The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-06
iRT GOSSIP.

i Everywhere the appoint ment 81 Edwar
Robinson ~ director Of ths, Metropoll
tan Museum 81 Art which was announces
by m" trustees IN. last week. has beer
received and discussed with words al
pleasure and satisfaction. The third
director whom the museum ha- had. Mr.
Robinson - the firs, American director
and qualification at this fact has mingleC
/ IN the conversation heard In various
places With federation upon Mr. Robin
son : equipment for hl- posi-, which he
combines wIth an engaging personality
mat IL not confined To the seclusion of
| limited circle The feelings OF the
undergone change in recent years which
IL associated IN many minds with a greater
though digniiisd geniality that has come
TO be- f-l' IN the institution There was
Time when some visitors felt. wrongly
perhaps, that there was tOlerat ION rather
Than welcome in their presence there. "A
feeling that has Disappeared fortunately
al the same time that The museum has
com" forward -o remarkably fast to
LAX" hs place among rhe great ones
ines" thinH~ and many more have been
saId and talked Of during the week among
people who go cften To- the museum
Shall Rome 20 again to Avignon the
National Academy of Design move from
me metropolis tn Chicago tn give the
greater exhibitions which i, wants to
hold II cannot get building in New
York large enough for such exhibit ions
az the Royal Academy and the Salon.
ana behold, Chicago ~ already planning
such IA building Director French Of the
. Art Institute. speaking Of the
% exhibition of American paint inps
u" ~ !" "'i"''u ih IN" irloH"' OF that
, 'nS
'"'N 'N"'"'' u 'u' me "h'-rihs wedge
a., Nv" ~" III III" ~of.h "' ar' M h'ca9o
"' now concentrating III fa't IN"
r,ann are a,'i,os' uecinrd upon IN. eN-
over th,. WI,nn,. csr,rai r., r., :, ,n''u,t,
This will perm, us o build a spacious
gallery on Ia. plan and magnitude Of he
on" ~ IN" GRAND Palais IN Paris. This
~. "' $500 'i,,';r, Nl'e'i !" ulNiue lnIo
ones for n,I nain,i,ys w,, - ,,,,ors 80
tells .ngravinRs. .tchinRs drawings of
archit .Ctrral designs and objects Of arr
The central gallery - In he. reserved for
scripture. medal and :, one enCraVings
and such arChit .Ct,iral designs n are
eNeCIt ad on a reduced scale. i'm couSt rllc-
tiv. material"
Think of a chicago Salon while. IN.
Academy hnnsb
Those plaster lions which a lit,l. while
,go var. ,,,ac.d -, ,ror, - 3D., p,,hI;o
+ r, ~
~ '' i"'l'-' w kiN'"s 'he
sculptor and archit ects opportunity 80
study them IN lace GO, good deal OF
az, enrion from p.rsons pa.sipp who saw
, han, and n GOOD d..l ~ la, .,r,,,,;.,, 81,
10y W
one e"r' an" """'"e, SOM" people wrote
'o the newspapers about them.
j Scott Hart lev who il secretary of The
National SCULPTURE Soci.,v in taking
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~ 80 Vs. ' Po'
lcu'ariy OF letter publirhed IN iHk SrS
from correspondent who signed himself
" Anti Nature Faker said the other day.
The writer sand thar tbs. heads looked
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hons on 'he Nelson monument IN trafalgar
square. London. by Sir Edwin Landseer.
should be reproduced inst cad The
nm ir,agiparv animal and an, no, nc.
1uaint ed with IL hut heaven forbid that |
The I.ands.er lions should be copied
They look IKE animals suffering from ne
mans IN na -, - prooaoIs
md s,mpGcity both in cons, r,,,sion and
surface treat nenJ But I think they are
better than tn" monument on the base Of
NhIch they rte, when loohs IKE SIN
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he gr..a, sdm,r,l's head as much on, ~
n. ,ng. as npas,bl.,
Now IL Anti Nature Eaker' had said
Rarye IL would he. a horse Of a different
,nlor y q P,trar IN. sc,ilptnr Of m,
ihrary lions 4. universally r.spac,,d i'm
N. nror.ssion a. an animal SCULPTOR "a.
ras treated the lions IN "A somewhat severe