4. NO, REDE MST ORE OBR Poe oid deem ier 
Ives” appeared in last month's issue of the ‘International 
Studio:’. Mr. Lever paints broadly and strongly, in a 
decorative and what may be called post-impressionisiic 
style. He is painting Gloucester in a “new way.” Mv. 
Lever is painting the fishing boats and wharves—scenes 
along the water front interesting in detail and sense of 
color. Mr.-Lever has been in this country for four years 
and is only 38 years of age. His studio is in New York 
City. He was born in Australia and at 14 years of age 
he went to England to live. Previous to coming to Amer- 
ica he resided in Cornwall, England, He studied in 
ILndon and Paris. Mr. Lever is a merber of the Royal 
Kritish Artists, the Institute of Oil Painters and the 
West-of-England Acadeny. He is a life member of the 
National Arts club of New York. At. the- National 
Academy exhibit of Vast, year, ait ever received a 
Carnegie prize of $500. His picture “St. Ives” was aftez- 
wards purchased by the, Brooklyn Museum. Besides n 
the per:ranent collection’ in Brooklyn, Mr. Lever has 
petures in the Philadelphia Museum and in the galleries 
of Adelaide, South Australia and Sydney. ‘The artist Has 
been invited to exhibit in Chicago this year. He now has 
pictures in St. Louis and exhibits’ in Buffalo, Boston, 
Pittsburg, Detroit and the Corcoran gallery, Washington. 
Frank Duveneck, who loomed so large at the Pan- 
ava-Pacific exposition, has been spending the summer at 
Boss Rocks. He has painted many local subjects before 
lis returning to Cincinnati. Mr. Duveneck has spent a 
great irany seasons in East Gloucester. 
Three pictures by American artists have been recent- 
ly acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and two 
of them are now shown in the Room of Recent Acces- 
eons. Hanging in the centre is a painting by Cecilia 
Beaux, called “Ernesta.”” It is a full length picture of 1 
girl in white, seated on a white sofa before a table on 
which are flowers. Back of her is a mirror. The paint- 
ing is revarkable for the skilful handling of the whites 
cf the costume and sofa and for the expression of anima- 
tion and the charm of youth which the painter has suc- 
ceeded in catching. 
hitherto unrepres.nted in the Museum. - “Ernésta? ms 
purcrased out of the Hearn fund. Miss Beaux is-at hes 
chariing Eastern Point studio where she has been busy 
with her brush this summer. Gloucester is proud +o 
cizim Miss Beaux as a permanent resident. Miss Beaux 
isan exhibitor in all the most important galleries of this 
country and in galleries abroad. She has won many 
edals and is often chosen on the jury for exhibitions. 
J. Francis Murphy of New York City, who is promi- 
rent 'r the field of art, is in East Gloucester with his wife, 
wio is a portrait painter of skill. They are stopping at 
tie Beachcroft, near Niles’ Beach. Mr. Murphy, who is 
a landscape artist, was born in Oswego, N. Y. He is a 
ember of the National Acadeny of Design, New York; 
represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 
York; and in the Corcoran gallery, Washington. He re 
c-ived the second Hallgarten prize, Nationaal Academy of 
Meeien in 1885; Webb prize, Society of Averican Artists, 
1887 ; medal, Columbian exvosition, Chicago, 1803; hon- 
orable mention, exposition Universelle, Pavis, rqc0; silver 
medal, Pan-American exposition, 3uffato. Tcor; gold 
medal, Charleston exvosition, 1cc2; Carnegie prize, So- 
ciety of American Artists, 1nc2:-cilver wedal, Universal 
exposition, St. Louis, reoa . 
Elizabeth ‘Soarnawk-Jones of Philadelphia is at the 
Fairview hotel, the old su~~er home of rairters and 
literateurs—the house where Kipling stopped when he 
was writing his “Captains Courageous.” Miss Jones has 
been finding valuable local > aterial. She won tie Mary 
Syoith prize at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine 
Arts in 1908. Her vaintine “In Rittenhouse Scuare,” 
was awarded honorable mention, Carnegie Institute. 1009. 
Miss Mechlin, secretary of the American Art Feder- 
at‘on. Washington. D. C.. and editor of Art-and Progress 
“agazine, returned to Washington during the nast week, 
atter -n extended sojourn at thé Harbor View hotel, 
East Gloucester. 
Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellers 
Frnm Smithsonian Institution 
Rok WALTER PEWKES: of othe “Smithsonian 
Bureau of American Ethnology left recently for Mesa 
Verde National Park in Southwestern Colorado to con- 
tinue the supervision of excavation and repair on the 
prehistoric cliff dwellings in the vicinity of Cliff Palace and 
Spruce Tree House, under an appropriation from the 
Interior Department. 
The operations to be undertaken this summer are in 
continuation of much previous work carried on under Dr. 
Fewkes’ direction to preserve these revarkable ruins of 
the Arrerican Cliff Dwellers, supposed to be the ancestors 
of the Pueblo Indians. Three of the ruins, Spruce Tree 
House, Cliff Palace, and Balcony House, have been put 
ir shape, so that they are available for inspection to the 
maany visitors at the Park, and the present season will be 
devoted to work on Community House, a ruin located 2 
niles southeast of Spruce Tree House. 
The Mesa Verde ruins. are situated on the Mesa 
Verde in Montezuma County, Colorado, in the side can- 
yon of the Mancos, and are regarded as the largest and 
most remarkable examples of cliff dwellings in the United 
States. These ruins were discovered in 1888, although 
sce smaller ones not far distant were found fourteen 
rears before. In that year two ranchers riding over the 
Mesa and through its labyrinth of canyons in search of 
stray cattle, suddenly came upon a deep canyon, and 
beheld in a great cavern in the opposite cliff, a whole 
tcwn in ruins, its cru’rbling buildings, walls and towers 
unmistakably the work of prehistoric man. It looked to 
their astonished eyes like a palace in a cliff and so they 
nared it Cliff Palace. On the save day they discovered, 
not far away, another large cliff dwelling which they 
named Spruce Tree House after a giant spruce tree 
which grew in front of the ancient ruins, During the 
course of the next few years these ranchers and their 
brothers, who were named Witherill, explored the whole 
nesa and excavated in many places, gaining a vast knowl- 
edge of these early inhabitants, and a fine collection of 
ancient skulls, pottery and implements of stone, bone and 
wood. Since that time the Government, through the 
Bureau of American Ethnology, and the Interior Depart- 
ment, has sent exploring parties which have added to the 
National Museum a series of objects illustrating the life, 
customs, and arts of the prehistoric American people 
who once inhabited these cliff-dwellings. About 1905 
the Mesa Verde was made a National Park and placed 
in charge of the Interior Department. A scenic road has 
b-en constructed, over which one can now ride from the 
town of Mancos on the D. & R. G. Railroad to the largest 
(Continued on page 9.) 
Sept. 24, 1915, _ 
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