Evening star., 1902-03-01
the ChiHd's life.

yet been determined upon. but 1T will
probably be the same as last year. The
following ladies have signified their wiling
ness to act as patronesses: Lady Paunce-
fote, Mrs. VIM. S. CoWles, Mrs. Harriet
Lane Johnston, Mrs. Horace Gray, Mrs.
James Mcmillan. Mrs. Nelson A Miles and
Mrs. F. ]. Newlands.
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Through the courtesy of the executive
committee of the Cosmos Club, the Art
Students League was enabled to continue
it's retrospective exhibition until today.
With the exception of the very stormy
days the attendance has been good and
much well-merited interest manifested in
it.
The Architectural League of New York is
holding it's seventeenth annual exhibition in
the American Fine Arts Gallery.
In Philadelphia the Art Clubs eleventh
annual water color exhibition Is in progress
and on or about March the Plastic Clubs
exhibition of paintings and sculpture will
open.
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In the Museum of Art at Detroit the So
ciety Of Western Artists has been holding
an exhibition. the catalog of which con-
tanned many well-known names.
On February 26 the monument which has
been erected to Victor Hugo in the center
of the Place Victor Hugo in Paris was un-
yelled. It is by Barrias and Pascal, sculp-
tor and architect, and is said to have cost
nearly $4,000.
1t Is pleasant to note how widespread the
movement toward municipal art has be-
come. In almost every large city it's prob
lens are being today brought forward and
ntelligently considered. Thus in New York
the Municipal Art Society has been showing
the public, by means of an exhibition, how
attractive such commonplace objects as
letter boxes and street signs may become
with the artists help, as we'll as suggest
ing by models, drawings and photographs
improvements to be made in parks, public
buildings, monuments, bridges and foun-
tains. In Boston the trustees of the public
library have arranged course of lectures
to be given on Mondays during the spring
on the esthetic development Of cities. The
lecturers are all men well worth listening
to and the subjects announced are practi-
cal and interesting. Among them are 'The
Proper Function Of Open Air Statuary,'
Public Advertising" "Small Houses and
the Grounds Around Them" and "The City
of Washington, Its Plans and Its Possibili-
ties.'' The last Is to be given by Frederick
Law Olmstead, jr.
William NJ. Chase has just painted por-
traits Of two of Americas most successful
end esteemed business men-Jay Cooke, the
Philadelphia banker, and brother of the first
governor Of the District, and the late Chas.
L. Tiffany Of New York.
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1t Is rumored that NJ. Chartran has been
commissioned to paint President Roosevelt s
portrait. Should this be fact it would
be subject for regret, as there are many
Americans who could do it not only as well,
but probably better.
Will H. Low is holding an exhibition in
New York Of twenty-five of his pictures.
painted from early in the spring until late
in the autumn of 1901, at Giverny, France.
and in the fore word to his catalogue he
tells the following amusing little story
illustrative of the public view point: when
Sargent was directing the placing of his
great and thoughtful decoration on the wall
of the Boston Public Library he was told
that some one desired to speak to him. De-
scending from the scaffolding where he was
at work he found two old ladies, total
strangers, one of whom, addressing him.
said: We are from Roxbury and we are
Only in town for the day and we have no
time to lose. VIII you please tell us in as
few words as possible what all this paint
ing is about?'"
In the New Gallery, London, in view of
the approaching coronation. an exhibition
is being held of portraits of royalty AL
uost all Of E,neland's illustriOus rulers from
the time of the early renaissance are pic
tured. There are in the collection works
by Holbein, Van Dyke, Titan, Lely, Gains
borough and Lawrence. but the great paint
ers are in the minority. The canvases
have been drawn from the royal palaces,
the Society Of Antiquity, colleges. etc. bui
the most have come from private collec-
tions in town and country houses.