The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-27
Art and
Artists.


Before The expiration OF August there
win be placed in Statuary Hall. Washing
ton, statue Of Oliver X. Morton, who
f was lndiana's war governor and for
several years prominent as United
States Senator. The statue was ordered
f made about three years ago by the In
/ diana Legislature. which Appropriated
! 5000 70 pay for II, and appointed a COM
/ mittee OF three 10 have oversight OF the
I work.
The original committee let the contract
10 Charles IL Nichaus the Now york
sculptor. and he has just served notice
that the work rs finished, after many
| months. The statue - made u white
| Italian marble. tho finest ottainaNa
| 1t "a, including tho pedestal. eleven fea
| high. and shows Mr.. Morton IN heroic
slze. In the act OF delivering al grafton.
Miss Enid Yandell. author OF the suo
| cessful design I'm the recent competition
| for the Bajnotd Memorial Fountain 20
| be erected at Providence, Rhode Island
has sailed for Europe 20 begin work upon
| It at once The contract, signed July =,
/ calls for the completion OF the fountain
/ ia ten months but Miss Yandeu hopes TO
/ have q duplicate cast ready By the OPEN
ing. next April, OF the Paris Exposition
which will mean that the bronze and
permanent one has been finished. The
| sculptor goes TO Paris % execute her
| commission because there She says, she
| can get the work done best; and more
over she expects 70 have the Invaluable
| criticism OF the great sculptor Rodin,
whose pupil she was. Hiss IAN
| dell Is the first woman member OF the
National Sculpture Society OK America.
An interesting fact in regard 90 the
award IS the intense interest taken IN II
| by the women OF Providence. They were
urgent ia their plea % tho commissioners
| that Miss Yandolrs design should be So
| lected. The fountain IS to be a memorial
| 10 A wOman-Carie brown Bainotu, and
| since and these Providence women, the
| design submitted by the only woman
| competing IS admitted 90 be the peer 81
| any other offered. IT IS most suitable ard
| appropriate that IL should receive the
| award.
slenor Rodolfo Lanciani tells IN The
| Athenaeum about the sale % great pic
| ture, tho Madonna and Chlld' 81 Sanlr)
| Botticelh. which picture certainly Was ne
gem Of the Chig collection. The IidAaa
| Government supposedly e@ercise5 Soma
| kind Of watch and ward over the sails ot
rare pictures. Perhaps an effort Is made
! 80 as 10 prevent their getting into unap-
/ preciatiye hands.
The story runs that a big price was
| offered f0r the Botticcili by q foreign
| dealer. Then came a whole series oi Dlds
| from others. and nnaily u was determin,a
| % auction on the Madonna and cha
! At the sale l2co0 pounds was the maj
bid for IL, and 70 was knocked down a.
| that figure. But who bought 30 is Ut
! known Then the Minister or Public ln-
! strlctlon. IN whose hands the money had
been placed. began his Investigations as
| 10 the character II the pu chaser But tno
| Minister was not rapid enough. because
| before he could decide as 10 the moral or
| uolitical or religious standing N the puy-
| er the picture had disappeared. Sup
possibly bis masterpiece is now ia an
| English gallery, and % be shown az some
later date. SOB
H. H. statham bluntly contends that
! Rusldu never really uncesn TODD tuhei
| this was Tie most Uuhlnd cuI OK "i
| and thar il IS time thar some OF MS lalk
| about that artist should De snelFrd. Inis,
! aur,pos OF the recent OiuLdhah exhibition
OF Turner's works. Mr. Statham quotes
a RuskinesQue passage regarding ono or
| The pictures and calls 81 nouscAse ho
! finds that kuskins curious theory rat
| Turner was u real.St IS utterly rstulT4
| lac tb. eAntbltlOn. ara be also FenlnTks
| that. from The point ot view 81 the pres
| eut DAY Turner's seas ale mostly Very
! bad when such startling observations
as these are bodily printed ~ TIE Fort
| nightly Review, without appaiehuJ'
causing any great commouon, elmer as
| home or abroad, one begins to realize
that some time has passed since Modern
| Painting Was regarded a. an 4utA9Fita-
| dive work. a-. 80 /-asI
! John Collier, whose picture has made
sIch a mn ia tie Royal Academy this
| wear. is a son OK Sir Robert Collier. Who
! became Lord MouksWel. lie IS married
! 10 a daughter oil the ilte professor ItuA-
| ley and mas produced "a utAt-booN ca4'et
| - Primer ot Art" Mr.. Collier, VINO Us
| .n his niueJh year, enjoyed uuls-l4
! privileges As d. student. lie left tho s.ade
| school 10 study under j. i. Laurens ia
| Paris and when be returned 20 -us. u'i,
/ Mr. Alma Tadema painted his picture
| The SculptoTs Mode" as lesson o.
him at his own studio.
John Henry Lor.meg. the scottish gam
| ter whose picture OK 'Dlahiu7tn..
| Birthday has been bought by the
| French Government ana huns in quo
| Luxembourg Museum, is no su3jcit o..
! the leading illustrated article in ifH
! August number OF the Artist. written by
| s. q. dc scissors Ten reproductions Of
his pictures ana studies gro given.
The eminent Danish sculptor Thor
| waIdsen was, a recent bi0srapher de-
/ clares 80 modest that no would never
| wear any OF the numerous deco auons
| lhat had been given - MIN By various
| soyereIsus. one evening % s9ire@,
| courtler Suggested 10 him that etiquette
| demanded that he should wear his "rdof5,
! vnereupon Th0rWa.dsen ret0rtsd; ~
YOU arc 50 very anxious 20 sec ms oeoorl-
! uons come 90 my room ana vii show
! you the box that holds them"
! The baltimore Art Commission has 70
! fused a public gift IA the form x foun-
| tain. which was offered 10 Die city. IL
! appears that the donor had bought me
! work from a hrm OF marble cuiteIs. ana,
| In declining the gift the Art Commission
] courteously suggested that al artistic
work. worthy OF place in a public park,
! might be obtained from the hands Of
] skuul artist without necessarily ooat-
| Ing any more than a crude and inartlstic
| object from u marble cealer.