The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-18
ART NOTES

AMI IN ~ 4GkS
Advance catalogs' Of the second Amer
can Photographic Salon, now In Chicago
AVE been received In Minneapolis this
week. sent on ahead Of the Forthcoming
exhibit planned by the Fine AN society
Ind the Camera club OF Minneapolis.
These two societies have united before IN
|. photographic exhibition of great sue
Jess, and there are excellent signs that
the expected April display OF art IN
black and white, which will be shown at
the art gallery, Will be one that VIII
please the public.
Camera work has reached such high
pitch OF art that It now belongs to the
fine arts In its possibilities. Some OF
the photographs to be shown at the Min
neapolis exhibition carry the modern de-
velopment of the process OF having your
picture took into the subtleties OF por-
trait painting. Camera workers from all |
over the world have contributed to this
collection, and on the catalog the names
OF the Minneapolis Sweet Brothers
stand In close comradeship with a cele-
brated Italian photographer, who gets
prize, while Faribault man. Louis
Fleckenstein, wins Honorable Mention
among the over 800 entries An English
woman carries off first honors, and gets
the 500 award for "a Madonna like eff
feet. of mother and child in an appeal
ing pose, where the baby steals kiss
over the mothers shoulder.
The Chicago camera exhibitions have
been successful, this being the sixth one
since the Chicago Art Institute and the
Chicago Camera club Joined forces and
got the substantial help of 100 solid bust
ness men of Chicago In making their ex-
hibits a success. Not every art enter
prise is so fortunate in securing such
| backing, which Isl almost an inevitable
! necessity in these days Of unendowed
western art. To"gain it for the benefit Of
| such democratic art as lies within the
focus of the camera is ia happy sign that
art is to be of the people, by the people
1 and for the people before long,,
i Mark Twain's portrait. by j. Carroll
4 Beckwith, will be one of the star attrac-
tions at the coming state art exhibit,
! which opens in ST. Paul on March 10, In
the capitol building. The work OF prep
1 aration for this third annual exhibit Is
now going on rapidly. Some eastern art
lists with notable names have signified
their intention to send paintings, and the
local state entries thus far promise q
good deal in the way Of fresh, attractive
4 work from Minnesota workers.
One Of the affairs of the week at the
art school was the first one OF the talk:
: upon various crafts, which are to be CIV
en- to the design students during the mex
q three months. Miss Edith Griffith SPOKE
upon .Bookbinding'' On Friday afternoon
before the students and few outsiders
The number Of the latter would probabl.
? have been larger had the day been pleas
anter and a mistake in dates not some
9 what complicated the plans OF the man
q agement.
The speaker gave a half hour or so t
j the story Of the evolution Of bookbind1n
+ from the days Of papyrus to those 9
: wood pulp, putting some. graphic side
! lights on the early fads of such book col
!, lectors as Grolier and Aldus She woun
up with a tribute to the commercis
i book making Of today which had bee
$ brought up by the competition OF tn
f hand -made book to a high standard.
ol 81 think the day will come when boob
u for the people can be made beautiful an
4 substantial and yet cheap enough for TT
20 average purse all thru the revival of IL
:. old handicrafti Of bookmaking. But I
10 machine made book can ever have II
It: lasting quality that a hand made boo
N has. How long does It take to lea1
bookbinding? All your life and fe
years -more-if you want to reach pc
al fectioTr'' Sssiz aaa a5s .t'ss a.7ii
So .,}ssE sg5f --sf>., s,55s!,< GsssS5@
n The art school itself has gone thru
IN mild form Of shouse1oleanin recently, 2
y companied bye some, Of those raids
e, changes that always make house clean1
Of exciting. The design class having v
SO Gated its old&quarters on the fourth tlo'
I'M and taken up it's new home In the corr
- spending quarter below. the life class ID
-, been given fuller space by the throwt
- of the two rooms vacated into one A
-, ioining this is the directors office, q
al as the director is now at the school eve
IS day, he can thus give special attention
ny the life, portrait and composition class
re A feature Of interest in the office j.
he now Is the collectionJof fifteen or SO {
signs for the seal for the Society Of +,
=; Arts. These are all; arranged upon
~ wall awaiting the decision OF the ju
o. - Monograms of many sorts are notlceat
~ tho there are various symbolic deslg
II. The monograms all have one comm
lal feature, which is, that no matter how
YER ararnges the letters, IN. s. +. A
the combination looks like some cabalistic
oy. oriental emblem, and the simpler
tLo method the more foreign the result
- The last day Of the Faulkner exhibit
" CLOVIS came with an aftermath OF &C
lui. mercial results that freckoned up six m
OF paintings to add to the number ARE
EN- left in Minneapolis homes. Among II
cd last purchasers were M. w. Savage
,ial Miss De tLaittre. Mr.. Faulkner n
to have left nearly one-fourth OF his WI
.ov- Minneapolis collection here, and all
,ar- more gratifying result to the artist, as
- left for ST. Louis several days before
'up exhibit closed, and his additional $
'pu- were, in the main, to unexpected buy
cas- Putting the Fourier and the Fauli
rom exhibit togther. this winter season
,on- been the most successful one In the
pre- Of one-man art exhibitions since the
fnll Of the old Panorama building and OF
! ia yerestchagin collection. This city
lva, more paintings than it did then, II
80 could have gotten the Glasgow sch
I 1la here this season it would have Jared
CCer ter than it did in Chicago, where only
ing painting was sold from this most bes
fish mi and unusual exhibit.
Harrington Beard is spending
eign DAYS in Chicago Tho Chicago Art
the exhibition at the Institute, and othel
/ OK matters there are claiming his atten
cast He is especially interested In lookin
some matters in the line of school