The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-03
HARTFORD LETTER.
SUCCESSFUL TEAR OF THE ART
 SCHOOL.

Lived in That City--Career of Late N. G. Moore--Harrison of Paris Another of Capitol City's Celebrities Annual Encampment of G. A. R in Meriden Next June.
 Hartford, Feb. 1.-The Hartford Art school, which is under the direction or prominent ladies in the city, including Mrs. c. O. Beach, who is the president Mrs. Frank w. Cheney, Mrs. Ferguson of Trinity college Mrs. H. c. White, Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner, Mrs. Henry s. Robinson and Mrs Howell Cheney, has had a successful year. Charles Noel F1agg, the artist, has had charge of the institution and a great deal of earnest work has been pro- duced. Hartford has been the patron of art in its best sense for many years and has been the home of noted artlsts' the list comprising painters Of the dls- 
 tinction attained by Frederick A, Church. John w. Stancliff, the marine artist. N. A. Moore, who was the inter- preter of Lake George scenery, and the Portrait Painter Wheeler These four are no longer living. The ones who are still at work, winning fame and honor are Wright w. Tyron of New York city. who began his life in Hartford book store, Charles Noel Flagg ana Daniel F. Wentworth. Mir Church, who was a native of Hartford, was a. painter of singular merit and genius. For a generation his work on canvas was awaited with avidity in the fore- most art centers in New York. Some of his noted productions are owned Tn Hartford. Miles w. Graves, of the State Savings bank, who managed the artists Hartford estate, possessing one of the most valuable of the series. MT. Wheeler was an artist of exceptional genius and his work was coveted and treasured by a large clientage. The only daughter of MT. Wheeler is the wife of Henry M. Sumner of Hartford, the brother of Professor William c. Sumner of Yale university, and IS lady of attractive personality. John w. Stancliffe, the marine painter, had a wide reputation in New England, and was painter of great ability. He was the father of H. T. Stancliffe of the United States navy, who was popular in Washington society circles till the day of his death. The grandson of the artist, H. T. Stancliff, IT,, was in '%fHrrfurd Journalism for years, but is now in the navy department in Wash ington
 The artist N. A. Moore, one of the most brilliant painters of Lake George scenery in his day, died in Kensington two years ago Thanksgiving time. He had lived in Hartford regularly for years, but was so attached to the old home in Kensington that he spent much time there during the last years of his life. The poet James G. Perci- val who did so much for the renown of Kensington, was most felicitously SUD- plemented in that task by MT. Moore. The artist was a man of the most charming instincts and lover and in- terpreter of nature in all It's moods and fancies that has seldom been sur nassed, His Lake George paintings commanded popular favor wherever they were exhibited. MT. Moore loved the New England lake from the depths of his heart and nothing gave him greater joy than the reproduction of its scenery on canvas. MT. Moore was the father of Representative E. Allen Moore of New Britain, whose service In the legislature last year was of great value, especially in connection with the committee on education. There is a pretense here and there of disbelief in the law of heredity. But there can be no question about its hav- sne prevailed in the case of MT. Moore. Tra artists only daughter, Miss Ellen
 aore, is one of the most success eture portrait painters in Bos-
 s had a studio in that city
 She is a woman of ac-
 ility and attachments in
 Oas son, Mir. Edwin A.
 lowing in the footsteps of
 having given hlmSeI 10
 Ipainting for a number Of
 $ productions are full of the of nature and are character 1 gthe taste shown in the elder i landscapes. Representative E.
 AToore. of New Britain, is identi-
 Ewith the Stanley works in that
 Fholding the position of superinten- His wife is the daughter of ' Resident William H. Hart, who, with Hrs. Hart and Mrs. Moore, will sail for Zine Mediterranean February IT, They will be absent 1.-two months. President Hart of the Stanley works has travelled extensively through Europe and the Orient, and is liberal patron of art. Of the living Hartford painters, Dwight W. Tryon is the most widely known. He is a New York favorite and has won wealth and renown in the metropolis. He began his career at the old book-stand of Brown x Gross in Hartford. but had no heart for selling books over the counter. Art was the dream of his life and entered into eve ry thing that he undertook. Some of the old charcoal sketches with which he bewitched the clerks associated with him can still be found on the basement walls of the Asylum street store where Brown .a Bross were located. Charles Noel FNagg is a member of the state commission on sculpture. His art
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