New-York tribune., 1903-03-29
FOREIGN ART STUDENTS.
Namy Parts of World Represented
at Philadelphia Ac0demy.

hnt surely however, the art schools OF TINS couh-
trv have been gaining in popularity among IoI-
eigrers When Nahm Jossinovsky, RUSSIAN
xho learned art from the rudments up in an
american art school, returned to Europe 10 capt.
ttre a prize for sculpture at the Beaux Arts III
Paris he showed that the New World was aoou'
20 compete with the Old in an unlocked Tor
direction.
T,ut If wouId have staggered the most entnu-
S-astic believer in the ability of this country 10
A,tstrip all competitors in an even race hao IL
been asserted that some day all natloIis "oOAu
sp~d their sons and daughters to slt at Ine h1
Of American teachers of art and learn the secret
OF Transforming nsensible pigments lhto N'Viu
aartIayais of picturesque supjects-
Nevertheless, many declare TINS very thAn6 40
corning to pass On the roll of the Academy U!
r-t,o A-+s in PHILADELPHIA are the names OF
1,pgIishmen from Yorkshire, Scotchmen 1ro"
V1asgow Irishmen from Cork, Frenchmeh HUH
,Iaris Italians from the shadow OF the Ea'ic0'
Germans from Berlin. Dutchmen from AnIs'eA
dam Russians, SWedes, AustrallallS anu oSI'
hans. ..Io
No student acknowledged Spain as MS la'n
hnJ until recently, when Juan Carrero arflFeo
md got y plaCe in the classes. on the very S''ie
so,, that C,arrero's long journey from europe III
so..rcb of an art education brought him TO Tic
nr,ce of Curator Pierce, of the Academy OF i'e
krte there came to the same mecca al INV
skinned dark eyed young girl from Porto iNiCo'
The two met in front of the curator de9N "
>uIIet headed Spaniard bent on Wrestlhs iioiii
A,a copouerors of his countrymen the kno"ledse
mat would make him the peer OF feiliilsui"i
artists and the pretty Porto Rican girl glowing
Nth nride at the thought that in seeking au-
,,,ission to the American art school she was out
taking her place among the daughters Vi 'Ne
iatfor that claimed her by adoption
ebe and the Spaniard were set to work unoer
4he direction of of the sub-teacheis' an ,u-
eauced student, to learn the Is I OF palh'lis
how to place the pigments on the pa1etlS' h""
n trId the brush, and how to mix the coiors-
It is one of the pecuiiarities of tins American
school Of art. and one that may explain III p'I
,.bv this country is attracting the students OF
ell nations that no previous knowledge ol arr -
q condition to admiss on to the classes. ohCe Il
4as necessary for applicant to nave al le"o'
oassed the rudimentary stage hefore heihs Gil
roIIed as a student at the Academy OF HE al 10
Rut If was found when the teachers took the
nav student in hand there were many eFFois III
training to be eliminated This proved so tife-
Soma ~ the directors that it was voted less
troubIe to teach the rudiments in the schooi anu
so a student now enter VINO mas no ihoie
notion of art than a Hottentot, ana be IaC6hI
painting or modelling from the beginning
When Carrero and the Porto Rcan girl began
work at the school they took up the course or
studv where two Chinese students who attend
the classes had begun their tedious climb up the
artistic ladder These Ceestials were the first
Cinnamon to enter the school They have mace
phenomenal progress. No more striking in
stance of the way the fame Of American art
schools has spread abroad could be cited than
this Of Chinese youths coming to the United |
States to acquire an art education.
The Chinese art students are brothers. They
had only sufficient money to pay their way to
this country and the fees for admission to the
academy They had to find some way to live
while learning to draw, and they opened a
laundry in the neighborhCod of the academy, and
with the pUdding persistence of the race washed
and ironed shirts and collars at all hours OF the
d;!y and night. attending the classes regularly,
working as earnestly the most ambitious stu
dent at the academy and sleeping no one knew
when for the lights never out at the laun-
dry and no time lost at the school. William
NJ Chase who is a member of the faculty and
one of the instructors, has been much interested
in these Ceestials. Their life plan is to return
to China with the knowledge acquired here, and
csta bsh in the East a school based on
Occidental principles.
This year there are five travelling scholarships
to be awarded. Each is valued at $1,000 II
one of the Chinese students wins scholarship
the art schools of Europe will be treated to the
astonishing spectacle of a native Of the most
backward country in the Orient travelling the