The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-17
ART INTERESTS

| ART INTERESTS
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A large collection Of Newcomb pot
Guild among, large consignments Of
other beautiful and artistic hand
wrought articles. This pottery is made
IN the art department Of Newcomb col
lege IN New Orleans and is one of the
most interesting products Of the arts
and crafts movement. Each piece is
individual, no duplicates being made.
IN addition to the rather familiar pieces
OF blue and white decorated ware there
is new ware with a gray brown lus-
ter covering irregularly the upper parts
OF the pieces and wholly without other
ornament.
Poillon pottery is the product of q
New Jersey woman whose husband is
in the business of making garden pot
terry: Having the materials at hand,
she has made some most interesting ex-
Perlments IN reproducing pitchers,
bowls, etc., in old colonial molds and
notified glaze finishes. The octagona1
shapes are the most striking.
Among these and other fine handi-
craft products from abroad is some en-
couraglng work from local craftsme en-.
Miss Ethel Farnsworth has Dutch
decorative wall panel in bisque entitled
rContentment, showing a little
Dutch girl sitting up in her quaint
straight backed chair holding her bowl
of milk. " ~
Miss Farnsworth also has some origin
al Christmas greetings showing types Of
little girls with their dolls. Mrs.
Bertha Lum s woodcuts in three colors
are done in the Japanese fashion and
her subjects are Japanese. Miss Mar
garethe =. Helsser is represented by
group OF fine monotypes whose sub.
Jects are chiefly landscapes.
Miss Heisser will be represented at
Boards next week by a group Of little
paintings that show her most recent
work, as they have just been sent over
from Paris. The subjects of these
charming little landscapes are all bits
from Partisan gardens, most of them
from the Luxembourg. They are great
ly varied in treatment, color and COM
position, but all will delight lovers Of
landscapes especially those familiar
with the places shown: A mellow sun
day in picture showing a long alley
Of thickset trees whose brilliant leaves
carpet the walk. In the gray distance
of the end of the avenue is seen corner
of the still grayer old palace. In sew
eral of the paintings there is charm
ing mingling Of autumn coloring with
the fresh green Of the grassy bank or
trees not yet turned. "The Mill Pond
at the Marie Antoinette Hamlet, Yer
with red-stained leaves casting brilliant
ly fiecked reflections in the family
ripping water.
Across the pond in hazy vista there
is but hint of red among
the trees. A soft but brightly lighted
picture shows beautiful mingling Of
green and turning foliage in a grove
OF trees that seem to crowd the balus-
trade of the sunken italian garden Of
the Luxembourg. The tender color is
given back in still more delicate grada-
Another picture shows the Tuileries gar
den with portion of the Louvre show
ing thrue and around splendid spread
ing thru and around a splendid spread
Several of the paintings show the
habitues Of the gardens, the loungers,
the nursemaids, the children and the
soldiers. The garden statuary also adds
to the picturesque quality.
One of Mile. Clopath's latest paint
ings is now at the Art Institute in Chi
cago, in the exhibition Of the Society
OF Western A rtists. It has been shown
already in Cincinnati and will go next
to Indianapolis and st, Louis.
Masters in Art for December has for
It's subject. John Single ton Copley, the
man who owed his artistic Development
to his own innate genius and Boston
environment. He was born in Boston in
1877 and what little training he re-
ceived in art was from his stepfather,
Peter Pelham, passable portrait paint
er and mezzo engraver Of more than
ordinary ability who introduced both
OF these arts into New England. Mr.
Of age and after that he was self-taught.
Altho the latter half Of Copley's life
was spent in England, where he
achieved great success, he did not make
this move until the disturbed condition
OF the colonies threatened to upset his
work. For this reason in l774 he
started Tor '!ong-me ditated trip abroad
to study and try his hand at painting in
England. He was in full sympathy
with the colonies and fully. expected
them to win if they acted unitediv. He
wrote in letter to his wife at the ont
break Of hostilities: 1T know it NAV
appear strange to some men Of strong
understanding that I should hold such
OIL UpIn1oH, DuI IL IS very evident to |
me that America will have the power Of
resistance till grown strong enough to
conquer, and that victory and indepen-
dence will 20 hand in hand. ~ 80 |
Copley's family Joined him in London |
on the last British ship to leave Boston
and Mr.. Copley never returned, altho
ne did not give up the hope of doing |
so tor many years. He became the |
painter of fashionable England and |
among. his sitters were members of the
royal family. =: 80
Of the Copley paintings in public COL
!ections the list shows that much the |
largest number is found in the United |
States. The Boston Museum has a fine |
collection Of Copley paintings.
The French Academy Of Fine Arts has
nominated as official candidates for the |
post of director Of the French academy
at Rome: first, M. Saint-Saens, the musi- |
cal composer; second, M. .Barrias, the |
sculptor; third, NE. tBernier, architect: |
fourth, M. Carolus-Duran, painter.
Albert Besnard,' who offered himself
as a candidate for the post of director
of the French academy at Rome, has
been rejected by, the vote of the Aca-
Now that the question Of the suppress
sion of the French academy at Rome is |
being SO extensively discussed in Paris. |
it is interesting to learn that one of its |
most brilliant directors Horace Var