The Minneapolis journal., 1903-03-07

= One Of the most recent and important
developments of the. general arts and
crafts movement is the establishment Of
a permanent arts and crafts exhibit or
salesroom at the international gallery i
r Fortieth street, New York. It is being:
managed g. good deal on the plan Of the.
we'll l-known :womens exchanges for the
marketing of household articles.
1t will be seen readily that some dis
elimination must be shown by the man
ayers as to what articles they accept and
place on sale, and, in consequence the
average of excellence is so high that the
general buying public is attracted in a
way that would be impossible if trash and
first efforts were generally accepted. This
is not an incubator for abortive talent,
but an encouragement and genuine outlet
for we'll -fedged merit. Many of the.
smaller manufactures are also here repre-
sented, besides the work Of individual men
and women, all combining, however, in
forming collection so worthy and intrin-
sically useful as to make me very hopeful
for it's financial success. for it seems
| that such mart is just what is needed,
by the artisan and the public as we'll
| Besides many minor - workers whose
products are here for sale, one finds tiles
| from the Rookwood Pottery company,
Grueby Faience company, and Mr.. Mer-
GERS works in DoylestoWn; also pottery
from Newcomb college, New Orleans, al
Beautiful; and Dedham pottery, still being
made in small way by Hugh Robertson.
The Brush guild have here some really
powerful things by Mrs. and Miss Perkins
of New York in black terra-cotta. Miss
Mclaughlin of Cincinnati has large
number of her 'Losanti''. ware-Losanti
being the early name of that city.
Enid Yandel the southern sculptress,
who resided in Chicago several years, and
Il has lived in the east since the world S fair
1 has received the first commission from the
II St. Louis worlds fair sculpture commit"
tee. She will model the statues Of Victory
that will surmount the restaurant pavil-
ions OH Art Hill. Victory has a practical
position in St. Louis.
/ The seventy-second annual exhibition
of the Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine
! Arts which closed on Saturday last at
Il Philadelphia, was the most successful in
it's history. Ffty-siN works We're sold
4 and the attendance was most encouraging
i 4,465 people having visited the exhibition
4 on one Sunday when the admission was
free The following pictures were pur-
! chased from the: exhibition for the
acader1y's permanent collection: Ben
Fosters A Hill, Early Twilight; Walter
1 Gays Ches HELEN and La Console; Vio-
; let Oakley's June; and Albert Laessle S
Turtle and Lizards. .7..-. ...... :.: =
Jean Paul Laurens, the painter, has
completed the last panel of the Jeanne
Il dare triptych for the new city hall al
Tours. He has represented the Maid Of
Orleans setting forth upon her expedition
to reconquer the realm for France; ther
her death in Rouen. The work will be
4 shown at the next Salon.
M. Raffaelli has returned from London
where he went to deliver a lecture or
solid paints. He Is delighted with his
visit and ssays there is more enthusiasm
for them there than in Paris. He declares
he found English society revolutionizet
since his last visit ten years ago.. ant
might have thought himself in the Unitet
States he found SO much ''goaheadness.'
All the British stiffness and snobbishnes
has disappeared He attributes this t.
= the accession Of King Edward and tn
+ disappearance Of old-fashioned ideas du
+Io ;ofuopoo Of O,,oo,, vfotor{o