International studio (34.1908)

Current Art Events

CURRENT ART EVENTS
The seventh annual exhibition of the
Municipal Art Society of New York
opened at the galleries of the National
Arts Club on March 3, to remain until March 27.
The scope of the exhibition included proposed or
completed schemes in decorative painting and
sculpture, landscape gardening, drawing or photo-
graphs of municipal architecture of a decorative or
monumental character, civic centers and improve-
ments in American and European cities, foun-
tains, stained glass, mosaics, models of work
executed in stone, wood, bronze or wrought iron;
street fixtures, bridges, maps of proposed park-
ways, park fixtures, window boxes and similar
objects which illustrate phases of municipal im-
provement.
The committee in charge consisted of Francis
Newton, chairman; H. Van Buren Magonigle and
William Ordway Partridge.

A dinner in honor of Mr. Spencer Trask,
president of the National Arts Club, was held on
January 22. On behalf of the members of the club
Mr. Van Inderstine, secretary, presented a loving-
cup. On behalf of the National Society of Crafts-
men, of which Mr. Trask is president, J. William
Fosdick, vice-president, presented a gothic table
lectern, together with a bound copy of Mrs. Trask’s
story, “In My Lady’s Garden.” The lectern was
designed and carved by Karl von Rydinsvard.
The binding was executed by Miss Birdaline
Lexow. The Municipal Art Society, through its
president, C. R. Lamb, presented a bronze paper-


GOTHIC LECTERN PRESENTED TO MR. TRASK
weight. The rose and the pine, symbols of Mr.
Trask’s Saratoga home, “Yaddo,” are incorporated
in the design, which was the work of Air. Lamb.


The bookbinders’ corner of the studios of the
National Society of
Craftsmen, at 119 East
Nineteenth Street, New
York, is kept filled with
an attractive group of
bindings. Among the
artists represented are
Miss Ellen Gates Starr,
Miss Helen Livingston
Warren, Alorris Lee
King, Mrs. H. K. Pom-
eroy, Miss Edith Diehl,
Aliss Fanny Dudley,
Aliss Clara A. Hall and
Miss Adeline C.Wykes. binding by miss lexow

The annual dinner of the Municipal Art Society
of New York was held at the galleries of the
NationallArts Club on Tuesday evening, March 3.


GOTHIC LECTERN

DESIGNED AND CARVED BY BRONZE PAPER-WEIGHT
KARL VON RYDINGSVARD

DESIGNED BY
C. R. LAMB

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