The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-24

biiity, says Mrs. Ella w. Peattle III
the December Atlantic" in treating
of art in. Chicago, and has led to in
creased sociability. There are painters
and sculptors to be found on some OF
the floors; on other floors there are mu-
odcians, teachers OF dramatic art, coll
1ectors Of gems and antique curlos.
Then there are clubs Of one sort and
another-Atlre Chicago Woman's Club
(Which offers prizes to artists, looks
after women in police stations, argues
publicly with politicians from the
Mayor down, writes papers and enter
tains royalty on occasion). Then there
is the Fortnightly, also woman's ciup,
which has a history and a rigidly linn
tied membership The Caxton Club has
its exquisite suite of rooms there, in
which 1t holds exhibitions Of fine bind
ings. book plates, antique books and IL
Nominations. Then there is the Hun
dred and One Club, to which newspaper
folk ana other writer's belong; and q.
very well-known club of rich young
women, who for ten years have be-
friended the girls in the factories IN
ways both practical and sentimental,
to the cementing Of friendship between
the fortunate and the unfortunate
Also there Is the Little Room, which
meets once a week, at the hour when
It gets too dark to paint, at the studio
Of Ralph Clarkson, and finds comfort
in a samovar and sociability. To be en-
titled to membership, one must have
created something in the world of art.
Writes, painters, sculptors, architects
and musicians belong, and even re-
n
created a prejudice. But While achieve
ment is the open sesame to the doors
of the Little Room, once within all evil
dences of usual toll or talent must be
hidden; the clay is covered. the easel
draped, the desk closed, and the piano
locked, and hospitality rules.
The Arts and Crafts Society alone re-
fuses to meet at this rendezvous, but
clangs it's anvils and lights its braziers
in the attic of the Woman's Temple. far
above nervous neighbors. This society
is composed of men and women who
turn the rooms under their mansard
roofs into smithies,s set up kilns in
their furnace rooms, and fashion their
own furniture. They aim to do origi-
nal work or none at all, and their shap-
ing and carving, their burning and
beating of woods and metals, result in
many articles which are beautiful and
some which are unique.
John s. Sargent's portrait of Presi-
dent Thomas has reached Bryn Mawr
College. 1t was painted in London last
summer, and is the gift of the alumnae
to the College. Besides being a faith
full and sympathetic likeness of the wo-
man who has largely made Bryn Mawr
what it is, the picture is said to be one
of the most beautiful portraits Sargent
has ever painted. 1t would appear that
he is himself of this opinion, as he has
selected 1t to be one of three c. nvases
representing him at the Paris EXPOSE
ton. Before being sent to Paris, 1t will
be seen at the forthcoming annual ex-
hibiton of the Pennsylvania Academy
at which also will be hung many of the
pictures that are now in the Putsburg
exhibition.
Benjamin Champney, the Dean of the
Boston artists, will. soon have an exhi-
bition and sale Of his paintings. One
hundred and twenty five Of mis- works
win be shown. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Champney is writing book Of
"reminiscences, which will appear in
1900.
The third annual exhibition of the
Art Club of Erie, Penn, will consist Of
water colors. Besides complying with
the usual conditions of art exhibitions,
the club has at it's disposal a fund of
$1,000 which is held by the Fine Arts
Committee for the purchase, at it's dis
erection, Of pictures for the permanent
collection Of the gallery.
The German Government is said to
have acquired by purchase DR.. Schlie-
mann's residence in Phidias street,
Athens, with the intention of housing
its Archaeological Institute there.
The death is announced of M. E. Yam
Dargent, the celebrated landscape
painter. Born at Saint Servais, in Fin
istere, in 1924, he began his career at
the Salon in 1851 with two canvases,
LIE Retour' and Les Baigneuses,' .
and he exhibited from that time a
series of views of Breton scenery
Chiefly coast scenery and of pictures
drawn from Breton legends. He also
executed a number of mural paintings
in the Cathedral of -Quimper. He was
rewarded with the Legion of Honor in
1877. For many years past ne had
lived near Saint Pol de Leon.
Switzerland mourns the death Of the
artist Segantini. the Painter of the
Alps" as he has been called recently
He lived at Maloja, in the Engadine.
He was undoubtedly, as the Davos
Courier puts it, "a great painter Of
mountain landscape, and had the
GROWING grace of being genius who
had learned his art chiefly from the
fntuitions and experiences of his own
mind and heart, and not merely from
the teaching and example of others. -
He was born of poor parents, and stud
led at Milan.
10. A. Ward. in an article on '.Sculp-
ture in America" published in aims
1ee,s Magazine" says: I'm most cities
fhe multiplication of public statues has
reached the stage when the necessity
Yor- wholesome discrimination Is most
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