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ART AND PROGRESS lOT NEW YORK Tue large industrial art SEEKS ART exhibition recently held TEACHERS by the high schools of

New York City, in the IFinc Arts Building, drew attention to the difficulty %which the city has experienced ill securing a sufficiency of well-trained art teachers. Dr. Haney, Director of Art for High Schools, said at that time, 'Our city high schools are in need of

more art teachers. There are over a dozen vacancies to be filled at the present time, but only teachers well qualified need apply, as the examination and the conditions of eligibility act to keep out all of limited technical skill and ex perience."

New York is aiming to develop many phases of industrial art work in its high - schools, and art teachers, both men and women Who are high school graduates, with two years of good normal art train ing and four years of experience in teaclh ing, are invited to take the examination.

Liberal provisions are now made by the city in the matter of salaries-posi tions with a maximum of $2,650 being open to every drawing teacher, who is regularly promoted toward the maximum so long as satisfactory service is given.

The next examination will be held l. ebruary 10 and 11, 1915, and those interested may obtain a circular giving full information in regard to the test, by addressing the Director of Art at the offices of the Board of Education, 500 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y.

PORTRAIT OF TbTree paintings lent by MARTIN Mlr. Paul J. Sachs, class LUTHER of 1 900, of New York, have been placed on

temporary exhibition in the gallery of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge. One of these is a portrait of Martin Luther. It has the date of 1546 and the dragon crest signature of Lucas Cranach, but in all probability is a work of his school.

Although it does not possess the quality of the finest paintings by Cranaclh, like the "Portrait of a Lady," in the Mu sc-um of Fine Arts in Boston, it never tfleless is an extremely interesting clhar racterization of the great reformer, and

it illustrates the general manner of Cra nach, who was one of the greatest Ger man painters of the sixteenth century. The other two pictures are Sienese works of the fifteenth century. One is a "Madonna and Child," painted by Francesco di Giorgio, and a charming illustration of his dainty manner. The other is a painting of "St. John the Bap tist," attributed to Giovanni di Paolo.

NEWAIS ITEMS The Corcoran Gallery mof Art opened

its fifth biennial exhibition of contempo rary American paintings on December 14th. The following prizes were awarded by a jury composed of Edward W. Red field, Edmund C. Tarbell, Ralph Clark son, Robert Henri, and Emil Carlsen: first prize, $2,000, accompanied by the Corcoran gold medal, to J. Alden Weir of New York for a painting entitled "Portrait of Miss De L."; second prize, $1,500C, accompanied by the Corcoran sil v-er medal, to Charles H. Woodbury of Boston for a marine painting entitled "The Rainbow"; third prize, $1,000, accompanied by the Corcoran bronze medal, to Gifford Beal of New York for a painting entitled "The End of the Street"; fourth prize, $500, accompanied by the Corcoran certificate of honorable nention, to Richard Blossom Farley of Philadelphia for his painting entitled "Fog."

The cash prizes, aggregating $5;,000, were donated by William A. Clark, one of the trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and formerly United States Sen ator from Montana.

In the Public Library at Columbus, Ohio, there was held during the month of November exhibitions of paintings by Miss Alice Schille and of sculpture by MN iss Marv E. Cook, both residents of that city. Miss Cook exhibited twenty one pieces, five of which had been shown in Paris, one in the Salon of 1914 and four in the Exhibition Internationale.

Miss Cook has done some exceptionally interesting work in terra-cotta for which she deserves special recognition. Miss

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Schille was represented by seventy pic tures, large and small; some were in water-colors and others in oils. Both of these artists have won distinction far beyond the locality in which they live, and in honoring them Columbus has in fact but honored itself.

The Friends of American Art pur chased from the Chicago Art Institute's Twenty-seventh Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture the bronze "Indian" and "Prong-Horn

Antelope," by Paul Manship, reproduced in a recent number of ART AND PROG REss, and the paintings, "A Procession of the Redontore, Venice," by Grace Ravlin, and "Portraits of Virginia and Stanton," by M. Jean McLane, for the

permanent collection in the Art Institute.

The Springfield (Illinois) Art Club is conducting a vigorous campaign with the object of increasing interest and appre ciation of art in Springfield. The Club has laid out an interesting program for the season, including lectures and exhibi tions as well as special educational work among the children of Springfield. One interesting feature of this campaign is a story hour for children at the Art Club's home every Saturday morning. The Art Club has recently become a chapter of the American Federation of Arts.

The Association of Women Painters and Sculptors are holding an exhibition of small pictures and sculptures at the Arlington Art Galleries, New York. The prize for the best sculpture done was awarded Miss Janet Scudder, and the prize for the best group of paintings done went to Miss Mary H. Tannahill.

Five miniatures by American artists w hich the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently purchased for its permanent col lection have been lately shown in the

Detroit Museum of Art through the courtesy of the Trustees of the Metro

politan Museum. These miniatures in cluded a portrait of a little girl in her night-dress, clasping her doll, by Lucia Fairchild Fuller; of a little girl in fancy

dress, Persis Blair, by Laura C. Hills; a portrait of a young woman, by Helen M. Turner; a portrait of the artist's mother, by Alice Beckington, and a por trait of Alexander Petrunkevitclh, by

Margaret Foote Hawley.

At the Albright Gallery, Buffalo, an exhibition of paintings as well as por traits by Carroll Beckwith, N. A., was recently held. The exhibition opened with a private view at which Mr. Beck with gave an address on the French Art of the Eighteenth Century with special reference to the Palace and Gardens of Versailles.

An exhibition of etchings arid color prints by George Senseney was opened in the galleries of the Milwaukee Art Society on November 27th, at which time Mr. Senseney gave an address on "Art and the War."

The Toledo Museum of Art, during the month of December, has been ex hiibiting special groups of paintings by 1F . F. Fursman, F. Hopkinson Smithl, Edmund Greacen, and Walter Gilman Page, as well as a collection of small bronzes by American sculptors assem bled and sent out by the American Fed eration of Arts.

On January 3d a special exhibition of paintings by Ben Foster will open in the City Art Museum, St. Louis. During the month of December the Society of

Western Artists' Nineteenth Annual Ex hibition is also to be shown at this same M\1useum.

Special exhibitions by George Bellows. Charles H. Woodbury, Robert Vonnoll and Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Jane Peter son, Charles Warren Eaton, and Earl IH. Reed, are scheduled for the Chicago

Art Institute for the month of December.

A special exhibition of paintings by Gardner Symons opened on November 30th in the Gallery of the Grand Rapids Art Association at Grand Rapids. A strong effort is being made by this Asso

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ciation to establish a permanent gallery of art in that great manufacturing city.

An exhibition of paintings by Philip Little of Salem, Massachusetts, was held under the auspices of the Portland So ciety of Art in the Sweat Memorial Art Museum, Portland, Maine, from October 22d to November 22d.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently acquired two important exam ples of modern sculpture,. a group of a

"Stag Dragged Down by Hounds" by Antoine Louis Barye, and a "Piping Plan" by Iouis Saint-Gaudens.

An exhibition of paintings by Alice Worthington Ball, Maude Drein Bryant, Josephine G. Cochraine, Marie De Ford Keller, Mary, Kremelberg, and Camielia Wh7hitehurst, was held in the Peabody In stitute, Baltimore, from December 1st to 15th.

An exhibition of painting by Miss Rosamond L. Smith opened in the Gal leries of the Guild of Boston Artists, on November 30th.

An exhibition of paintings by Miss Helena Sturtevant and Mr. Leslie P. Thompson was held in the galleries of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, from November 13th to I)ecember 13th.

An exhibition of the works of Griffith B. Coale, Erik G. Haupt and R. ,cGill Mackall opened in the Maryland Insti tute, Baltimore, in the Mount Royal Building, on Tuesday, December 1st, withl a private view.

The Ilackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan, held an exhibition of twenty two oil paintings by Miss Martha Walter during the month of November.

The Newark Museum Association, Ncwark, New Jersey, held an exhibi tion of old and modern textiles in the Public Library Building from November 26th to December 20tlh.

BOOK REVTIEWATS

SAMUEL F.B. MORSE, LETT'ERS AND JOURNALS. EDITED AND SUPPLE MENTED BY HIS SON, EDWARD LIND MORSE. In two volumes. Houghton, Miff lin & Company, Boston. Publishers. Price $7.560 net.

S. F. B. Morse is better known as the inventor of the telegraph than as a painter, but it is only because the former has overshadowed the latter. Among our early American portrait painters Mr. Morse takes high rank, and this biog raphy, edited by his son, gives delightful insight into the art history of America in those early days. The first volume' treats naturally of the years when young

Morse was studying in England, whence he went in company with Washington Allston. There are intimate pictures given of Benjamin West, and there are shrewd prophecies made with regard to the development of art in America. It is hard for us to realize how brief, in deed, is the history of art in America, until we are brought face to face with the facts, and discover, as through the publication of these volumes, that the

whole is encompassed by the span of two generations.

It is all very interesting and engaging, a history not only of the life of an artist, but of art movements and conditions. Mfuch of it is told in the artist's own words, and as the reader follows him from place to place in his j ourneyings in the old world and also the new it is impossible not to be impressed by his broad outlook on life and his truly art istic temperament.

The books are illustrated to a great extent by reproductions of Mr. Morse's paintings.

THE ART OFT THE LOW COUNTRIES. BY W. R. VALENTINER. Translated by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. Doubleday, Page & Company. Garden City, N. Y., Pub lishers. Price $2.50 net.

This book was originally written in German and was purposed to appear simultaneously in Germany and in Amer ica. The American edition contains two chapters that were not included in the

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