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FINE ARTS IN 1898. 





forty vears of age, was awarded to George H. Bogert 

 for his" Evening: Hontteur,"a little landscape m 

 which a lonely road traverses a melancholy-looking 

 bog. The Shaw fund of $1,500, for the purchase of 

 aflgure composition in oil by an American artist, 

 was devoted to the acquisition of Mr. Burse's alle- 

 gory "Night and the Waning Day." two floating 

 figure* iir twilight sky. Among the more note- 

 worthy exhibits was John La Farge's " The Goddess 

 Minerva making the First Sketch from Nature, in 

 the presence of Ceres and Proserpine, a large dec- 

 orative canvas for Bowdoin College. John W . Alex- 

 ander's - 1'ot of Basil" represents Isabella, in a 

 flowing robe of black and white, placing an urn in 

 a niche. Four masterly subjects by \V histler, en- 

 titled Wcstmin>ter Bridge/' "The Blue Wave, 

 Sxmphony in Blue and Violet," and "^ote in 

 Carmine," belong to a private collection m Cleve- 

 land. Ohio. 



The year has been marked by the resignation 

 from the society of a number of members with the 

 motive of starring a more restricted society with 

 more definite aims in view. These include Messrs. 

 Kdmund ('. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, and Joseph 

 De Camp, of Massachusetts, and J. Alden Weir, 

 Kdward Simmons. J. II. Twachtman, Thomas W. 

 Dewing, Childe Hassam, Willard L. Metcalf, and 

 Robert Kcid. <-t New York. These 10 gentlemen 

 gave an exhibition of their own, without any pri- 

 vate view or reception formalities, at the galleries 

 of Durand-Kuel, March 30 to April 16. 



New York : The National Sculpture Society. 

 The officers elected for 1898 are as follow : Pres- 

 ident, J. Q. A. Ward; Vice-Presidents, Charles de 

 Kay. Charles R. Lamb; Treasurer, I. Wyman Drum- 

 in ond : Secretary. Barr Ferree. The third annual 

 exhibition was held in the Fine Arts Building from 

 April 30 to May 14. 



New York : American Water-Color Society. 

 The thirty-first annual exhibition, held (Jan. 31 to 

 Feb. 26) a't the National Academy of Design, showed 

 the usual average of good work among the 517 

 pictures contributed. The William T. Evans prize 

 of $300 was awarded to C. Harry Eaton's " The 

 Brook," a clear-aired landscape with a Corot motive. 

 The prize was first awarded by mistake to Albert 

 Herter for his work entitled " Sorrow," which was 

 not eligible for competition because it was painted 

 abroad. This picture represents a woman seated 

 upon a sofa sharing the grief of a man prostrated 

 at her feet, his head buried in her lap. Both are 

 clad in black, and the picture throughout is somber 

 and subdued in tone. Other noteworthy works were 

 II. B. Sii-H'< "Wreck of the Jason," "Haunt of 

 the Sea Gull." and " Her Majesty's Ship ' Renown,'" 

 all characteristic pieces; \V. L. Lathrop's " Moon- 

 rise"and" A Farm Road" ; Horatio Walter's "Milk- 

 ing A Summer Morning"; D. W. Tryon's "Early 

 Soring": J. G. Brown'- " Making a Soaker"; and 

 Childe Hassam's "Alice in Wonderland, Isles of 

 Shoals." 



A loan exhibition of portraits, for the benefit of 

 the Orthopaedic Hospital, held at the National 

 Academy of Design (Dec. 14, 1898, to Jan. 14, 1895)), 

 u.i- one of the important art events of the year. 

 Most of the principal American portrait painters 

 were fully represented, and contributions by many 

 foreign urtiMs, including Chartran. Madrazo. Caro- 

 lua I >u ran. I ten jam in Constant, and Dagnan-Bouve- 

 ret, as well as many examples of the early English 

 portrait painters, made it a most attractive and 

 representative exhibition. 



The sale of the great collection of the late Wil- 

 liam Hcxxl Stewart at ('nickering Hall, Feb. 3 and 4, 

 was one of the principal art events of the season. 

 One hundred and twenty-eight pictures brought 

 $401,335, some bronzes and furniture bringing the 



total receipts up to $409,790. The highest price 

 paid for a single canvas was $42,000 for Fortun y's 

 " Choice of a Model," which was bought by William 

 A. Clark, of Butte, Mont. Others by Fortuny sold 

 as follow: "Court of Justice, Alhambra," Harry 

 P. Whitney, $13,000; "Arab Fantasia," H. Harri- 

 son, $12,000; "The Antiquary," Herman Schatis, 

 $15,500; " Arab Butcher," Stanford White, $2.3<i(> ; 

 "Gipsy Caves, Granada," W. A. Clark. s-J.^H); 

 "Arab on a Divan," F. A. Boll, $4,300 ; "Breakfast 

 in the Old Convent Yard/' George J. Gould. sG.lioo ; 

 " The Masquerade," Knoedler & Co., $4.750 ; " A 

 Street in Tangiers," W. A. Clark. $5.000: " Meis- 

 sonier's Portrait," G. B. Berckman, $2,300: "The 

 Alberca Court, Alhambra," D. P. Douglas, $7.000. 

 Other good prices obtained were: Corot, "Ville 

 d'Avray," $5,000; "Sunset." $6,200; Daubigny, 

 'Auvers on the Oise," $6,000; Zamacois, " Check- 

 mated," $10,700; "The Infanta." $5,000; Troy on, 

 'Chickens feeding," $6,300; "The Lane," $13,700; 

 " Cow among the Cabbages," $12,000 ; Baudry, 

 " The Wave and the Pearl, ' $8,600; " Fortune and 

 the Child," $6,500; Rousseau. "The Woodcutter, 

 Fontainebleau," $7,450; Meissonier, "The Stirrup 

 Cup," $12,500 ; " The End of a Game of Cards," $9,- 

 000 ; Leibl, " Village Politicians," $15,000 : Madrazo, 

 4i Departure from the Masked Ball," $16,500 ; " Pier- 

 rette," $5,000 ; Von Marcke, " Cows in the Valley," 

 $11,500. 



Another important sale was that of the Fuller 

 and Dana collections, Feb. 25-27, consisting of 

 paintings of the old English and Barbizon schools 

 belonging to William H. Fuller, and of the pictures 

 and porcelains of the late Charles A. Dana. The 

 Fuller pictures realized $166,200, and the Dana col- 

 lection, pictures and ceramics, $194,830. Of the 

 Fuller pictures, Rousseau's " The Charcoal Burner's 

 Hut," which was in the first exhibition of a hundred 

 masterpieces in Paris in 1883, sold for $36,500. The 

 same artist's " Marais dans les Landes " brought 

 $7.600. Troyon's "Cattle in the Pasture," which 

 sold at the Secretan sale for $9,000, brought $22,- 

 000. Dupre's "The Open Sea" sold for $7,600. 

 Of the English pictures, Constable's " Windermere 

 Lake " brought $5,300, and " The Lock," $5.200. 

 Several portraits by Gainsborough brought good 

 prices, as " Lady Inness of Norfolk," $5.500, and 

 " Countess of Buckinghamshire, $5,000. " The 

 Blue Boy," attributed to Gainsborough and called a 

 replica of the famous picture in Grosvenor House. 

 London, was put up at the upset price of $50,000, 

 but received no bids and was withdrawn. 



The few well-chosen pictures of the Dana collec- 

 tion brought good prices. The beautiful and well- 

 known Corot. " Danse des Amours," sold for 

 000, and Millet's "Turkey Herder" for $20.i'(M). 

 Daubigny's " On the River Oise," brought $(5.50(>; 

 Courbet's" Sea Shore." $3,800; Rousseau's" II a 

 Field," $4,200; Jacque's "Sheep in the Forest," 

 $5.400; and Ziem's " Une Fete a Venise," $3,SOO. 



On Oct. 31, the birthday of the late architect 

 Richard M. Hunt, was unveiled the memorial civt- 

 ed to his memory by the principal art organiza- 

 tions of the city. The monument, the work of 

 Daniel Chester French, the sculptor, and Bruce 

 Price, the architect, consists of a semicircular mar- 

 ble and granite bench supporting an architrave up- 

 held by Ionic columns, recessed in the wall of Cen- 

 tral Park opposite the Lenox Library, one of Mr. 

 Hunt's most characteristic works. In the center, 

 on a granite pedestal, is a bronze bust of Mr. Hunt, 

 and on each of the fronts is a pedestal designed to 

 hold statues, one representing Architecture, the 

 other the Allied Arts. 



Chicago: Art Institute. A large and varied 

 programme was presented during the year. Four 

 exhibitions were held in the spring; The annual 



