.
What would become of US, asks this
critic, ''if we were to lose our best
client, Uncle Sam2 You see, Australia
suffers from too many rabbits. and
can't get rid of them. But France is
more lucky, for she ships to America
her innumerable 'lapins,' who breed
and multiply in the warrens and
hutches of Vanguard, the Place Pi-
gale, the He Saint-Louis and the ave-
nue. Villiers.'" Students of social econ
omies in France ask over and over
again, with SO many painters in
France, how do they manage to live?"
Learn" replies NJ. Alexandra. that |
there are ever so many painters in
France, utterly unknown. whose pic
lures sell in the United States"
Referring to his own career, Sir Sey-
mour Haden said, quoting the Poet
Laureate: Science was exact knowl- |
edge; exact knowledge was the founda-
ton of all the arts; and no man had |
ever achieved real greatness in any |!
Of them who had not the firmest grasp |!
Of the permanent facts and unalterable |
laws that underlay them" Again. "the |
greatest artist, sculptor. painter or poet |
was he that could compel the largest |
amount of material to be subservient |
to that supreme end" These were ad- |
mirable dicta and deserved to be re-
corded. He himself had been accused |
of leading sort of dual life--of play |
ing with science and art. As a fact, |
however. he had never found his scien-
tific calling interfere in the least with |
his art practice, such as it was. On |
the contrary. science was at the bot |
tom of all of it, and, in his opiri5n of |
all good art. He would go further and |
say that his own position as A s.Gdent |
of medicine ard surgery had been sin
gularly in his favor.
young Mr.. Dabster says that he is
welded to his art"
Indeed" replied Miss Cayenne T
shouldn't have judged by his pictures |
that he was even engaged to it,
President Jordan of Stanford Uni
versity has announced that an art
studio for the accommodation Of the
University classes in drawing and
painting is to be erected at oncu on the
It is the gift of Mrs. Edward
Barron OF Mavfield. Cal 1t Will be a
one-story building, built of wood AMI
a somewhat antique style Of archi- |
lecture. One side will be almost on
tirely of glass, TO give the proper iiailt
for art work. It will have al he ap-
pliances desirable for a department IF
drawing and painting.
The Chalk and Chisel Club nr Min
neapolis has just held ? ver.- success