Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-16
A R T N O T E s

lie summer SEASON Is dlInOSl spent, sea-
side and mountain resorts are being rapidly
deserted, but the artists, finding these last
days the loveiest are still lingering in their
old haunts. Gradually now, however, the
town studios will be reopened, and in an
other fortnight the fall activities will begin.
The Corcoran gallery will reopen on the first
OF October, and the announcements of the
leading winter exhibitions will soon be
made.
collection of German prints. reproducing
paintings by the old masters in the royal
galleries. presented to the nation by the
German government, will probably consti-
tute the first exhibition set before the public
this fall by the print division Of the Library
of Congress. These will be shown in the
new cases recently constructed in the south
curtain. and will naugurate their use both
for the preservation and exhibition of
prints. With the opening of the south cur
tain gallery the art reading room, which
during the summer has occupied the south
west pavilon-and, by the way, been well
patronized-will be removed to Its former
quarters.
In spite of much rain, this has been a IA
yorable summer for outdoor work, and in
every section successful season is report
ed. Mr.. Brooke the president Of the So
ciety of Washington Artists, has been work.
ing usual at Warrenton. and Mr.. E. c.
Messer has divided his vacation months be-
tween Warrenton and Paxton, Va. Miss
Clara Hill has been at Haven, Me-; Miss
Atwater, Miss Jackson and Miss Porter at
East Gloucester and Mr.. James Henry
Moser in Connecticut. Mr.. +. H. Miller
went in August to the mountains of West
Virginia, and Mr.. Victor Mindeleff and his
wife are now at Stony Man, where they
have recently built a bungalow. Miss Alfne
Solomons has been in the Adirondacks for
some weeks, and Mr.. Max Weyl is still hard
| at work in Asheville, n c.
One Of the most interesting exhibitions
held abroad this summer that OF
Jacques Jordaens' work, which opened IN
Antwerp on the 18th of August, and will
continue until the 1st of October 1t has
been made the art feature of the Belgian
Jubilee year, and to it all nations have gen.
erousy contributed. The masters choicest
canvases were carefully collected from both
public and private galleries. and great en-
thusiasm has been manifested by the peo-
pie in the result.
The metropolitan Museum will begin the
winter with not only a distinguished new
director, but also with some notable new
exhibits The King Of England has pre-
sented to the museum, through Sir Purdon
Clark two magnificent volumes-one
work on the armory at Windsor Castle, the
other on the furniture in the royal pal
aces-both deliberately illustrated. And the
commissioner of art for France has given,
in behalf of his government the plaster
copy of Auguste Robins famous sculpture,
The Thinker which shown at the
ST. Louis fair. 1t is also announced that
| the twelve panels by Donate d Agno1o Bra
mante, so long a portion of the frieze or
the Gonzaga Palace salon, which We're re-
Gently sold at auction at Chrstee's, in
London, are to be. when restored, included
in the museums collection.
This, 1t IS said. has been poor season
in both the London and Paris salesrooms,
the Americans buying with more conserva-
tism and less enthusiasm than usual Mr..
Pierpont Morgan, however, added We are
told a whole Fragonard room, valued a t
more than a hundred thousand dollars, 10
his London residence. This purchase con-
sisted of twelve great paintings measuring
uniformly nine feet high by six feet wide,
and to accommodate the series the parti-
ton wall between the drawing rooms had
to be removed
The print division Of the New York Public
Library is setting forth at present Mcneil
exhibition, showing examples of his lithog
raphy, etching and illustrative work,
well as portraits of the master himself and
pamphlets relating to his work.
The fourth annual exhibition of the Penn
sylvania Society of Amateur Painters is to
be held in McClees galleries. Philadelphia
from November 13 to %, inclusive. The
jury of selection will consist of Colin Camp
bell Cooper, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Amy Otis,
Maria J. Stream, Ellen Wetherald Ahrens
and Charles A Dana.
The architects of the new federal build
ing in Indianapolis are protesting against
the design of the Harrison Memorial, made
by Mr.. Charles H. Niehaus, the well-known
New York sculptor, which has been placed
in prominent position in the city square
1t interferes, they claim, with the lines of
the building. the eXedra being uncommonly
high and not in keeping with the struc-
lures design. This might easily be the
case when none was to blame, but it should
go to emphasize tie need Of municipal art
commissions, to whom similar questions
might be referred, and upon whom respon-
sibilty for like blunders could be laid.
A project is on foot to raise, by private
purpose of erecting on the shore of the
Hudson river, near New York, a gigantic
national peace monument The scheme was
suggested at meeting of the National
Sculpture Society some years ago and has
been steadily growing in favor. Mr.. r.
Wellington Ruckstechel, the sculptor of the
Spirit of the Confederacy," In Baltimore,
! is now in Saint Leu, twelve miles from
| Paris. working upon model fer the pro-
! posed memorial. The present plan calls for
| a structure seven hundred feet in height.
| The art of mosaic making is being revived,
! and the use of glass mosaics as mural deco
| rations greatly increasing. The interior of
| the cell of st. Elizabeth in the Wartbury
| near Weimer, Is, by the kaiser's order be-
| ing redecorated with pictures in this me-
dunn. The designs and cartoons are by
| August Oettken, the distinguished painter
| of historical themes, and among the most
pleasing of the series is one showing the
| bread in the good saints mantle turned to
I roses when her charitable deeds We're dis
| covered by her less kindly royal spouse.