The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-11
ART INTERESTS

son, lecturer on the collections of the
Art Institute of Chicago, has very
careful criticism of E. H. Blashfeld IS
mural paintings in the senate cham
Der of the new capitol in st. Paul.
To these works Mr.. Pattison gives
Blashfeld' s recently mounted lunettes
are beyond doubt his finest work. The
subject treatment Of these lunettes is
categorical and the arrangement is for
NAL, not to say architectural. Each
person reads into an allegory-if the
title be lost sight of-his own tempera-
ment. Some one suggested that the
two peasants in Millet's "Angelus'
were not praying, but mourning over
| ever say foolish things in the presence
OF these panels. They are too beauti-
full to provoke frivolity, too majestic
to admit of vulgar associations, too en-
tirely a part Of the studied architec-
ture of the imposing senate chamber
to be less than respected, and too rich
| and harmonious in color to allow any
one to wish for the restoration of the
virgin wall. [ have seen decorations
by distinguished artists of which this
could not be said. Good mural painters
are not PLENTIFUL.
IAN architect of unearthly genius
might dare to build an arch of one side
regular and the other eccentric; but
Cass Gilbert did not do 80 in the SEN
ate chamber in st. Paul Therefore,
Blashtield has followed the same senti-
ment of dignity and weli-regulated pro-
prlety in the arrangements of his fig
ures and lines, and he has done this
with consummate ingenuity and COM
plete knowledge of his problem, as we'll
as very pure artistic sentiment. His
studied alleegories are simple and easily
comprehended.
cone lunette is a study of primitive
conditions, the figures being the rep
resentative Indian types and the early
explorers, priestly and military. The
other symbolizes Minnesota as the gran
airy of the world Each of these is
technically described and analysed by
Mr.. Pattison.''
,,: The preliminary, exhibition of the
minnesota State Art society for the
special edifcation Of the Minnesota
legislature will open Feb. 20 in the
rooms OF the society in the new CAPT
tol: The exhibition will last two weeks
and the rooms will be open from 10
am: to lO pm. on week days and 8 am.
to 8 pm. on Sundays.
Inc new standing committees of the
society for the year are:
Finance, William Youngbauer; H. W.
Jones and Miss Mary Cheney: lecture.
ship, Miss Mary Cheney, Mrs. William
E. Thompson Miss Margaret Evans;
exhibition, Robert Koehler. Ernest Ken.
needy and Miss Julia G. Gauthier: art
collection, Il. w. Jones, G.. R. Metcalf
and T: G.. Holyoke.
=, At the recent Waggaman sale in New
Mauve was paid, $40, 200, for his NSheen
Coming Out of the Forest.'' The col.
lection was a. remarkable one and the
nlnety-six paintings, Of which fortv-
three were water co1ors, brought 1924.
225. Next to the Mauve, the highest
PrG1ee was pald for an Israels, $l8, 800 for
wyan Af Sunset fGpsf 6IdaRt &C.
considerably more than pictures I'AIbV y,
tin. A0A'
. Among tho interesting New York
sales this week was that of the entire
Persian exhibit at the Louisiana Pur-
E chase exposition.
By awarding prize to William A.
Harper, negro, and the janitor of the
% Art Institute, the Chicago Municipal
8 Art league has put itself on record
1 against class and color distinctions
4 when it comes to distributing honors
for excellent work with the brush
y Harper is landscape artist, nine of
. Among them are 1.-THE Potato Field ;:
J: e Ct oCGrnTall England, "'Gray Day" and
IS Harper was appointed janitor at the
II institute several years ago. When he
: was not scrubbing floors and washing
Is windows he was studying pictures anG
y drawing. He saved money, became 8
IS student, received a diploma in 1900
went abroad and devoted every spare
- minute assiduously to his canvas. He i;
n night watchman now, from 2 clock til
IN the morning. He paints all day
l. goes to sleep at in the evening, ant
rises for work at in the morning.
Q The greatest prize in the grasp o.
o Lazarus scholarship for the study o:
: mural painting, is to be awarded agail
J. next autumn by the National Academy
:. Of Design. This will be the fourth
time the prize has been offered. -,
t. The income provides ST. 1000 and tray
Q cling expenses for a period of three
years. The holder must live in Rome
and must study under the guidance Q
) citizen Of the United States may be
h come a candidate. Applications mus
h be entered before Oct. l, 1905. A pre-
e liminary examination in perspective
r. anatomy and painting from the mud
!, must be passed before candidate cal
be admitted to the final competition
n occurring in November.
! The committee that has the matter Il
=, charge consists of Frederic Crownin
~ shield, J. Carroll Beckwith, E. n
Is B1ashfeld, G. W. Brock, A. D. F. Ham
% lin, Francis G. Jones, G.. W. Maynard
~ "A. T.. Schwartz and Edgar M. Ware
- Further particulars from Philip G. Su.
clerk of the National Academy Of Dc
sign, New York.
r Among the names prominent on tn
t. editorial consultative committee Of tn
Burlington Magazine, of which Robe1
Crier Cooke is the American publishe,
80 is that Of Sir Casper Purdon Clark
ID GLE, F.S.A., the new director of th
" Metropolitan Museum, who succeeds th
a late General di Cesnola.
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