DOI issue:
Nr. 157 (March 1910)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0101
Studio-Talk
Milles, were given to the city and placed in the
Berzelius Park last spring. Zorn's beautiful foun-
tain, Morning Bath, also a gift from a private
donor, will be unveiled very shortly, and a compe-
tition for a National monument to be erected in
our city will be inaugurated soon. T. L.
V
rENICE.—The next International Fine Arts
Exhibition of the city of Venice will be
held from April 22nd to October 31st
this year. In the ordinary course it
should take place in 1911, but has been advanced
a year so as not to clash with the International
Exhibitions to be held at Rome next year. Accor-
ding to the official statement recently published,
the sales of British works of art at last year's
exhibition realised over 56,000 francs, nearly
double the highest amount reached at any of
the previous seven exhibitions. The King of Italy
was the purchaser of oil paintings by Mr. Grosvenor
Thomas and Mr. Russell Flint; Mr. John Lavery's
porcelain figure by christian thom.sEN Polyhymnia was acquired for the National Gallery
(Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Works) Qc Modem Art at Rome . the Venice Municipality
bought a painting by Mr. Charles Shannon, and
A good deal of excitement has been caused by other public or quasi-public bodies acquired works
the competition for a monument to Swedish in oil by Messrs. James Paterson, T. Austen Brown,
industry, about to be erected in Stockholm. No and J. Whitelaw Hamilton. A painting by Sir
less than forty designs were sent in to the jury, Ernest Waterlow, R.A., and a water-colour by
but only three or four are worth mentioning. Mr. R. M. G. Coventry, were acquired by private
Foremost among them is a large fountain in the purchasers to be offered to the Modern Gallery at
shape of an enormous
bowl resting on a massive
tripod, the whole placed
in a basin round which
are three figures represent-
ing the principal indus-
tries of our country. The
bowl and basin are in-
tended to be executed in
dark Swedish granite,
while the figures are to
be in bronze. So far as
I can understand, this
design stands the best
chance of being selected.
Stockholm has always
been a city very poor in
the way of public monu-
ments, but last year a
new era seems to have
beeun. Two groups of
6 ° r " dives and lazarus by marianne h. w. rob1li.iard
Playing Bears, by Carl {Royal Academy Schools, Gold Medal for Historical Painting)
76
Milles, were given to the city and placed in the
Berzelius Park last spring. Zorn's beautiful foun-
tain, Morning Bath, also a gift from a private
donor, will be unveiled very shortly, and a compe-
tition for a National monument to be erected in
our city will be inaugurated soon. T. L.
V
rENICE.—The next International Fine Arts
Exhibition of the city of Venice will be
held from April 22nd to October 31st
this year. In the ordinary course it
should take place in 1911, but has been advanced
a year so as not to clash with the International
Exhibitions to be held at Rome next year. Accor-
ding to the official statement recently published,
the sales of British works of art at last year's
exhibition realised over 56,000 francs, nearly
double the highest amount reached at any of
the previous seven exhibitions. The King of Italy
was the purchaser of oil paintings by Mr. Grosvenor
Thomas and Mr. Russell Flint; Mr. John Lavery's
porcelain figure by christian thom.sEN Polyhymnia was acquired for the National Gallery
(Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Works) Qc Modem Art at Rome . the Venice Municipality
bought a painting by Mr. Charles Shannon, and
A good deal of excitement has been caused by other public or quasi-public bodies acquired works
the competition for a monument to Swedish in oil by Messrs. James Paterson, T. Austen Brown,
industry, about to be erected in Stockholm. No and J. Whitelaw Hamilton. A painting by Sir
less than forty designs were sent in to the jury, Ernest Waterlow, R.A., and a water-colour by
but only three or four are worth mentioning. Mr. R. M. G. Coventry, were acquired by private
Foremost among them is a large fountain in the purchasers to be offered to the Modern Gallery at
shape of an enormous
bowl resting on a massive
tripod, the whole placed
in a basin round which
are three figures represent-
ing the principal indus-
tries of our country. The
bowl and basin are in-
tended to be executed in
dark Swedish granite,
while the figures are to
be in bronze. So far as
I can understand, this
design stands the best
chance of being selected.
Stockholm has always
been a city very poor in
the way of public monu-
ments, but last year a
new era seems to have
beeun. Two groups of
6 ° r " dives and lazarus by marianne h. w. rob1li.iard
Playing Bears, by Carl {Royal Academy Schools, Gold Medal for Historical Painting)
76