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Reid, London ; John Lavery, Glasgow ; Luis 

 Jimenez, Paris ; Alfred Pierre Agache, Paris ; 

 Juan Planella y Rodriguez, Barcelona ; MarceJ 

 Andre Baschet, Paris. First-class medal in 

 sculpture, E. van der Stappin, Brussels ; in ar- 

 chitecture, Alfred Waterhouse, London ; in en- 

 graving, Wilhelm Unger, Vienna. 



Vienna Exhibition. The fine arts exhibi- 

 tion was open from March 15 to May 15. 



Dim Cathedral. A grand celebration was 

 held at Ulm in commemoration of the comple- 

 tion of the cathedral, which was begun in 1377. 

 After three hundred years' consecutive work upon 

 it, the building was interrupted by the Refor- 

 mation. In 1844 a committee of citizens under- 

 took the task of finishing it on the primitive plan, 

 the cost being partly defrayed by a lottery. The 

 spire which crowns the edifice is the highest in 

 the world, being 524 feet, or five metres higher 

 than that of Cologne. The building will hold 

 30,000 persons. 



A statue of Hernando Cortez was unveiled, 

 Dec. 2, in his native city of Medellin. Estrama- 

 dura, Spain, in the square formerly occupied by 

 the Cortez homestead. The statue, which repre- 

 sents the conqueror of Mexico in full military 

 dress, with the staff of command in his right 

 hand and the flag of Castile and Leon in his 

 left, stands on a massive pedestal in the shape 

 of a fifteenth-century fortress, bearing on its four 

 sides broken Aztec weapons and the inscriptions : 

 " Mexico," " Tlascala," " Oturaba," " Tabasco." 

 On the front is " Hernan Cortez " and the coat 

 of arms granted him by Charles V on his return 

 from Mexico. It is the work of a young sculptor, 

 Eugenio Barren. 



The famous group of four " Negroes' Heads," 

 by Rubens, has been acquired by the Belgian 

 Government at a cost of 80,000 francs and 

 placed in the Brussels Museum. It was sold in 

 1867, in the Pommersfelden collection, to Prince 

 Narischkine for 35,000 francs, and passed thence 

 to Prince Demidoff in 1883 for 55,000 francs. 

 This picture was attributed to Van Dyck in the 

 Pommersfelden catalogue of 1719, but in the 

 next edition was given to Rubens. 



United States : Exhibitions, etc. The Na- 

 tional Academy of Design, New York, now con- 

 sists of 96 academicians and 51 associates. The 

 officers for 1890-'91 are : President, Daniel Hunt- 

 ington : Vice-President, T. W. Wood ; Corre- 

 sponding Secretary, T. Addison Richards ; Re- 

 cording Secretary, H. W. Robbins ; Treasurer, 

 Alfred Jones. 



The sixty-fifth annual exhibition (April 1 to 

 May 10), contained 600 numbers, including oils, 

 water colors, and sculptures. Among the note- 

 worthy pictures shown were: Kenyon Cox's 

 " The Approach of Love," a nude female half 

 reclining on yellow drapery on a marble bench, 

 with a blue-winged Cupid climbing up at the 

 other end ; Horatio Walker's " A Barnyard." 

 an excellent study of pigs; Homer Martin's 

 " Wild Coast near Newport " : W. IT. Lippin- 

 cott's " Love's Ambush,' a pretty girl of colonial 

 times hiding behind the door as her lover enters ; 

 II. R. Butler's "Church of Aguas Calientes"; 

 Will H. Low's "Love disarmed"; F. D.Mil- 

 let's " Antony van Corlaer " ; and Walter Shir- 

 law's " Rufina," a study of the nude. 



The Thomas B. Clarke prize of $300 for the 



best American figure composition painted in the 

 United States was awarded to Edmund C. Tar- 

 bell, of Boston, for his " After the Ball." The 

 Norman W. Dodge prize of $300 for the best 

 picture painted in the United States by a woman 

 was awarded to A. M. Richards, of Newport, R. 

 I., for her " An Interlude to Chopin. The 

 Julius Hallgarten prizes of $300, $200, and $100 

 were not awarded, but will be added to those of 

 next year. 



The ninth autumn exhibition (Nov. 24 to Dec. 

 20) comprised 385 numbers. Among the note- 

 worthy works were three portraits, by John S. 

 Sargent Lawrence Barrett, Joseph Jefferson as 

 Dr. Pangloss, and a full-length of Mrs. E. L. 

 Davis and son. 



The American Water-Color Society held its 

 twenty-third annual exhibition at the Academy 

 of Design, New York (Feb. 3 to March 1), with 

 645 numbers. Among the more prominent ex- 

 hibitors were Edwin A. Abbey, Hamilton Gibson, 

 Henry Farrar, William Magrath, Thomas Moran, 

 Walter Shirlaw, Bruce Crane, Childe Hassam, W. 

 T. Smedley, Ross Turner, Bolton Jones, Murphy, 

 Wiggins, Weir, and Wiles. The Evans prize of 

 $300 was awarded to W. T. Smedley's " Thanks- 

 giving Dinner." 



The twelfth annual exhibition of the Society 

 of American Artists, held at the Fifth Avenue 

 Art Galleries, New York (April 28 to May 24), 

 was one of the best of American pictures ever 

 held in this country. Among the best known 

 contributors were John S. Sargent, whose por- 

 trait of " Carmencita " attracted much attention, 

 Wm. M. Chase, Kenyon Cox, Will H. Low, J. 

 Alden Weir, Robert A". Eichelberger, R. C. Minor, 

 Walter Shirlaw, and John H. Twachtman. Two 

 landscapes by Roger Donoho and a landscape by 

 W. Lathrop almost unknown names showed 

 careful and conscientious study. The annual 

 Webb prize of $300 for the best landscape by 

 an American artist under .forty years of age 

 was awarded to Theodore Robinson for his 

 " Winter Landscape." 



The exhibition of the Society of American 

 Artists, at Chicago, in June, was a repetition of 

 the New York exhibition, with a few additions. 



The spring exhibition at the American Art 

 Galleries, New York, in April, contained works 

 contributed by ten American artists oils, water 

 colors, pastels, and black and whites. The artists 

 were F. D. Millet, Wm. M. Chase, H. R. Poore, 

 R. C. Minor, C. M. Dewing, C. H. Eaton, F. K. 

 M. Rehn, J. W. Champney, Frederick Reming- 

 ton, and Carleton Wiggins. The exhibition was 

 made up partly of paintings lent by private 

 owners and partly of new works by the artists. 

 Each painter's work was shown separately. 



The fourth annual exhibition of the Society 

 of Pastel Painters was held at Wunderlich's 

 Gallery, New York. Noteworthy among the 

 contributions were William M. Chase's " After- 

 noon by the Sea," Walter Palmer's " Wheat and 

 Poppies," Bolton Jones's " Spring " and " After- 

 noon," Theodore Robinson's " By the Seine," and 

 Rosina Emmett Sherwood's " Portrait." 



In November was exhibited at the International 

 Art Gallery, New York, Franz von Lenbach's 

 latest portrait of Bismarck, painted in the early 

 part of the year at Friedrichsruh, and first 

 shown in the "Munich exhibition in April and 



