ttt 



!\ 1805. 



and a good Van I>yck. and ranva.**. l.y Carolus 

 Ihiran. H..IHUII . Sargrnl. < 'hart ran. and '.Madraxo. 



utuinn exhibition (Dee, 88 to Jan. 1 1 

 elated of 814 works, chiefly paintings, 1 

 fine nicturr* i>> the late George Inneas oc< 

 ,..noriulhe.uthgallen 



- 



and "Sir 



New Wk ^Mi.i i, Mti-t,. 



. n uhibitlon opanad -n 



Motnl.. ^hnw Fund pr: 



tlJOO'wa* awar \ .MM, M. 



iv all." and the Webb prir.e of $800 to 



1U-..,,H -IMaM Central.- and 

 Catena*. 1 1 A* an rthv latid^cap- 



..mswere-Fnder the Willows." J,v Philip 

 lUIr: -llornim: 



BUtabeth Curtis; 



Ihfl L'ift of the late " 



upyiiiL' two galleries 



.,,,_, 

 prominent figure , 



\n Autumn Stroll." Walter 

 "'I'll.- Cradle." FriM-t L. Major's 

 T. mpta- 



Uon of St. Anthony." Gustave Henry M.-l. -r 's 

 -Under th. rees," and William Ernest 



Chapman'* " < irtihans." The only large piece of 

 srul|ture was Philip Martign\ 



New \o,k National Sculpture soejrt*. 

 The second annual exhibition was held in M.Iv 

 in the galleries of th<- F..,,- Arts Building, which 

 were decorated with palms and other trees and 

 Arabs to represent an Italian garden, where the 

 statue* were set off by a natural Liu-k^nuuul of 

 foliage, or jieen amid bedu of orchids and other 

 flower*. The Vandrrliilt gallery wa> ma<l<- into 

 court with low walls on each .lide xurmounted 

 by plants in pot*, with rows of tree ferns lead- 

 nig to an lonif <.!<. niia.lc at the end. \\li.-n Mr. 

 Niebaus's K - : nude 



tblete usin^ th. >tri-il. was seen againM a 

 creen of cvprewes. In other prominent places 

 in tne gallery were . I I'iljrriin " 



and Hi aaated^ li-un-s "The Statesman" and 

 "The Warri'-r." <-n tin- (Jarfield iiMiniinieiit at 

 Washington. F. \V. Uu. kM jr-mp 



m '. Bfl ",. BMdi Ol .luj.i'. r." and 



m '- ^Sketx h f. r i Monu- 

 MBt" Macmonnies^ bnmx. vj, llu( .tte of " A 

 liaw-hante" and I i- IT,., .i-played in 



ttt entrance hall, oiin L. Wan,, r', IMana," 

 rranch* group "(iallaudet teaching a 

 Mto Child." and KiwellV -Al.rahnm d. 

 !" occupied rereiwes in the corners. 



N>w Tort: Metropolitan MMeum.-The 

 aturon rw.|-nin K wan marked by the cxhil.it i.. n 



fa toM eoUecUon of earlr American |K,rt raits 



and otbrr picturw I ,- from all 



Ibe countiy. Of about 150 early 



octa. a large proportion were bv (iilUrt 

 Sluart. Copley. Sully, and Washington A 

 Bf Mart wcrv |ortraits of Wa-hin^ 



* m Y Mll ' Ii ' lon< Monrr * * Oen.t, 



Portrait of Commodore Decatur 

 lfos^ora": and by Allrton, his De- 



I'iiM In- 



itae, and others were well repre* 

 The ( ullun collection of casts of Greek and 



on the n^rth side of the Metropolitan M 

 was opened in Novemlier. It contains fam<.us 

 statin's, rn- 1 ..| the 



Parthenon, an i < ulpt ure-. 



N. u Noil >l i- ll.iiicon-. 

 nual exhiliition of t 

 Clnl. at the gnllerii-s of the Fine \ 

 West i 



lavoral.lv with previous exhi!>: 

 hundredaiid ninety-t v, 



\ei| in the south aii'. 

 tral gnlh-rie?.. the Vanderl.jlt and ca-l ai, 



galleries being oloaad. ! 'ie pictnr. 



I'V .lohn I., reii Fat i. n 



rthlir 'I . K.-llar. K'hoda llolnie.H 

 Nich..lls. Mathilde de ( o.d.-l.a. F. K. M. 

 Claude Ha.irnH 1 1 irst . 1 1 arry l-'cnn. and I 

 Fmmett. Slier\\o..d. 



The Fine Art- F.-deration js the title of 

 <>r-L:aiii/.ation. formed at a meeting held at the 

 Fine Arts lluildinj:. 



tencled to include all the - M. -rented in 



the tine arts. Ainoni,' th 

 were the National Academy of h.-iun. > 

 of American Arti-t-. Archit'cctural Lea^i. 

 tional S-ulpture Sic. \ of the I 



Arts Architects, Municipal An 'id the 



\ ..rk Cha|.ter of the American In>tr 

 Architects. Kushdl Stiirgis was elected presi- 

 dent. 



The Mural Painters is the name chosen i 

 association of professional artists, whose 

 is to promote the delineation of the human 

 liirure in its relation to iirchilectur. . whether 

 rendered in pigment, stained ^la . mo-aic. ta|.- 

 csiry. or other appropriatr medium. .!.!. 

 Farge was elected honorary presideni. 

 Frederic Crowninshield and'<.. :. \\ 

 nurd vice-proideiit-. 



The Anicriran Art A-sociation held a d 

 tion sale of its collection of painting-. 

 art. etc.. at Chit-krrin.i; Hall, in April. The 

 >ck portrait of the u Man-hi-M- di Spiimla 

 and her Little (Jirl" hnm^ht the hiirhrst 



iMHIghl for the I', 



M.Charles Sedelmcycr. Sir Joshua l,V\i 

 portrait of Lady llei-vey sx.ld for *0. 1 ' 



Susan c. Warren, of Boston. Tro\.-n'- The 

 Tiinrof Milkinu'." $5,050, toll. O'N T e"il. .M 

 " Meltin_- I.-.- " and ' \"ur t\. 

 iHiuirlit I'V Henry (t. Ila\.-ni. \er for > 

 $2.600. (Jainsborough's"Mi-. Beech 

 : Sir Thomas Lawrence'- " V 



QS'l ' I'.-rtrait of hi- Falhn 



fessor." $5,55o : Bronrino's " I'ortrait of r. 

 Caplla." $4,100; "The I'.-nd of Ville 



Ine hundred and 

 pictures l.n.ui:ht in the ag- 1 



The collection of (ii. 



of 170 pictures, sold on I-VI,. ','1. n-alix- 



At the .sjile of the picture- of t he 



In ness, on I t, and M. the total a' 



realize<l wa $10s.c,7o. di-tril.i, 



: and third, 



'. "The Comin- Storm." one of t( 

 pictures in the collection, on which an 

 price of $3,000 was put, remained unsold. 



A collect ion of 'Jo pictures |,y the ; 

 In ness belonging to II. li. Il.i.-;-.n v.a 



