International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

Museum Notes

William Henry Howe, Bronxville, N. Y.; William
Langson Lathrop, New Hope, Pa.; W. Eimer
Schofielcl, Ogontz, Pa., and Julian Alden Weir,
New York City. The jury is a strong one.
The Art Institute of Chicago will hold an
exhibition of original designs for decorations and
examples of art crafts having distinct artistic merit
from December 6 to December 21 included. No-
vember 20 will be the last day for receiving entries
and November 22 the last day for receiving
exhibits at the Institute.
A monument to the late Christopher L. Magee,
of Pittsburgh, will be designed by Augustus St.
Gaudens. The composition, it is said, will probably
comprise a drinking fountain surmounted bya bust.
By the will of Carl Brandt, the well known
artist of Hastings, N. Y., it was provided that none
of his pictures should be sold at public auction.
Twenty-four of his canvases went to the Georgia
Historical Society, of Savannah. Mr. Brandt was
director of the Telfair Academy, Savannah, Ga.
USEUM NOTES
The Toledo Museum oe Art will
open in November, enlarged by the
addition of four new galleries, which
are to house the beginning of a permanent collec-
tion of paintings, prints and sculpture. The
museum has no endowment, but is maintained by
four hundred prominent citizens, each paying
annual dues. With its limited means, however,
the museum has done much for the enjoyment and
education of all classes of Toledo’s citizens. We are
advised that the permanent collection of paintings
has been enriched during the summer by the addi-
tion of a number of important canvases, including
a Salvator Rosa, a Ruisdael, The Standard Bear er,
by Daniel Maclise, R.A.; The School Girl, by J. D.
Blondell, N.A.; The Jungfrau, by C. C. Curran,
N.A. Last winter ten exhibitions were held, and
during the present season a like number will be
hung, including a collection of the French impres-
sionists.
The Museum of Fine Arts, of Boston, an-
nounces that Mr. Paul Chalfin has been temporarily
relieved at his own request of the department of
Chinese and Japanese art. Mr. Chalfin wishes to
pursue his studies in painting, and hopes to spend
the next few years abroad. Mr. Emil H. Richter,
Curator of the Department of Prints, has returned

from Europe, where he has been spending six
months in the study of the principal Continental and
English collections. The Museum publishes letters
from Professor Carl Justi, of Bonn University, and
Sir Walter Armstrong, Curator of the National
Gallery of Ireland, at Dublin, conveying their
favorable judgment upon the genuineness of the
new Velasquez. Professor Justi is the author of
“Diego Velasquez und sein Yahrhundert” (18S8),
and Sir Walter Armstrong is the author of “Life
of Velasquez” and “Art of Velasquez” (1896).
Both these critics are authorities of the first rank
011 the work of this Spaniard.
The Pennsylvania Museum, which is perhaps
strongest in its ceramic collections, ranking now
with the best and most representative collections,
both from a historical and artistic standpoint, to be
found on this side of the Atlantic, calls attention
to some interesting examples of transfer printing.
Until recently the earliest examples of earthenware
decorated by transfer printing were some originat-
ing from the Old Pottery at Jersey City, N. J. The
large water pitcher bearing the portrait of General
William H. Harrison, printed in black, was the
best example. It now appears that transfer print-
ing was introduced soon after the factory began
operations in 1825, as is shown by a most interest-
ing example recently acquired by the Pennsylvania
Musuem, a small jug or pitcher of a coarse yellow
clay, apparently intended to commemorate the
opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 during LaFay-
ette’s visit. Portraits of President Washington and
General LaFayette appear 011 opposite sides, the
front being decorated with a view öf the Aqueduct
Bridge at Rochester. This rüde but interesting
production probably illustrates the first attempt in
this country to decorate pottery by means of copper
plate printing.
A special eeature of the November exhibition
at the Blanchard Art Galleries, Los Angeles, Cal.,
will be a collection of some seventy-five monotypes
by Miss Lillian Drain.
The New York Public Library has had on
view in its Print Department a representative
collection of the work of Adolph Von Menzel, who
diel in his ninetieth year last February. The
black and white work shown forms part of the
S. P. Avery collection. The variety of subjects
cultivated and processes employed by this master
is shown in his various published series, such as
“The Artist’s Life History” (1834), “Memorable


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