A University Circuit ExhibitionSource: The American Magazine of Art, Vol. 7, No. 6 (Apr., 1916), pp. 251-252Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20559407 .

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M O S. L I B U I

MEDAL FOR TME ST. PAUL INSTITUTE BY PAUL MNANSHJIP

seum. These are a small bronze, one of the most spirited statuettes from the hand of Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, whose work is noted for this quality; a small bronze of the well-known male figure of Victory, first seen on the dome of Festival Hall, St. Louis Exposition, by Evelyn Longman, and a life-size bust of John Burroughs, in marble, by C. S. Pietro.

The museum is showing during March a collection of canvases by George Elmer Browne and an exhibition of paintings by American artists, including Gifford Beal, William Chase, George Bellows, Paul Dougherty, Childe Hassam, W.P. Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, W. Elmer Schofield, Hayley Lever, J. Alden Weir and Gardner Symons.

The St. Paul Institute has THE MANSHIP adopted as the permanent

MEDAL form for its awards for

excellence in art a medal designed by Paul

Manship, a native of St. Paul and a

graduate of the St. Paul Art School, who

received the Prix de Rome in 1909, the highest honor that can come to an American

student of sculpture. There is a peculiar fitness that the Institute Medal should be the work of a St. Paul student who has won

international recognition. Mr. Manship writes of the design of the medal as follows:

"I have thought to get away from the

stereotyped models generally used in this connection and to suggest the whole idea in

an abstract manner, and so, instead of representing the figure of Art with a palette in one hand and a work of sculpture in the other, I have pictured, for the obverse of the medal, the Muse that inspires and extols, kneeling before the figure of Victory who bestows recognition of artistic accom plishment. For the reverse of the medal the idea of the Pegasus, arising from the

Globe itself, appealed to me, apart from its decorative effect, as being suggestive of the flight of fancy and its vehicle of transport to the higher realms."

The medal was awarded and future de. livery promised, at the Exhibition of the

Work of Northwestern Artists held in St. Paul last year. It was again awarded this month to exhibitors, in a similar exhibit held under the same auspices.

During the present season A UNIVERSITY The American Federation

CIRCUIT of Arts has been circulating EXHIBITION a collection of twelve oil

paintings by American artists among the universities of the Middle West. In con nection with this exhibition of American masterpieces, Prof. W. A. Griffith, of the University of Kansas, writes as follows:

"In Kansas alone there will be 9,000 students in the three schools who will see

and study this collection; some day these

young people will buy pictures. Kansas

is getting rich and more people are able to

buy pictures. One of the best collections

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252 THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE OF ART

in the state is owned by a young man who was introduced to the subject at the University of Kansas. So I hope it will not be long until we are able to keep in the state the best things sent to our exhibitions. We now have under way a state art federation to encourage local workers, and will hold an exhibition next year. A similar movement has been started in Oklahoma. I was in Norman, Okla., two weeks ago to award the prizes at their first exhibition. We will have forty paintings by Kansas people in connection with this year's exhibition. I now have on exhibition the museum col lection sent out by the Chicago Society of Etchers and will hold it until the paintings come."

The Providence Water PROVIDENCE Color Club has just closed

WATER COLOR its twentieth annual exhi CLUB bition at the gallery of the

Providence Art Club and is about to send out its second annual rotary exhibition. At the Art Club fourteen sales were made and the exhibition attracted a good at tendance and favorable comment. Especially popular were the excellent

examples of the latest work of Col. H. Anthony Dyer. "Russet Autumn" and the "Blue Blind" were characteristic of

Mr. Dyer, but in his grey misty mornings, several of which were included. the note of novelty was pleasantly remarked. These paintings are really symphonies in silvery greys and form a delightful intermezzo, so to speak, to the blas6 gallery trotter. Mr. H. Cyrus Farnum was represented

by two important African pictures at Al giers and Biskra respectively, and by several drawings of African subjects. Miss Angela O'Leary showed four pictures, but in "On the Quay, Divan, " her best work was done. This picture is a subtle and refined work done in a low tone and with a remarkable

effect of atmosphere. Others represented by excellent pictures were Mabel M. Wood ward, whose "Sheep" and "San Remo Market" were cleverly treated; Earl R.

Davis, whose "Blue Pool" had a nice feel

ing for color; Gertrude Parmelee Cady, whose group of landscapes were spirited and colorful.

Sydney R. Burleigh in "Nightfall" and

"Rising Mist" caught the moods of nature

revealing much tender poetic feeling, and Percy F. Albee furnished a real novelty in his nine decorative panels representing rockets and bombs in midair. These pictures had a leaning to the Japanese and a real touch of originality.

Maude Richmond Fenner sent five well painted landscapes done in her vigorous style. "The Old Sugar Lot" was the most important, but the small forest interior was painted with a boldness and decision worthy of a larger canvas. Etchings of decided merit were shown by two new members of the club, Mr. A. W. Heintzel man and Mr. S. B. Sherman.

The Rotary Show consists of about seventy pictures selected from the local show and from the studios and will open first at Lawrence, Mass., and then will go to Danielson, Conn. On April 1st it opens at Syracuse, N.Y., and will visit other cities including Newport, R. I., later.

W. A. B.

STUDENTS' The annual exhibition of ART landscapes done at Wood

LEAGUE stock, the summer school of the Art Students' League, of New York, under the instruction of Mr. John F. Carlson, was hung at the League for two weeks commencing February 16th;

It was the best exhibition in some years and the more satisfactory because all the pictures showed the individuality of the different exhibitors. The subjects were also of exceptional interest, for besides the familiar sunlit and shadowed hills were the

moonlights, winter scenes, the deep in teriors, the lonely farmhouse and the mills and streams that go to make Woodstock tempting to the artist.

A jury consisting of Mr. Paul Cornoyer, Mr. Edward Potthast, Mr. Cullen Yates, Mr. Walter Granville-Smith and Mr. Gifford Beal awarded the first prize, $50.00, given by the League, to Emile Gruppe, whose winter pictures were exceptionally good. The second prize of $50.00 was given by Mr. Joseph S. Isidor, who also gives $100.00 annually for prizes to be awarded at Woodstock at the close of the season there. Mr. J. Paul Slusser won this prize with pictures that showed choice subjects and good color. The third prize, a League scholarship, went to Miss Christine

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