New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-31

divers screens masks idols and clocks The CLOCKS
particularly interesting. They quaint az
fairs. curious in design. and. being OF the East.
beautiful IN workmanship. The "sta=-: exhibit.
however. Is the remarkable piece Of decorative co{-
struction which is described IN the catalogue as
1.-THE Grand Nikko Temple Room Shic4-t-5 bes--
on view all summer AT ST. Louis c<1t IS e superb
chamber nearly 40 feet wide. 3 deep and fair
ly lofty. It's effect is improved by the quantity
OF ornate furniture scattered about within its lin
It's 1t would look frer If its IcItabIe furnishings
were reduced to the simplest terms. But not even
the excess OF chairs and tables deprive this
OF it's profoundly artistic beauty. gained from
charm OF design. from royal bat 5udicious dis
tribution OF dull gold over the wall surfaces
and from the happiest use Of refined coltr az just
the right points. To think away the obtrusive
furniture and to consider Just the structural ele-
in this creation OF Japanese taste IS to
oglize IN il OF the enchanting works OF
art seen in this country. No who cares
for new and inspiring sensation IN architectural
Nesthetics should fail see this thing. When the
Yamanaka property has been sold the American
Art Association will dispose OF the paintings LETT
by the late Robert c. Minor. ard after that OF
Wagsanan collection. from Washington. and tbs
kaufman collection from ST. Louis.
Several small -xhibtio1s are to be announced
At the Noe Gallery. Mt. F. Hopkinzon Saith -
making his regular annual show OF water colors.
The collection this season. picturesque and viva
cious always. includes not only examples o. the
artists familiar work in Venice Sketches made
elsewhere the Continent On Monday there viii
be opened the galleries Of the SalrnagUrdj Club
exhibition of paintings by Clifford Beal Emil
Carlson. Paul DoUgherty. Robert D. Gauley. Albert
I. Grou. Charles W. Hawthorne and Frederick
Ballard Williams. Fischel AdIe. & Scawartz
will open Tuesday morning exhibition OF re-
cent portraits by MIR. Wilhelm Funk. At the same
place there will be shown. early in the year,
a number OF Maine landscapes painted by Mr.. VIII
lard L. MetcaIf. who is Of the Ten American
Painters has exhibited with that organization
since its foundation and will continue do 50; but
this season makes also special appearance Of his
own.
There has recently been published in St Louis
official volume. about 400 pages thick entitled
The Art Department Illustrated" 1t gives Sc
lected list of paintings and pieces Of sculpture ex
hibteG. with reproductions OF them in halr toms
and biographical and descriptive notes by Charles
NJ Kurtz and George J. ZoIIav. An ,in1roducuoH
summarizing TIE main facts or the enterprise Is
supplied by the chief of the department.. HalSey =
Ives. and there are lists OF jure5 and H"aI1S ms
book makes = welcome souvenir or the snow
One Of the salient events in the world OF Paris
has been tho appointment Of NJ Carolus-Duran 20
the directorship Of the Villa Melici. at Rome
Apropos OF this, The London Daily Telegraph
prints the following interesting note;
The we'll known painter on taking ever bis
duties WI! nv, ne ne FT 1tv To- ire arst
he win be master hsnceforth for ne is almost alone
among modern French artists 81 Ike reputation N
not being former ''Prix de Rome Leisure 70
up for the trying ordealS OF ne y,T,
a berth in the villa MCdiCi and the occo'np%iTlIs
scholarships sUppCssS some private means; cSfe
cially 80 hardly one example Is recorded q .
card atc succeeding. al his first attempt, ana 49,.
lus-Durau- IN his early years, or rts5t', R &C.,
Cherries Ourand. he wss tnen. h1d httie IsisuIss
ana loss means II ne has been ere or The mos
successful artists CS his DAY. no OGS ever AIen
harder times at the start thHn he NJ Jules C.lTS.9
relates how having lost heart. tina young ARTIST 81
booked his passage as an emgrant 70 Aisvtl-
giving his name and recession as "Duranc, va
SON.. when a friend met him Just IS he was Rss-
pairing 10 walk NarSeilleS. rot having MONEY
enough 10 take the train and prevented his le1S'f
lending him the wbeyeW!thal t. rent a tiny Ssuu.o
for two quarters In advance ~ Paris. There CaFv.
his-Dlr2n worked away fUr.CUSly on nothing .
wear \ penny roll FREQ GSntly constituted his MI
daV meal and he often went without dinner nv
times In q week. lie recalls nowadays Rot VII.
out n touch OF pride. He. too. how ever went -
Rome though not TO the Villa MediCI, 2nd dS'SSs
from his stay there his start IN lie. He Won =,
his native Lille scholarship endowed by an aT.S,
named Vicar. a contemporary OF David. Iol -, 20
purpose OF sending young artists to Rome VIZ
they received for four years the OF q htoai
Carolus Duran. of the most brilliant sNa.1ItaIs
OF a self-nade man. Will be able point 70 hIas.
whenever his young men of the Villa Mee!cl So,
BILE, and to bid them thank Providence their ios
laid In easier lines than his WA