The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-04
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..An annual exhibition. entitled the new
gallery, will be held under the auspices OF
the Boston Art Students Assoclauon' III
Copley Hall, Boston. beginning with the
autumn of $780, Thus reads the opening
clause in, a preliminary announcement of
what promises to prove an important tac-
tor in the future OF American art in
Boston IT seems that five ,well-hnoWn ar
lists of that city were selected to choose
twenty other artists who in turn elected
seyen Jurors for the first exhibition. At
ter that the exhibitors of the. first will
themselves elect the jury for the succeed
ing exhibition, and so on, the belief being
that in this way all danger of clioues
will be successfully overcome. Here is the
first jury: F. w. Benson, Frank Owen
eek. Wilton Lockwood, E. G. Tarpell.
T. W. Twachtman, r. P. Vinton. ana J.
Alden Weir. Original works In oil, water
color, pastel, and sculpture will be shown
More explicit details will be sent out
later.
A special correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Record, writing of the paintings OF
celebrated French artists, when are 10
be shown at the Paris Exposition, says:
Carolus Duran's sketch, as he calls
his Fathers is a landscape domlnaled
by a rather heavy cloud, suggesting All
old tapestry, the bathers being but an
excuse for touch of warm color in the
foreground Bouguereau's contribution. IS
one of his pink and white babies. nttie
more pink and q little more write than
usual, in the arms of a pink ana White
mother whose hands are as irasne
as her color and who is of the ait,sether
impossible and popular order dehhet
has an ssAlsa tan Peasant in his uSuai
manner. and NJ Humbert, who IS in pro-
ces<; of painting four large aecora tons tor
the Pantheon, has two excellent portraits.
s .Tcurorpa'' By Weber IS Il new ana NOT
altogether agreeable conception OF that
neurological subject. in which an III uiia-
ted bull. which looks as if he would pet
ter grace a Spanish arena. Frances hilsu7
w through a gaudy field. the frightened
Europa clinging wildly and ungracefuny
to his horns.
The splendid scene on the Grand Canal
Venice, by J. NJ W. Turner, bequeathed
| to the Metropolitan Art Museum by Cor
neliils Vanderbilt. IS finally placed III gal
| lery two, between the other two canVaSes
by that master already owned by tfat in
| stituton. It is q tine example III Wnat IS,
perhaps, Turner's best-known vein The
glory OF that liquid highway which ever
repeats back with many ripple and dis
tortins swirl the gayly bedecked crafts
and darting gondolas, the creamy Whtte
palaces. and the glorious sky overhead
was one that appealed again anu again
to his eye and his imagination, Dul not
| often more successfully than IN thss csih-
vas. The group now comprises important
| examples of three periods Of that erratic
| master which should be left SIDE by slae
as a perpetual object-lessou TO students
| and art lovers IN general.-Ne" YORK
| Evening. Post.
Frank Wilbert Stokes enjoys the dis.
| tnction of being the only artist mat mas
T.! painted arctic scenery directly from ma
| ture. His first trip was made 10 the
| polar regions with Professor, Hetlprln. VINO
| conducted the Peary relief expedition
His second was made with Peary himself
| on the Falcon, when he spent over q
| year in the far NORTH, studying the var
! iocs phases Of that far-oR land. ITS
! brilliant sunsets, sunriseS, its bays oat6eo
\ with moonlight, its ice foes. dyea now
| blue, now green, now purple, It's lnt eres--
| ing, if not comely. fisher folk. NJ. Sick.
| es' pictures, si-ty-eight in all. have been
exhibited in London.INew York and Bos-
ton, where they were deeply appreciated
The American Art Association announce
the exhibition and sale or collectlon
! of valuable paintings by eminent olu
l masters Of the English, French, butch'
] Flemish, and italian schools" for tna
| first week il March
.The Holy Family by Rubens, which
| is now exhibited at the Ftshof ART
rooms. New York. is Weil-sino"n exam exam,
| pie of his work which formerly oe!chseo
to the Leigh court collection, whlch was
| sold simultaneously with Lord Methusn >
collection at Christie's year since: me
| canvas is a large one, measuring ieee
| inches by 6 feet inches.
! The $780, eco maintenance fund to care LOT
I J. J. Abrishts gift to Buffalo IS assuffs gu;
! Already S6s,O0o has been subscrioea, a nv
] those in charge believe they kno" u IN,
| sources whence the remaining s32,Se VIII
| be Forthcoming.
| The Brooklyn Museum has already rais-
I ed, by general subscription, $500 Q. .as
! $4,000 necessary for the purchase CT .ne
| Tissot collection.
The Paris correspondent OF the New sss
/ York Herald writes as follows:
/ The sixth annual exhibition OF the
! American Womer' Art Association. Oh
PARIS, at No. Rue Cheveuse, mas
been a great success Never before nav nave
/ American artists as bods. sivep such5
eviYence of talent. effort and o st
i That there are and have been IN inc Q
French capital a number OF them WINS
1 have won name for themselves ! on Do =,
/ sides Of the Atlantic is perfectly wen
] known. but that the Association was ca p
/ able Of turning out 50 much good work
/ must have come as q spzprise to many
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q !Doub, full Compliments.
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