The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-24
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Attic Worcester Art Museum exhibition
F. c. TarbelI of Boston won the first pEtze
fo- IN the Msrcr,' and W. SERGEANT
Kendall. OF New York. the second for
The End Of Day
The Philadelphia Press announces the
appointment OF the following architects
as members OF the COMMITTEES OF Patron
age to represent the United States at taa
NTH international Congress OF Architects:
Professor T. NJ Clark Boston: Albert
Kelsey. President Architectural League
OF America. Philadelphia. Robert S. Pea
body President American Institute of
Architects. Rastou. and Professor Ware.
of Columbia University. New York
The Longfettow travelling scholarship
for artists has been awarded To. Harvey
w. Hail. Of Revere
The scholarship is limited 70 men VIZ
der thirty years OF age residents of New
England. who arc students OF painting
and dependent for support on their own
exertions. and who propose to make paint
ing q profession. and TO artists who have
not had the advantage OF foreign study.
The successful competitor Will receive a
scholarship of $500 per annum for three
years. beginning August list. 1900.
To the long list OF works already given
; BY George F. Watts 60 the National Cal
iery there's are to be added the painting
entitled The ALTERNATING" and the
| bronze bust of "Clyie." The former is ono
OF those aliesortes on canvas that Mr..
Watts delights to paint. and the bust IS
said to be noble example of his work in
i sculpture
| hitherto unknown portrait OF Goethe
| has turned up In Germany. It Is a sketch
| and the work OF John Heinrich Ramber-.
! The interest In Ramberg lies In this: That
| his art education was English In 1TS
! Ramberg went to Germany and was ap-
| pointed Painter in Ordinary to the E5iecto-
| raj Court In 1871 the artist made Gfoethe's
| acquaintance at korner's house. Goethe,
| SO it is said, was telling those present the
| source of his Inspiration when he wrote
| Der Wandeger. Rannbers was struck
| with the enthusiasm of the poet and at
| once made the sketch The picture has re-
| mained IN the Korner family Tor CEN
| fury and has just been presented TO the
Goethe and Schiller archives ar Weimar.
| The rich beuuest of the late Baron
| Ferdinand de Rothschiid to the British
| Museum is. from a monetary point Of
view. one OF the most important recetved
| by the Museum in recent years. It Is
! valued at about T.S0A.eoo. Tho collection :
! OF objects of art. 2s5 in number, will be-
! known the waddesdon bsuuess. in
honor of the name OF the Baron's eoun-
try house.
Louis Reed, the only American artist to
furnish mural establishment for the
United States Building at the Paris
Exposition recently returned from Paris
1iShPartanpi a Inn in ir
eral there, asserting that in no way was
it to be compared.to the Columbian Expo
sition.
Robert C. Minor. whose Close of Day
brought such an enormous price a the
sale of the Evans collection of paintings,
| will be at his country place. Beechwood,
in Waterford. Conn. the Mantle river.
until November. In August. If his health
permits, he will begin painting on some
important works.
THE past season he writes. ''has been
a very trying one for an invalid in NY
position, and rest is the important thing
now
F. Hopkinson Smith sails for Europe
on June 18th. Two weeks he Will spend
painting on the Thames another two
weeks in Holland and then goes on to
Venice for September. Il shall" he says.
also make some sketches OF the exposi-
ton to Illustrate article 1 am writing
for one of the magazines"
Pert,aps the Rodin Exhibition. opened
with due ceremony by the Minister of Fine
Arts in Paris. is the highest honor ac-
corded TO any living artist, says the New
York Times Saturday Review. All of
Robins works are TO be seen. Among
them is the famous Porte de rE,nfer."
not yet finished, and over which Rodin has
been struggling for the last twenty years.
The Victor Hugo Monument Is here. and
what the sculptor has carried OUT so far
with his Balzac figure The discussions
as to Balzac have been endless The fact
is that the ideal of the great romancer. as
far as head and figure are concerned. diff
fers materially from the actual The
man who wrote La Coincide Humane
had nothing imposing in his physical
! makeup one of his admirers said. Bal
FAC looks like a retired grocer and In
French ''epiciar'' has a certain significance
by no means fatterlns. In a certain mod
ern memoir. what C;avarni thought about
Balzac's looks is printed. HE looked Ike
a Ounce was what the artist said
The total sales of the Rosa Bonheur
pictures and studies footed UP some sll2,-
CO. The highest figure was given for "A
Yoke of Nivernafs Oxen This picture
|
dogs were disposed of at fair prices, the
head Of a French sheep dog having been
, sold for 300 pounds. Strange to say. the
horse pictures brought the lowest figures.
Rowlsnd Strong. in a letter from Paris
TO the Saturday Times Review. writes as
follows of the art exhibit at the EXPOSE
: ton:
! The foreigners have not been accorded
much space. and there is no Gainsaying
the fact that the ensemble OF their show
} is a glorifcatior of French art supple
mentsng that other wonderful manifesto
ton OF French artistic genius extending
over the past ten years. which this ex-
position specially affords US. In every
foreign section d goodIy proportion OF the
pictures belong to the modern French
school. Every eminent French master OF
to-day. the CaroIus Durans. the Jean Paul
I.aurens, the Henners, the Monets, the
Menards-the impress:ontst masters espe-
ciaIly-has his host OF foreign frnitators-
And even when the pupil is not mere
| ;-,;.o-;on +ba Influence of his master, a