Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-09
the development Of a national art
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Associations Pledged by tn
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to Buy American Pictures. q Of + III o o1.
CARNATIONS pledged to purchase Amer
lean pictures. When the friends Of
American art" in Chicago announced
that they would spend $4,000 annually
upon the purchase Of paintings by
American artists, the report was hard
ly credited. But the success OF their
exhibitions and the acknowledged ex-
cellence Of the work presented have
Shown that the expenditure was well
warranted. During the past year Salt
sum OF $4,000 annually for the exhibit
ton of fine art and one-half Of this
sum is to be devoted to the purchase OF
American paintings. Knoxville, Tenn,
has made a similar appropriation. as
Paul. st. Louis and various other cities:
Each year increases the number OF
channels through which commerce aids
art and incidentally is aided. The
moving picture shows find that paint
essary to give the various effects de-
sired, SO large sums Of money are be-
ing paid for special painters for this
work. The American Lithograph Com
pany has engaged Frank Billiard Will
liams. Dewitt NJ. Parschall, Elliot
Daingerfield. Edward Potthost and the
venerable Thomas Moran. all we'll
known landscape artists, to go to Col
orado canyons to paint pictures OF tina
scenery for reproduction. While the
amount paid for this work has not
been made public. it is understood to
have been generous.
Art in advertising Is each year becom-
ing q greater source OF remuneration for
the artist. and the general public is re
ceiving the benefit. The best known IL
Illustrators no longer consider it beneath
them to produce a really creditable pic
ture for advertising purposes, and from
$1,000 to 5000 Is frequently paid for q
single sketch. This work is practically
on a par with that OF magazine illus
trating. which is also remunerative. High
class magazines frequently pay 5000 for
a single cover design.
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The demand for water-color painting
is being stimulated by the efforts OF
the American
Water Colors Shown Water Color
in Numerous Cities. has Furnished aI
exhibitions in number Of cities since
last June. A collection of paintings from
the national exhibition. held in New York
last summer, was sent to Buffalo. Cleve-
land, Pittsburg and Grand Rapids. 1t Ii
now in Cincinnati and will be shown in
Chicago, st. Louis and several other
cities before its return to New York in
June, when another collection will be
sent forth. The interest manifested in
this travelling exhibition has been evi.
denced by large attendances and in
creased demand for water color painting.
At a recent water color exhibit, held in
New York. thirty-seven pictures brought
s., 800. The exhibition included 357 pic
lures, more than half Of which had been
The revival Of INTEREST in miniature
painting bids fair to become an impor-
tant and remuneratiye branch of Ameri-
can art. Each year there Is q growing
demand for portrait miniatures, and this,
too, Is branch in which American wom-
en- have been especially successful
Among the pioneers in awakening inter-
esst in this work is Isabel Smith, who
was studying art in Paris at the time
when Queen Wilhelmina came to pur-
chase her coronation robes. She was the
only artist permitted to paint a portrait
of the queen at this time. She was given
several sittings and painted a miniature
showing the little Dutch queen in her
royal robes.
This was an honor greatly appreciated
by the American girl, who was at that
time just beginning her artistic career
Afterward Mrs. Smith, who was a native
of Ohio. painted u miniature Of President
Mckinley. which was always worn by
Mrs. Mckinley as her favorite brooch A
copy of this miniature and similar one
Of President Faure Of France were
framed together and received honor3 BILE
mention at the Paris exposition.
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Despite tho interest in American art
there is still much encouragement given
to foreigners, as
Foreign Artists Are was evidenced
Still Encouraged t Ss ase H RECEPTION asa
given to fhe modern Spanish painters.
Sorolla and Zuloaga, who became SO
popular in New York last year. The ad-
mission of their paintings to the museum
of the Hispanic Society was In itself an
advantage never given to any other art
lists. On the ground that the pictures
were for public exhibition they were ad-
United FREQ Of the duty usually imposed
upon foreign .art. Their free exhibition
was a tremendous advertisement for the
artists AMI 6 number Of their paintings
have been sold ut immense prices.
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