Show KXCEIS WITH BRUSh I OHASE IS AMERICAS FOREMOST FORE-MOST fAINTCn I UK iixluellnn IU e nrrled may blot boll I > lr < UI < ni Ihe Vol11 itlll linn of thn V esr C bsen In Illlh IInan 1111AM M CHAMP prenldent of Ihe Ho 0 clrty of American tot AnImals and a member mem-ber of the National 4 Academy of Deilgii ban been a man of note a painter who provoked dlieu 1 Ion an tIlt who exclte1 admiration o ever Unce hli work win rtrt exhibited In Ncw York I ooeeottervets 01 th sserhs of OHM put on tmbllc exhlbl lion have fur ten jear bOtet een Ihit 3br lh asocvanistonoe niarvelimnlj In lrloii Rrntilnely lncere and always eon ltent In hole performance Ty ave therefore anticipated what was Inevllabl that n time would quickly canoe when 1 Shoe genera public and thIs IIIo imfelonal colleague woull know ledge In him a leader and grant 10 him a l05itioit lomewhat higher than that boll by any one elte I The result of hoe many puUlc exhibition of blot tenon ten-on Is I that Ihl acknowleiUment and Ihl Illlon have come and there b few who will care to dlrpuln either Ih innor of this one or thoe authority 01 the ohr wriles Ihllll lulnIllrr In Iells Weekly The ann l > egan tail ovemlier with Ihe loan exhibition seomenn portrait 1 That exhibition was commented on In thin lAIr nnd the iKlemeiit total made and Proved that hue and one or Iwo cf hIs content porarle I notably Hargent and Thayer we mesa < h mailer of luirlraltnre 1 that there vvaa no longer uny excme for Americans to go abroad for arlltle work of IbIs character At that exhlbl linn Mr Chaie had cIt t > ortraU aol one of there n portrait of a lady In a white ahuvtl I now Ihe proerly of the heels ltanla Academy of Tine Art wa cnn ld < red by very muny lo K thoelornt work In Ihe whole exhibition I TI lnirhl all of 110 mother wu islam n mOIl dltlngul > he < l lomb hlBnc on1 won high pralw from every pIle 1 Thn canoe the autumn exhibition nl the cndemy and to thl Mr Ihane cnt n mi l nil I and a landcaie bolh piccllen In tiallly The character of II Iii uriw mnlrlbuted to Ihli iiblbltlon by Mr Chute li I an Indlcnllon of the dlf fretire between him and many other In hIs profeMlon The autumn cal cloy exhibition have generally been retly Iwd and arllili loose as fre luenll ai not concludetl that an > thing WA Rood enough to tend In It Not IH Mr Chare He hold Hint If nn exhlbl Ion ihould be I contributed to nt all Iho nttlit hould eend of loIs losh Ho to Slots he sit a 5 Rood thing AI he had lut II will have Urn noticed thai toe hvii > rend In exhibition thing llin sri rom lele In thcinwlve and se IIHI aa bo know how In make them lie J W1IUAM M CIIAHi may have made tmlbolltri In Ihe In I tecurlly of hit aspIrIng > oulh but Im doe notlilnK of the kind now or If be doe In keels them In tome hidden re crops of loIs iludlo where nono may After the autumn exhibition In New York Ihe annual exhibition In Phlla drlphla wan bet I and Mr Chain con tilhulnd ten or twelve picture some of will had prevlouily been teen InN In-N w York He received the Temple irnll medal for dlrtlngulrhed iervlc to the fine nrlr snob hli portrait of Hit lady In tha while thawl Will bought for the Academy of Tine Art by bloc Tempi fund while hobn HIIII Life was Iwugbl for Ihn WnniUrt cnlleetlon In rilrmount Park It was it tools nxhlbl lIon thai the merry linprenlonlit hutiH the picture lo lull th mrehe and placed Mr Chaie canvaie u dlindvantngcouily n porilhle Hut It made no great difference tie iilory honor Ihu mnlal and the coll were all for Chase The next exhibition of miHirlnnc van at Cleveland where a ommunlty long enlaveil by material loin haa enfranchlieil lImIt and now crle out with a longing ImiMitlenco for the enlightenment that art can bring At thli exhibition Mr Chain made n great thawing and the honor of tha occarl were easily lois To him for tohs I picture now In the n < Hd wy Mother and Clill I ° was awarded the prlxi of two bundrid and lilly dollar for bile beet flumepiece Ntxt Mr Clime tent picture In the two great annual exhibition of bile Ho clety of American ArlUt and of the National Actdtmy Tin toclet ihow was Chate how That li I all that tin re li I to my about II Wllh twelve canvawd each one a brilliant work of art It lo I doubtful Indeed If any artist anywhere to imrlly and to muitiTfully dlrpa > d In one exhibition bolos eom mandlng tup rlorll > over lola contem porarle Th Hhaw brim for lbs bet I figurepiece wa awarded to him for lola I pUlurt A Trlendly Call and the I Webb prlie for the tonI landwope noon Riven to an linpnulonlil by way I Chat pretum of eoniolatlon Mr wo not tllRlbl for thom prlie as U li I awarded for the work of a man not yet forty At the academy Mr Cii5 howtd three pcturelwo portrait and ft landieapoall characterimio please Now one would think that n man who I I bad till much work worthy to be shown 1 In public exhlbltloni In one mion I about Ihlrl Scans aw In BIIrnu have loen very InduMrloui and have I done nothing else 1 but paint Hut ai a I mailer of fart he has been A very buy mm slant from thU In th summer AI Is well known he bes hH art < hool at HhlnneriMk lKlnnlnu on the tint of June In the fall winter anil oprtng he Iorh lecture and cllIol l > e at the Hludenl League In New York and bloc llnxklyn Alt Beliool These oecu uiHiin take up complflely two day In hoe week all the year round Then he lien two clues e In bole itudlo one for boom and the other for women lie slIce thl he boo lectured during the boast winter In Cleveland Waihlngton nnl Phltadrlphla Thl repreientl a oer > buiy life apart from painting and as a painter III I tolerably certain that he ncrompllthc more In auanllty than all i of hi contemporarle Al for the IluollllhoI ha I a mailer which has been Ires bush illru jiM Mr Chaie I thinking quite wtbuily of ihnilii loIs whrl method of Ue I lIe baa In contempl itlnn Ihe taking of A clam to Madrid lo ttud In thor iclool of eUminei and later I a elope to 1101 and Thli would necemltale hoIn ply log up I lois local dame If he carry thin tcheme out and he feel that he ban aught ling enough lo be entitled to aloe up noel diille when he return toN to-N ew York he will probably bav hIs udln In till own limn and the old aol familiar building In Tenth itreel will know him no more Hut whatever ho M the icheme of hli living we may hoe lure that he will alway be true tn he high Iulnn which wan given tn him with loIn life and will labor with nflagglnR luitry to Interpret nature II It appear to him and to deliver Ihe icuage he hu for ui aol for poitcrlty |