Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-10
Art Notes
BY ELIzABErH WAGGONER

One of the most important exhibit
tions of the current year in the local
art world will open during the coming
week at the Carnegie library at Long
Beach, where the work of California S
strongest painters may be seen at its
best.
That the summer season has ceased
to be a dull period in art circles all
over the world is evidenced by the fact
that many of our greatest exhibitions
are now being held during these
months. The best annual exhibition
ever held in America, it is said, was
that which has just closed at the Car
negie institute at Pittsburg-the four
teenth annual international art exhi-
bition. Artists from practically every
country in Europe were here repre-
scented, and the paintings by American
artists were gathered from every Sec
ton of our country. The jury was an
international one, consisting of John
w. Beatty, the director of the Car
negie institute; William M. Chase, New
York; Charles H. Davis, Mystic, Conn.,;
Childe Hassam, New York; w. L. La
throp, New Hope, Pa; Henri Eugene
LIE Sidaner, Paris, France; Albert Neu-
hugs, Amsterdam, Holland; Leonard
Ochtman, Cos Cob, Conn; Edward w.
Redfield, Center Bridge, Pa; w. Elmer
Schofield, Philadelphia, and Charles H.
Woodbury., Boston, all elected from the
exhibitors of the previous year.
Three hundred and four paintings
were shown, landscapes. ideal figure
subjects. genres and portraits, all ex-
cellent examples of the various schools
they represent
Among the prize winners were Will
liam Orpen, London, England, for his
Portrait of the Artist" Karl Ander-
son of New York, for his "Idlers;" Ed
ward r. Rock of New York, for his
Laurel" and honorable mention was
given to Joseph Oppenheim, Berlin,
Germany, for his Chinese Porcelains;"
to Charles Morris Young, Jenkintown,
Pa, for his Farmhouse in Winter"
to Daniel CARRIER. Lumberville, Pa, for
his ''Hills of Byram," and to Louis
Belts of Chicago for his apple Bios
sons"
Considerable interest is being aroused
in the plans for the erection of a
great fine arts building in the city
of New York, and in urging the pro-
1ect, John w. Alexander, as president
of the National Academy of Design,
says:
New York ought to be the art CEN
ter of the country and is in spite of
the fact that we have no adequate
galleries for the exhibition of current
works.
every city in the United States of
any size and many small cities already
have beautiful fine arts buildings or
are building them. With an adequate
gallery we could have each year an
exhibition to which painters from all
parts of the country would send their
works. 1t could be made the real
American salon. Then the pictures,
after being exhibited here, could be
sent to other large cities and later
divided into smaller exhibitions for
smaller cities
Frank r. Liddell, the president of
the California Art club, left last week
for a vacation trip to the northern
part of the state, where he will, no
doubt, devote more or less time to
painting, as we'll as to visits to art
galleries and exhibitions. Mr.. Lid
delps efforts toward the promotion of
art interests have been most success
full and his services as president of the
new art club have been invaluable
number of recent paintings by
Hanson Puthuff are on view at the
Kanst gallery, and number or not
able canvases from this gallery will
this week be transferred to the eX-
hibition at the Virginia hotel, among
them landscapes by John w. Gamble,
Granville Redmond and Benjamin G.
Brown.
The California Art club held it's July
meeting at the Art Students league
on the first Saturday evening of the
month Final arrangements were made
at this meeting for the representation
of the club at the coming exhibition at
Long Beach. William Wendt. John