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lin (1782), Joseph Duplessis; and " Rome from 

 the Aveutine" (1878), John Rollin Tilton. 

 Corot's "Wood-Gatherers" (1875), bought at 

 the Morgan sale, New York, 1886, for $15.000, 

 Clifford P. Grayson's " Mid-day Dreams," 

 Knaus's "Old Forester" (Berlin Exhibition, 

 1886, bought for 45,000 marks), and Thomas 

 Crawford's marble statue of " The Peri at the 

 Gates of Paradise," have besn added since 

 January, 1886. 



The Boston Art Club's thirty-third exhibi- 

 tion (January 15 to February 13; contained 

 136 pictures by 108 artists. Charles Sprague 

 Pearce's "Peeling Potatoes," Abbott F. 

 Graves's "Peonies," and W. F. Halsall's 

 marine called " The Rescue," were purchased 

 by the club. The thirty-fourth exhibition, 

 limited to water- colors and works in black- 

 and-white (April 9 to May 8), contained little 

 worthy of note. 



The art exhibition of the fourth season of 

 the Southern Exposition, held at Louisville, 

 Ky. (August 28 to October 23), contained 445 

 pictures, mostly by American painters. 



The art department of the St. Louis Exposi- 

 tion, held in the summer, comprised 463 num- 

 bers, mostly by American artists. Many of 

 the pictures were from the second Prize Fund 

 Exhibition, New York, including the four 

 prize works. A special feature was the ex- 

 hibition of De Neuville's "Cemetery of St. 

 Privat " (Salon, 1881). 



The sale of the art collection of the late ex- 

 Governor Edwin D. Morgan was held in New 

 York in the spring. The amount realized for 

 152 numbers, including paintings and bric-d- 

 brac, was $85,000, the highest price, $7,000, 

 being paid for Jules Breton's " Breton Washer- 

 women" (Salon, 1870). 



The collections of Fairman Rogers, J. W. 

 Bookwalter, and others, sold in New York, in 

 the spring, brought in the aggregate $68,000 

 for 164 works, the highest price, $5,200, being 

 paid for Ludwig Knaus's " Old Beau." William 

 L. Picknell's "Route de Concarneau" (Salon, 

 1880), which made the artist's reputation, was 

 sold to Thomas B. Clarke, New York, for only 

 $600. 



One of the most important art events of the 

 year was the sale of the collection of Mrs. 

 Mary J. Morgan, at Chickering Hall, New 

 York on the evenings of March 3, 4, and 5, and 

 at the American Art-Gallery on March 8 and 

 succeeding evenings. The catalogue comprised 

 2,628 numbers, of which 240 were classed as 

 modern paintings, mostly of the French school, 

 400 as Oriental art-objects, 155 as art in sterling 

 silver, 561 as European ceramics, bronzes, and 

 sculpture, 361 as fine-art and other books, and 

 911 as engravings and etchings. The total 

 amount realized at the sale was $1,207,299.30, 

 of which $885,300 was for paintings, $286,- 

 204.25 for Iric-a-brac, etc., $9, 864,30 for books, 

 and $25,930.75 for engravings and etchings. 

 Some of the highest prices obtained for pictures 

 were: Jules Breton, " The Communicants" 



(1884), $45,500, Donald Smith, Montreal ; G. 

 J. Vibert, "Missionary's Story " (1883), $25,- 

 500, C. P. Huntington, New York ; G. J. Vibert, 

 " The Cardinal's Menu," $12,500, Mrs. Arnott, 

 Elmira, N. Y. ; J. L. E. Meissonier, " In the 

 Library " (1876), $16,525, and " Standard-Bear- 

 er " (1857), $15,000, Charles Crocker, San 

 Francisco ; J. L. E. Meissonier, " The Vidette " 

 (1883), $15,000, S. P. Avery, New York ; J. 

 B. 0. Corot "Lake Nemi" (1865), $14,000, S. 

 V. White, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; J. B. C. Corot, 

 "Wood-Gatherers" (1875), $15,000, Corcoran 

 Gallery, Washington ; Ludwig Knaus, " Hunt- 

 er's Repast" (1867), $16,400, Mrs. Arnott, El- 

 mira, N. Y. ; Ludwig Knaus, " Country Store " 

 (1883), $10,400, S. P. Avery, New York; Lud- 

 wig Knaus, "St. Martin's Day " (1877). $5,700; 

 Theodore Rousseau, "Twilight," $15,500, Mrs. 

 Arnott, Elmira, N. Y. ; J. J. Henner, "La 

 Source" (1881), $10,100, Donald Smith, Mon- 

 treal ; Charles Bargue, "The Sentinel " (1876), 

 $12,300, J. L. Martin, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; J. F. 

 Millet, "The Spinner," $14,000; Emile van 

 Marcke, "Mill Farm," $11,500, Knoedler & 

 Co.; Rosa Bonheur, "Cow and Calf" (1876), 

 $12,200. 



Thomas Ball's bronze statue of Daniel 

 Webster was unveiled at Concord, N. H., on 

 June 17. 



Olin L. Warner's bronze statue of William 

 Lloyd Garrison, on Commonwealth Avenue, 

 Boston, was placed upon its pedestal in May. 



John Doyle's statue of Senator Hill was un- 

 veiled, May 1, at Savannah, tia. ; and on May 

 6, in the same city, a bronze statue of Gen. 

 Nathanael Greene. 



Miss Whitney's marble statue of Harriet 

 Martineau was dedicated at Wellesley College, 

 Needham, Mass., June 21. 



Ephrairn Keyser's statue of Baron De Kalb 

 was unveiled at Annapolis, Md., on August 16. 



The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, on 

 Bedlow's Island, was finished April 22. The 

 statue was erected during the summer, and was 

 unveiled on October 28 with imposing cere- 

 monies, in which President Cleveland and 

 many other distinguished Americans, Frederic 

 Auguste Bartholdi, author of the work, and 

 a delegation from the French Republic, took 

 part. 



The Soldiers' Memorial Arch, Hartford, 

 Conn., by George Keller, builder of the Gar- 

 field memorial at Cleveland, Ohio, and other 

 monuments, was dedicated on September 17. 

 The structure spans a bridge leading to the 

 park, each pier springing from a massive round 

 tower sixty-seven feet in circumference. These 

 towers, which are more than a hundred feet 

 high, terminate in conical roofs, and have 

 canopied niches for statues on their faces. 

 Above the archway, which is about thirty 

 feet in diameter, a sculptured frieze, seven 

 feet high, runs entirely around the monument, 

 the north side representing the " Story of the 

 War," the south the " Return of the Army." 

 The total cost was $60,000. 



