International studio (23.1904)

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the gift of a notable collection of eighteenth century
English and Colonial furniture, pictures, Chinese
china of the eighteenth century, antique Chinese
porcelains, early eighteenth century English pottery
and sixteenth century textiles. Upon this collection
Mr. Pendleton has been engaged for the past twenty-
five years, and has aimed to make it of unusual im-
portance for a high standard of uniform quality.
The gift was offered to the trustees of the School of
Design with certain conditions which have been
promptly accepted. Two lots of land on Benefit
Street have been deeded to the school, and upon
them is to be erected a building to house the collec-
tion. Mrs. Gustav Radeke and Stephen O. Met-
calf have offered to defray the cost of the building,
which will be Georgian in its general aspect. The
plan calls for a square house with a hall some
twelve feet wide, running from end to end. The
house will be fire-proof in construction as to walls,
floors and roof, and is to be of stone and brick. In
general appearance it will follow to some extent the
house in which Mr. Pendleton has kept his collec-
tion.
The Pennsylvania Museum and School of
Industrial Art, Philadelphia, has perfected its
plans for a new building for the department of pot-
tery, which has just finished a successful initial year.
The work of construction on the building has already
been begun. During the year just closing the class
has been conducted in rooms temporarily provided
in the modeling department of the present building.
A proposition to establish a department of pottery,
it may be remembered, was contained in the last
report of the museum, and was favorably acted
upon. Funds were solicited for the erection of the
building which is now going forward, and to pro-
vide for the maintaining of the department which
was organized soon after the opening of the late
year. The class of pupils which was enrolled
under Mr. Leon Folkmar in December last was
already well advanced in general art work. A
suitable kiln for the firing of bodies as well as glazes
has been constructed.
We have received from Braun, Clement & Co.
the current extract from the general catalogue of
Braun’s Carbon Prints, which includes, besides the
paintings and drawings listed, a selection from other
titles in architecture and sculpture. The general
catalogue of this house, published in French, is so
voluminous a work that its use has not become
general. This extract contains important or well-
known pictures, and has been translated into Eng-

lish to furnish for general use, as well as for school-
room purposes, a more accessible catalogue of art
subjects. The full names of the artists, and, in
special cases, the various names by which they
were known, are given, together with the place and
the year of their birth and death, and the school
to which they belonged. This firm is the result of
the labors of Adolph and Gustav Braun, of Dor-
nach, in Alsace. They have spent years in patient
experimenting in retaining the relative values of
different colors in the photographic negative. Mr.
Adolph Braun has received the Cross of the Legion
of Honor and numerous medals in successive exhi-
bitions. All the most famous public collections of
ancient drawings in England, France, Germany
and Holland have now been photographed by the
Dornach firm.
The Sketching Club of Indianapolis has
published, under the direction of Mrs. Helen McKay
Steele, a book entitled “The Magi in the West and
Their Search for the Christ: A Tale for the Christ-
mas-tide,” by Frederic E. Dewhurst. The title
page and the initial letters were designed by Mrs.
Steele, the cover by Miss Margaret Steele.
The National League of Mineral Painters
has been maintaining three traveling exhibitions,
which have visited the local clubs throughout the
country, in accordance with the purpose of the
League as avowed in its constitution, ‘ ‘ to associate
and centralize the members of the various and widely
scattered clubs of mineral painters throughout the
United States.” A national school of mineral
painting is the expressed hope of the movement.
Criticism of the exhibits was obtained on these
tours from judges outside of the League itself. At
the recent triennial election the centre of control in
the fortunes of the League, as shown in the choice
of officers, shifted to Chicago.
The collection of the work of the International
Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers of Lon-
don has been installed in the galleries of the Muse-
um of Fine Arts at the St. Louis Fair.
The Art Academy of Cincinnati, at its annual
exhibition of students’ work in June, awarded the
two-year foreign scholarship to M. W. E. Bryan, of
Texas. At the same time home scholarships, aggre-
gating $1,100, were given to other students propos-
ing to attend the academy next year. Four of these
are $200 each, and all carry free tuition. In vari-
ous ways something over $3,000 is thus given in aid

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