| Show WORK IN THE ART WORLO americast Americ ait art anti anil art artists in paris ari and at home IS architecture A POPULAR UT ART 1 eliat fiat la Is architecture art nt lit llin elie chicago imposition exposition tho the proper cordre ortho management to fully tally for it la a architecture alo popular pular assuredly so in ili now york city alono alone nearly S hao hano been brcci spent annually in III building for somo some years past nothing interests interest or the american be w quickly and thoroughly as money and so largo a strait nui would not bo be lies ii wd in ili it if it were not a widely popular subject yet I 1 am inclined to serious question it architecture Is really popular lit in the sense that chat painting sculpture and many minor rosins of art are popular architecture differs front from other arts in being absolutely essential and necessary to every civilized bellg being we cannot all live in palaces or do busl bubl neos neat in immense end and well appointed office buildings building generally 0 vats o are arc tortu fortu natela nato if a boug little house ur or a comfortable hat flat but tor for all that architecture and building enter closely into tile details of our avery day existence we lve can call get along admirably without paintings bits of plaster beula turo luro or pieces of embroidery but bait we must met have tour four nalls and a root roof to c cover v p busand us and mako CUS existence Lence tolerable 1 H f I 1 acro asked WHAT 11 II 11 architecture 1 I should unhesitatingly de devillat fillat I 1 it t as isalio tho mos roost t huni human of arts fur or it has f followed man closely throughout ills carcher career from froin ills his days in the prim primeval oval forest to tho the complicated am business ho he transacts lit in the modern office building many writers rL ors on architecture maintain it III consists only of ornamented structure turo in other words of beautiful building but I 1 take it that those choso of us its who aro are forced to put part up tip villi rooms anti anil other inconveniences neon on fences of modern architecture would bo be better sati tied it if it included liim iball imposing edifice b and al all a greater ogreater amount of care was ep on d on smaller buildings in tact fact rhoud not bo be the making of largo large structures but bait of comfortable and convenient von lent ones it too often happens that architectural I 1 skill 1 li tor for great edifices calif ices while small beall ones are put ot off with will alone at all or perhaps is given a low few knick knacks or poor ornaments that are sort senad cal up tip to tile tho people ili as exam examples ples of architecture so very much of this Is done and so many fill put tant build logs are deficient deli clont lit in real merit that lew few people have a light conception of tile tho mean meaning I 1 ng and nature of and if a little car ing or clay 1 ll 11 used lit in their houses something thoroughly artistic and architectural lias has beon been obtained lint but thanks largely to tho lie exhibitions of tile the list last few years valinh have brought the iho artistic products acts of different nations into sharp contrast with cach other there has been A GENERAL chiefly chi cli elly lefly though not altogether through tile of homo home laid and industrial art not ot every ono one can call afford to altor alter the form and construction of his dwelling nor can call ono one always build quite to his liking but there aro are few that cannot render hii homo homal artistic by means of tasteful ornaments embroidery painted pottery homemade home made mado carving brass or liko like work there theio has been a wonderful revival of these arts of late land and lt it bids fair to develop with time much of it 11 can call scarcely bo be conned art lit in the truest bonse hut but it is a healthful indication di of improvement in public taste anti and an excellent indication of tile constantly growing interest in fit artistic matters A thriving trade has grown up in art materials and models tor for amateur use rise several periodicals are arc published for their especial beno benefit benol lt fit all and d numberless schools teachers and books of bring art to our doors at small cost A well known publisher said not long ago that ho he had the names of people in tills this country interested in ili art arl either cither professionally or its as amateurs and doubtless tho the actual number lar far exceeds tills this this artistic dates almost exactly front from the centennial at philadelphia which how f or ar ahead of us tho the rust rest of tho the world nas as in ili those matters TIIE CHICAGO exhibition mill ill tell a dif forent story special efforts aro are being mado to inako madko tho the art exhibit lit all full and comp completo loto the most hed european aralts w will ill bu be represented by onto of their most characteristic on and 1 I famous paintings and in many forel forchen git studios per tor for tile thi groat great show lain aio already lit in icis will lost artists areli ts tile the main question Is 14 to a soil c r I 1 itic luros tires rather than to paint great ones the great paintings of the alio gre great obtain ready sales at fabulous zabulon 8 prices but usual of lessor lesser note noh though of not inferior artistic metal find ani tho cho problem of sale moro Atall at all events the thero rowill will be no sparing paring of effort tor lot the columbian inhibition for 1 it will III offer tit tho b best st european j ean artist shave land had since tho the centennial to find tin an american market jar in fal it will bo be a huinh better than that exhibition was public tato taste has not only great greaty ly improved in tile the interval InH Tal bill bait a larger lar ger number of people are now interested in art and to lt L tile tho european artists expect to reap it a I 1 fell lian est of dollars doll irs anil and doubtless doubt lus they will not be disappointed disappoint od but lit in tho the metal final it will lin be well to noto note that lla t only works of tho cho best quality can rind find a market lit in tills this country tho the e artist who thinks lie ho will got gel rid fad of far hn inferior work oric at chicago will be most sadly and complot ay left tho the authorities of tho the fair thoroughly Lat tho the importance of 0 A ART EXIlin lT and havo have taken great caro care in fit their pro pre if pro gramme to pio not only good accommodations to for art luent bait butto to include every kind of as ait t an historical exhibit of american art lias has been beca pro proford and it will bo be titer to acomparo comparo iho file progress allied cans caas havo have made jn ili no respect wilt will tills this bo be more noticeable tuan than in ili tile alio various phases of 0 industrial part art in tills this wo we were simply nowhere lit in 1876 but bait in fit 1313 it nill vi III bo be different tho ial or minor arts havo have lando immense strides lh us in tile last low few years not 0 ill y chobo practiced practised by amateurs amal purs but in trado trade and work as nell it 13 labio no longer necessary to go to europa for good design lur fur our own designers trained in american schools school by american teachers produce as excellent work as the most skilled foreign workmen it 1 they jeanot do not surpass them this wonderful advance has been brought abe about t almost entirely by tho the centennial lait annl at chicago americans will find nothing that will glo gio so much genuino tion as the ibo progress they havo have ina niilo le sit in industrial art american art does not now need tile impetus it 11 required before tho the centennial but there lanca Is no doubt but that it in fit common with all other forms of industry will bo be vastly benefited by tho the show allow at chicago As a v hole AMERI CAll artith havo have little to fear car ironi front tile the forthcoming competition with tho the artists of 0 the OW old world tho the american colonies lit in tho the art content centers of Iu topo especially lit in paris aro are well mell arid and favorably iivori lily known abroad where their work Is as not interior inferior to that of 0 french artists which it sur puo ascuan A number of american artists havo have resided a so long lit in paris anti and havo have so thoroughly thorough y absorbed french ideas and methods bodi a us to be looked upon more as natives than 1 lan a foreigners loiel gneri sra walter hay gay ridgway knight C sprague walter Ma maereen erwen and many others fire aro standard and habitual chibi exhibitors tors at tile paris bilious and their work Is looked for as a matter of course paris not rome Is tho the art capital of tire tho world and many american artists v lie ho go to study in ili the liu menso galleries of tile tho french capital remain permanently or until their timo Is sufficiently esteb label to enable them to ind a ste steady 2 d y market at home fortunately all tit the noo good dorkof work of american artists Is not t done in parts paris for some of if tire best of Atner Amerlia krol ii paintings aro are the y products of tile iho nu studios of now york boston and I 1 would not say that american artists aro are superior to foreign foi eign but bait lit in any a c competition L tho the americans can it if they w will ill crowd tho the foreigners sharply for tho the first rank DARR barn IY 11 Is limma A C THE GREAT binger hI GEll dangen bubly IL 11 the alai ruing news cornos from vancouver li 11 C that miss its earn C thursby tile iho popular and widely known concert singer Is lying dangerously ill at her hotel in that distant town bho was billed to sing eing recently in ts belittle eattle wash baah but being confined to her bed was unable to appear it li it thought that alisa thurbus Thu Thur rabys bys summer journey to alaska Is lite of the iba attack as tho the trip was attended by many verlou personal dis comforts miss thursby bas born Iob ruai y jl 21 1857 and makes her homo home in brooksi it N Y silo she has mado as many any professional tours throughout all parts of tho the united states slates and Is confessedly fes sedly the queen of 0 the concert mage |
