International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

Museum Notes

CARROLL BECKWITH, who has al-
ready painted several striking portraits
of officers of the Seventh Regiment
(N. G., N. Y.), was chosen by the
Veteran members of the Tenth Company to
paint the portrait which we reproduce herewith of
Captain McLean. This was presented by the
veteran members to the active members of the
Company and will be hung in the armoury. The
occasion for the painting of the portrait was the
commemoration of Captain McLean’s twenty-fifth
anniversary as a member of the regiment, of which
he is the senior captain. Captain McLean is one
of the most populär and efhcient officers of his
regiment and the National Guard.

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USEUM NOTES

At a recent meeting of the Trustees
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(New York) Edward Robinson was
formally appointed Assistant Director, at a salary
of $8,000. He recently resigned his former position
of Curator of Classical Antiquities in the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts. He had held this position
since 1885. He was born in Boston and was
graduated from Harvard in 1879. He was lecturer
011 classical archaeology at Harvard for many years.
Last year he received the degree of L.L.D. from
the University of Aberdeen. He is a member of
many art and archaeological societies and author of
several books 011 art.

The Albright Art Gallery, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
has had on exhibition a collection of paintings by
the Glasgow school. The collection has now been
sent to Chicago for exhibition there in the Art
Institute, but one-third of the paintings had been
bought in Buffalo, seven of these by the Gallery
itself. In this number were included W. Y.
AIcGregor’s Durham Cathedral and E. A. Hornel’s
Easter Morning.

CURRENT ART EVENTS
An interesting exhibition has been
011 view in the gallerv of the National
Arts Club, New York, of paintings of
American Indian life. Prominent among these
were the several friezes and pictures by Edward W.
Deming, whose work in this field was the subject of
a recent article in this magazine. Frederick S.
Dellenbaugh was represented by some sketches in
oils of Indian camp life. Charles Schreyvogel and
De Cost Smith showed in their work the more
populär and more militant idea of the Indian.
Solon Borglum sent interesting sketches, and H. K.
Bush-Brown, the work he exhibited at the Colum-
bian Exhibition. There was also displayed an
interesting wax model, Indian and Plorse, by Henry
K. Brown, whose equestrian statue of George
Washington Stands in Union Square. The Com-
mittee secured some of the earliest examples of the
work of Carl Bodmer, who with Catlin was one of
the earlier men to take the Indian as a subject.

At the same meeting of the Board announce-
ment was made of the gift of $100,000 from Air.
George A. Hearn, as a permanent fund for the pur-
chase of work by American artists. In addition,
Air. Hearn gave to the museum all the valuable
paintings which he lent the institution a few vears
ago and which have been on exhibition in gallery 15.
This gift bears the condition that it shall be kept
in one room and be known asThe Hearn Collection.
Mr. J. P. Morgan gave the museum eight pilas-
ter fronts of the Louis XVI period from a French
chateau, and a collection of coins.
King Edward has recently presented to the
Museum two quarto volumes, “The Royal Armoury
of Windsor,” by Guy Laking, and “The Furniture
in the Royal Palace and in the Royal Portrait
Gallery,” bv Lionel Cust. The volumes are bound
in white leather with gold decorations and the royal
seal of England. t-Y similar present was received
from the King of Italy a short time ago.

The Free Public Library of Newark, N. J.,
has hung a few hundred of their biblical prints for
exhibition. The collection numbers some 8,000
pictures. These pictures are kept in systematic
Order for ready reference and are freely loaned.
Pictures of Benjamin Franklin were shown in
January.
In Philadelphia some 218 pictures have been
shown at the galleries of the Art Club, the seven-
teenth • annual exhibition of this body. The show
inclined largely, like most exhibitions of the day,
to the portrait and to the landscape, and in land-
scape to that comparative neglect of subject for
impression which is well exemplified in the work
of our “Tonal School,” clescribecl by Airs. Rüge in
last month’s issue. A. L. Groll, by the way, was
represented here by his Milky Way, an extreme
instance of the present preference for study of sheer
light and tint over the older requisite of strict com-
position. John S. Sargent showed his Portrait of
Katherine Planen, and Adelaide Cole Chase pre-

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