Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-29
il very characteristic and shows excellent
feeling for form and line.


feeling for form and line.
In review of the exhibition held this
month by the American painters and sculp-
tors in Paris. the works Of Rudolph Evans.
Everett L. Warner and w. s. Comm are
mentioned among the most noteworthy OF
those by the younger men. This exhibition
of American work Is held annually at IA
Rue Notre Dame les Champs. and among
the conspicuous yearly exhibitors are Alex
ander Harrison and Edwin Lord Weeks.
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An interesting exhibition of arts and
crafts has Just been held in the quaint
old town of bingham. Mass. Wooden
articles of utility for which the town was
once famous. colonial furniture. linen and
cotton fabrics woven on the old looms.
baskets and embroideries. were shown.
and for such exhibition no more inn
pressive setting could be found than the
picturesque bingham village with its many
unaltered colonial homes.
At the Virginia Military Institute, In
Lexington. a monument has been erected
during the past summer in commemoration
Of the cadets who lost their lives in the bat
tie of New Market. May Is. 1884 1t repre-
Sents Virginia mourning her dead. and is
the work and gift of Sir Moses Ezekiel,
native OF Cincinnati. who was student at
the institute when the war broke out. and
has now his studio and residence in Rome.
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The Imperial Academy of Arts, st.
Petersburg. is planning the erection of a
palace of the arts which shall contain
not only an enormous hall for the per-
manent exhibition of Russian works of art.
an Industrial. commercial school and thirty
work shops for competitors from the high
er art schools. but a home for the widows
and orphans of artists. and an asylum for
aged painters. The building for this unique
institution is to be deliberately decorated
with paintings and sculptures, and it's cost
about $5O0.OOO) is to be betrayed by the
Russian art societies.
A Society for the Encoura cement of Art
In South Africa. whose purpose is to do for
that country what the Royal Academy and
the Royal College of Art has for England.
has recently been formed. with Sir william
Richmond K. c. B., r. A, at the head.
school of art is to be founded at Johannes
burg under the direction of E. L. van Som
eren. and loan exhibition of Dutch and
English works is to be organized as soon as
possible. Josef 1Sraels. the veteran Dutch
painter. has pledged his support for the
DutCl SSCllOH anu olT 1QWaTQ fOynter, u.
F. Watts. Sir John Stirling Maxwell and
Gen. Sir John French are assisting in the
collection of English works.
A raid was made recently by the Paris
police upon an art dealer who produced
"old masters'' by the score. with the result
that about one hundred canvases bearing
the forged signatures of eminent French,
Dutch and Italian painters were discovered
in his shop and confiscated. When brought
to trial the dealer frankly acknowledged
that these were all forgeries but upon
pleading that no one but an idiot could
have been deceived by them was released
with small fine. This seems to have been
according to the reasoning of the small boy
who when caught fishing on Sunday pro-
tested that he hadn't sinned much. as he
had had nary nibble"
special feature of the German art sec
ton at the St. Louis exposition will be a
collection of one hundred and twenty paint
ings by Adolph Won Mcneil a painter of
high standing, whose work is, however
little known in this country. Herr Won
Mcneil is eighty-seven years old and has
been an interchangeable worker, painting
every variety of subject. An exhibition of
sixty of his recent paintings and drawings
was held in the French Galleries. Pail Mall,
London, this summer, which was received
most favorably by the English critics. and
declared to show extraordinary capacity
John w. Alexander's portrait of the ia
nous French sculptor, Rodin. which won
a gold medal at the Paris exposition of
1900. and is considered one Of the best of
his works, has been purchased by the Gin
cinnau Museum of Fine Arts.
The house in which Victor Hugo lived in
the Place du Vosges has been presented by
Paul Meurice to the city of Paris, and is
now to be preserved. with the interesting
mementoes of the great writer it contains
as Victor HUGO Museum