Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01

a number of significant little exhibitions
Mr.. Morrey is going to make q speciality OF
American works.
So
Mr.. Kurtz, the director of the Albright
gallery of Buffalo. who. 1t will be remem.
bered. got together last year the notable
rotary exhibition Of paintings by men OF
the Glasgow school. has been In Germany
this summer collecting one hundred repre-
sentative works by German artists for
similar exhibition in this country. He has
gone from exhibition to exhibition and Sc
lected his canvases with the utmost care
In order that the collection as whole
might be both meritorious and representa-
tive. It will be shown in Buffalo first, and
from there go, In turn. TO the several large
cities Internationally 1t will prove most
interesting and instructive.
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A prize contest for cover designs Is an.
nounced by the 'Woman's Home Compan.
ion." There are to be five awards 500
for the best design, $1,000 for the next. $500
for the third and $3.50 for the fourth and
fifth. There are no restrictions as to SUBJ
ject. STYLE number of colors or medium OF
expression, and competitors may submit
an unlimited number of designs. 1t Is. how
ever. stipulated that every design must be
In proper proportions to reduce to the di-
mansions Of the magazine page-ten by
fourteen and one-half inches-and signed
with the artists name and address, must be
sent prepaid to the Prize Cover Editor
before January Is. 1907. The jury Of award
will consist Of competent critics.
So
Quite a number of the local artists have
spent the latter part OF the summer az
Stony Man. that delightful resort perched
high on the mountain ridge beyond Luray.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Mindeleff have just
returned from a soJourn of four weeks in
their newly built cabin. Mrs. Barney and
Mrs r. LeGrand Johnston were there. and
Mrs Heaton is still at the camp.
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When Mr.. Marburg of Baltimore asked
Mr.. La Fargo to advise him concerning the
choice of foreign artists to decorate a pub
lie building he was told by all means to
employ native talent, but Mr.. Hammer.
stein, it is reported, has brought the Rus
sian painter Molensky to America to
paint an allegorical picture over the pros
cenium arch In the Manhattan Opera
House, New York. The space to be filled
is 20 by "a feet in dimensions
Mr.. John w. Alexander is Just finishing
an important commissioner mural paint
Ing IoT the carnegie institute P1ttSDurg.
1t is a series of five panels to be divided
by marble pilasters which in the aggregate
will measure 60 feet in length. It is to be
placed on the second floor of the Institute
and will be in place on Founders day."
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In addition to its permanent collection
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
is setting forth. during the vacation
months, well-chosen collections of native
and foreign paintings loaned respectively
by DIR. George Woodward and Mr. Peter
A. Shemm. Conspicuous in the latter coll
lection is a canvas. entitled THE Edge OF
the Forest" by Mr.. Max Weyl of this
city.
In the current number of Munsey's Mag
azine there is interesting and elabo-
rately illustrated article by Christian Brin.
ton on Lenbach, the great German por-
trait painter, who is so admirably repre>
sented in the Corcoran Gallery by his por-
trait of Bismarck.
The Chicago Art Institute has recently
made an important acquisition, purchasing
the Assumption of the Virgin" painted
by 'El Greco" Domenico TheotocopulD in
1877. This painting hung originally above
the altar in the Church of San Domingo Ell
Amigo in Toledo, Spain. At one time It
was taken to the Prado Gallery, then IL
passed into the hands of a Bourbon prince,
and finally became the possession of a
Partisan dealer. There is said to be no
doubt to it's authenticity, and so far as
preservation and quality go 1t is reported
to be superior to the example of the same
painters work for which the Metropolitan
Museum gave $4,000
While the Metropolitan Museum is ac-
curing new works 1t is wedding out tho
inferior old ones. A number of the ia
miliar horrors in the form of sculpture
have disappeared of late-relegated to the
shades of the basement. The Metropolis
tan, like almost all public museums could
stand a good deal of this treatment with
out injury, but still some people complain.
LEILA MECHLIN.