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ings. Among the best were Mr. Walter Shirlaw's 

 "The Kiss," Mr. Gilbert Gaul's "Washing on 

 Lake Manawa, Nicaragua," Bruce Crane's " The 

 Farm," George H. Smillie's " Entrance to Somes 

 Sound," and R. M. Shurtleff's "A Woodland 

 Brook." 



The Academy will soon seek new quarters up- 

 town, nearer the residence center of the city. Its 

 present building, on the corner of Twenty-third 

 Street and Fourth Avenue, which it has occu- 

 pied since 1865, has been sold to the Metropoli- 

 tan Life Insurance Company and will be de- 

 molished. 



New York : Society of American Artists. 

 The officers for the year 1894-'95 are as follow : 

 President, William M. Chase : Vice-President, 

 John La Farge ; Secretary, Kenyon Cox ; Treas- 

 urer, Samuel Isham. 



The sixteenth annual exhibition was held in 

 the galleries of the society from March 12 to 

 April 14. More than 300 canvases were shown, 

 a large number of which were noteworthy. 

 Among those which attracted attention were 

 portraits by William M. Chase, Carroll Beckwith, 

 William S. Kendall, and J. Alden Weir. Mr. 

 Weir's " The Willimantic Thread Factory-" is a 

 difficult subject handled in a broad and impres- 

 sive manner. Mr. Coffin's " Early Evening, 

 Somerset Valley " and Mr. Hardie's " Lady of 

 the Nineteenth Century " were also noteworthy. 

 Good landscape studies were shown by John 

 Humphrey Johnson, Horatio Walker. Joe Evans, 

 and Thomas Hoveden. 



The annual Webb prize of $300 for the best 

 landscape painted by an American artist under 

 forty years of age was awarded to Mr. Charles 

 A. Platt's " Spring." 



The $1,500 of the Samuel T. Shaw fund for 

 the purchase of a painting in oil containing one 

 or more figures was given to Mr. Henry O. 

 Walker for " The Singers," a charming little 

 painting of a bov and girl singing. 



New York : Miscellaneous. The Municipal 

 Art Society, whose object is to raise funds for 

 the artistic decoration of public buildings, of- 

 fered for its first competition 3 prizes, of $500, 

 $200, and $100, respectively, for plans for the 

 decoration of the Court of Oyer and Terminer 

 in the new Criminal Courthouse, the successful 

 competitor to receive $5,000 for the work. The 

 designs of about 40 competitors were exhibited 

 in the rooms of the Architectural League in the 

 Fine Arts Building. The first prize was awarded 

 to Edward Simmons, the second toC. Y. Turner, 

 and the third to Walter Shirlaw. 



A noteworthy collection of pastel portraits of 

 historic persons of the seventeenth and eighteenth 

 centuries, copied by Mr. J. Wells Champney 

 from originals in European galleries, especially 

 in Paris and Versailles, has been on exhibition 

 at several places during the year, at the Grolier 

 Club in January and at Knoedler's in December. 

 Among artists represented were Vandyke, Bou- 

 cher, Greuze, Nattier, Madame Vigee-Le Brun, 

 Frans Hals, Chardin, and Rosalba Camera: and 

 among the portraits were those of Louis XV as 

 dauphin, Louis XVII, Mines. Montespan and 

 Recamier, Princesse Lamballe, and Marie Antoi- 

 nette. 



An exhibition of works by Mr. R. L. Newma-n 

 at Knoedler's galleries in March attracted much 

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attention. Many of the pictures were note- 

 worthy for excellent composition and modeling, 

 and a sincerity and brilliance of tone character- 

 istic only of our greater colorists. 



Philadelphia: Academy of Fine Arts. 

 The sixty-third annual exhibition, which closed 

 Feb. 24, was one of the most successful of the 

 season, the managers having drawn largely from 

 the treasures of the Chicago exhibition. Among 

 the exhibits were Sargent's " Ellen Terry as 

 Lady Macbeth," George De Forest Brush's "The 

 Sculptor and the King," Whistler's " Yellow 

 Buskin," " Fur Jacket," " Princess of the Land 

 of Porcelain," and others, McClure Hamilton's 

 " Portrait of Mr. Gladstone," Kenyon Cox's 

 " Music," and Elihu Vedder's " Samson." Two 

 gold Temple medals were awarded, one to Mr. 

 Whistler for his " Yellow Buskin," and one to 

 Mr. Sargent for his " Ellen Terry." The Con- 

 verse gold medals were awarded to D. Ridgeway 

 Knight and Alexander Harrison. Mr. Hamil- 

 ton's " Gladstone," the duplicate of the one in 

 the Luxembourg, was bought for the Temple 

 collection. 



Monuments and Statues. The Nathan Hale 

 Monument Committee, for the erection of a me- 

 morial to the young patriot at Huntington, Long 

 Island, accepted Mr. Stanford White's plan for a 

 combined monument and fountain. A bowlder 

 with a bronze tablet bearing an inscription was 

 placed at the point near Huntington Bay where 

 he was captured. 



A monument to Edwin Booth, a Greek mono- 

 lith of Tennessee marble, bearing on its face a 

 bronze portrait of the actor in bas-relief, the work 

 of Mr. F. Edwin Elwell, has been erected at 

 Mount Auburn by his daughter, Mrs. Grossman. 



A life-size bronze statue of Columbus, a copy 

 of one in Madrid by the Spanish sculptor Sunoi, 

 was unveiled in Central Park, New York, in Ma\, 

 the gift of a hundred citizens to the city. The 

 discoverer is represented starting forward, flag 

 in hand, to take possession of the new-found 

 country. 



An equestrian statue of Gen. W. S. Hancock, 

 by Mr. F. Edwin Elwell, in bronze, was unveiled 

 on Cemetery Hill on the Gettysburg battlefield. 

 It is of heroic size, arid represents the general in 

 a commanding pose with outstretched hand, the 

 horse pawing the ground as if impatient of his 

 rider's constraint. 



A polished granite monolith, surmounted by a 

 gilt bronze figure of Victory, the work of Mr. 

 Frederick McMonnies. in commemoration of the 

 members of the Military Academy who died in 

 the civil war, has been erected at West Point. 



A bronze statue of the late Dr. James Marion 

 Sims, of heroic size, on a pedestal of granite, pre- 

 sented to the city by his professional friends, was 

 unveiled in Bryant Park, New York, on Oct. 19. 

 It was modeled and cast in Munich. 



A life-size bronze statue of Thorwaldsen, a copy 

 of the artist's marble statue of himself, repre- 

 senting him in his working blouse, with mallet 

 and chisel in hand, has been erected at the Sixth 

 Avenue entrance to Central Park, New York. It 

 is a gift to the city of the Danish societies of New 

 York and Brooklyn. 



A loan exhibition of portraits of women was 

 held in November at the Academy of Design for 

 the benefit of the St. John's Guild and the Or- 



