The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
FINE ARTS EXHIBIT
Private View Of the Minneapolis
Society Will Be Given Sat-
urday, Sept. 10,
List Of Paintings Will Be Large
Expected to Reach 200
at Least.

The fourth annual exhibition Of the
Minneapolis Society Of Fine Arts will open
Saturday, Sept. 10, with a private view
for the members Of the society and their
friends, and the following afternoon for
the public. The exhibition will continue
ming except Sunday, the Sunday hours
being only during the afternoon.
The entries for the exhibition are prac-
ttcally all in and demonstrate completely
the wisdom Of the change from spring to
fall exhibitions. so far as the question Of
securing pictures is concerned. There are
already listed $50 paintings, and with the
struggling ones certain to come in the
list will reach 200 without much doubt.
This Is fifty more than have ever been
shown in the gallery and should they
prove to be even of average size, as they
are nearly certain to be, the hanging
committee will have a very difficult prob
lem to find wall space for them.
There are comparatively few important
omissions In the list, and an unusually
large number Of new exhibitors. These
new names are not wholly nor largely
new artists. but those who have not
thought it worth while hitherto to send
pictures so far from the seaboard. The
Minneapolis exhibition by it's previous sue
cesses has made very favorable impress
sion among the eastern artists and they
are much more inclined to send exhibits
and pictures Of increasing Importance.
The arrangement of having the Mime
apolis exhibition just precede the Art In
stitute exhibition in Chicago helps greatly,
as artists, like other people, are eager to
kill two birds with one stone. Nearly
| one-thfrd of the pictures sent to Mime
| apolis are to be forwarded to Chicago and
still others have already been shown here.
Important Names.
Among the important names seen for
the first time in the catalog in Mime
apolis are Bryson Burroughs, Robert
Henri J. Henry Sharp, G. E. Brown, A. e.
| Albright, George Barse, Jr., Walter Shir
| law w. A. Coffin, H. H. Breckenridge D.
| F. Boyden, Clifford Beal, e. H. Clements,
Mrs Amelia Burgess Crafts, Georgia Tim
ken Fry, John H. Fry, Harriet Campbell
| Foss Ellen Irene Clifford, Charles Austin
Needham and Henry Mosler.
| It is a matter of the greatest interest
| that Minneapolis is honored by having
Douglas Volk's Carnegie prize picture,
In the greatest demand and is to be sent
| to Europe soon, but Mr.. Volk chose to
| disappoint others and to favor the society
with whom he worked SO pleasantly and
successfully for a number of years. This
was easily among the greatest pictures
| of last season and was the gem of the
exhibit of the Society Of American Artists.
| SS4oe~A
| exhibition that fact alone would make
| the exhibition notable Robert Henri is
another artist whose pictures were among
the choicest in the last society exhibition
| and they are always among the strongest
| wherever they are shown. Vi.
| Surprises In Former Exhibit.
A fine exhibition is assured and the So
ciety would feel a great sense Of relief
If an adequate attendance was equally
| certain. The early dates are unfavorable
| to the largest attendance, but with the
many advantages Of this plan in getting
pictures 1t would seem as If picture lovers
could contrive to be present at the exhibit
lions with little effort. It has been a
matter Of surprise to many who have un-
derestimated the local exhibitions to find
| that canvases shown here have since
scored notable triumphs in great art cen.
tiers. A conspicuous instance Of this was
the magnificent landscape shown last fall
by H. H. Gallison Of Boston entitled
Clearing Mists.'' This was sent abroad
and exhibited this summer in the Turin
exhibition, where it was purchased by
the italian government. A score or more
of the pictures in last years exhibition
We're found in the big spring exhibitions
| in New York -,