New-York tribune., 1905-12-23
TOO OLD FOR PRIZE
Artist Freely Abandons Co0eted
Julius HaHgarten Ascard.

The eIghty-hrst annual exhibition OF the Ma
tional Academy OF Design will be open 10 tae
public to-day in the galleries OF the American
Fine Arts Society, in West 57th-st Ihere are
between three and four hundred paintings On vac"
and about a dozen pieces of sculpture
In the Vanderbilt Gallery is hung large can
vas, Partially which won the first JuHus t1aAi
garten prize AS 4 condition of the compeL'ioh'
however, not complied with, the prlae @ "as
not awarded. The Hallgarten prizes OF s0oo ~"
and 500 are awarded for the best three pictures
in oil coors painted in the United States by Alefl
can citizens under thirty years or age tn7
jury of selection considered the picture FarIai-
ity" by De Witt Lockman. entitled to the nrst
prize.
II seems however, that Mr.. Lockn1an was
thirty-five years old in July last, and whlie he
made all his studies for the picture oeloFe JulS'
he painted the picture after July. Mr L+ocShlah
heard through friend recently that he nad won
the first Hallgarten prize. but q memoer ol MS
family called Mr.. Loeknans attention to the tact
that he was a few weeks older than thrtS-Hs0
when he painted the picture. He accordingly an-
vised the Jury that he could not accept the prlHs
in the circumstances, and it was not awarded
The picture is composition Of two horses Win
a man giving an apple to one Of them. Inc can
vas is seven feet square Mr. LocAthalA
studied under James H. Beard and "4tlalli 'A-
tain,
The second HalIgarten prize OF 500 was awarded
70 Still Life" by C. W. Hawthorne. and the third
prizs of 800 to Spring Afternoon" by clark G'
Voorhees,.
The Inness old medal for the best landscape In
the exhibition presented by George Inness, Jr. III
memory of his father. awarded TO The Fas-
ture' by J. Alden Weir. The Thomas r. Proctor
prize of $500 for the best portrait in the exnipoa
was awarded to Frank W Benson, me me- 1HInIs Se1irs
composition painted in the United states py an at
American citizen without limitation or age5 W5S
awarded to Mother and Child. by Hugo BaHtn L;1:
Jones, and in the South Gallery by. The Mau. u
titus; nearly nude female hgure t,irs sturs nf m
Blae by Harry WstrogI; us; is lands RctiIas ciasped
in front of her, and wearing big picture En- aas bj =
c. Nicoll contributes three landscapes to the & e1r
Mouth Of y};ag ogHaguS FlTfT eofn
two landseapes-. ebruary Sunrise and "of New
London Early Evening ,,o.-.,.
Kenyon Cox is represented by Diploma S Foo dI h
q M2seId Parish a n esgT Thehd sbd is F2sneis
Jones by The Fish Poo' and -Fhs Ma!erlng ing
Place" H. Bolton Jones sends Early Sprlns. @ anu
The Pool" A T Van Laer eontrenteS o5IS ns
and ''New-Jersey Farm-April." and George w.
MAYNARD a portrait of himself. .,.
Edmund c. TarbeI exhibits Diploma PoTtral{t[r- T.
the National Academy of Design. and Ben Foster
October Moon" Irving R. Wies is represented
by an interior and a portrait of Henry Wolf
A n. A, and Louis Loeb by 'Jessca-HaTmony @ n =
by Walter 7. Palmer. and a characteristic genre
Industrious Famiy'-children saving wood-oy j.
Among the pieces of sculpture are The Horses
of Diomedes," 'Ruskn" and Sketch Medel-James
Smithson." by Gutzon Borglun1: IF. HopNnson
Smith and g5i9 S BY J. bsteE aaIeef fraeor aea
viii be free on Sundays from to p