Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-19

the late President Mckinley was exhibited
little over a year ago in the Presidents
room at the Capitol Is now holding an
exhibition in Boston, which Is attracting
ers' College Of Columbia University, New
York, the same collection of Japanese
prints which was exhibited by Mr.. Mat
somoto In the Hemicycle of the Corcoran
Gallery last spring is being shown.
1T is encouraging to note the increasing
interest in civic art evinced by the place
which is given to the subject in the leading
current magazines, and also by the number
Of municipal art societies which are spring.
ing up In the smaller cities. Some time ago
attention was called to the excellent COM
mission appointed by the mayor Of Balti-
more to supervise and pass upon all public
works of art erected in that city, and now
Detroit and Los Angeles are reported to
have taken the same wise step, and have
called upon their ablest citizens to thus
contribute their services to the public good
In this respect Washington Is behind her
sister cities With all her beauty and with
all her future possibilities, she Is almost
at the mercy of the commercial world. The
law regulates the height Of buildings, but
IL toIerates the most inartistic facades; it
mas done away with sidewalk signs, but 1t is
poWerleSS to prevent the more unSightly
size wall signs; ii provides for the making
OF parks and avenues, but It has no CENSOR
snip over the statues which supposedly or
lament these parks, nor in some cases over
the lamp posts and electroliers which are
erected on the avenues. Some of the re-
Gentry erected apartment houses, the newly
painted side wall advertisements the Sher-
man statue and the electric light standards
IN front of the Mills building are all illus-
trations of this fact, and demonstrate the
t ueeu oi a Weil-chosen and properly. au-
tnorized municipal art commission such as
'hess other cities already possess.
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me Artists Club of Denver is holding
an exhibition of paintings by members
and others This club was organized In
1888, and since 1897 has held annual ex
able. w ~ w. - eui'
The Society OF Western Artists opens
It's annual exhibition in the Art Institute
OF Chicago on the Goth. This society in
cruces In Its membership prominent
painters and sculptors of not only Chi
cago, but many of the western and east
ern cities as veil, and it's annual exhibi-
uon Is considered one of the leading
events of the year.
ihere Will he some new features this
year in connection with the. New York
Academy exhibition. The usual evening
private view and reception has been
given up and In it's place vanishing
day will be instituted. This will be an
afternoon affair to which actors, artists,
authors and leaders of society will be in
Vited, after the custom of the Paris sa-
ION; besides which the Paris Society of
American Painters has for the first time
appointed committee to select works to
De sent to the exhibition. Thus 1t would
seem that while the academy is borrow
ing Partisan customs the Americans in
france are at last turning to the home
country Tor patronage and appreciation
1t is reported that an American has
purchased for $25, 900 the painting by
Whistler entitled Princess of Porcelain
Land" which was first owned by Mfr
Ieyland and later sold a Christie's Din
1921 for $500, and that it is now on it's
way to this country.
Princess Louise, the Duchess of Argyll.
has been asked to model n statue which
Is to be placed in Westminster Abbey as
a memorial of the colonial troops who
aided Great Britain in the war of the
Iransvaal The duchess has already exc
cuted some admirable works in sculpture
and IN painting, and she is one of the few
VINO, IN spite of wealth and position has
chung to her art and made the most of
her talents.