FINE ARTS 1885. 



FLORIDA. 



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The twenty-fifth annual exhibition of the 

 Artists' Fund Society of New York was held, 

 Jan. 3 to 14, at the National Academy. The 

 sales amounted to $12,216 for 133 works. 



The thirty- first exhibition of the Boston Art 

 Club was held Jan. 16 to Feb. 14, and contained 

 153 works in oil by 114 artists. Of the exhib- 

 itors, 48 were from New York, 40 from Boston, 

 and the remainder mostly from other towns in 

 Massachusetts. 



At the Prize Fund Exhibition, held in New 

 York by the American Art Association in 

 April, the four prizes of $2,500 each were 

 awarded to the following: R. Swain Gifford, 

 "Near the Coast"; Frank M. Boggs, "En- 

 trance to Harbor of Honfleur " ; Alexander 

 Harrison, " Le Crepuscule"; Henry Hosier, 

 "Last Sacrament." The four pictures were 

 allotted respectively, by vote of the artists, to 

 the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the 

 Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, the Art Mu- 

 seum of St. Louis, and the Gallery of the Poly- 

 technic Institute of Louisville. 



The National Academy of Design in New 

 York consists of 97 academicians and 57 asso- 

 ciates, the number of each being limited to 

 100 members. The sixtieth annual exhibition 

 (April 6 to May 16) contained 665 works, con- 

 tributed by 432 artists. The Clarke prize of 

 $300 was awarded to Francis C. Jones for his 

 picture entitled "Exchanging Confidences," 

 representing an old woman and a child seated 

 at the tea-table. The three Hallgarten prizes 

 of $300, $200, and $100 were given respect- 

 ively to Harry Chase, for his "New York 

 Harbor, North River"; J. Francis Murphy, 

 for " Tints of a Vanished Past," a landscape ; 

 and Dennis M. Bunker, for " A Bohemian," a 

 young artist playing the guitar. 



The Boston Art Club's thirty-second exhibi- 

 tion (April 11 to May 2) contained 233 works 

 by 128 contributors. 



The Nashville Art Association's first annual 

 exhibition (March 31 to April 27) was a suc- 



The San Francisco Art Association held its 

 spring exhibition in April, with 114 oil-paint- 

 ings, 39 water-colors, and other works. 



The Boston Museum of Fine Arts held its 

 fifth annual exhibition of contemporary Ameri- 

 can art (May 5 to June 2) with 212 works, of 

 which 186 were oils, 11 water-colors, 2 pastels, 

 and 13 pieces of sculpture. 



The art exhibition of the Southern Exposi- 

 ,tion, Louisville, Ky., opened on Aug. 15 with 

 419 pictures by American artists, of which 55 

 were water-colors. 



At the thirteenth annual exhibition of the 

 Interstate Industrial Exposition of Chicago 

 j(Sept. 2 to Oct. 17), the art exhibit comprised 

 ;431 pictures, including 327 in oils and 104 in 

 water-colors and pastels. 



The art department of the St. Louis Exposi- 

 fion (Sept. 9 to Oct. 24) comprised 395 works, 

 including Louis Beroud's great canvas (thirty 

 feet by forty feet), " Henry III at Venice," 



from the Salon of 1885, and about forty other 

 important foreign pictures. 



The Milwaukee Exposition (Sept. 2 to Oct. 

 17) exhibited 652 works by 221 American art- 

 ists ; 291 were oil-pictures, and 361 water- 

 colors, pastels, and black and whites. 



The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 

 held its fifty-sixth annual exhibition in Phila- 

 delphia from Oct. 29 to Dec. 10. 



The autumn exhibition of the National Acad- 

 emy of Design, New York, held in November, 

 contained 686 works by 424 artists. 



The sale of the art collection of George I. 

 Seney, of Brooklyn, took place in New York 

 on the evenings of March 31 and April 1 and 

 2. The 285 pictures, which are estimated to 

 have cost the owner $500,000, sold in the ag- 

 gregate for $406,910, from which the expenses 

 of the sale have to be deducted. Some of the 

 highest prices obtained were as follows : Bre- 

 ton, " Evening at Finisterre," $18,200; Rous- 

 seau, "Morning on the Oise," $12,500; De- 

 fregger, " Arrival at the Ball," $10,500 ; 

 Rousseau, landscape, $10,000 ; Bouguereau, 

 " Vierge aux Anges," $9,500 ; Domingo, 

 "Spanish Cafe 1 ," $8,100; Renouf, "Helping 

 Hand," $7.600; Munkacsy, "In the Studio," 

 $7,100; Van Marcke, "La Vanne," $7,000; 

 Munkacsy, "Bringing in the Night Rovers," 

 $6,250; Diaz, "Forest of Fontainebleau," 

 $6,000; Knaus, "In the Hay- field," $5,500. 



United, States : Statues and Monuments. The me- 

 morial monument erected in Mount Vernon 

 Place, Baltimore, by William T. Walters, as a 

 tribute to the genius of the French sculptor 

 Antoine Louis Barye, was informally presented 

 to the city on the 28th of January. It consists 

 of a collective group of replicas of five of the 

 artist's principal works in bronze on a granite 

 pedestal. 



Bartholdi's statue of " Liberty Enlightening 

 the World" arrived in New York, June 17, on 

 the steamer " Isere." The $100,000 needed to 

 complete the pedestal was raised through the 

 efforts of the New York " World." 



Happersberger's statue of Garfield, for San 

 Francisco, was cast successfully at Nuremberg, 

 Germany. 



Richard H. Park's Poe memorial was un- 

 veiled, May 4, in the Metropolitan Museum, 

 New York. 



J. Q. A. Ward's statue of the " Pilgrim," 

 erected in Central Park, New York, by the 

 New England Society, was unveiled on June 6. 



William G. Turner's statue of Commodore 

 Oliver Hazard Perry was unveiled at Newport, 

 R. I., Sept. 10. 



J. Q. A. Ward's statue of the late William 

 Earl Dodge, at the intersection of Broadway 

 and Sixth Avenue, New York, was unveiled 

 Oct. 22. The pedestal, a fountan, was designed 

 by Richard M. Hunt. 



FLORIDA. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year : Gov- 

 ernor, Edward A. Perry, Democrat ; Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, Milton H. Mabry ; Secretary of 



