The record-union., 1899-12-31

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a natural impatience with work OF this
sort. and yet could but treat it with
respect. Again, the growing popularity
Of miniatures has naturally increased
the number of those who either regular
ly or at intervals perform this eye split
ting work Schedules have therefore
been issued by this new organization,
called the American Society of Nina
| ture Painters, for an exhibition of
miniatures to be held at the Knoedler
galleries, beginning Tuesday, January
9th, and closing Saturday, the .,sth.
| Mr.. Josephi is the President Of the So
ciety, and w. J. Baer it's Secretary. The
| jury of selection consists of Lydia F..
Emmett, w. J. Baer, Laura c. Hills, ].
A. Josephi, John A. McDougall and w.
J.. Whittemore. Mr.. Baer and Mr..
Whittemore constitute the Hanging
Committee.
If the municipal art movement can
make Pittsburg, Pa, a pretty city,
no other American city need despair OF
it's looks. The Pittsburg Architects
Club has taken the matter in hand.
The club asks for competitive plans
for the architectural improvement of
that portion of the city lying between
| the Allegheny and the Monongahe...
Rivers and the union station, Allegheny
County Courthouse and the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad station"
| The trustees of the Museum of Fine
l A he to, 1,H
proposed new museum building large
| picture gallery specially devoted to the
pictures of the modern American paint
ers. The contents of the present Allston
room will form the nucleus of the early
American collection.
Dismay was lately spread in Partisan
studios by sinister report to the effect
that the annual salons would not be
held next year. Artists, both aspiring
and arrived" who had already set
eagerly to work upon their intended
exhibits each with the hope of making
a grand hit in 1900, were in consterna-
ton. The art section Of the Universal
Exhibition is to be representative OF
the work achieved in all countries
Throughout the century. French paint
ers and sculptors of the latter day fore
fsee, therefore, that only a very small
number of elect will be asked to exhibit
in the Forthcoming Worlds Fair. If
the salons were to be done away with
next year, where would the great ma
jority hang their pictures and expose
the two chief art societies here has
| ! o,,I ~ 1o,V tot ION, WI =,
went up from every studio at thisdismal
prospect, and has been moved to pity.
The Salon des Artistes Francois, uni
versally known still as the Champs
| E1ysees," promises to hold its exhibit
ton, as usual, next year, and will well
come talent quite as generously as
heretofore, a motion to exclude foreign
ers in future having been rejected at
the last meeting by an overwhelming
majority. There are, it is true, con-
siderable difficulties in the way for next
year, but the society undertakes to
overcome them all. The most serious
of these is the fact that, for the present,
the so-called old salon is without house
and home, the Galerie .des Machines
having now gone the way ofTthe Palais
de lTndustrie. The society hopes, how
ever, by moving further south to be
able to secure a dwelling place. There
| is a vast expanse of waste land out by
Grenelle, which was formerly occupied
by public slaughter-houses, and which
will be leased from the city of Paris,
housing in future both the salon and
the horse show, On this a large build
ing is to be rapidly run up, so as to be
ready by April next, as both the picture
show and the Concours Hippique, will,
owing to the exhibition, open a month
earlier than usual next year. There Is
accordingly no time to waste, especially
as the society, in expectation of an alb
normally large artistic output for the
coming season, intends erecting much
more extensive premises than those Of
the old Palais de rIndustrie, which, by
the way, was already about twice the
size of Burlington House. But pictures
and sculpture will certainly not be
wanting to fill the new galleries, how
ever large, as, owing to the determine
| ton of the Champ de Mars" not to
hold it's salon in 1900, the Champs
Elysees" next year will be the only
refuge for the rising artist, and, indeed,
for the many who cannot expect to be
asked to exhibit in the fine-arts section
of the Universal Exposition-Parisc cor
respondence London Telegraph.