International studio (23.1904)

Schools and Institutions


BY C. L. LAWHON, KNOXVILLE, XENN.

Tennessee Producers Marble Company, of Knox-
ville. Mr. Lawhon is well known as a designer
and carver of several beautiful works of art; a
lecturn for the church of the Epiphany, at Knox-
ville, decorated in glass mosaic of gold, silver and
colours, being greatly admired for its originality.
The picture frames, which we show, carved in red
oak, are good examples of Mr. Lawhon’s facility in
this medium. In the same way that a book can
only be artistically complete when its binding is in
harmony with its contents, so the successful painters
observe the same guiding principles: the most effec-
tively framed paintings have been generally those
of which the frames were designed by the artists
themselves. In the case of etchings and prints, only
a sympathetic appreciation of the artist’s work
can result in production of a satisfactory frame.

Schools and institutions.
The annual exhibition of American
paintings, held by the Rhode Island School
of Design, will run from October 26 to
November 16. At least one. painting from the

exhibition is to be purchased for the museum of
the school. In the fall of 1903 among the artists
represented were William M. Chase, R. Swain
Gifford, Childe Hassam, Alexander Harrison, John
La Farge and Miss Mary Cassatt.

The Detroit Museum of Art gives an inter-
esting history of a painting, The Immacalate Con-
ception, assigned to Murillo, which is included
among its James E. Scripps collection, a group of
paintings that won the favourable comment of Prof.
Andre Michel, curator of painting and sculpture of
the Louvre. The picture, we are told, was taken
from the Royal Palace of Madrid during the
Peninsular War by General Desolle, whose daugh-
ter sold it to a London dealer. He, in turn, sold it
to the King of Holland for $20,000. At the sale of
the King’s pictures in 1850, it was bid in at $15,480.
In 1857 it was sold to W. H. Aspinwall, of New
York, at whose dentil it was sent to London,
where it was purchased for the Detroit Museum.

The Washington Water Color Club will
hold an annual exhibition in the last part of Novem-


BY C. L. LAWHON, KNOXVILLE, TE-NN.

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