Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-06
ART NOTES.

Mr.. Edward Kemeys has recently added
| to the collection Of his works In his local
studio a considerable number OF plaster
casts and bronzes, which. for several years,
have been stored in his former home In
Chicago. Notable among these late ac-
QUESTIONS are a large bronze of panther
and cubs, a bas relief of the great chief
"Sitting Bull" and his tiny, original
sketches, cast in bronze, of the colossal
lions, which guard the entrance of the Chi
cago Art Institute. Aside from association,
these last are peculiarly interesting. Scarce
ly more than the span of mans hand
in length, modelled with boldness and free
| DOM they may truly be said to be both
dignif1ed and imposing. Besides these
there are a great number of plaster mod
els from which original bronzes have Deen
cast. a coyote, almost life size. sltuns
upright with his head thrown back in the
act of uttering his mournful call; two Du1-
falo basking drOwsily in the midday SOIL
tude of the prairie, possun, full OF cum
ming; two rough, jolly bears at play,
group of timid deer and many others.
Mr.. Kemeys is not only the pioneer, but
the acknowledged master. In this country
of animal sculpture. He has studied WIN
assiduous care not merely the appearance,
but the habits of the wild animals OF Amer
lea, and he has set forth in permanent
form, with artistic feeling, their personal
CHARACTERISTICS. l. OF LIllS-d WOih
the march of civilization has made I'm
possible in the future-the American peopie
pie will always owe him a debt OF grau-
tude.
Mr.. Edward H. Blashfield, who, 1t Will
be remembered painted the dome or the
reading room Of the Library of Congress-
has just completed his second mural deco
ration for the Baltimore court house Inc
subject is Lord Baltimore Commencing
His People to Wisdom. Justice ana Mercy
and by competent critics 1t has been de-
clared to be one Of the most Impressive
works of the kind produced in this country
in recent years The scene is pictured out
of doors; Lord Baltimore, in cleaning ar
NOR, stands between a group of fifteen or
sixtee people of his colony, Thoroughly
natural and human. and the stately, ale
gorical figures of Wisdom Justice ana
Mercy. There is a landscape background
and massive tree trunks terminate the COM
position in subsidiary panels. It Is to ne
placed in a similar position to MI Blash-
fields other panel, washington Reslsning
His Commission Commander-in-C Chief
finished more than a year ago. over anu
above the judges seat in one of the new
court rooms.
building Mr. c. Y. Turner is painting
series of pictorial panels. The first of he
group representing the Barter With the
Indians for the Land in Southern Mary
land" was put in place several months ago.
and now Mr. Turner is completing the sec
ond. which shows the burning of the Brig
Peggy Stuart -. Annapolis, in October,
1874. The con!lsition of both involve
many figures. and the colonial costumes
-oiI 20 land Nla ,iaf1 SGlla
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The valuable art collection bequeathed
over three years ago by the late Constantine
Alexander Ionides, a wealthy Greek mer-
chant of Brighton England, to the South
Kensington Museum has recently been in
stalled. This delay was occasioned by the
inability of the museum previously to COM
ply with the conditions of the will, chief
among which were the demands that the
collection should be exhibited in gallery
reserved for it exclusively and that the
various works of which it consisted should
be SO arranged that each could be seen to
advantage. The collection consists of over
thousand exhibits and is said to be one
of the most valuable which has of late
years fallen to the lot of the British nation.
Among the paintings there Millets fam
Gus Wood Sawyers, The Mill by Burne-
JONES' and Rossetti's Day Dream there
are canVaSeS by DeIdcrOlX, rousseau, COTot
Degas; by Rembrandt. Terburg. Ruysdael
and Van Goyen; by Gainsborough, Consta-
bic, Bennington. Old Crome and others
There are, moreover, 126 etchngs by Rem
brandt, 16 by Whistler, several of Turner's
Liber Studiorum engravings, besides wood
cuts by Durer and Mantegna and drawings
by many masters. That such collection
has been made for all time accessible to
the public is In itself qualification.
Melbourne, Australia, has likewise, re-
Gently profited by the generosity and fore
thought of a public-spirited citizen, well
known connoisseur and collector of that
city having bequeathed to the Melbourne
National Gallery not only the collection
of pictures, etc, which he himself had
made, but also property and securities suf-
| ticient to insure an endowment of not less
than $4,000 per annum, which. according to
the terms of the will, is to be entirely de-
voted to the purchase of additional works
Of art
That England has not, however, the mo-
nopoly along this line is testified by the an
nouncement that notable collection of eigh-
teenth century English and colonial f,irni-
ture, ancient and modern Chinese poree-
| lains early eighteenth century English pot
terry and sixteenth century textiles has been
given to the Rhode Island School of De-
sign. The making of this collection has oc-
cupied Mr.. Charles l.. Pendeton of Prov-
dence twenty-five years, and that he should
| be willing to part with it during his life
| time is as remarkable it is creditable.
| In compliance with the only conditions i'm
| posed with this gift, a fireproof building
| colonial in style, is to be erected on two
| lots on Benefit street which has been
| decided to the school. the cost of which
Mrs. Gustav Radeke and Mr.. Stephen o.
| Metcalf have volunteered to defray.
| Significant of the increasing interest in
art in the far west is the museum building
| lately constructed for the Art Association
| of Portland. Ore, by Mrs. w. S. Ladd, on
site given by the late II. w. Corbett. This
| museum starts with fifteen hundred photo
| graphs of great works of art and what has
| been termed lone of the best collections of
casts in this country" In the selection of
! its exhibits and the prepare ton of it's cata-
| logue both the director of the archaeologi-
| cal school in Rome. Mr.. Richard Morton
| and Mr.. Edward Robinson, the director Of
| the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, have as
| sisted The curator Is a woman.
The trophy for exercise in naval gllnnery