Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-13
ART NOTES.

ART NOTES.
Along the line Of national development
the fact that Boston is considering the adj
visibility of establishing an Arts and
Crafts high school is of more than common
significance For the past ten years the
arts and crafts movement has been increas-
| ing In strength in this as in other coun-
tries; colonies have been formed and work
| shops established for the purpose of manu-
| featuring by hand artistic articles of util-
| ity; under the direction of separate organi-
"a tons the jewellers in certain localities
have been enabled to develop and carry
| on in their homes useful industries; courses
! in basket weaving, metal work, wood carv-
| Ing and the like have been added to the
curriculum of the common schools and
demand for art objects has been instituted
with the awakening of an era of better
| taste. This is, however, the first time that
| the Importance of the movement has been
! definitely recognized by municipality, and
| it would seem to be the first step toward
the development of a new life with en-
| larged opportunities and improved sur
| roundingS for large class of our Amerl-
| can people. The project is in the hands OF
DR.. James A. Mcdonald, chairman of the
| school board committee on drawing. and
| MI D. FIeueFICk E1OphliS, ullttluT VI uii"
| ing in the public schools. who is now
| abroad visiting similar schools Its object
! is to establish a free institution where skill
| ed handicraftsmen can be educated, and
| it will in no wise conflict with the art,
| technical or normal schools, which are
| already established
Another tangible sign of progress is to be
| found in the announcement recently made
that the Pennsylvania Academy will this
| fail institute, in conjunction with the Uni
| veTsity of Pennsylvania and the well-known
| L Square Club, a course in architectural
| design. The instructors will be Mr.. Paul
| Cret, a professor in the university, who is
| fresh from the Beaux Arts school; Mr.. Day,
| the well-known Philadelphia architect; Mr..
| Gadf1y, the sculptor, and Mr.. Anshutz,
| draughtsman of distinction, and the p1lr-
| pose of the course will be to develop the
| artistic side of architecture. Students who
are not prepared for advanced work viii
| be admitted, but the course is primarily
| intended for post-graduates, and will be
! so arranged that its members can compete
| for the John Stewardson and Cresson
! scholarships. well those offered by
| atelier is to be furnished by the I Square
Club
At the close of the last school year the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
awarded scholarships and prizes to the
amount of S1S,45 The major portion of
this sum was available from the William
Emlen Cresson memorial fund tablished
some years ago by Emlen and Priscilla
Cresson for the purpose Of sending students
abroad. Under this beneficiary there were
already five students in Europe receiving
, $1,000 per annum; to the number of which
were this year added five more. Four stu
dents We're given for meritorious work $500
each for four months trip abroad, and to
one who had distinguished himself by a
salon picture was awarded an equal sum.
BESIDES these there were the two annual
| Tuppan prizes of $500 and $500, respectively,
the Thouron annual prizes in composition
| &sgregating $40 and the annual geological
prize of So.
The Detroit Museum of Art started about
twelve years ago series of informal art
lectures, which have proved so popular
that it has determined to build an audi
forum specially adapted for the purpose.
This building, which is now under course OF
construction, and will probably be ready
for occupancy next fall, is to be 100 feet
in length by seventy in width and four
stories in height. The auditorium will oc-
cupy the basement floor and be large
enough TO accommodate sunday auuleHceS,
whereas the upper rooms Will AFFORD addl-
tional gallery space. Why, if such a course
has proved successful in Detroit, would not
similar one be well patronized and equally
fruitful in Washington? Here is work for
our disused Fine Arts Union.
The Society of Illustrators, of which
Charles Dana Gibson is president; Henry
Reuterdahl, vice president, and Henry 5.
Fleming, secretary and treasurer, has de-
termined to restrict it's coming exhibition to
works which have not been reproduced. In
the past it's exhibitions have been almost
entirely made up of drawings made familiar
through publication, but a radical change is
to be made in the character of the next
show, which opens in New York on October
3D. and the outcome of the innovation Is
being awaited with considerable interest.
X
An announcement of rather unusual in
terest comes from England to the effect
that the International Society Of Painters,
Sculptors and Engravers purposes holding
a memorial exhibition of the works of Its
late president James Mcneil Whistler, in
the New Gallery London, next January.
This, following the Copley Societys notable
loan exhibition should afford an excellent
opportunity for the exercise of interna-
tional art reciprocity.
X
Early next year there will be held in the
Louvre, Paris, an exhibition of the antiqu1-
ties recently excavated at Suza Persia, I'M
der the direction of NJ. de Morgan, together
| with a collection of about $50 paintings
| made by George Bondoux on the scene of
| the excavations These excavations are
| quite extensive in character, SEQ diggers
having been employed in the exploration
| of six square leagues of territory Encr-
! nous quantities of pottery, some silver
| statuettes of exquisite workmanship blocks
| of stone bearing inscriptions in Elamite and
| other valuable relics have been unearthed
but by far the most interesting find Is said