The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-24
THE sculptor members OF the Ma
tional Sculpture Society. who
= held a cnmneflfInn during the

held competition during the
past winter for small bronze to be
presented to the lay members OF the So
ciety, have decided that the prize should
go to Robert Aitken. This model has
Just been cast by the Roman Bronze
Works in the Gre Perdu process and
the first copy was presented to John De
Witt Warner in recognition OF his long
! service on the committee of the council.
The other copies will be presented to
the other members
Charles Sprsgue Pearce, who died the
other day at Auvers-sur-O Disc, had lived
for thirty years In France lie was
born In Boston of an English father.
He was educated in Boston, but at the
age of 20 went to Paris to enter the
studio OF Leon Bonnat. He worked
there assiduously for some years. He
had been an invalid for several years
and had not been in this country for
eighteen years. His most successful
pictures dealt with the French peas
antry and fisher folk. He leaves two
brothers in Boston.
the property Of the late Mrs william
NJ. Billiard Of this city will he sold on
/ Tuesday evening at the Anderson Gal
leries. Interesting in the American
school are fine impression " II rare
print containing fifteen portraits. called
Washington Irving and His Literary
/ Friends ut Sunnyside." This mezzotint
shows likenesses of Irving, Longfellow.
Hawthorne, Cooper. Holmes. Emerson.
/ Bryant and other literary celebrities OF
| the period. Then there are etchinss by
/ Brunet-Debaines. Chauvel, Wnltuer
Mathey. GauJean ana mezsot!nts by Sir
Frank Short. r. Appleton and others.
The Bronxville artists have Just held
| an exhibition OF their work at the
| Bronxville Public School, which con-
tinued from Friday until last night. The
pictures will also be on view this af-
ternoon. Waiter Clark was represented
/ by landscape, Bruce Crane by
Dawn" and the other artists with their
| pictures were winter HILL" by Ann
Crane; THE Intruder" by II. Dolph;
Spring Landscape by Edward Gay:
September Morning." by W. IL. Howe;
Lilies" by G. II. Hinton "A Sym
phony." by George 1nness. Harry
Eagle and Macaw." by c. II. Knight;
"On the Way to Confirmation" by VIII
II. Low; christmas Eve In the Studio"
by Mary Fairchild Low; Making for
Port" by Edward Moran: a Japanese
panel by S. Il. Nichol. "Hildegarde," by
Wilhelmina Nichols; Spring" by Ho-
bart Nichols; Landscape" by Grin
Parsons: The Pool In the Woods" by
Henry w. Ranger: Reflections" by
I OF h,sf n
Smile: a portrait by w. r. Smedloy. "a
Duncan sibyl." by Elihu Vedder, and
"The Arno." by Anna Vinegar.
Transportation companies who have
art posters, domestic and foreign pc
| lures and models of ships and trains,
paintings showing the historical de-
velopment OF transportation. and other
objects OF art illustrating the general
theme of travel, are invited to partici-
pate in the ninth free exhibit OF the
Municipal Art Gallery at 40 Irving place.
from June l to 30. Reservation OF space
may be secured on application to Will
lam r. Edwards, secretary Of the gall
lery.
! Most OF the leading painters OF this
country Will be represented In the eN-
hibition Of selected painting TO be held
at the Albright Art Gallery In Buffalo
I The 100 pictures are 10 be hung in a
single line In 1--WE galleries. Nearly oil
the pictures to be shown have taken
prizes this year in the various exhibit
| lions held In the large cities.
| Among the important works will be
a small marine piece BY Whistler. lent
by William X. Bixby OF ST. Louis; n
portrait OF A. Augustus Healy OF Brook
Ign, by John S. Sargent; Pandora" by
T. w. Dewing. lent by John Gellatly:
four paintings BY John W. Alexander; q