Evening star., 1903-08-01
ART hokEs

Scarcely has the art season of '02-'O3 been
laid to rest before the sh3dows of 'O3-'Ofs
events creep across the horizon. for though
midwfnter seems widely separated from
August, the date and character Of several
of the more prominent annual exhibitions
have been already announced.
With enterprise befttingTa New England
organization, the Cop1ey Society Of Boston
has made known it's purpose of holding
Memorial Whistler Exhibition in Febru-
ary, which shall be in every way thoroughly
comprehensive and representative. The ex-
hibition will probably include portraits OF
the deceased artist by William M. Chase
and Boldini. well as his own best known
works loaned by public and private col
lectors and will likely rival in interest the
very successful loan exhibitions which the
Copley Society has held during the past
few seasons.
The first prominent exhibition of the ap-
preaching season will. however, be that OF
125 works by members of the London In
ternational Society of Painters, Sculptors
and Gravers, which is to be held during the
month of October, in the Pennsylvania
Academy. Philadelphia. The international
society is composed of European. American
(mostly NONRESIDENT and British artists
of note and the works comprising the col
lection have never before been seen in Amer
lea. Edwin Lord Weeks, Boldini, Zorn,
Rodin, Max klinger, Carolus Duran. Thau-
to have contributed their best and the OPEN
ing of the exhibition is looked forward to
as an event of unusual interest and impor-
tance. At the conclusion of the exhibition
In Philadelphia, the collection will be sue
cessively shown in Pittsburg Cincinnati,
Chicago, st. Louis and Boston.
The National Academy Of Design has sent
out preliminary notices of the 18th annual
eXhihftfOp n he held Tap w
and of the reopening of it's school in Octo-
ber; while from the west come notices OF
the fourth annual exhibition of art to be
held under the auspices of the Minneapolis
Society of Fine Arts in the Minneapolis
Public Library, from September II to Octo-
Der II: and of the sixteenth annual exhibit
ton of oil paintings and sculpture to be
held in the Art Institute Of Chicago, from
October y to November o.
A pamphlet has been recently issued by
Columbia University of New York an
nouncina the establishment of a division of
fine arts and its scope and character This
is directly the outcome of a suggestion
made last year by Prof. Edward MacDow-
ell. the composer who is an earnest believer
In the ethical value Of the fine arts, and it
is a movement of more than common sig
nif1cance, which promises to have far-reach-
ing results. Architecture and music are
very properly included in the division with
painting and sculpture. and course of pub
lie lectures has been arranged for the com
ing winter on the history, aesthetics and
criticism of the fine arts.
With kindred purpose the July issue of
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin
was specially compiled for the convenience
and enlightenment of the general travelling
public which, during the summer months
crosses the museums Threshold 1t gives
concisely a general description of the con-
tents of the several collections and, with
out attempting elaborate descriptions di-
reefs the attention of the visitor to the most
important exhibits. 1t is neither more nor
less than 1T Dretends to be, a guide but it
fulfils this function with such clearness
and pleasant familiarity with both subject
matter and reader that it cannot fail to be
a real assistance and at the same time have
an educational value.
In London there are at present a number
of small exhibitions in progress. The Fine
Arts Society has opened it's regular sum
mer exhibition of water colors, and in the
several dealers galleries a re separate eXhi-
bitions of the works of the late ]. T. Net
tleshp. Stephen Coleridge and Macaulay
Stevenson and Others At Clifford Inn Hall.
near Fleet street a collection of nearly two
hundred Autographs of buildings in and
dDOut 1Ontlon DS lGOnaS way Is De1lg
shown, and at BailliG.s Gallery, In Bays
water. an attractive little exhibition of
drawings and designs for stage scenery
and costumes by Gordon Craig is to be
found.
At the Louvre the Bibliotheque Nationals
and probably the Museum Of Decorative
Arts exhibitions of French "primitives.'
meaning works produced in France chiefly
during the third quarter of the fourteenth
century, Will be simultaneously opened be-
fore long. 1t is said that the collection of
Illuminated manuscripts at the BibIiotheque
Is one Of the finest in the world and that
all details Of the three exhibitions have
been arranged with the utmost care.
Reinhold Begas Is reported to have COM
pleted in clay the memorial to Bismarck
which when cast will occupy wall space
between two Ionic pillars in the cathedral
nea4 the castle al Berlin A seated figure
of bismarck. clad in medieval armor and
draped, occupies the center of the panel.
before which an ornate sarcophagus raised
on lions feet Is placed. To the right of the
Sarcophagus stands youth, Fame, blow
ing the conventional trumpet, and to the
left woman. the Muse of History, Is seen
reading from scroll.
In Leipsic a bronze statue Of Goethe has
recently been erected, which is likewise
somewhat out of the ordinary. 1t Is by Karl
Seffner and pictures the great German poet
in the heyday of his youth a student,
wearing a long coat, stock. beruff1ed cuffs
and queue. In his right hand he carries. a
book and In his left his hat. and 1t would
81 en- that the statue had been erected more
r. the tickle lover than to the man Of
G.nius for on the pedestal in low relief,
are carved portraits Of Katchen Schon-
kopf. his first love, and Friederike Oeser,
her devoted friend. Some one posing as a
sage said that monuments should be erect
ed not to great men, but to their mothers
according to which reasoning 1t is more
than appropriate to dedicate the memo
| rials Of this poet to his sweethearts.
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