The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-01
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN.
ITS SOTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
OPENED YESTERDAY.
Nearly Four Hundred Paintings in the
Galleries OF tho Fine Arts Society
Building I'm Fifuy-seyenfh strect-Przes
A Portrait of Fl0rSnce Nesbt In.


Galleries OF tho Fine Arts Society
Building I'm FifIy-seyenfh strect-Prizes
A Portrait of Florence Nesbit In.
In the galleries OF the American Fine
Arts Society's building in West Fifty
seventh street, the National Academy on
Design opened it's eightieth annual exhibit
ton to the public yesterday. The exhibit
ton will continue until Jan. IS, the galleries
being open from 10 in the morning until
Q o'clock. and from until 10 o'clock In
the evening Of each weekday, and on Sum
day afternoons from / o'clock until 4.
There ara ss3 paintings on view, besides
fifteen pieces Of sculpture and the cata-
logue Of the lot. with sundry illustrations
is obtainable for rs cents. On Sunday
afternoons the exhibition is free.
Childe Bassam Is officially declared to have
painted the best American figure COM
position done in the United States by an
American citizen, and the Thomas b.
Clarke prize Of $500 has been awarded TO him
therefor This Prize ia without lmita-
ton Of age" Mr.. Hassam's American
figure composition Is called "Lorelei.' 1t
is painting Of nude woman sitting at the
base Of cliff, and one can almost hear
echo answering -Why2'
The Inness gold medal. presented by
George Inness, Jr.. in memory Of his father.
for the best landscape in the exhibition, is
awarded TO Edward Gay for his canvas OF
brilliant fields entitled In the South Wind
Mr.. Gay Is recorded In the catalogue as
member Of the jury Of selection. He ia
the only member Of the jury this year 70
win a prize.
Thomas Eakins, y. A., of Philadelphia;
takes the Thomas K. Proctor prize OF 500.
for the best portrait in the exhibition,
for his portrait of Prof. Leslie W. Miller
which hangs in the place Of honor in the
Vanderbilt gallery.
The Hallgarten prizes Of $500 500 and
500. for the best three pictures in oil color
painted in the United States by American
citizens under 80 years of age, have been
given TO +. Luis Mora for The Letter.
a composition OF two young women Of a
day before Yesterday, seated on a settee
and reading: Gustav Wiegand, of Brook
lyn for his -Moonrise Early Spring and
VI. Petersen Of Jersey City, for his single
exhibit, Curiosity Seekers
The exhibition is one Of those that must
be seen 70 be appreciated. IL Is 80 dis
tinotiye that the arc sign over the entrance
is needless. One glance would reveal to
least accustomed eyes that il was the ex
hibition of the National Academy of Design
of New York, eighty years old. Santa
Maria and the Ducal Palace Venice, by
Thomas Moran, n A; Still Counting, by
J. G. Brown. y. A; The Prevailing Winds,
by Edward Gay, y. A.; Long Island Land
scape, with Rainbow, by Charles II Miller.
" A.; Portrait Of a Lady" by samuel
Isham. A. y. A; The Arrival of the Stage,
by T.. l.. Henry, y. A; -Checkmated Yer
mont farmers by Walter shirlaw, y. A;
10 Him Who Would a-W ooing Go, 10y
". Yerplanck Birney, A. y. A; Picnic at
Lake George, by j. B. Bristol, y. A; The
Cromw Gillian by Daniel Huntington, y. A.
these and comrace canyeSes sing Aud
Lang Syne" from every wall. and tho New
YORK exhibition oer feels at home at
once.
In the entrance gallery one of the charm
ing tonal landscapes Of Ben Foster, n. A.
New England Farm reposes on the line.
River Park by ". Glackens. II is as
though the Society Of Art Collectors we're
on the hanging committee. But, after all,
Glackens Is there, speaking his own word
OF city life amid the studio echoes Of bucolic
dreams. REYNOLDS Beal with a real feeling
in -Warshlps.' Irving X. Miles and Robert
Henri are 10 be seen in direct and com
peling portraits. Charles Schreyvogel
shows canvas Of plains warfare, Break
ing Through the Circle.
There is 4 group Of canvases by mem
hers Of the Society OF Western Artists on the
west wall Of the Vanderbilt gallery, Of
which the only one likely 10 arrest stten-
ton is -Monteoito,' by william Wendt,
a mountain landscape 80 treated that the
painting suggests an interesting decora-
tive panel.
J. Carroll Beckwith contributes 70 the
Vanderbilt gallery q canvas that VIII prob
ably draw to itself degree of popular
interest altogether distinct from the claim
OF dispassionate art II is the Portrait
of Miss Florence Nesbit, painted Ia 1901,
when she was regarded "a one of the most
beautiful models in New York and before
the glamour OF a more spectacular life en-
composed her.
To mention a few Of the other paintings
which lend variety 70 the exhibition, there
are jersey Fishermen. by II. l.. Hide
brandt: Portrait Of a Boy by Lydia Field
Emmett. After the First Frost by j.
Alden Weir; The Mountain Breeze by
Charles c. Curran; Portrait Of Miss Coin
by Juliet thompson Among the Pines
by Charles Warren Eaton; When the Tide
l. Low" by William Ritsohel Evening
Hour by Edward A. Bel; Cornish Coast.
by Henry B. Smell: odd Lyme Street"
By Carleton Virgins, and Study, by
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