Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-26
A R T N OF Els.

To George Gray Barnard Of New York
mas been awarded the commission for all
the sculpture for the new capitol building
Tor the state Of Pennsylvania. This is
PROBABLY the largest commission that has
ever been awarded an American sculptor.
and for its execution Mr.. Barnard is to
receive 100000 sum sufficiently generous
10 allow him to~put forth his best effort
nnhampered blythe usual petty economies
Mr.. Barnard was born in Bellefonte, Pa,
May "a, 1853. studied in the Art Institute Of
chicago and the Ecole de Beaux Arts in
Par1s, and for ten years has had studio in
New York. Among his most notable works
are The Great God Pan," in Central Park;
Il Feel Two Natures Within Me- in the
metropolitan Museum; 1.-The Hewer,"
Maidenhood" and 1.-The Elements two
groups in Paris. He is a member Of the
National Academy of Design, the Sculpture
society, the Architectural League and the
Soc1ete de Beaux Arts, and is the instruc-
tor OF the sculpture class of the Art Stu
dents League of New York. There is in
oeed little doubt that he will execute this
important commission with honor and sat
ls1actlon. All the mural decorations for
TINS building, as has been previously an
nounced, are to be done by E. A. Abbey
ana Joseph M. Huston is the architect
mus the building>committee has placed all
OF each kind of work in the hands of a sim
gle artist, believing that by so doing better
and more harmonious result will be accom-
pushed. This Is distinctly a new departure
ana II 1t proves successful will doubtless
serve as precedent in the erection of other
important public buildings.
only suggestion can at present be given
OF the plan for the sculpture for this Struc
ture, but it is sufficient to gain concep
ton of how large an undertaking H1r. Barn
ara mas accepted. A bronze group of colos
sal slze composed of horses and figures,
The Apothesis of Labor" is to stand in
front of the dome, upheld by four pairs Of
marble caryatides, IMPLYING the forms of
labor which have played prominent part
in the making of the state-miners, iron
workers, lumbermen and farmers. Then,
on either side of the main entrance there
are to be large groups setting forth allie
gorlcally the primitive state of man, and
thanking the minor entrances IN the wings
are to be lesser groups made up of types of
the four sects or nationalities that have
been welded together in tie formation of
the present state
OF Mr.. Abbey's work less definite plans
have been made. 1t is known, however,
that it will probably be a series of panels
on the walls of the house and senate cha M
bers historically reminiscent in character.
Mr.. Abbey is to receive for these paintings
$l50,00O which is just ten times as much
as was paid him for his Holy Grail series
IN the Boston PuDllc Library.
This state house, when completed, is to
cost no less than 81 100000, and it is thought
that it will in richness, beauty and stability
be second to none in the world.
Sculptors of all nationalities are invited to
submit designs for monument to Admiral
de Ternay and the 500 soldiers who came
with him to this country, which is to be
erected in Newport on the site where they
landed-the old wharf below Fort Chaste-
lux. The corner stone was laid with ap
propriate ceremonies on the 18th of this
month. the anniversary of the debarkation.
Full particulars can be obtained concerning
the competition by addressing the secretary
Of the De Ternays monument committee,
No. 1873 West 34th Street, New York.
1t is not often that an artist is urged to
take more for a work than the price he
himself has set upon it, but Rodin the
French paintef-seulptor, recently expert
enced this novel sensation in connection
with the sale<of his bronze statue of St.
John. which tie British artists combined in
presenting to the South Kensington, or as it
is now calIed,s the Albert and Victoria Me-
mortal Museum. Sensible of the high honor
that was being paid him, NJ. Rodin put the
glish artists realizing that this was no
more than the casting cost insisted that he
accept $500 more NJ. Rodin expresses him
self as deeply touched by this substantial
appreciation from his brother artists, and
states very frankly that it is unique eXpe-
rience. That in 1900 the director of the
Copenhagen Museum of Art bought more
than 81 600 worth of Robins work goes to
show, however, that the Britons did not
overestimate its value.
At the Obach Gallery in London, where
modern works of art are seldom seen, an
exhibition of paintings and bronzes by
Prince Pierre Troubetskoy and his sculptor
brother Paul is attracting considerable at
teation. Among the formers work are por-
traits of Mrs Roosevelt, Mrs. Rives, the
novelist's mother; Gladstone and Sir John
Day, and among the latter's are the fine
little '"rolstoi on Horseback" which won
high commentator when shown in the In
ternatonal, sympa thetically rendered
Mother and Child" and some excellent