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“tyranny.” lunetxe eor room oe henry lyman sayen
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFEAIRS

“Oyeombla!”—if that can represent their word
for this religious experience. It was a great satisfac-
tion to the artist to have them recognize at once a
thing so real to them but so difficult to communicate
at second hand. Little better testimony could be
asked to the intimate comprehension that renders
Mr. Deming’s work something more than a casual
Interpretation of a passing race.
URRENT ART EVENTS
Henry Lyman Sayen has finished a
lunette for the room of the House
Committee on Insular Affairs in the
National Capitol at Washington. This work is
entitled Tyranny. An accompanying piece, which
the artist has still in hand, will be entitled Good
Government. Mr. Sayen has exhibited work at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and elsewhere.
For this Institution he was the designer and sculptor
of the Jennie Sesnan medal. He has done a good
deal of mural decoration and magazine Illustration.
D. Y. Cameron, whose work is the subject of the
leading article in this number of The Interna-
tional Studio, has illustrated or decorated three
of the books issued from the Bodley Head. “The
Tomb of Bur ns,” by William Watson, which was
put forth in one of the small pocket-size books in
the Flowers of Parnassus Series, carries seven
illustrations by this artist, including delightful
renderings of scenes connected with the memory of
Burns and interpretations of some single lines of
the poem which glance at the natural beauties of
his country. In John Buchan’s “Scholar Gipsies,”
Mr. Cameron has etched a number of plates pictur-
ing scenes of the road, with title page and a frontis-
piece entitled A Gentleman of Leisure. Richard
Le Gallienne’s “R. L. S.” is also embellished by a
noble title page etched by the same artist. These
are all collected because of their illustrator, who

since Air. Whistler’s death is held by many critics
to be the greatest living etcher.
Miss Ida Waugh, whose painting entitled A
Snapshot in Holland we reproduce in colours, is a
daughter of Samuel Bell Waugh, a Philadelphia
artist of considerable reputation a few decades ago.
She studied under him and at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, later worked under Le-
Febvre and Benjamin Constant, in Paris, and also
at the Delacluse Academy. Her painting entitled
ILagar and Ishmael in the Desert was purchased
for the permanent Collection of the Pennsylvania
Academy. She received the Dodge prize in 1896
at the New York Academy of Design for her por-
trait of Dr. Paul J. Sartain.
Under the ceiarge of Air. Charles Erskine Ely
the League for Political Education in New Vork
City will take a prominent part during the coming
session of Congress in behalf of the abolition of the
tariff on art. It is noted that the Copley Society of
Boston has organized a movement in the same
direction and it is to be hoped that these two bodies
may unite their efforts toward a successful result.
The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature
Painters will open its fourth annual exhibition at
the AIcClees Art Gallery, Philadelphia, on Novem-
ber 13, to continue through November 25.
The exi-iibition of the New York Water Colour
Club will be held in the galleries of the American
Fine Arts Society fromNovember 11 to December 3.
The International Jury of Award for the
Carnegie Institute Exhibition for 1905, which met
in Pittsburgh to consider the work submitted, was
formed by John White Alexander, New York City;
Charles Cottet, Paris; Thomas Eakins, Philadel-
phia; Alfred East, A.R.A., London; Ben Foster,
New York City; Robert Henri, New York City;


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