Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-11

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opinion OF some. tbs best portrait Mr.
Thorp has Daintedee6 Mr. Morton.
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The number Of art schools ana art stu
dents is specially noticeable at this time OF
year. when the art Columns Of tho leading
papers of both the eastern and western
cities are largely occupied by accounts OF
closing exercises and student exhibitions
while close upon the Heels OF these notices
come the announcements Of the summer
schools. These vacation schools are scat
tered from Maine to Virginia. and offer in
each instance peculiar attractions and adj
vsntages. but the most novel Is perhaps
that OF the New York Academy of Design.
which Is to be conducted during July and
August by Mr.. George w. Maynard on tho
lots at Amsterdam avenue and Tooth street
upon which the academy Is some day to be
built. Here. out Of doors, in what has be-
come almost the midst of a great city. In
struction will be given daily, the weather
permitting. In drawing from the draped
model. still life and in landscape.
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Two rather. significant movements have
been recently inaugurated in New York.
Under the leadership Of Mr.. William Ord
way Partridge about twenty sculptors have
seeded from the National Sculpture So
ciety and founded what Is called the
American Sculptors' Society" the object
OF which Is avowedly Ito promote and
foster the work OF American sculptors,'
and at the suggestion of Mr.. GutZon Borg
lrm. and as result of a meeting held in
his atelier. Fine Arts Society" has been
FORMED. the present aim OF which, 1t Is I'M
derstood, is to weld all the smaller annual
eA ambitions into one large exhibition similar
to the Paris Salon. besides inc 1entally pro-
noting the interest in art in America.
The prospect of establishing an American
salon, SO long as there Is no building in
Which 1t could be held seems still somewhat
visionary, but an earnest of the sincerity
and energy of the organizers of this new
Fine Arts Society is given in the announce
ment that they have already arranged to
ton OF the most important art works now
being shown at the st. Louis exposition.
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Much interest has been excited abroad by
collection Of forty pictures of London and
Monet. and now ON exhibition in Durand-
Ruel's Paris galleries. They are extremely
impressionistic, and have hence given rise
to hot critical discussions. but they are said
to ''exhaustively set forth the possibilities
in color and mystery of form which can be
found in a city fog and similar atmospheric
conditions.
Mr.. John s. Sargent has in the present
Royal Academy exhibition In London three
water colors which are said to be uncom-
monty clever and charming, and which, by
the way, have led to his being elected a
member of the Royal Society of Water
Color Painters.
The Louvre has recently been presented
with valuable collection of mustard pots
which was got together by NJ. Herbert of
Paris. This seems almost as absurd a fancy
as that of Mr.. Stockton's fictitious queen
who collected for her museum nothing but
buttons and button holes.