The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-31
ART AND ART WORKERS.

During the year 1903 over 400, 900 visitors passed
through the gates of the Pennsylvania Museum
Theobald Chartran, the French artist, arrived
in New York last week. This is his tenth WIN
ter in that city. During his stay he will paint
a portrait of Cardinal Gibbons.
A beaten-gold ancient funeral wreath formed
of laurel leaves and berries, attached to hol-
low branch. with a band for attachment to the
head brought $40 at an auction sale in Lon
don short time ago
Frederick p Vinton's portrait of DR.. F. A.
Noble is on view at the Chicago Art Institute
recent gift to the institute is a model OF a
sarcophagus found at Sidon, the original being
at present in the museum at Constantnople
The donor is Charles \. Coolidge.
Prof F. F. Frederick has presented the Uni
versity of Illinois his painting of st. MichaePs
Mount Cornwall, England. his picture formed
part of the exhibition of American paintings
held recently at the Art Institute in Chicago
and secured for Professor Frederick election to
membership in the Society of Western Artists
The wine merchants of Zurich have decided to
form museum and library in which every
phase of wine culture will be represented. One
special feature will be books and prints and
another will consist of the utensils, ancient and
modern used in the manufacture of wine. The
museum is to be historical, artistic and scien-
tifc.
Paul w BartIetts heroic statue of Gen.
Joseph Warren has been completed and will be
erected by the city of Boston in front of the
courthouse. The figure is ten feet high and
will be placed on a granite pedestal eight feet
high 1t represents General Warren standing.
dressed in a long military riding coat and hold
ing his sheathed sword in his left hand.
The Art Association of New Orleans. newly
formed society which succeeds the Arts Exhibit
ton Club and adds the membership of the Art
lists Association, will hold its first annual ex-
hibition from Feb. q to March Il. Circulars
may be obtained application to William
woodward, chairman of the executive commit
tee. Newcomb College New Orleans.
| The catalogue of large collection of antique
furniture mirrors, clocks, bric-a-brac and other
| objects of art being the entire stock belonging
| TO the art connoisseur and dealer, c. Mccarthy,
of Boylston street. Boston, who is retiring after
! having spent fifty years dealing in antiquities.
| is now in course Of preparation by Thomas L.
Kirby The collection contains about 1000 pieces
| and will be sold in the American Art Galleries,
| No. East Twenty-third street about Feb. 10.
Exceptionally low prices ruled at a recent sale
! at Sothebys in London. Two Buddhistic prayer
wheels brought s11 each. An Oriental sword
| used by Charles Kean in "othello'' sold for s.
| and an Old iron professional cross from the
| shrine of Romanus. the first Coptic bishop of
| Abyssinia formerly in the collection of Bate
| man. went for $3.50. while a seventeenth cen
tury gilt-bronze French tabernacle door. with
the annuncation in relief, realized only A25.
Some remarkably high prices obtained
at various auction sales in London during the
year 1903. Raeburn portrait. the Robin
| son & Fisher sale, brought $4,000. In the Ham
| ilton Bruce sale two works by ]. Maris. which
| had been purchased for $1,000 and s1.75O. re-
! spectively, realized s1S,125 and IS 10. Mat
| thew Maris which originally cost $780, went
| UP to So 975 other high prices at one sale OF
another were $49350 for Romney, s29. 400 for
| Sir Alma Tadema's Dedication to Bacchus'
and Sill, 900 for four panels by Boucher These
are startling figures compared with the prices
| that ruled decade ago.
| Miss Emily Sartain. principal of the Philadel-
| phia School OF Design for Women, has been the
| recipient of a letter from the Department OF
! State at Washington Offering to designate hel
| as a delegate from the United States to the In.
| ternational Congress Instruction in Drawing
| which is to be held at Berne next August. The
| acting secretary of state writes that her ap
| pointment was recommended by the secretary
| OF education and Prof. ]. II. Gore. Miss SartaiI
has also received letters from Switzerland from
Monsieur Leon Genoud president Of the Swis!
| commission, begging her to accept the appoint
| ment