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teachers under him do not fare much better. On the other hand, Mr. W. W. Woodward, the artist, and an early pupil of the school, is quoted as saying that the work shown at the late exhibition, "viewed as the result of but from one to four years' instruction" was very creditable. Possibly Mr. Woodward is right in saying "that the mistake made in Cincinnati was in the people giving themselves to the belief that this was a great art centre." The School, he thought, "should be considered more like those academies of the provincial cities of France and other countries, whose students, after four or five years' instruction, go to study at Paris, Antwerp, and Munich". A comparison of the work of these preparatory schools with the studies shown in Cincinnati would, according to Mr. Woodward, be quite favorable to the American students. These views seem sensible, and may apply with equal force to other cities, none of which can as yet claim to be in the possession of an institution standing on the level of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Paris, or the Academies of Munich and Antwerp.

Mrs. Maria Longworth Nichols will open a school for instruction in keramic decoration at the Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, on the 17th of October next. Lessons will be given in over and under glaze painting and in modelling in relief by Miss Clara Chipman Newton and Miss Laura Fry. A building, 60 feet by 40 feet, is now being erected adjoining the pottery, for the purposes of the school. The number of the pupils will be limited to fifty. Two prizes of $50 each, for work on the biscuit and the wet clay, will be offered. Those who wish to attend the school will be required to furnish a study drawing or sketch in water-colors as a prerequisite of admission. Applications should be forwarded by Aug. ist, when a selection will be made and answer returned. Arrangements will be made for the exhibition of the work of pupils and the sale of their pieces at the places where the ware of the pottery is disposed of. A turn-table, shelf, and drawer will be furnished for the use of each pupil of the school.

LECTURES

Prof. F. W. Putnam, the Curator of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, at Harvard University, lately gave a series of lectures or explanations of the portions of the Museum which are now arranged. These explanations were given on Friday afternoons from four to five o'clock, and were free to all who wished to attend. The first was on the Mounds of the United States and objects obtained from them, and was held in the northern room on the first floor, where the collection from the mounds is arranged. The second was held on the first northern gallery, and consisted of an explanation of the several collections from Mexico and Central America. The third was an account of the Pueblo Indians, and of the ruins of the pueblos and cliff-houses in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. This was given in the hall on the second floor, where there are a number of models of pueblos and ancient cliff-houses, and numerous specimens of ancient and modern pueblo pottery, as well as many other things from the old ruins, and a fine series of large photographs of the Moqui Towns in Arizona, the pueblo of Zuni in New Mexico, etc. The fourth and last of the series was given in the southern room on the second floor, which is devoted to the collections from South America particularly from Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. The object of these explanations was to make known the character of the Museum, and the plan that has been followed in its arrangement. The interest that has been taken in this brief and informal course has led the Curator to plan a more extended one for the next term; but, as the number of persons attending must be limited, tickets for the next course will be given out on application.

EXHIBITIONS AND SALES

PHILADELPHIA

– Until recently, sales from the Sprint Exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts have been exceptional. In the spring of 1879, the possibility of selling first began to attract attention; but the amount realized did not exceed $1,000. In 1880 it had increased to $1,408; and this year, the sales from the 32nd Annual Exhibition, which closed May 29th, amounted to $5,958 net, the works sold being 28 paintings, 1 watercolor, 2 plaques, and 10 etchings.

The preparations for the Fall Exhibition at the Academy are well advanced. The committee to select pictures in Paris was elected May 18th, by the American artists residing in and around that city. The members are F. A. Bridgman, Charles Sprague Pearce, Frank Moss, W. L. Picknell, J. S. Sargent, Milne Ramsey, Chester Loomis, D. R. Knight, E. H. Blashfield, E. L. Weeks, Walter Blackman, and C. E. Dubois. Arrangements for collecting pictures by American artists in Munich and London are also in progress. The preparations for the home collection will not be completed until about the first of September, when the regular circulars and blanks will be sent out. – Concerning the money prizes to be given, as announced in last month's REVIEW, it may be well to add that, as a matter of course, the pictures so honored will remain the property of the artists.

The preparations for the next exhibition of the Philadelphia Society of Artists are pushed with vigor, and contributions have been arranged for from American artists residing in Europe and in the United States outside of Philadelphia. The time fixed is from Nov. 14th to Dec. 24th. Shipping expenses on the European contributions will be paid by the Society, but artists residing in tins country will have to pay their own freights. To reduce the cost of boxing and shipping all the pictures from Europe are to be sent unframed. Mr. Edward Brown, who will have charge of the sales, has gone to Europe, where he will look after the interests of the Society.

BROOKLYN, N. Y. T

– The Brooklyn Art Association keeps its galleries open, free, during the summer, with a varied collection of paintings, prominent among who are excellent specimens of early American art, including on paintings by Cole, Doughty, Birch, Church, etc., as we water-colors by painters of the time.

CHICAGO

– The art exhibition of the Inter-State industrial Exposition, which is to open, as before announced on Sept. 7th, will be devoted almost entirely oil paintings and water-colors. Only a single screen has been set aside, which will be filled on one side with medallions in bronze, and on the other with black-and-white oils. All other works in black and white, such as etchings, etc. only to be excluded this season. This decision is due only to lack of space under present arrangements, and a desire
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