The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-26
Trt Votes.

The paintings shown this month at the
bIr 1Il.;l League Club, New York; are all
twenty-seven5 canvases, and they make
very agreeable. exhibition. To Mr.. Ed
win a. Abbey the place of honor has
thesNew York sc Tribune says, is a large
figure piece entitled Sylvia" illustrating
the lines from The Two Gentlemen OF
Who is Sylvia, what is she?
mat all our SWANS commend her.
Mrs. P: 6: Hanford, 81. Chicago, the cata.
logue including such names as NIurillo,
Titan: Rembrandt, Ruisdael Guyp,. Hol.
and DeNeuville.s will be offered at auction
at Mendelssohn Hall by the American Art
Association on Thursday evening, Janu-
airy Goth.
1t is expected that from 500 to 1900 ORR
glnai drawings by newspaper artists VIII
beginning March Sd, at the Hotel Wal
ton by the Newspaper Artists Associa-
ton.
The month Of January comes with no
greater regularity than the yearly exhi-
bitions at Avery's Of f; Hopkinson
Evening Post. This year. as in years
past the two score panels consist of
picturesque scenes in Venice, Holland and
ci1 1n method ue nNs ons 1T tae oW WTua
The oldest phase of the tariff on art
comments, the Brooklyn Eagle, is that
the old masters are put under the same
phael and Praxiteles are forbidden by
law b to ship hapnn Of sF on htu
it sold for a price which would prevent
the buyers from picking. up any little
other native worker MI. Alexander. the
figure painter, declares this kind of
thing degrades art to the level of coal
scuttles and patent medicines"
The Paris Chronique des Arts an
nounces the gift to the city of Paris by
the widow of the SCULPTOR, CarpeauX. Of
in the masters atelier after his death
Especially interesting are the monument
tai group erected to the memory of Ma
famous figures of dancing nymphs in
white marble on either side of the main
entrance of the opera-house.
To an American girl belongs the honor
of being proclaimed the second Rosa Bon
heur of the world, says the Philadelphia
North American. This American girl s
name is Matilda Lott, and she claims as
her home California. Hiss Lott is in
reality a Southern girl, having been born
in Tennessee, but she was taken to Cal
gold medal in a school or design. in Cal
ifornia, Miss Lott was sent to Paris,
where she studied for some tune In Julian
Academy. and later tnGer Van Marcke.
The young artist became a firm friend OF
Rosa Bonheur, and ,profited greatly by
the valuable advice of that famous ar
fist.
Frederick Mac Monies, the famous
sculptor has Just returned from Paris ar: In
an interview witIrIu New York Tribune
reporter, he has this to- say of Americas
future, as an art centrei
of course. Paris is the. best-one might
say the only-pace to study at present,
but {, time may come when America will
peans will flock for study and .s.atmos-
phere.' 1t does not take so long as. one
might ina CINE: to create an art centre
Twenty years ago Rome held the place
that Paris does to-day. When / went to
Europe to study seventeen years ago,
favor was about equally divided between
Rome, Munich and Paris. and 1t was the
influence of my master st. Gaudens, that
decided me to go to Paris. for which. IS
for many other things 1 am deeply CRATE
full.
when the time is ripe for it. undouot-
edlv a national school OF art Will be eS-
tablished and then it will not take long
to make this thc. worlds art centre. for
there is larger opportunity here than IN
any Of the old countries. France already
has her old clratcaux, with their old cary
ings paintings sculptures and tapestries
and can give little encoura cement to the
men of to-day. America has hers to get,
and with her growing love OF the fine
arts will eventually attract all the best
workers.
Il do not believe in forcing these things:
They must be q matter of growth ana
when tho natiOnal life is ready for it, tho