The American Academy in RomeSource: Art and Progress, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Dec., 1912), pp. 812-813Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20560809 .

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812 ART AND PROGRESS

MORNIN(G JOHN GREGORY ROMAN SCHOLARSHIP CONPI'FFITION

From the establishment of Frederick Krasser comes a pair of huge wrought iron hinges and a pair of big candle sticks. To illustrate the possibilities of the Mercer hand-made tiles a complete fireplace has been constructed in the committee room where the jury holds its meetings. The pottery exhibit is ex tensive, including great specimens of

work from the Hampshire, Newburyport, Walwrath, Marblehead, Newcomb Col lege and other potteries, also the work of Russell G. Crook of South Lincoln, Mass., and of Clara L. Poillon, of New York. An admirable exhibit of book bindings and other leather work is made up largely of the work of Miss Mary C. Sears and Mliss Agnes St. John, and of

Florentine leather work by Quintilio Gallozzo. Basket work is shown by several of the best-known workers in this line, including Mrs. Arthur Hersey, MNrs. Walter Hersey, Frank Hamilton, MNIary M. Blanchard, Rose M. Cunning ham, Minnie B. Clayton and AIrs. John Timlin. In the rug exhibit are speci mens by Mrs. N. W. Fisk, Mrs. Cath erine M. Bruce and others. Pieces of artistic furniture are shown by Samuel Heyward, Christine Woollet and others.

There were 75 appli THE AMERICAN cants for the scholar ACADEMY IN ship in Architecture

ROME this year. As a result

of the preliminary competition, 'Messrs. Kenneth E. Carpenter, Charles Cameron Clark, Frederick W. Hastings and Henry Martin Polheums were admitted to the Final. 'Mr. Clark, having in the

meantime been awarded the Rotch Prize, dropped out of the competition, and William R. Morton Keast, the sub stitute, took his place, who also had to resign, owing to ill health, before he could finish the work. The scholarship was awarded to Mr. Kenneth E. Car penter.

Mr. Carpenter is 28 years of age, un married, and a resident of Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of Design, Providence, R. I., and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the Rotch Scholarship in 1909, and was admitted to the Final Competi tion of the American Academy for the Prize of Rome in Architecture last year. Besides his school and college work he has had five years' office experience, and was final logist also in the Paris Prize, 1910.

The subject of the competition was a Navy Yard on an Island in the South ern Pacific Ocean, and the competitors were allowed six weeks in which to con plete the final drawings.

There were eight applicants for the scholarship in Sculpture. Of this nun ber three were admitted to the final com petition, Messrs. Leo Friedlander, John Gregory and Edward F. Sanford, Jr

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.1RNM S H EUG(ENE F. SAVAGE ROMIAN SCiOl.ARSHIlP ('OMlPFFITION

The scholarship was awarded to Mr. John Gregory.

Mr. Gregory is 33 years of age, un married, and a resident of New York City. He has worked in the studios of Messrs. Hermon A. MacNeil, Herbert Adams, J. Massey Rhind and Gutzon Borglum, and has recently been doing work in his own studio. He is English by birth, a man of cultivation, and is most highly spoken of by all who know him. His final work in the competition showed unusual ability, good technique and fine sentiment.

The subject of the composition was "Morning," a group in the round of three figures, and six weeks were al lowed for the execution of the work.

There were in all twenty-two appli cants for the scholarship in Painting, of which the following eight were admitted to the preliminary competition: Messrs. A. J. Bogdanove, George Davidson, William Aleyerowitz, Datus E. Myers, E. Martin Hennings, Eugene F. Savage, Joseph Goss Cowell and J. J. A. MNur phy. From among these Messrs. David son, Hennings and Savage were selected

for the Final Competition. The scholar ship was finally awarded to Mr. Savage.

Mr. Savage is 28 years of age, mar ried, and a resident of Bloomington,. Illinois. He studied at the Public School, Covington, Indiana; Gonzaga College, Washington, D. C.; Corcoran Art School, Washington, D. C.; Art In stitute, and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois.

The subject of the composition was "Morning," to include at least five fig ures, showing a man, woman and child, nude, partially nude and draped. Six weeks were allowed to finish the work.

The Grand Rapids Art ART ASSOCIA- Association opened its

TION OF season on the evening GRAND RAPIDS of October 22d with a

reception for its members and an Ex hibition of "The Homes of the Barbizon Masters" by Alexis Jean Fournier. This series of paintings with others by Mr. Fournier has been shown in various art museums throughout the country, and proved a most fortunate choice for the opening of the new gallery which the

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