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FINE ARTS IN 1888. (UNITED STATES.) 



marks ; " Chestnut Forest," 9.800 marks. Con- 

 stant Troyon, " Passing Cattle," 22,700 marks. 

 Benjamin Vautier, " The Burial," 13,500 marks. 



Enited States: Exhibitions, etc. The National 

 Academy of Design, New York, held its sixty- 

 third annual exhibition, April 2 to May 12, 

 with 598 entries. The sales amounted to $22,- 

 000, for eighty- four works. 



The Clarke prize for the best figure compo- 

 sition was awarded to II. Siddons Mowbray 

 for his "Evening Breeze." The first Hallgar- 

 ten prize, $300, was given to G. Do Forest 

 Brush, for "The Sculptor and the King"; the 

 second, $200, to II. R. Poore, for " Fox 

 Hounds"; the third, $100, to Charles C. Cur- 

 ran, for " A Breezy Day." The Norman W. 

 Dodge prize, $300, for the best picture painted 

 in the United States by a woman, was award- 

 ed to Mrs. Amanda B. Sewell, for her "Por- 

 trait of Dora Wheeler." 



At the annual meeting of the National Acad- 

 emy, held in April, the officers elected were : 

 Daniel Huntington, president; T. W. Wood, 

 vice-president ; T. Addison Richards, corre- 

 sponding secretary ; Albert Jones, treasurer. 

 The following were elected academicians : E. 

 II. Blashfield, T. W. Dewing, Walter Shirlaw. 

 Associate academicians : George De Forest 

 Brush, Charles 0. Curran, Will II. Low, H. 

 Siddons Mowbray, H. R. Poore, Augustus St. 

 Gaudens, Olin L. Warner, Robert Blum, Will- 

 iam M. Chase, Robert C. Minor. 



The seventh annual autumn exhibition was 

 held November 19 to December 15. 



At the fourth annual Prize Fund Exhibition 

 of the American Art Association, held in New 

 York in May, the catalogue contained 338 

 numbers, including pictures and sculpture. 

 But one prize, of $2,000, was awarded to J. 

 Alden Weir, for his "Idle Hours," a large 

 genre picture which is to go to the Metropoli- 

 tan Museum. Four gold medals of $100 each 

 were given as follows: Charles Henry Eaton, 

 best landscape ; J. C. Nicoll, best marine, 

 " The Sea " ; Percy Moran, best figure compo- 

 sition, " The Forgotten Strain " ; C. E. Dallin, 

 best statue, "The Indian Hunter." 



The Society of American Artists held its 

 tenth annual exhibition at the Yandell Gallery, 

 New York, April 7 to May 5. The Seward 

 Webb prize for the best landscape painted by 

 an American artist under forty years of age, 

 was awarded to J. II. Twachtman, for his 

 u Windmills." 



An exhibition of historical portraits, most of 

 them of Philadelphia social celebrities, at the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, which 

 closed January 15, contained about 500 works. 

 Several were attributed to Lely and Kneller ; 

 others were by Hesselius, Robert Feke, Sully, 

 Gilbert Stnart, the Peales, Otis, and Neagle. 



The American Water-Color Society's twenty- 

 first annual exhibition was held in New York, 

 January 30 to February 25. Two prizes, of 

 $300 each, one given by Mrs. Frank Leslie, for 

 the best figure or still-life; the other by W. T. 



Evans, for the best landscape or marine painted 

 in this country by an American painter, were 

 awarded, February 18, by vote of the members. 

 The first was awarded to J. Alden Weir, for 

 his " Preparing for Christmas " ; the second to 

 Horatio Walker, for his " Landscape with 

 Pigs." The amount of sales was $24,000. 



The Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts 

 held its fifty-eighth annual exhibition, February 

 16 to March 29. The first Tappan prize ($200) 

 was awarded to Benjamin Fox, for his picture 

 entitled " Sympathy " ; the second Tappan 

 prize ($100) to M. H. Bancroft, for "Bad 

 News." The gold medal was given to Charles 

 S. Reinhart, for " Washed Ashore " : the silver 

 medal to Howard R. Butler, for "LaRecolte 

 des Vareches" (Salon. 1886). 



The most important art sale of the year was 

 that of the Albert Spencer collection, on the 

 evening of February 28, at Chickering Hall, 

 New York. The sixty-eight pictures sold for 

 $284,025. The prices of some of the best 

 works were as follow : Troyon," Drove of Cat- 

 tle and Sheep," $26,000 (S. P. A very). Jules 

 Breton, "Le Soir," $20,500 (Mrs. W. B. Ogden). 

 Ger6me, "Serpent Charmer," $19,500. Dela- 

 croix, "Entombment," $10,600; " Tiger drink- 

 ing," $6,100. J. F. Millet, "The Gleaners," 

 $10,400 ; " Peasant Woman and Child," $3,500 ; 

 "Diana Reposing," $2,500; "Shepherdess," 

 $7,500 ; " Sleeping Woman," $2,500. Meisson- 

 ier, " Standard Bearer of the Flemish Civic 

 Guard," $9,200; "A Musician," $8,800. Co- 

 rot, "Morning," $8,400; "Farm at Toulon," 

 $7.000. Danbigny, "Midsummer Edge of a 

 Pond," $8,650. Rousseau, Theodore, " Sunset," 

 $7,300; "Autumn Evening," $6,100; "Sunset 

 in a Wood," $5,000; " Ravines of Apremont," 

 $4,300; " Cottage at Berri," $5.200; " Plains of 

 Barbizon," $1,850; "Lone Tree in Autumn," 

 $1,200. Fromcntin, " Arab Falconer," $6,500; 

 "Arab Women," $6,400; "Horse-Trading in 

 the Desert," $2,550; "Boar Hunt," $3,800; 

 "The Fire," $1,050. Diaz, "In the Woods," 

 $5,900; "Assumption," $2,650; "Passing 

 Storm," $4,100 ; " Clearing in the Forest," 

 $4,700. Isabey, " Fete at H6tel Rambouillet," 

 $4,600. Schreyer, " Advance Guard," $5,000. 



A collection of water-colors by W. Hamilton 

 Gibson, and of oils by Kruseman Van Elten, 

 exhibited at the American Art Galleries from 

 March 13, -was sold March 19. The former 

 brought $12,259 ; the latter, $8,032. 



The Edward Kearney and Jordan L. Mott 

 collections, exhibited at the American Art 

 Galleries, were sold March 28 and 29, 130 pict- 

 ures bringing $130,590. Among the best 

 prices obtained were : RosaBonheur, "Deerin 

 the Forest," $5,500; Bouguereau, "Resting," 

 $4,800; G6r6me, "Circassian Slave," $4,800 ; 

 Schreyer, " Teamster in the Marshes of the 

 Danube," $4,000. 



The Christian H. Wolff collection, exhibited 

 at the American Art Galleries, New York, 

 from March 26 to April 2, was sold for about 

 $27,000. 



