Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-30


last Monday. is said to be better than usual.
The Clark prize of $500 was awarded to
Hugo Balm for his decorative and charm
Ing canvas Mother and Child which was
admirably reproduced in the current issue
OF the American Art News. The Proctor
prize of $40 went to Frank w. Benson for
fuii length OF o. young woman in quaint
colonial gown. And to picture by Alden
weir was given the Inness gold medal,
awarded annually for the best landscape.
NO Hallgarten first prize was awarded ow-
ing to the fact that after the jury made its
selection the artist named for the honor
proved to be over the age limit of thirty
fiVe, but the second was won by a still life
by Charles w. Hawthorne and the third by
a landscape painted by Clark ]. Voorhees,.
II the general character of the exhibition
Is not good. the standard high, it is because
the painters themselves have failed, for the
catalogue contains the names of many of
| the foremost in America There are, for
example, portraits by John Singer Sargent,
Irving r. Wiles, H. o. Walker, Robert
Henri, J. Carroll Beckwith and Orlando
Rowland; landscapes by Leonard Ochtman,
Ben Foster, c. G.. Curran, Edward Redfeld,
Bruce Crane, Bolton Jones and Henry b.
Smell, besides many others. The exhibition
will continue until the latter part of jan
uary.
The Heber r. Bishop sale, which 1t Is be-
lieved will be one of the most notable of re-
cent years, has this week been definitely
announced. 1t will take place In New York
from the 18th to the 9th of January, and
is to be held at Mendelssohn Hall and the
American Art Galleries. The exhibition
opens on the 18th and continues for about
a week. The paintings, which include ex-
amples of Corot, Degas, Rousseau, Mum
kacsy, Domingo, Detaille de Melville,
Vlbtrt, Weeks, Bouguereau and men of
equal distinction, will be held on the even
ing of the 10th. An edition de luxe. consist
ing of 125 copies, has been issued of the
catalogue, which contains numerous Illus
trations and is sold by subscription at SO
copy.
To further distribute knowledge of the
fine arts and awaken interest in their de-
vclopment several of the public museums
have undertaken the publication of period
icals devoted to these purposes The Bos-
ton Museum of Fine Arts inaugurated the
custom some years ago in the form of a
bulletin for the benefit and enlightenment of
lis visitors; the Albright Gallery of Buffalo
followed with monthly Academy Notes."
more elaborate and pretentious publica-
ton; while the Metropolitan has just come
in line with a first issue of a quarterly bull
letin-a little pamphlet less conservative
than the one, but more specific than the
other
AS all eyes are turned more or less inter
estedly toward the Metropolitan Museum
at present a certain radical statement set
forth in the recent issue of its official organ
may be worth repeating not only because it
sets forth a future policy, but also because
1t describes a condition not peculiar to New
York. Many strangers in our city are,
it AYERS, more familiar with the treasures
of the museum than most of our citizens.
M1nV of citizens who familiar with
the great museums abroad are quite ignor-
ant of their own museum at home.
The working people of the east and west
sides who throng the museum on Sunday
afternoons have many of them better
knowledge of the museum collections than
the leisure classes on 9Th avenue. This is
condition which we shall endeavor to
improve"
Edward Robinson. for many years direc-
tor of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, has
resigned and accepted the position of as
sistant director of the Metropolitan Museum
under Sir Casper Purdon Clarke. His posi-
ton in Boston surrendered some
months ago, the one in New York very re-
Gently created by the board of trustees. The
Metropolitan as we'll as Mr.. Robinson, it is
understood, is 10 be congratulated.
*4
Through the will of the late Stephen
Salisbury of Worcester. Mass, the art mu-
scum of that city has recently come into |
the possession of a sum aggregating over |
So, 000,O 00. Mr.. Salisbury, 1t is now learned |
was also the donor of the present building |
and the land upon which it stands but has |
always, contrary to custom, refused to let |
the gallery or it's collection bear his name. |
X
At a sale at Christie's In London this |
month a portrait of Sir Henry Irving as |
Philip II of Spain, painted by Whistler. |
brought $4,000 while one of Ellen Terry |
as Lady Macbeth, by Sargent, sold for |
$500. The Whistler portrait while good
was not supposedly one of his best but |
from this some estimate can be made of the |
value of the canvases in the much-tallled-of |
F,reer collection 1t IS rumored that Mr..
Freer was the purchaser of this portrait
though his name did not appear in the lists
of the sale.
The collection of eighty pictures by men
of the Glasgow School," which was
brought to this country by Mr. Charles NJ.
kurtz, Is now being exhibited in the Chi
cago Art Institute In Buffalo, where it
has just been shown, twenty-eight canvases
have been Sold and If the same success ar
tends it in each of its circuit cities there
viii be but a remnant left to recross the
ocean. This IS a mark of very substantial |
appreciation, but the collection is declared |
to be of exceptional merit. That some ar
ranSement can be made for it's exhibition in |
Washington before the end of the season is
earnestly hoped by those who take interest |
IN such matters. LULA MECHLIN.
The Beautiful Home.
From Mothers Magazine