Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-06
Mass. especially manifest artistic percep-
ton and skillful rendering.

AT this season attention is specially drawn
to the art schools of this country by the
somewhat prolific accounts of their various
closing exercises ,zand exhibitions, which
occupy the columns of our American dali
lies. From these it would appear that an
appalling number of men and women are
engaged in the study of art. New York,
Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago number
them by the thousand and the smaller
cities do not seems to be much behind. In
Philadelphia the Public Industrial Art
School. in which drawing, modelling and
carving are taught, had on it's rolls during
the past winter no less than ], 100 students,
and preparations are to be made to receive
800 more next fall; and the picked work of
the PENNSYLVANIA Academy students. when
recently displayed, covered the same wall
space as the last annual winter exhibition.
In consideration of the comparatively
small number of modern paintings sold
last season the outlook is not encouraging,
but. on the other hand in the line of the
applied arts there seems to be a steadily
increasing demand and opportunities of re-
Ward. according to the report of the
cooper Union in New York nearly 81 800 has
been earned during the past year by pupils
OF that school by the sale of their work to
publishers, manufacturers and others.
II is somewhat surprising also to note
the number of summer art schools
now IN existence. There are, for in
stance the Dow School at Ipswich, Mass,
the Chase School on Long Island, the Darby
School at FIT. Washington, Pa, the
League" and the Academy in New York
city, and finally the Byrdcliffe Summer
School at Woodstock. N. Y. This last Is,
according to report, "a unique enterprise"
conducted by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead,
friend of VIM. Morris and pupil of Rus
kin, who has bought large tract of land
nm % G6trn Of he
pose of forming settlement, not a COM
munity, to which all artists and craftsmen
will be welcome.
large collection of South Sea sketches
and designs for stained glass windows, by
John LaFarge, Is now attracting much at
tention in the Art Institution of Chicago.
The outdoor sketches were made some years
ago, when Mr.. LaFarge spent eighteen
months in the Pacific islands, during
which playtime he executed about one
thousand studies; his definition of vaca-
ton being "a time when you are not obliged
to work, but do it for the fun of it.
In New York the National Arts Club
has opened an exhibition of portraits by
Americans of the colonial period, and In
Maiden, Mass, a unique arts and crafts
exhibition is In progress.
In connection with the exhibition of
paintings by VIM. T. Richards and his
daughter, which was held in this city re-
Gently, 1t is peculiarly of interest to learn
that the state of Rhode Island has just
decided over to the venerable painter an
archipelago near Fort Wetherell off the
jamestown coast, on which he is to erect
an elaborate residence Some years ago
the government condemned the land upon
which Mr.. Richards former villa stood,
and in which many of his most charming
Newport scenes were painted. The new
house is to be fashioned after Venetian
palace, with a direct waterway; is to cost
100000 and will be about two years in
process of construction.