Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30

Clarke, VINO mas studied art potn IN this
city and In Washington Cher original home),
has been unusually successful in getting
the people associated with her to carry out
her designs properly"
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The seventy-third annual exhibition of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, which opened in Philadelphia last
Saturday evening with reception and pri-
vate view, has been pronounced from an
artistic standpoint uncommonly excellent
The Pennsylvania Academy Is the oldest
art organization in America, and it's an
nual exhibitions have come Of late years to
be accounted the leading event in the art
season. In addition to the prestige thus
gained the arrangements made by which
pictures intended for the st. Louis exposi-
ton could be judged on the walls of the
academy were influential in bringing an un-
| usually notable collection of paintings to
the doors of this seventy-third annual. In
Its catalogue can be found the names of al
most every American painter and sculptor of
prominence, and each is said to be represent
ed at his best. 1t is, therefore, with no little
local pride that one notes In this collection
works from Washington studios There is
for instance, an interesting canvas by Mr.
r. N. Brooke entitled "In the Dunes at
Etapies, which has been well spoken Of
by the Philadelphia North American and
Ledger; one by Everett Warner called
Moonrise, French Coast" and little
bronze statuette of an Egyptian turkey
seller by Mr. Louis Amateis
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The Copley Society of Boston will open
on FEBRUARY % a memorial exhibition of
the works of the late James Mcneil
Whistler, which, 1t Is believed, will prove
an event of national importance 1t will
consist Of Oil paintings, water colors and
pastels, as well as etchings, Autographs
and drawings, and will include in addition
TO the most important examples of Whis-
TIERS work owned in America, contributions
from London, Glasgow, Paris and Montreal,
IL Will be the largest collection of the late
master works which has ever been and
PROBABLY Will ever be exhibited. 1t Is en-
tirely loan exhibition and each work will
pc fully insured against risk by the society
from the time 1t leaves its owners wall
t uli.li II Is returned and rehung. Among
those serving on the honorary COMMITTEES
Tor this exhibition are Sir Henry Mortimer
Durand, the British ambassador: M r r
Jusserand, ambassador of the French re.
puohc; Secretary Hay and Senator Lodge.
Governor Murphy of New JERSEY has
maze an effort to rid his state of the Of
iehsiVe commercial signboards which are
paced along the lines of railway by pro-
posing IN his annual message to the legis-
latufe that a tax be levied upon them which
snail De heaVy enough to make this form
VI advertising Improbable. Governor Muir
phy mas mad the signs in New Jersey count
ed' ana has thereby discovered that there
are no less than sixteen hundred varietiee
OF the nuisance in that small section of the
country. Indeed. unless something can he
G cone 10 prevent this kind of advertising
governor Murphy declares to his legisla tors
that the day is not far distant wben a
traveller VIII be obliged to pass through
continuous and unbroken line of sienhoards
ms IS an evil which threatens every part
~ our country. Neither the beauty nor
the remoteness of any locality has hro,nI4
~ exemption Any practical remedy will
therefore, be more than welcome
The thirty-ffth winter exhibition Of the
Royal Academy. London, Is now in nrop-
resS IN Burlington House, and at the new
gallery the annual exhibition of the Tn+er-
natlonai Society of Painters, Sculptors and
drawers Is attracting attention. The acad
envy is loan exhibition CONSISTING Of
paintings by deceased old and English mas
ters sculpture, bronzes and miniatures
group or thirty-three portraits bv Sir
Ihomas Lawrence Is said to be the special
feature OF this exhibition, and many of the
pest paintings and bronzes are reported to
nave come from Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan's
coilecton which the tariff keeps on the
other side of the sea. The Interna tionaps
eXhlpltlon, on the other hand Is modern
and radical Black and white work has
peen hung in the main galleries in coniunc-
tion with the pastels and paintings. and
the whole collection has been arranged
WIN view to decorative effect NJ, Robin
mas SHOWN his appreciation of his election
as president by sending some of his hest
recent works, and the French Spanish and
American painter-members are said to he
Well represented.
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Out of the 2S5 miniatures submitted to
the jury for the sixth annual exhibition of
the American Society of Miniature Painters
which is now being held at Knoedlers. in
New York, only 163 were accepted. OF
these the works of William ]. Baer Miss
Theodore F. Thayer, Mrs Lucia Fairchild
Fuller, Miss Laura Coombs Hills and Miss
Lydia Field Emmett are said to be the most
notable.
An exhibition of miniatures of a different
sort Is reported to be at present attracting
much attention in st. Petersburg Russia
1t Is called the Exposition Mignonne" and
contains no picture larger than a postal
card, whereas some are as small as
stamp. The names of we'll known artists
are among the exhibitors, and majority of
the works have been sold. Possibly the
prices were proportionate to the size
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Scion H. Borglum, H. A Mcneil George
B. Post, Frederick Roth, ]. Q. A. Ward and
John Dewitt Warner have been elected
directors OF the National Sculptors' Society.
Canadian Fenian Raid Medals.