Evening star., 1902-08-23

oociely VI american ARTISTS, and was one
OF the founders of the organization known
as the Ten American Painters"
1t has been reported that Heber R. Bishop
OF New York is going to give his collection
OF jade, which is supposed to be the best
and most comprehensive of its kind in the
world, to the Metropolitan Museum. Mr..
Bishop, who is trustee of the museum,
mas been thirty years getting this collection
together. and it's value. roughly estimated,
cannot be less than s500,000 Jade is
curious old mineral used in prehistoric times
for implements and ornaments. but rarelv
or never found in the present day in it's
original state. 1t ranges in color from a
milky white to a dark green, and is much
USED 1or JeWelry by the people of the orient.
scientists are looking forward with keen
interest to the publication of the Book of
Jaae @ which Mr. Bishop is getting out, as
dll the mineralogists in the world who have
uaoe speciality of this stone have con-
lrlputed to it. The book will also have a
very oeilnfte artistic value, as the Chinese
nIustratlons are to be by Chinese artists
anu each volume is to have it's colored
Plates painted separately. Every important
Horary IN the world is to be presented with
copy, put in no other way will they be
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Max Ringers statue of Beethoven is said
10 nave been one of the most notable works
eNhiolted this year in the Vienna Seces-
sionlsts fourteenth annual. The great mu-
slclah is seen seated in a massive throne
chalr leaning forward in an attitude of
stfalned attention. The lower part of the
Isure Is draped the upper part nude The
heau was modelled after a mask taken by
hleln during Beethoven's lifetime and has
peen pronounced altogether admirable. 1t
Is 'he combination Of materials that is the
Undue feature. The chair, which is elabo-
rate IN detail is of bronze, the angel heads
"Hicn ornament its upper edge and the
pIlhclpal ngure are of white marble and the
huse eagle that crouches at the base Is of
pIaCh Ia ~ stone. The cost of material alone was
i9ooVU marks. and the execution occupied
.ne sculptor fifteen years. Joseph Brucker
tne commissioner to Germany of the Lousi-
ana purchase Exposition, it is reported is
tehhoeaVorlng tho to obtain this monument for
me .he exposition, and there is some talk of
LIS LIS hIolng a permanent home in St. Louis
Inc sculptors price is 100000 marks.
since the unveiling of the Rochambeau
STATUE movement has been set on foot by
the ltalian-American Society to raise a
fund for the erection of a grand monument
10 columbus in this city. The plan is to
nave all the Italians in this country and in
hoa1y unite In giving the memorial.
Inc members Of the National Sculpture
Society have been invited to submit sketch
niooels 1or monument to Col. Alexander
Leroy Hawkins, veteran of the civil and
spanish war, which Is to be erected by the
iiiehlorlal association Of the 10th Pennsyl-
Fdnla regiment. The cost is to be 500 600
anu she committee of selection Is to be COM
pos posed or Daniel French. Thomas S. Clarke
and John w. Beatty. That II shall he a
portrait either bust or statue. and hear
orle1 war records of the eight companies
composing the regiment are stipulated.
According to a lately issued report, the
boston Museum of Fine Arts has expended
ourins the last eight years more than $780,
Wo Tor works Of art, and has received gifts
Oh otner works whose value will aggregate
an equal amount. This is an interesting rec
ord OF rapid growth.
M. Humbert has been elected to succeed
benjamin Constant as a member of the
Academic des Beaux Arts, receiving eisb
teen votes against the thirteen cast for
rrancols flameng. He is portrait painter
Oh considerable note, and has executed
some distinguished work in the Pantheon.
Ihe Greek government has been the re-
clprocant Of two valuable gifts lately. NJ.
Glymenopelos collection Of coins which in
cludes nearly complete set from Constan-
tine the Great to the last Constantine.
eleven hundred in all, and NJ. Karapanos'
collection OF bronzes, inscriptions utensils
etc, excavated at Dodona in Epirus and
ArtemiS at Corfu
The "Athanaeum'' strongly depIores the
new rule made by Lord Lansdowue in the
administration of the National Gallery
whereby no picture may be acquired with
out the unanimous consent of the trustees
declaring that ''it will definitely prevent
any hope of keeping pace in the future
with German public or American private
enterprise" Where every one has to be
pleased, it contends, only works without
strong individuality can be agreed upon
The lament was called forth by the fact
that at the present time Piero di Cosmos
Flight Between the Centaurs and La
pthae," a work of rare value of the italian
school of the fifteenth century is on The
market. Some of the foremost Britisb
artists have petitioned the gallery to pur-
chase it, but no action has as vet been
taken. Would not this be a good time TO
display some of that American enterprise
and illustrate the Importance of the Atha-
naeum's standpoint by a little object les
son?