Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-12

portant ones in Client, Budapest, Rome and
Venice. Then there is the well-established
SeceSsionists show at Munich, conducted by
the omewhat radical young painters, and the
exhibition of early Flemish art at Bruges.
In Vienna unique exhibition devoted to
art in the life of the child is being held
which is said to be specially interesting.
Carved toys of the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries are shown, besides all
manner of modern wall pictures books and
other devices which go toward the making
of model nursery. In the department of
works produced by children themselves, the
best things are said to be those sent by the
school children of Minneapolis. The Ameri-
can section in the great arts and crafts
exhibition at Turin has also been de-
clared exceptionally fine.
X
1t has been formally announced that the
seventy-eighth annual exhibition of the Ma
tional Academy of Design will be held in
January, 1903, at the Fine Arts Galleries,
New York. AS this has been an annual oc-
eurrence Tor seventy-seven years, the an
nouncement is no surprise, but its formal
ity and early date give suggestion of how
far ahead these matters are arranged.
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Quite a number of painters are, in fact,
already at work on pictures for the Louisi-
ana purchase exposition, which is TO be
held in st. Louis next summer. This prom
ises to be an even greater event than the
Buffalo display, which outstripped all pre-
ViouS exhibitions in the comprehensiveneSS
OF its art department. and German, Con-
rad Alberta by name. who has been travel
ing in the United States for some months,
has written to the "Morgen Post" of Ber-
lin urging his countrymen to take advan-
tage of the opportunity this exposition will
offer to demonstrate to America the true
worth of modern German art.
The Chicago Art Institute is looking for
ward to an unusually successful exhibition
this fall. as it can offer exhibitors the ex-
ira inducement of prize of $500, to be
given by N. w. Harris of that city, besides
which the Union League Club has pledged
Itself to purchase works to the amount Of
81, 900.
From Venice comes the announcement of
the next biennial international art exhibit
ton. which is to be held in that city from
April % to October 81, 1903. Gold medals
are offered and 100000 francs is to be spent
by the municipal authorities on pictures for
the Venetian Gallery of International Art
1t is said that British painters have found
this one of the most financially profita BILE
exhibitions to which to send their work.
There has been talk in Paris of organic
ing an autumn salon, and there is now
more than slight probability that it will
be done.
Some statuary by Antoine Houdon, whom
Benjamin Franklin brought to this country
in 17S5 and who was the sculptor of the
famous statue of Washington in the Rich
mond court house, was recently dug out of
old cellar in Versailles, where it had
been buried in the German occupation in
II and, forgotten. 1t has been placed in
the new museum devoted to the art of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which
has but lately been arranged in the palace
in two rooms under the gallery of mirrors
by the direction of M. de Nolhas.