Evening star., 1916-12-03
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

Within the past few weeks three
coins of new design have come from
the government mint-a 10-cent piece.
a 25-cent piece and a 50-cent piece.
All three of these are in the truest
sense of the word works of art"
The 25-cent piece was designed and
president of the National Sculpture So
cety and one of the foremost of our
American sculptors. The half dollar
and the 10cent piece are by Adolph A.
Weinman, also of New York. whose
ideal figures. Rising Sun" and De
scending Night" modelled for the San
Francisco exposition, have recently
been purchased by the Albright Gallery
of Buffalo.
Mr.. MacNeil is particularly well
known for his Indian sculpture. In
City Park. Portland. Ore. is his Com
ing of the White Man; in the Metro
politan Museum. New York, and in the
Corcoran Gallery. this city. are his
Sun Vow," an Indian group showing
the old warrior watching the young
Indian boy testing his Workmanship
Mr.. MacNeil is also the sculptor of the
and to his credit in association with
Mr.. Hamlin, the architect, is one of
the best soldier monuments ever erect
ed in this country, at Whitinsville,
Mass.
MIR. MacNeil was born in Massa-
chusetts and studied at the Massa-
chusetts Normal Art School, Boston;
then under Chapu and Falguiere in
Paris In 1895 he won the Rinehart
Roman scholarship and was one of the
first to test the advantage of a four
year residence at the American Acad-
emy in Rome. One OF his latest works
is statue of Washington. which has
been placed on the Washington arch
in New York.
Mr.. Wineman is not an American by
birth, having been born in Karlsruhe
Germany, but he came to this country
when he was ten years old. He studied
first at the Art Students League OF
New York and later became a pupil of
Augustus Saint-Gaudens. His are the
Lincoln memorials at Hodgenville, KY,
and Madison. Wis. His also is the statue
of Gen. Macomb erected in Detroit
Mich. He has made numerous models,
and both he and Mr.. MacNeil are reck-
oned as especially skilled in modelling
in low relief.
Our American coins have not hereto
fore given much occasion for pride, but
this new coinage marks a step in the
right direction. Not only We're able
sculptors chosen for the commi ssion,
but the work before acceptance was
passed upon by the commission of fine
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tiful that even those no longer in use
are treasured for their artistic merit.
So perhaps in the future will the coins
of our country be priced.
1t will probably be some time before
the full Significance of the bequest to
the National Gallery made by Henry w.
Ranger will be understood. Mr.. Ranger
died leaving an estate of over 100000,
which amount he placed in the hands
of the council of the National Academy
of Design, directing that the entire in
come therefrom should be spent in the
purchase of works of art by American
painters. Two-thirds of the amount he
stipulated should be spent me works
of painters over forty-five years or
age.
Such works as are purchased are, ac-
cording to Mr.. Rangers direction, to
be placed, at the discretion OF the coun-
Gil Of the academy. in the custody OF
various art museums. public libraries
having galleries. and similar institu-
tiops throughout the country. to show
during the lifetime of the artist. Then.
after the artist has been dead ten years.
the National Gallery will be at liberty
to claim any of these works purchased.
II, however. the National Gallery does
not claim . painting within i've years