Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-05
ART NOTES.

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September Is, perhaps. In the art world
the most uneventful Of the twelve months,
witnessing the conclusion Of summer holi-
days and preceding the reopening Of the
art season. Judging from rumors and pat
emit signs the approaching art season OF
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more prosperous and interesting than usual.
Beginning with the exhibition of works by
members of the International Society OF
Painters. sculptors and Gravers, in the
pennsylvania Academy In October, the
schedule Of events is well filed until spring
with announcements of important occur
rences; the dealers in New York and else
where indicate by their purchases conf
oence In the commercial outlook; and the
birth of the International Art Association
ana other Kindred organizations, with re-
neWed interest In the establishment Of q
national gallery, an American salon, &C.,
manlrests increasing vitality and foreshad-
oWs an era Of progress.
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This will. Of course. have its effect upon
local art circles, but aside from the outside
world there seems promise of busy win
ter for the Washington artists At present
no special events can be definitely an
nounced. but 1t is known that in addition
to the two large annual exhibitions, which
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the leading painters are planning to give
one-man shows and that the art committee
OF the Cosmos Club has under consideration
series of notable exhibits:
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Announcements Of the reopening Of art
schools In all parts Of this country are now
attracting considerable attention, and col
lectively will be found to testify to the
progress made in art education in the last
decade in America and to the splendid ad-
vantages now offered to art students on
this side of the Atlantic.
In the matter Of endowment, and the Of
fer1ng OF awards, the Pennsylvania Acad-
envy probably heads the list. though the
Boston and Chicago schools are close Sec
onds and all seem to offer excellent oppor-
tunities for sane. academic study under in
structors OF national reputation.
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In the latest circular of the Pennsylvania
Academy School five travelling scholarships,
o. 1900 each. are announced to be award
ed next May to students in painting sculp-
ture and architecture. whose work has
averaged highest during the year. Prizes
of $500 and 500 will be given for the two
best compositions or pictures upon a given
subtect.-"Day-dreams or "a Window-gar-
den, and prize Of 800 is offered to the
best figure from life or the antique in the
sculpture class, besides number Of smaller
awards.
According to a statement In the Corn
hill Magazine, the youth Of Great Britain
has no reason to complain Of lack of op-
portunity for art study, for. besides the
Royal College of Art in South Kensington,
the University College Art School in Lon
don and the schools Of the Royal Academy
there are no less than $50 art schools and
LOGO classes conducted at the expense of
the state which are free to all.
Alfred Gilbert. the well-known British
sculptor. is going to open a school of sculp-
ture IN Bruges. Belgium this fall, which he
purposes to pattern after the old studio
schools Of Renaissance days. Mr.. Gilbert
intends to have his pupils work with him
and to execute his own works in their pres
ence. In this manner during the coming
winter he will complete his statue Of Queen
Alexandra and also the Victory" which Is
for Leicester.
In the current number of the Century
Magazine is a little poem by Mrs Alice
Archer sewall-James which possesses all
the Intangible beauty and charm Of her
more familiar paintings, and is in turn
equally as original and artful. Though for
several years g. nonresident, Mrs. James
may still be counted among the Washing
ton artists.
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color etching by Mr.. Howard Helmick
of this city which was exhibited last spring
in Chicago Is now on view in Veerhoff's
window. 1t is called Memories" and pic
lures an old violinist standing before an
open piano. This type of composition is
rar IA nf lint.
ers have become illustrators. and seldom
can q better example of the possibilities Of
color etching be found.
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Following close upon the heels Of the
practical adoption of the pointing up" ma
chine, that marvellous device which en-
larges with surprising precision a tiny work
Of sculpture to colossal proportions, comes
the invention of an equally wonderful re-
ducing' machine which works out the con-
verse of the proposition. This last is the
invention Of an Italian, and not only re-
duces and duplicates any work in clay or
other material, but is capable of carving
wood, stone and metal In the exact simili-
tude of the model.
In the Lenox Library. New York. there is
now on view a collection Of colored plates,
published by the Arundel Society. of works
by italian masters of the fourteenth, If
tenth and sixteenth centuries; and in the
Aston Library there is an exhibition Of ap-
piled art.
The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard Uni
versity has just issued a descriptive cata-
logue Of the collection of bronze reproduc-
tons Of Italian and French medals of the
Renaissance which was recently presented
to the university by Horatio Greenough
Curtis. This catalogue has been prepared
with the purpose of making the collection
Ineligible and available to the general pub
lie, and thoroughly demonstrates the value
of the gift. An exhibition of Whistler
etchings will be opened in the Fogg Mu-
scum this month. The collection will con-
sist of two complete sets, one of which the
artist himself chose for the university. =
A number of fine examples OF the Bar
bizon, modern Dutch and other schools, Sc
cured during the past summer in Europe
by DR.. Leslie Ward of Newark, N. j., for
his private collection, which already con-
tains many valuable canvases, are reported
to have arrived in New York last week
Among the most important of the twenty
five paintings are a canvas by Millet. three
nv CorOt two bV Dupre an Isahev Diox