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Frazier, Will H. Low. The society has 113 

 members. 



The Shaw fund of $1,500, awarded annually for 

 the purchase of a figure composition in oil by an 

 American artist, was given to Irving R. Wiles for 

 his picture entitled The Yellow Rose. The Webb 

 prize of $300, for the best landscape in the exhibi- 

 tion painted by an American artist under forty 

 years of age, was awarded to W. Elmer Schofield 

 for his picture entitled Autumn in Brittany. 



The exhibition comprised 378 numbers. Among 

 the principal exhibits were : Cecilia Beaux, portrait 

 of Rev. William R. Huntington; William M. 

 Chase, Rest by the Wayside, A Gray Day, and 

 Spring; John La Farge The Divinity of Contem- 

 plation seated by the Stream of Life (Japanese 

 subject) ; Eastman Johnson, Child and Rabbit, 

 Boy with Violin; Carleton Wiggins, Late After- 

 noon Long Island; R. Swain Gifford, Port Clar- 

 ence Bering Strait; Ken yon Cox, A Fan, Hope 

 and Memory ; Leonard Ochtman, The Lane at Twi- 

 light; Thomas Moran, The Goose Pond; Arthur 

 Parton, Close of Day; Edward Gay, The Wheat 

 Field ; Charles Warren Eaton, Evening in Maine ; 

 Anna Lea Merritt, Merry Maids; Charles Hopkin- 

 son, In the Harvard Yard. 



New York: Miscellaneous. The principal art 

 sale of the year was that of the William T. Evans 

 collection, exhibited at the American Art Galleries 

 and sold on three nights in February at Chickering 

 Hall. The total sum realized for 270 lots was 

 $158,340. On the first night the highest price 

 obtained was for Homer Martin's Westchester 

 Hills, which brought $4,750. Other prices were: 

 R. C. Minor, The Close of Day, $3,050. George 

 Inness, Sunset on the Passaic, $2^,500; Montclair by 

 Moonlight, $1,000; Meadowland in June, $850. 

 Benjamin Fitz, The Reflection, $2,450. F. S. 

 hurch, Pandora, $1,000; Una and the Lion, $720. 

 Abbott H. Thayer, Young Woman, $2,050. Henry 

 W. Ranger, Connecticut Woods, $1,400; Morning 

 at High Bridge, $1,400; New Jersey Oaks, $1,100. 

 H. Siddons Mowbray, Arcadia, $960. 



On the second night the best sales were: George 

 Inness, Georgia Pines Afternoon, $5,900; Nine 

 o'Clock, $3,550; The Valley on a Gloomy Day, 

 $1,225. Winslow Homer, Weather Beaten, $4,000. 

 Henry W. Ranger, A Veteran, $1,100; J. G. Brown, 

 The Longshoreman's Noon, $1,350. F. S. Church, 

 St. Cecilia, $1,200; The End of Winter, $1,025. 

 L H. Wyant, Driving Mists, $2,550 ; Cloudy Day 

 Keene Valley, $2,100. George Fuller, Bringing 

 Home the Cow, $1,550. Homer D. Martin, Nor- 

 mandy Trees, $2,850. 



The best sales on the third night were: A. H. 

 Wyant, In the Adirondacks, $6,300. George Fuller, 

 Lorette, $3,600. Homer Martin, Old Church in 

 Normandy, $3,200; A Normandy Farm, $1,600. 

 Oeorge Inness, Winter Morning at Montclair, 

 $2,500; A Summer Morning, $1,200; The Moon 

 at Night, $1,050. Wyatt Eaton, Reverie, $1,200. 

 J. F. Murphy, An Autumn Landscape, $1,025. 

 W. H. Low, The Harvest Procession, $1,400. W. 

 Gedney Bunce, Sunset, San Giorgio, Venice, $1,000. 

 H. W. Ranger, A Connecticut Pasture, $1,400; 

 An East River Idyll, $1,350. F. S. Church, Ma- 

 donna of the Sea, $1,125; Carleton Wiggins, After 

 Wind, Rain, $900. 



The sale of the collection of the late Judge Hil- 

 ton, at Chickering Hall in February, brought 

 $118,715 for 169 pictures. Meissonier's L'Aumone 

 brought the highest price, $18,300. It is said to 

 have cost A. T. Stewart $24,000. 



The Austin H. King collection of modern foreign 

 paintings, sold in February, realized a total of 

 $77,375 for 57 works. The highest price was $7,000 

 ior a fine Schreyer, Bedouins on the March. Other 



sales were: Alma-Tadema, Tibullus in Delos, 

 $5,850; Grison, After the Fete, $3,550; Diaz, In 

 the Forest, $3,825; Van Marcke, In the Lane, 

 $3,550. 



Florence. A new Botticelli has been added to 

 the little room in the Pitti Palace where for the 

 past four years has hung the Pallas of the Medici, 

 found in a similar way, and, like the latest acqui- 

 sition, attributed to the early years of the master. 

 The new picture, resurrected from the rubbish of 

 the attic, is a Madonna and Child with Angels, 

 a circular painting on wood. It contains six fig- 

 ures the Virgin, with long, emaciated hands 

 clasped, kneeling in front of the Child, who, held 

 by two angels at the left, is raising his arms toward 

 her, and behind, at the right, two more childlike 

 angels. Behind, full-blown roses twine themselves 

 into a decorative background. Though the Italian 

 experts pronounce the authenticity of the picture 

 undoubted, some critics of the first rank are in- 

 clined to question their judgment. 



Haarlem. In August Haarlem in the Nether- 

 lands was the scene of interest to all art lovers 

 in the erection of a fine statue to its great portrait 

 painter, Franz Hals, who died there in 1666. The 

 city was en fete, a charming little drama illus- 

 trating the painter's life was enacted by a private 

 club, and tableaux vivants of his works were given 

 by resident artists and others interested in art. 

 The drama depicted his career from his days of 

 poverty to the culmination of his art life, when 

 the burgomeester came to inform him that the 

 town had voted him a pension with free house 

 rent for the rest of his days. 



Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of 

 Fine Arts. The sixty-ninth annual exhibition, 

 opened in January, was more than usually success- 

 ful, and attracted contributions from all parts of 

 the country. The prizes were awarded as follow: 

 Temple gold medal for the best painting in oil 

 by an American artist, to Miss Cecilia Beaux, for 

 her portrait group entitled Mother and Daughter. 

 The Walter Lippincott prize of $300. for the best 

 figure painting by an American artist, to Henry 

 O. Tanner, for his picture entitled Nicodemus. 

 The Mary Smith prize of $100, for the best painting 

 by a resident woman artist, to Mary E. R. Clay, 

 for her portrait entitled Irene K. Honorable men- 

 tion to Janet Wheeler, for her Portrait, owned by 

 Miss Howell. 



Pittsburg: Carnegie Institute. The fifth an- 

 nual celebration of Founder's Day was held in 

 Carnegie Music Hall on Thursday, Nov. 1. The 

 principal speaker was his Excellency Wu-Ting- 

 Fang, Chinese minister to the United States, who 

 made a comparison between Oriental and Occi- 

 dental methods of education. 



The awards of the International Art Jury of the 

 prizes for pictures in the art exhibition were as 

 follow: Andre Dauchez, Paris, France, medal of 

 the first class (gold), carrying with it an award 

 of $1,500, for his picture entitled The Kelp Gath- 

 erers. Ben Foster, New York, medal of the second 

 class (silver), carrying with it an award of $1,000, 

 for his picture entitled Misty Moonlight Night. 

 Sergeant Kendall, New York, medal of the third 

 class (bronze), carrying with it an award of $500, 

 for his picture entitled The End of the Day. Rob- 

 ert W. Allan, London, honorable mention, for his 

 picture entitled All Hands on Deck. Julius Olsson, 

 London, honorable mention, for his picture entitled 

 Waterfall in Winter. W. Elmer Schofield, Ogontz, 

 Pa., honorable mention, for his picture entitled 

 Twilight. 



Miscellaneous. In April was unveiled near 

 Morningside Park, New York, at One Hundred 

 and Thirteenth Street, a monument by Bartholdi 



