

KIN IN 1897. 



pecially those by Kenyon Cox ami K. II. BlashlU-ld. 

 Sketches in color for |.ainu-d fn.-/.- r.- -hoxui by 



M. Lealey Iiu*h-lir..wn and : * h idl 

 l*-nt. -able i*rt t.f tli,- exhibition was a 



collection ..f portrait busts, medallion*, ami other 

 works by the la i, other im 



i.'sign was the ind< I f<-r tin- proposed n 

 rial of th. 



wall of CVntral "-ar U 



trance to the Metropolitan Museum, which was 

 erected by Mr. Hunt. Th.- memorial i- in th. form 

 f nn cxetlra, surmounted bv a colonnade supported 

 by Ionic ootumoft, with a boil <-f Mr. Hunt 

 pedestal in ih> "1 dra^-d figures at the 



:,v,. n tin- ami An-hit. - 



ture. The work is by Bruce Price and I >.. 



c '.! m<dal <>f the League was awarded i,. 



William < : his design ..f " The Principal 



Entrance of a Terminal Railway Station." and the 

 silver medal to Raymond Bossange. T 



.f. I-'. Harjier for a design f 

 electric-light pole for a public iqiUM 



/ion. organized in 



filed its cert i float o of corjH. ration in June of this 

 Tear. It now includes the National Academy of 

 Design, the Soci \ f American Artists, the New 

 f t'he American Institute of Archi- 

 tects, th,- American Water-Color Society, the Archi- 

 ral Ix>Agn> : he Municipal Arts 



v. the So. mix-Arts Architect-, the 



oal Sculpture Sooietj, and the National 

 ^[ural Painters. 



Boston. I f Fine Arts Jias acquired 



it,- pictures by Whistler. "Th,- Haifa i Smith 

 of Lyme Regis" aii.l "The Little Ko>,- of Lyme 

 Reds," l*,th half-U-npths. evidently |(rt raits. 



The Longfellow traveling scholarship of $600 a 

 year for three years, offered by the museum, was 

 won by William "Homer Baskell^of Mcrrimac. .Ma. 

 The recipient must spend it in art schools in Europe 

 under the su|erviHJon of American painters. 



Philadelphia. The sixty-sixth annual exhibi- 

 tion of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine 

 Arts, held in March, was very suece ful, having 

 been visited by more than 50,000 persons. 



PilNlHir::: ( arm-in < I n-t it utc. The second 

 annual art exhibition, opened on Founder's Day, 

 !. was signalized by the presence of the 1 ' 

 >f the United States, who delivered an ad- 

 dress. The exhibition was a most satisfa. i,,ry one. 

 including many examples from London. Paris and 

 Munich, selected by advisory committees of paini r- 

 resident in those cities. The honorary awardi 

 J. J. Shannon. I/>ndon, first-class " medal (gold) 

 carrying with it a prize of $1,500; Frit/ Thaulow, 

 Dieppe, France, second-class medal (silver), with 

 prize of $1,000: .1. Ald.-n We r k. third- 



class medal (bronze), with prize of $500. Wilton 

 Lockwood, Boston. Mass., and I/.uis Paul Dessar, 

 Parts. France, received honorable mention. 



lumenK i-lr.-NVw York's grandest ma- 

 il, the Grant monument, was formally dedi- 

 cated on April 27. Its site is unrivaled, upon the 

 -t part of Manhattan island, at the present 

 lation ,,f the Riverside Drive, where it over- 

 looks the Hudson and the Hiirhlands for many 



The monument, of white ^ranit. 



- general design, of a hu--. nearly cubical base, 



surmounted by a cylindrical structure terminating 



in a cone, to be capped eventually with a colossal 



statue in bronze. The front ,,f ihe base, on th, 



where the en:: /is a hex* ^ 



portico, rising about two thirds of JN hei'-ht. with 

 a flat entablature intended f r >-.vuary. On 

 of the other three sides the fmrtieo is'replaoed by 

 columns in antis against a blank wall. At the an- 



gles of the baae are squar la f..r -culpturo. 



- . lieil-i-led by I \\ellty- 



four I .1 plain circular 



wall. attic rarn- the rone. 



8TKVKN80N MEMORIAL FCM'NTAIV IN THE OLD PLAZA, 

 FRANCISCO. 



which consists of a series of receding st- 



ircular pedestal for the statue. The interior 

 shows an open cr\pt. surrounded by a p;r 

 within which the siircophagus rests on a pe-i 

 like that of Napoleon in the Invalid,--, and sur- 

 mounted by a well-proportioned hemispherical 

 dome. The Construction "f the monument, which 

 still needs statuary and other ^-ulpture bel 



can be called completed, i- chiefly due to the elTort- 



of (Jen. II :ter. The architect was John 



II. Duncan, and the sculptor .1. Ma ey K'hind. 



A \\'a-hin^ton memorial, erected in Philadelphia 

 by the fi 'f the Cincinnati, was dedicated 



May b~>. in the presence of the President and Vice- 

 lent of tne Unite.i .embers of the 

 Bet, and other distinguished visit. .r-. The 

 monument, the wc^rk of Pr-.f. Rudolph Sieiie 



i.out 40 feet high, the equestrian 



statue i,f Wa-hillL'toii ri- ' above the |,e<l- 



e-tal. Tlie four -orm-r- of the platform are di-co- 



with fountain^ with figure.- "f Indian- and 



guarded by American animal-. At the front and 



