International studio (26.1905)

drawing, painting and composition, instruction will
be given in wood carving, etching and pottery.
DANIEL GARBER, William Edward Groben and
Victor Paul Zoel, winners of the Cresson Fund
Scholarship prize, offered by the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, are continuing their studies
in Europe. Each of these young men will pursue a
two years' study abroad, with the privilege of taking
a third year, if they so desire. Garber will study
painting, Zoel sculpture, and Groben, architecture.
THE exhibition sent by the Fine Arts Depart-
ment of the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, (N. Y.) to the
St. Louis Exposition, which received the award of
grand prize, remains on exhibition at the institute
until October 18.
URRENT ART EVENTS
Si. THOMAS'S CHURCH, New York, at
the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-
third Street, has been practically de-
stroyed by Are. St. Thomas's was a fashion-
able Episcopal church which has been a land-
mark for thirty-five years. It was built by
Richard Upjohn in 1870. The congregation are
planning to rebuild promptly and the rector antici-
pates no embarrassment as to funds. This church
contained chancel decorations done under the
direction of John La Farge and Augustus St. Gau-
dens. La Farge was represented by two mural
paintings, St. Gaudens by a gold-bronze bas-
relief reredos. Angel figures after Fra Angelico,
which formed the decoration above the organ,
were also by La Farge. The mural decorations,
each covering two faces of the decagonal chancel,
represented the appearance of the angel to the
soldier guarding the tomb of Christ, and the meet-
ing of the Marys and the angels after the Resurrec-
tion. The reredos represented the Adoration of
the Cross by angels and cherubs. The church was
considered one of the finest specimens of Upjohn's
work. In the interior, monolith columns sup-
ported the roof of the nave and the central dome
at the interception of the nave and transept. The
former church building at Broadway and Houston
Street, built in 1825 in the face of protests that it
was much too far uptown, was burned in 1851.
The present site was purchased in 1866. A tem-
porary church was used there until 1870.
ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of the formation
of a society of artists of Pittsburgh and the vicinity

for promotion of exhibitions and general aid and
encouragement to the younger artists. Some of the
founders of the society believe that the amateur in
art has not had sufficient opportunity to see the
work of local artists. The formation of the society
testifies to the competition of strangers, who send
exhibits to Pittsburgh for a few weeks in the year.
The by-laws of the society will be published shortly.
THE ART CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA will hold its
seventeenth exhibition of oil paintings and sculp-
ture from November 20 to December 17. Lists
must be sent before October 28. Exhibits will be
received November 8, 9 and 10. Two gold medals
will be 'awarded, one for painting and one for
sculpture; and the purchase fund will be available
for buying such paintings as may be selected by
the standing committee. Only original works by
living artists not before publicly exhibited in Phila-
phia are eligible. The jury of admission and the
hanging committee is composed of John Lambert,
Peter Moran, George Gibbs, Alexander Stirling
Calder and William M. Chase.
FoR SOME TIME Mr. Robert Grier Cooke, pub-
lisher in America of the Burlington Magazine, of
London, has announced an American edition. The
August number of this magazine gives the name of
Mr. Frank Mather, Jr., of the "Evening Post," of
New York, as editor of the local department.
THE FOURTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the Penn-
sylvania Society of Miniature Painters will be held
in McClee's galleries, Philadelphia, from Novem-
ber 13 to 25, inclusive. The jury is composed of
Colin Campbell Cooper, Amy Otis, Maria J.
Strean, New York; Ellen Wetherald Ahrens,
Charles A. Dana, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Phila-
delphia.
THE PRINT DEPARTMENT OF THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY will begin about the first of next
month, an exhibition of the work of Menzel in
lithography (pen, crayon, wash and scraper), and
etching, among them to be all the noted series, as
well as occasional pieces such as cards, diplomas,
certificates and so forth, drawn from the S. P.
Avery Collection. Among the books illustrated by
him on view will be the separate publication of his
illustrations to the works of Frederick the Great,
perhaps his most noted production. There will
also be numerous reproductions of drawings and
paintings, as well as the portraits of the artist and
books and pamphlets relating to him. The exhibi-


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