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248 THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE OF ART

inspection of the members of the Associa tion.

The February Exhibition ART IN held in the rooms of the SEATTLE Seattle Fine Arts Society

was of lithographs, the collection sent out by the Senefelder Club of London to the San Francisco Exposition. Together with this was hung a choice little group of etchings and engravings from the Print Rooms of Hill Tollerton of San Francisco.

The paintings from the San Diego Ex position constitute the March Show.

A series of lectures on art subjects has been arranged to be given under the auspices of the Society during Lent. There will be eight lectures, one each week, given every Thursday morning from March 2d to April 20th. The series will include a talk on "The Gothic Spirit in Literature," by Frederick Morgan Padelford, head of' the English Department of the University of Washington, two lectures on "Gothic Architecture," by Carl F. Gould, President of the Fine Arts Society and head of the Department of Architecture at the Uni versity of Washington, and by John Carroll Perkins. "The Development of Russian Painting" is the subject of the lecture by F. A. Golder, Professor of History in Wash ington State College, and "Impressionism in Music," by Louise Van Ogle, Music Instructor at the University of Washington.

Mr. O.H.P. LaFarge, son of John LaFarge, will speak on "The Commercial Value of Art," and Herbert H. Gowen, head of the Department of Oriental Languages at the University, on "Religion and the Arts."

The Dallas Art Associa ART IN tion was organized in Janu DALLAS ary, 1903. It is really the

child of the Public Library inasmuch as

when the Library building for Dallas was

designed a room to be used as an Art

Gallery was included. In 1902 an ex

hibition was held in the new Art Gallery

and from this exhibition two pictures were

selected by popular vote for purchase and

the nucleus for a permanent art collection

formed. From a membership of eighty the

Art Association has grown until it now has

a membership of over 200. In the mean

while it has secured the cooperation of not

only the Public Library but the State Fair Board, the Park Commissioners, and the City Officials.

The exhibitions are now held in the per manent gallery erected at Fair Park, and the pictures which have been purchased by the Association have become the property of the city. This collection now comprises forty-two paintings and includes works by such well-known artists as Gedney Bunce, Colin Campbell Cooper, C. C. Curran, Alexander Harrison, Childe Hassam, Leonard Ochtman, Gardner Symons, Frederick Waugh and William Wendt.

St. Louis art lovers have ART IN recently enjoyed a feast in ST. LOUIS the two exhibitions on

view at the City Art Museum during February. Eight rooms were given up by Ur. Holland, the director, to the exhibition Af French and Belgian paintings and ;culpture from the Panama-Pacific Ex position. Some of the best-known modern French artists were represented, Monet, Martin, La Touche, Besnard, Blanche, Boutet de Monvel, Rodin, Bartholome, and many others.

The other treat which St. Louisians en joyed at the same time, was the collection f portraits by American artists sent out )y The American Federation of Arts. Many vell-known artists were represented such as, Thase, Henri, Bellows, Hubbell, Jean Mc Lean, Cecilia Beaux, and others.

Some of the recent purchases by the City art Museum are a painting by Frederick Ballard Williams, called "A Glimpse of the

tea "; one by Henry Ranger, called " New England Village"; one from the Reisinger ,ollection by Alfred Stevens, called " Medi ;ation "; a number of Japanese sword muards dating back to the seventeenth ,entury and an interesting Japanese bronze Iragon holding seven crystal balls. Other )urchases are under consideration.

The Municipal Art Society MUNICIPAL of New York reports the ART following activities in its

February BuUetin: "A committee of which Mr. George W.

3reck is chairman, has commenced the )reparation of a municipal art survey of .;ew York City. The first step is to be

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A GLIMPSE OF THE SEA FREDERICK BALLARD WILLIAMS RECENTLY PURCHASED BY THE CITY ART MUSEUM. ST. LOUIS

the plotting upon a large map of the existing

monuments and other works of outdoor

art. This is to be followed by a survey of

the city as a basis for suggestion and

criticism in the apportionment of works of

outdoor art offered to the city, that these,

as they are offered, may be given appro

priate sites. "A committee of the Municipal Art

Society, acting for the National Committee

on Municipal Art, has prepared an edition

of 10,000 copies of an illustrated pamphlet

on the billboard as it has developed in New

York City. Other pamphlets are to follow."

During the second semes COOPERATION ter of the scholastic year, a

BETWEEN course of lectures on the

MUSEUM AND History of Art will be given UNIVERSITY at the University of Min

nesota, through the cooperation of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, by the Director, Mr. Joseph Breck; Miss Margaret

T. Jackson, Assistant Director of the

Institute; and Mr. Robert Koehler, Direc tor Emeritus of the Minneapolis School of

Art. The course will consist of thirty-three

lectures on the History of Occidental Art

from ancient times to the present date. The lectures on Ancient Art will be given by Mr. Breck; those covering the period from the close of the Classical Age to the close of the Renaissance by Miss Jackson; those on the remaining periods by Mr.

Koehler. The lectures will be held on Monday and Wednesday afternoons at three o'clock in the Main Engineering Building, and will be fully illustrated by the stereopticon.

The beautiful colorings of ORIENTAL ART old Chinese porcelains, in AT UNIVERSITY many instances impossible

OF to reproduce in these days, PENNSYLVANIA were well illustrated in an

MUSEUM Exhibition of Oriental Art opened on February 15th in the newly constructed Charles Custis Harrison Hall in the tower of the Museum of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. The Hall itself is a very dignified and imposing receptacle for the treasures there displayed, a rotunda 100 feet in diameter, lined with warm

grey tiles, surmounted by a vaulted dome from which a flood of light pours through a lantern at the apex and a series

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