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Miss Paula b Himmelsbach has won
the Pennsylvania Academy traVellas
scholarship prize of $500 this year. rms
is the second time it has been won by d
woman. Iii the oldest travelling scno.ar-
ship for artists in America. Inc iHsI
winner was Thomas Sully.
The Monument Association OF Indiah-
apolis are about to erect a monument 70
the memory of General Lawton- Ihes
have applied for advice in regard 20 etlI
artistic character of it TO the NauoAaA
Sculpture Society.
George Foster Peabody has given TO tne
Brooklyn Institute OF Arts and sciences
marble bust of the Virgin Mary oy
William Ordway Partridge. The orlginal
study for the bust, which was mace a n"nis
ten years ago. was shown III the rams
Salon Of 1888.
The Rotch travelling scholarship OF
s20lO, awarded annually by the bos1oh
Museum Of Fine Arts, goes tEls year ~
Mr. William l. Welton whose aesLsh 10, tot
| a public bath-house was judged the pesS
in tha competition. The prize OF tne
Boston Society of Architects, amounting
to So. which goes with the second pest
design was awarded to Mr. Charles w.
/ Killam The holder of the scnoiarshle -
entitled to two years STUDY ao,oau.
Mr. Edgar V Seelee, OF Phiiedeiphla'
! Mr. walter Cook, of New York. and Mr..
F. Joseph Chamberlain, of Boston, COM
/ prisine, the jury of award 10 decide the
f; prizewinners.
| Anent the exhibition of the Landscape
/ paintings of the late Frederick E. Church
e 4D-I- NTaE
now on at the New YORK -NeIroto ' li,S'..
Museum, the New York Times Saturday
Review says:
This period of American art was, OF
course. only formative one II could
not long exist. and the artist OF to-day
has to make his own way without any
special patron, notwi hstanding the tool'sti
extolIiug of certain MISUNDERSTANDING
as art patrons this past season. Condi-
sions were different during the PERIOD
! when Church painted his more notable
canyases and it was fortunate for him.
that they were All this "Reminiscences
is not intended as any reflection upon the
memory of the landscapist, or in any way
IN wound the feelings OF his devoted
friends. of whom few men of his time
had more Church undoubtedly played
an important part in the development or
American art. for, with Sanford, clifford
kensett. and, little later on, with Crop
sew and G3iersadt he carried on the art
Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand, and
advanced it. He was also the first
IaudscaDist to bring 20 the attention OF
the American public the exceeding rich
ness and beauty Of the tropical landscapes
of South America and the grandeur or
some of the wild scenery OF the south
and West Crude as some OF his work
! now seems, and thin or lurd as his color,
| he was unquestionably painter OF ability
, and of imagination.
! dorado Taft writes from Paris TO the
Chicago Record that country which can
| offer works like these of Whistler and
Sargent and Cecilia Beaux, OF Abbott
| Thaver and Winsiow Homer. Of Chase
and Alexander of Benson and Tarbetl
and Vonnoh, of Abbey and Melchers and
McEwen, of 1nness and Homer Martin
and Harrison and Davis and Theodore
Robinson-a country with such artists
makes no pitiful showing, even in Paris.
I'VE need not apologize to any one says
the sculptor You are glad that you are
an American"
| The exhibition of Rosa Bonheur's works
! at the Hanover Gallery, London, contain:
nearly 2Oo0 of her sketches, studies, oil
| paintings, water-colors, drawings, &c
At the Goupil Gallery in London tht
chief attraction OF the spring exhibition
was weird joke by Whistler, which Is
thus described by the Artist for June
A gruesome monster with human head
a. scaled back and a grffin's claws, play
! ing a tune on a wonderful instrument
Money-bags are placed on the instrument
and gold coins are profusely spotted abou
| the whole picture. This curious work L
said to have been the sequel of Whistler:
quarrel with one OF his patrons
rT,iff1r,,
collection of gems had been sold, that
would eventually find its way to tn
American Museum Of Natural History
and that the purchaser was j. Pierpon
Morgan excited much interest in ar
circles, says the Boston Transcript. Nj
Tiffany himself said that he knew moth
ing whatever about the matter eXcep
from the published report. Neither wa
he quite clear as to just what wa
meant by the dispatch. The report tina
the entire exhibit had been purchased
however, he declared preposterous
{ Various articles were sold before IN
exhibit was taken to Paris when the col
lection was .placed on exhibition here
These were sold subject to the condiuo
that they were TO remain part OF tn
. exhibit until the close Of the Exposition
but their previous sale would proven
the diposal of the collection as an entirety
There is in the exhibit, however, Specia
E hiSlOrlcai cOl4ection, 4HctuuliiS 9E-~'tt- ,
of jewels from the earliest times. II
possible that this collection may hav
been sold, but. if SO, no informatto
regarding the sale has yet come to Nj
: Tiffany
Turner'S 1.-THE Mouth of the seine-Qutl
. leboeuf," the latest purchase of the Bos
!, ton Museum of Fine Arts, came from
! collection in Liverpool. II is alluded t
bv Ruskir in his Modern Painters bu
+ his comment probably has reference t
y the original water-coor painted in France
5 from which the oil painting was subse
: quently painted, with some slight modi
fcations-
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