Evening star., 1899-04-01
ART AN D A R T ! S 7 S

a statue CT Ndtnan J1dte lids Decu VI
posed for the campus Of Yale University,
and Prof Hoppin of the art school has pub
lished a letter in which he suggests that
the surplus of the Yale cruiser fund be util-
ized as nucleus for subscription. He
picks out as the artist to do the work
William OrdWay Partridge, and says that
the sculptor has already made clay MODEL
for the statue to Nathan Hale, which would
meet all requirements admirably. Prof.
Hoppin suggests the approaching b1-cen-
tennial of Yale as fitting time for the un-
yelling of this proposed statue, ana points
out the appropriateness of this statue of
young man for the university campus.
Nahan Hale was q student at New Haven,
a member of the class of 1II3
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The exhibition of the Society of American
Artists, which opened in New York week
ago, has come to be regarded as the most
progressive annual show in the country,
and with the possible exception of the Car
negie display there is no American exhibi-
ton that presents SO many works of i'm
portance. Though many of the veteran eX-
hibitors who have made the notable con-
tributions in past seasons are absent, the
customary high level has been maintain
ed, and the New York papers, are almost
unanimous in commencing the display.
One of the local artists Who attended
vanishing day ventures the opinion that
while the exhibition makes an excellent i'm
wear WE'LL The Shaw fund of 81 800 was
awarded to Douglas Volk for ehis Wood
land Maid which is spoken of as his best
work since the production of his picture
entitled Accused of Witchcraft," now in
the Corcoran Gallery. The Webb prize of
$500 for the best landscape painted by an
American under forty Years of age was
awarded to w. l.. Lathrop Among the
paintings which have attracted special at
tention are Whistlers Music Room" and
the figure paintings by Wilton Lockwood,
John w. Alexander, Cecilia Beaux, Kenyon
Cox and Albert Herter, but the most note
worthy picture of the display is Dagnan-
Bouveret's Disciples at Emmaus, which
was presented to the Carnegie Art Galleries
by Mr.. ii. {. Frick, and was recently loan
ed Tor exhibition in the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts. Very few Washing
tonians are represented this year. Sara
Bartle, who is according to her usual Gus
tom spending a part of the winter in New
York, exhibits one of her charming minia-
lures, and Elizabeth Curtis, who has for
several years identified herself with the art
lie OF the metropolis, contributes two can
vases. Her picture, Magnolia Rocks"
has met with favorable press criticism.
The possibility of reproducing works of
art and bringing copies of famous master
pieces within the reach Of all has been one
of the problems in color photography that
has most interested artists and art lovers,
and the display which was placed on
view at Veerhoffs early in the week shows
the progress that is being made in that di-
rection The prints. which include repro
ductlons from various pictures and seem
cry from all parts of the world, are made
by a secret process controlled by firm
In Switzerland and a Detroit company
working under the direction of the foreign
firm. There are many difficulties still TO
be overcome before the results can be con-
sldered entirely satisfactory. For exam
pie, the coioring in the lighter parts of the
pictures Is approximately true but in the
shadows there is much of the same black
ness that invariably mars the photograph
tihted by hand In the usual way. The re-
productions OF paintings are interesting
and suggestive, but there is still room for
great Improvement, and the photogra phs
OF natural scenery are, on the whole, more
missions in southern California the actual
coioring is initiated with remarkable sue
cess
Mr.. Charles Aver Whipple, a New York
artist, who is now in Washington, is at
present busy with a portrait of Secretary
Long For several years past Mr.. Whipple
has worked a good deal here in the city,
and has painted lkenesses of many public
men, men some OF them for the departmental
collections OF portraits. Among his best
known works are the portraits of Mr. Ste
phen B. Elkins General Benjamin F.
Tracy am Mr.. John Sherman.
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Miss Bertha Perrie, who has been visit
ing in New York for several weeks, plans
to extend her stay for still longer period
and will certainly not reach home until
some time next week. The special reason
I! that mas induced her to prolong her visit
is her desire to finish miniature for which
she received the order just as she was
making preparations to leave This extern
sion OF her stay will enable her to see the
af fho Natt &
sign and several other sirnportant shows
that she would otherwise have missed.
In New York the Harris -Holbrook-
Blakeslee sale, which will take place in
Chickering Hall on the evenings of April
10 and IA, is anticipated with much inter-
est. ard 1t Is an event that will probably
draw many collectors from other cities.
The collection will be PLACED on exhibition
Th IA ahe ,at american Art Galieries next Friday.
Ihe pictures OF the Barhizon school from
the galleries of DR.. E. M. Harris, the mil
lionaire collector of Providence r. l., and
Mr. Edward Holbrook Of New York, and
OF the early English, Ditch and Flemish
portrait painters owned by Mr.. r. j.
Biakeslee will form the main body of the
collectlon. Connoisseurs always welcome
any sale In which good examples of the
men of 1880 are thrown upon the market
and the sale of Mr.. Blakeslees pictures
viii also be watched with particular inter-
est, as 1t is the first time that large coll
lection of these masters has been put under
the auctioneers hammer in New York.
Mrs. Cornelia Cassidy Davis. who halls
from Chicago and has been spending the
winter in Washington, has recently COM
pleted miniature of Mr.. Fitzmiler It is
an admirable likeness and is executed with
very delicate touch. Mrs. Davis has not
been undertaking very many new things
of late, but has been endeavoring to per-
feet and complete the numerous studies of
Indian life that fill her studio In the Mt