The Minneapolis journal., 1902-03-15
IN ART CIRCLES

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! the Minneapolis Society of Fine Rrts in the
public library art gallery will close Monday
| evening. The exhibition is free one anc
| will be open this evening and Tomorrow al
! ternoon, we'll all day and evening or
! Monday. The opportunity OF studying these
| pictures has been very generally appreciated,
but doubtless there are many who have failed
| to sec them who will regret it II the oppor-
tunity slips by entirely. 81
Minneapolis is entitled to claim in modest
J way that it is beginning to be regarded as an
! art center. The amount OF money that mas
! been spent here this winter for pictures to ne
| shipped out of town has been large and there
| is special activity just now in pictures for
| schoolroom decoration The normal schools
| all over the northwest are buying pictures
| and casts both for decoration and for study
| in their art departments Among those max
| ing recent extensive purchases at Boards are
| Stevens Point and Oshkosh normal schools
| in Wisconsin, and Spearfsh, s. D. Other
| towns where purchases are being made for
| schools and libraries are Little Falls. where
recent exhibition brought in $10O to spend
on pictures; Henderson, Atwater, Detroit,
Moorhead and Sleepy Eye. Worthington,
| Mimi, and Lancaster, Wis, are to have ex-
hibtions Of engravings and photographs suit
able for schoolroom decoration.
Mrs. Henrietta Barclay Paist has been CIV
ing special attention to the art of miniature
painting this year and has group OF i've OF
her latest portraits on exhibition at Beard
Two of these are in warm, rich colors with
dark backgrounds and these are by far the
most successful both in colorng and hand
ling. The pose and expression are easy and
natural and the contrasting types of child
hood and old age have been revealed success
fully. The dainty coloring of winsome baby
hood has been well represented in third
picture.
Tho group Is very creditable in workman
ship and spirit although some of the hesh
tones not quite true. The likenesses are
excellent, but in these dainty, trifes truth E
regard to the sitter's character seems rather
less important than the decorative quality Of
the picture. --.
A small picture painted by Douglass Volk
number Of years ago Is on exhibition at
Boards. 1t belongs to the Sawyer estate and
represents two young women in white gowns
under the apple trees of an orchard.
| For three years the National Sculpture So
ciety has not had general exhibition of it's
own. Showing at the Society Of American
Artists and the National Academy of De-
signs with the painters has not proved sat.
isfactory substitute. Accordingly, a COM
mittee has been appointed to arrange two
sculpture exhibitions this year. One will be
tional Arts club IN New York. This will be
given up entirely to small objects such as
| medals, statuettes, small busts and plaster
sketches for larger works. The exhibit will
last for a month and will include the work of
three years. -. ~. ..ara
The big event, however, will be held in
October in Madison Square Garden, in con-
junction with the New York Florists club.
The plan is to combine the two classes of
exhibits in the most artistic and harmonious
way. The entire floor will probably be ar
| ranged In the form of large and beautiful
| garden, with fountains here and there, stat
ues placed in groves, seats beside flower
| beds, and all the forms of outdoor sculpture
| framed in their most appropriate setting
Madison Square Garden is large enough to
give an excellent chance to judge Of the effect
Of large equestrian statues, as If they were
in the open air, and yet not SO large as to
hurt the effect of the smaller and less herof.
bits that designed for the surroundings
of groves and flower beds .a.t4r
The National Sculpture society includes
nearly all Of the well-known American scul-
tors and most of them have expressed their
intention Of sending work. There is partfe-
ular need of such an exhibition in order that
the public may see what has been done dur
ing the year and what is working in the
minds OF the sculptors, for there is no place
outside of the scuiptors studio where such
work is exhibited during the year.
John w. Alexander Is painting a portrait of
Edwin A. Abbey for the National Academy of
Design. 1t has been announced in Philadel--
phia that Abbey had agreed to undertake the
mural decorations Of the new state capitol
at Harrisburg. The history of the state it's
social progress and it's material resources
will be among the themes of the work
In Chartran's portrait Of Miss Roosevelt
which he Is now painting in Washington she
appears in the gown of white tuIle and silk
worn at the ball which marked her debut
last January. The portrait shows only half
the figure.
The exhibition Of the American Art Asso-
citation in Paris was held late last month and
there were many pictures worthy OF atten-
ton. Most of these will be seen later In the
salons. Among the pictures attracting much
attention are a brilliant moonlight by Lionel
Walden, showing Brittany hamlet in a
flood OF cold light. Faulkner. the friend and
companion of Alexis Fournier on his Vene-
tian trip last summer, has a Venetian mid
night that is highly commended.
?. H. o. Tanner, who is about to return for
a little visit before another sojourn in the
orient, this time In Algiers, exhibits two
paintings, lion prowling in the desert and
Christ Before the Doctors" These show
admirable brush work, rich color and some
strong bits Of characterization in the heads
OF the old rabbis.
H. s. Bisbing, one Of whose cattle pieces
has recently been exhibited here, has two
interesting landscapes with cattle.
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