International studio (25.1905)

Rochester, who died recently in New York. A
new building will soon be erected, thoroughly
equipped for the art classes and for museum pur-
poses. One of the provisions of Mrs. Bevier's
bequest was that certain of the funds should be
expended upon works of art for an art museum,
for which the collection of material has already
begun. In its present quarters in the building of
the Mechanics Institute, the gift of Mr. George
Eastman, the department already maintains an
exhibition gallery, where series of exhibitions are
held from October to June. A recent exhibition
was devoted to the portraits and landscape paint-
ings of Mr. Frank von der Lancken, of New York,
recently made instructor at this school of life draw-
ing and illustration. One of the largest collections
of Mr. Kenyon Cox's drawings was recently on
view, including over eighty preliminary sketches
for well known decorations and paintings.
DURING the month of March there will be held
in the Art Gallery of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, an
exhibition of pastels and paintings in oils and
water colours by Walter Shirlaw. An exhibition
of paintings by John W. Alexander is scheduled
at the same institution for the month of April.
Tl-IE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, of
Providence, R. 1., has recently had on exhibition
a collection of water-colour paintings of subjects
in Arizona, New Mexico and California, by Frank
P. Sauerwen; and a collection of paintings by Mr.
George Hitchcock, who has been working for some
time in Holland. In the course of free public lec-
tures, arranged by this school, Prof. A. D. F. Ham-
lin, of Columbia University, and W. M. R. French,
director of the Art Institute of Chicago, will lecture
this month on "Art Nouveau" and "Wit and
Wisdom of the Crayon," respectively.
THE BULLETIN of the Pennsylvania Museum has
been changed from its earlier form as a sheet appear-
ing at regular intervals of three months, for the pur-
pose of conveying information to the members of
the corporation concerning the work and progress
of the museum, and is now issued in the more pre-
tentious form of a periodical devoted to subjects
relating to the collections exhibited and treated in
articles of some length by specialists. The literary
feature of the bulletin is given a greater prominence
by the introduction of a series of illustrated papers
of a popular nature prepared by the curators of the
museum staff and other specialists whose interest
has been enlisted in this work. Among the illus-

trated articles, in a recent number, is one by Emily
Deland Harrison, on "Ancient Lace;" another by
M. E. Dawson, on "Fictile Ivories," and a third
by Charles Dana, on "Tapestry," and a brief note
on the "Austin Collection of Arms."

THE ROYAL IMPERIAL COMMISSIONER from
Japan to the St. Louis Fair has asked the St. Louis
Museum of Fine Arts for representative work from
all departments of its school, to be hung in Tokio
in the Technological College, of which Mr. Tegima
is director. In exchange the Commissioner has
selected certain valuable objects from the various
sections of the Japanese exhibit at the Fair, which
he has presented to the school and the museum in
the name of the Japanese Government.

THE SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION under the
auspices of the Minnesota State Art Society, will
be held at the Library Building, at Winona, Minn.,
from March 18 to April i, inclusive. Before being
sent to Winona, the entire collection will be placed
on view at the rooms of the State Art Society, in
the new capitol at St. Paul.
THE DETROIT MUSEUM OF ART announces four
lectures this month by A. H. Griffith, including
discussions of George Moreland, the English
painter, Turner and Van Dyke. Prof. James
Egbert, of Columbia University, will lecture before
the Archaeological Society on March 31. Mr. E. C.
Walker has added to his collection already on view
in the museum an example of T. Blink's hunting
scenes and V. Chevilliard's T/ie IFiwe CeMar; and
Mr. Ambros Petry has purchased from the man-
agement of the St. Louis Fair five medal pictures
by American artists, which will also remain at the
museum.

OOK REVIEWS.
! THE NATIONAL GALLERY. By GUSTAVE
.! GEFFROY. With an introduction by
Sir Walter Armstrong, Director of the
National Gallery, Ireland. Folio. Pages xxviii-J-
146. Illustrations: gg full-page-bigq textual.
New York: Frederick Warne& Co. igog. $10.00
net.
This is one of the most sumptuously illustrated
and beautifully made books of its kind. The photo-
gravures are, as a matter of course, excellent. But
the half-tones are exceptionally good. So much
illustrating in half-tone is put out hastily
printed, with poor ink, from badly made plates,

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