The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-02-24

3le exhibition and sale of the Clark coilcc
| ton has attracted the attention OF artists. as
| well as the general public, 70; the last two
! weeks. This collection has been especially
notable for the fact that it was exclusively the
work of American artists auG large of A Int l.
| lean subjects. OF COURSE some our strongest
men were representa- only by unimportant
! productions, and agai some few artists lnny
| req ret that they do not paint AZ well now as in
those fifteen year-old eXhib tiCns Of their
| genius. but nevertheless the anne rcan school
was, on the whole, very well represented.
W insiow Homer's robust, picturesque work
was shown in thrty-Gne cunvasscs, and George
Junness, OF course, was there i'll all his moods.
The pictures, on the whole, brought very good
prices at the sale. The metropolitan Museum
mere secured several representative canvasseS;
the CorcOran, in Washington, bong mt Ii humber,
and the Walters gallery, in baltimore, is also
the richer Ior the sale. One New York artist,
who's. work brought several thousands at the
au 1tion, said to II brother artist the other day,
i'll reply 10 an Involuntary exclamation of sur
prise that he had not been with his father dur
ing his last illness. in Chicago, lately didn't
go simply because actually hadn't the money.
People will buy ut IL sale like Clark's, where
competitive biddi gives i. certain cclat TO
subsequent possession. but they won't come to
the studios, as Clark did, and encourage sin
ce'e worker when the market is duil,'' which!
unfortunat ly is only too true. The American
Water Color Society's annual exhibition is now
i'll progress at the Academy Of Design and is
unusually good. F. Hopkinson Smiths work
in water color has just been withdrawn froEl
the Avery Galleries, and the Havemeycr col
!ccti il has aiken its place. Hopkinson Smiths
work is charming; his sunlight is the sunnicst,
his water the wGttest and his skies the most
truly atmospheric of all our brusi-woriers il
water colors. The galleries are always crowded
while his work is on. The "Black and White
Club" and numerous minor societies in
evidence now, and the Architectural Leagues
fourteenth annual exhibition is attracting The
usual crowds of sincere students, as well as
casual sight-seers.
At Albany the usual routine obtains, and
fiuctuation in the political market is ins antly
and keenly felt here in New York. General
Varnum has been appointed us Surro9a ate
Arnold's successor, the latter having oppOr-
timely resigned before the investigating c2ln-
mttee got Iairly to work on his affairs.
The Police re organization bills are still W.
der consideration, and Senator White is still
struggling with his Civil Service measures
which, in the main ARE certainly needed amend
ments CT existing conditions. Representatives
of t. Forest Preserve Board are claGorirg
for the creation of big State parks in the Cat
skill an9 Adiroudacks; Assem- lyman CALI T.
for State training ship, ana Senator Grady is
manfuly working along his special anti-street
and corporation lines. etc, aimGst' d int!ntum.
ApropCs of t0c last, one notes, with s:nic,
perhaps, the increasing by numerous notices
of industrial combinations of most widely diff
fering character. The four hundred million
steel com bination; the American Beet Sugar
Syndicate: silk ribbon trust: Il peanut "rreez3-
out, (rumors of which has lately struck terror
10 many an Italian hearth and the n ost unique
Of all. perhaps, being p opposition coming
from Cleveland, o., 10 form gantic hot
trust. taking in all the hotels, closing number
and advancing prices all along the line. But
hotel men here laugh ut the scheme us inprac-
ticable, so possibly there are Il few years of
comparative peace still i'll prospect for the uu-
fortunate mortals who belong to no trust or
combination, and must therefore frequent the
less expensive of these stopping PAGES.